A California man charged with burglary went free after a deadlocked jury signed a not-guilty form by mistake. Just hours later, he was stabbed to death.

The video above, published by the Associated Press, shows a tour guide in Lafitte, Louisiana swimming with wild alligators, feeding them marshmallows straight out of his mouth.

Capital news for nerds of varied persuasions: An ambitious band has transformed the meandering, incomprehensible, jazz-like plot of Game of Thrones into actual (kicky) jazz.

In the past week, Al Qaeda-connected Islamic militants have attacked multiple cities across Iraq and are rapidly consolidating power in the nation that the United States spent so much blood and treasure trying to stabilize. The situation is dire and dynamic. Here's some of what we know.

In 2014, a story about AIDS in San Francisco in 1985 is as relevant as ever. Though it shares subject matter, Chris Mason Johnson's Test is the virtual antithesis of Ryan Murphy and Larry Kramer's survey of the early plague years, The Normal Heart, which aired last month on HBO. Test is smaller in scale, more intimate, virtually free of melodrama, and features characters whose relationship to AIDS is not that they are dying from it, but that they are living in fear of it.

Do you have a kid? Is your kid in high school? There's a pretty good chance they're smoking weed at least occasionally — and if they haven't yet, they're likely to try it eventually. You lit up (just once, and didn't even enjoy it that much) back in your day, right?

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will fly to the U.S. tomorrow. According to defense officials, the former Taliban POW will go to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Tx. to do Phase 3 of his "reintegration process."

A dog, Gawker's most popular columnist, returns this week with an exploration of the face-to-face relationship, and a being's ethical responsibility to the infinite other: "There's a rabbit who lives in a plywood box two yards down. Not a smart guy. I can't vouch for his personality."

Richard Dunn, the man who just became internet famous for making a music video for Celine Dion's "All By Myself" while stuck in the Las Vegas airport, has caught the attention of someone else who's trapped in Vegas: Celine Dion.

Ousted New York Times editor Jill Abramson is joining the faculty of Harvard University, her alma mater, as a visiting lecturer in non-fiction narrative journalism. Like every Harvard graduate, Abramson has the school’s crimson “H” logo tattooed on her back.

Do you have $25,000 and an appreciation for early aughts electric cars/Ed Begley Jr.? Cool, now you can buy Begley's old car on Craiglist. For $25,000.

Sometimes a giant pit-bred hybrid of human and Orc works up an appetite trying to find the halflings for Saruman, so here's Lurtz the Uruk-hai making a casual grocery run. Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!

Actress, civil rights activist, and all around badass Ruby Dee died Wednesday night at home in New Rochelle, NY, at age 91, the New York Daily News reports. Dee had an Emmy, a Grammy, and a National Medal of Arts, among her several awards, and was best known for her roles in A Raisin in the Sun, Do the Right Thing, and American Gangster.

Maybe the thing about the New York Times Style section is that it's actually written by some old-timey man who just arrived here in a time machine from old-timey days.

Everyone knows heartbroken men are prone to irrational behavior. One scorned lover might show up outside his old flame's house, waking her with the very loud Peter Gabriel song that's emanating from his boombox; another might find his ex's new guy, stab him in the chest, and eat his heart with a knife and fork.

The FIFA World Cup, soccer's premiere international tournament, begins today at 4 p.m., and you, non sports fan, are confused.

Just a month ago, the Forever Lock—a complex and supposedly "unpickable" bicycle U-lock—spread across the internet to an unbelievable amount of hype. Here's a video of a man picking it.

Two longtime partners joined Milwaukee's parade of recent newlyweds Wednesday afternoon, and not even a grumpy old curmudgeon trying to block their nuptials could put a damper on the courthouse ceremony.

Watching one of MattyB's videos feels a little like watching Kidz Bop, or Justin Bieber's pre-fame YouTube clips. Songs you know are sanitized and made kid-friendly, with an impossibly cherubic tweenage boy front and center, belting them out. "This kid's pretty good," you might think. "Maybe he'll find an audience someday."