A report from a Yonhap news agency says that North Korea has "fired two short-range projectiles into waters off its east coast." This report comes a day after South Korea rejected North Korea's offer to end military activity against each other, calling the deal "nonsensical."

Contrary to previous reports, Shia LaBeouf is not in rehab, his publicist announced today. He is, as the Associated Press is reporting it, "receiving voluntary treatment for alcohol addiction."

John Bieniewicz, 44, of Westland, Mich. died today from injuries he sustained after being punched in the head by a player in the soccer match he was refereeing this past weekend. Bassel Abdul-Amir Saad apparently punched Bieniewicz after he ruled to eject Saad from the game. When police arrived at the scene, Bieniewicz was unconscious and not breathing.

A witness told the Detroit Free Press that Saad punched Bieniewicz when he wasn't looking:

Police in Gettysburg, Penn. arrested Samantha Elizabeth Unger, 23, after she confessed to having put bottles of Visine in her three-year-old son's drinks. Her son had to be airlifted to a hospital earlier this year after his heartbeat dropped to 40 beats per minute. Unger's one-year-old son also became sick after drinking from the three-year-old's poisoned cups.

A bear cub who had his sights set on some delicious cookies got into quite a struggle on Friday when his stupid bear head got stuck in an animal cracker jar. The bear was in New Jersey, where the cookies are good and the bears are hungry.

RiFF RAFF's mere appearance goads you to dismiss him. He's a white rapper with cornrows, a grill, intricately designed facial hair and brand tattoos all over his torso and neck. He wants you to believe that he's a clown, and his music reinforces this. His lyrics take rap templates and push them to their logical extremes, so much so that some of them—"Might pull up in Milan in the drop candy swan"—barely register as reality. RiFF RAFF experiments recklessly and gleefully like a teenager with a lighter, and like a teenager he wants to be underestimated.

When season 2 of Orange is the New Black first became available for binge-watching, astute observers noticed that nearly the entire recurring cast had previously appeared on the show that practically invented binge-watching: Law and Order.

According to a civilian patrol group, 56 people were killed in a car bomb attack in Maiduguri, Nigeria on Tuesday. The group, the Civilian Joint Task Force, recovered the bodies at the site. Witnesses and officials have blamed Boko Haram for the attack.

Yesterday, we brought you true stories of people who work behind the scenes in reality (or "nonfiction") television. Since then, we've been flooded with more emails from industry insiders, detailing poor working conditions. We bring you some of them below.

"Is Michiko Kakutani incompetent or just crazy?" Shall we start with that question? Don't blame me. It's what Google autocomplete gave me when I typed "Michiko Kakutani is." I'm just reporting what the Internet says about her!

Our politics are so bitter and divisive. But Charles Murray, the conservative eugenicist who believes that "a lot of poor people are born lazy," has a solution he believes can enhance our culture's political amity: Ostracize evil "progressives" and separate them out from acceptable "liberals."

Recently, a man took a leisurely ride on North Carolina's Interstate 77, not in his car, but outside someone else's.

When I first told friends I was going to a meeting of the New York Ordo Templi Orientis branch, called Tahuti Lodge, the general consensus was that I should try not to die, and I should avoid sexual contact.

Jose Manuel Mireles, the leader of a network of vigilantes who fought against Mexican drug cartels in Michoacán, was arrested for gun possession this week, according to law enforcement officials. Before his arrest, Mireles had reportedly refused to formally ally his group with a new rural police force.

The bizarre story of Andre Johnson (a.k.a. Christ Bearer), the rapper who cut off his own penis and then jumped from a second story balcony back in April, just got much bizarre-er: Johnson told TMZ he wants his reattached penis to appear in a porno "soon."

Florida's conservative Republican attorney general already has millions in the bank for her re-election campaign. But if the Scientologists want to give her millions more, she won't complain.

Former Vice President and all-the-time warmonger Dick Cheney has been busy lately, writing insane Wall Street Journal op-eds and appearing on Fox News with his (failed senate candidate) daughter, Liz. According to Politico, this new spree of activity is just Dick and Liz being friendly.

Something big is brewing in NSA Revelation Land—a scoop from columnist and reporter Glenn Greenwald that was supposed to be published at midnight last night. But now Glenn Greenwald and fellow Intercept reporter Murtaza Hussein have delayed their story, pending new government information, and the internet is freaking out.

Gilberto "Cannibal Cop" Valle left jail today following a ruling that overturned his 2013 conviction for kidnapping conspiracy.

Idea: Instead of playing soccer, nations should fight with guns.