Casey Kasem, one of the most recognizable voices in radio who hosted "American Top 40" for four decades, died Sunday morning. He was 82.

The Islamic insurgents that captured two major cities in northern Iraq last week have claimed on Twitter to have executed 1,700 Iraqi government soldiers, supporting their claim with graphic photos.

The AP reports that Connecticut police say a woman became concerned recently after hearing someone calling "Daddy!" repeatedly near a school. When she began looking for a child, though, she found something else entirely. A talking bear! Just kidding. It was a parrot!

More than 1,000 demonstrators marched across New York City's Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday morning to call for an end to gun violence in the U.S. They were united by the rallying cry "Not One More," inspired by Richard Martinez, whose son Christopher Michaels-Martinez was one of seven killed in May by Elliot Rodger. Photo via John Minchillo/AP.

Check out this exciting new clip from a World Cup match featuring anywhere from one to four cats and up to two finger puppets, depending on the moment!

Pro-Russia separatists shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane today, killing all 49 people on board.

My father — an old lion of a man — would bark, "They don't give a fuck about you," any time I called a rapper, athlete or actor a "beast" for their artistic or athletic feats.

A mother in Sunrise, Florida is now facing a federal criminal charge after disappearing with her two-year-old daughter last month in order to avoid having her vaccinated. (This served the dual purpose of keeping her from being "brainwashed" and keeping her out of school, where she might learn about black history).

After striking down the unconstitutional ban on same-sex marriage in Wisconsin last week, a move that allowed—in eight days—more than 500 couples to finally wed, U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb has ruled to put same-sex marriages on hold while an appeal from Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is pending.

In a recent interview with a Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, Pope Francis spoke about why he prefers not to use the bulletproof Popemobile, explaining that at his age he doesn't have "much to lose."

Dave Chappelle stopped by The Tonight Show last night, after making an appearance on Late Show earlier this week, and spoke about the first time he met The Roots, as well as the first—amazing—time he met Kanye West.

What is the correct way to answer the phone?

Speaking at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association Dinner Thursday night, headliner Nick Offerman—who plays anti-government government employee Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation—took the assembled news media to school with a timely lecture on the Bill of Rights.

America's Catholic bishops are considering whether their voter's guide's "discussion of evil, now focused on abortion and racism, should be revisited in light of the pope's description of economic inequality as a social evil." Well... let's not be hasty.

A formerly anonymous rich person recently whipped up frenzies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas by hiding envelopes full of cash around each city, then tweeting clues about where they're located. This weekend, @hiddencash is coming to New York.

I spent the last 20 minutes of William Eubank's intimate sci-fi thriller The Signal with my jaw hanging open. The movie's a slow burn that keeps its characters in the dark about what the hell is happening to them. Eubank's greatest feat is that he keeps the audience in the dark, too (or at least, this member of the audience). And then, when there is light, the movie explodes like a fireworks display. It's bright, exciting, and from moment to moment, unpredictable.

Diner Adrian Mosley, 33, is dead after getting into an altercation with Waffle House cook Quintavius Martin, 25, in the wee hours of Friday morning. This is the second Atlanta-area Waffle House shooting this month.

Most of what we think of as information is merely noise. Random signals, differentiated from the background only by meaningless fluctuations. What if one of those signals—randomly—sounded like sex noises? Scientists say it is possible.

A few years ago, NBC News hired Chelsea Clinton as a “special correspondent”—which meant, in practice, that Bill and Hillary’s daughter didn’t have to do any actual reporting. It turns out that coddling a child of privilege is very expensive! Politico reported on Friday morning that NBC News paid Clinton $600,000 per year to star in hard-hitting segments such as:

The NYPD: when they're not stopping and frisking black and Latino people just being black or Latino, they're arresting black and Latino people for possession of a plant that was supposedly decriminalized decades ago. This was all supposed to change when Bill de Blasio took office.