Human Rights Watch confirmed Friday that 160 to 190 men were killed in mass executions by ISIS earlier this month in Iraq. ISIS posted pictures of the executions online, and HRW confirms today that they happened in at least two separate locations in Tikrit between June 11th and June 14th.

An adult American wood stork lands on a branch in Townsend, Ga. U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced Thursday that the bird, 30 years after being placed on the endangered species list, is no longer at risk of extinction. Image by Stephen B. Morton via AP.

The wealthy congressman moves easily through his South Carolina district, from his plantation home to Kazoobie Kazoos to Larry Toomer of Bluffton to "a heavyset man with a goatee" sipping tequila from a Solo cup. It's not a Flannery O'Connor grotesque. It's the life of cheating hypocrite Mark Sanford.

Australian officials searching for the still-missing plane from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 now believe that the plane was flying on autopilot for hours until it ran out of fuel and crashed. Officials are also considering a theory that the crew was unconscious because of oxygen deprivation.

Broadway World is reporting that Shia LaBeouf was hauled out of a production of Cabaret during intermission by police in handcuffs. He was reportedly "being disruptive" during the first act.

Faith-based dating kn0w-it-all and "motivational speaker" Justin Lookadoo, who famously told a bunch of Texas high school students that "dateable girls shut up" last year (and spawned #lookadouche), was arrested by police in Indiana after they found him inside his puke-stained car on the side of the road.

Dozens have been reported injured after the floor of a second-story garage apartment collapsed during a Jainist celebration in a Houston suburb. According to reports, at least 100 people had gathered for the party with a religious leader visiting from India and that people on the first floor were trapped after the ceiling above them caved in.

Jeffrey Coley, 50, a former employee of Chick-fil-A, is accused of holding up a KFC drive-thru in Rock Hill, S.C. and speeding away with the cash register drawer containing $516.02. A day later and after a bit of a car chase, Coley was arrested by police in his Plymouth Neon, where the cash drawer was sitting on the seat with a little less than a gram of methamphetamine.

"[O]f course, most elites didn't go to state schools," writes Matt Phillips on Quartz. His subject is the debate over college debt and whether or not it's a big deal—in his estimation, the complaints about heavy individual educational debt demonstrate the narcissism of "a vocal, college-educated group" that "dominates the mediascape."

President Obama asked Congress on Thursday for $500 million to train and equip "appropriately vetted" rebel groups in Syria. The funding, if approved, would mark the United States' first substantial involvement in the three year-long Syrian civil war, which has now spilled into Iraq.

By process of elimination, we now know that the Supreme Court will deliver its decision in the Hobby Lobby reproductive-health coverage case on Monday. It's hard not to look at today's decision in McCullen v. Coakley, overturning buffer zones around clinics, for a gauge of the Court's temperature on the reality of abortion rights in America. The answer appears to be: warm on the good intentions of anti-abortion activists.

Ravon Jordan, 19, was killed outside a house party in Fayetteville, North Carolina early Sunday morning. Just last month, he spoke out against gun violence at a city council meeting, pressuring officials to close the Cambridge Arms Apartments after four murders occurred there.

Robert De Niro, in town filming his forthcoming movie The Intern, reportedly just joined some unsuspecting World Cup fans at their home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn to watch the U.S.-Germany match.

Gerald Weeks has a master's degree and a firm handshake, and he was looking for something to eat.

There is always a breakout star of each World Cup, and this year the candidates are numerous. There's Jermaine Jones, who scored America's most stunning goal. There's Luis Suarez, who has been banned for biting an Italian player. There's this guy's dick. And then there's Rihanna, who has inflamed American Twitter by rooting for everyone else.

In an effort to block Washington, D.C. from decriminalizing pot possession — a law it passed on its own back in March — House Republicans led by Maryland Rep. Andy Harris may have accidentally legalized it.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), perhaps in an effort to deflect media aspersions cast on his legislative intellect, is fast adopting a new reputation on Capitol Hill: a ninja Nacogdoches Nosferatu who will creep up on your video or photo shoot so hard.

MTV has announced a casting call for a host of new True Life episodes. Among them: "My Parents Like Their Weed," "I'm Being Slut Shamed," and "I'm Addicted to Molly." It's a great time to be alive and in slightly complicated situations.

Salwa Bugaighis, a prominent Libyan activist who led the charge against Gadhafi in 2011, was assassinated in her Benghazi home Wednesday night after voting in parliament elections. Her husband has been missing since the killing, and police think he was abducted.