Kyle Jones, 31, is not ashamed of the qualities he finds attractive in a mate. In fact, he believes he was "wired" that way: "Everyone's brain is wired differently, some guys prefer blondes, some brunettes, some like other guys—I like old ladies."

A newlywed husband and wife died Wednesday morning after their cars collided in a head-on crash in north Texas.

Today The Fault in Our Stars, based on a bestselling book by John Green, will debut in theatres across America. No cultural phenomenon can go unpunished by the good folks at Slate. So we get a piece with the thesis, "Adults should feel embarrassed about reading literature written for children."

Back in April, The Best Man and The Best Man Holiday star Taye Diggs began following new people on Twitter. Many new people. He followed so many people so quickly—thousands and thousands per day—that it started to feel less like a follow and more like a deranged chase. He followed a volunteer fire department. He followed a youth soccer camp. He followed the maker of a wine ice cream.

Last night, the McDonald's corporation threw a celebrity-studded bash to celebrate the much anticipated World Cup-themed McDonald's fry boxes. Who—besides us—would voluntarily go to such an event? It's a mystery that may never be solved.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Cosmos, the Carl Sagan–inspired show that answers viewers' questions about the physical universe (and raises new ones), is up for a Critics' Choice Award in the same category as Duck Dynasty, a show that pits a family of sentient beards against men's sinful anuses.

An 89-year-old veteran who went missing from his retirement home in Sussex, England yesterday morning has been located: He showed up today on the beachhead of Normandy, medals pinned to his coat, to take in the anniversary celebration of the D-Day invasion.

Tulip and Daisy are kittens up for adoption in Arlington, Va. When someone holds something above their heads and outside of the camera frame, they seem quite convinced of the philosophical stand taken by DJ Snake and Lil' Jon: "Turn down for what?" If you are unfamiliar with what "turning down" is, Urban Dictionary summarizes beautifully:

At present, the debate about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is an either-or exercise. Is he a Hero? Or a Deserter? As it's put like that, you can see that "deserter" for certain people has precious little relationship to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It is, for them, another way of saying "coward."

50 Cent is better at acting than he is at throwing a baseball or sticking to a strict anti-masturbation regimen. Sort of.

Meet Pig. Pig the dog of Birmingham, Alabama. She was the big new star of Do Dah Day. And y'all know how B'ham is about its Do Dah Day dogs, bless their hearts. Pig is kinda screwed-up, aesthetically, which of course just deepens the Five Tuesdays In Heaven With Marley and Me narrative potential, fulfilled here by the Birmingham News' Joey Kennedy:

Today Catholic League President Bill Donohue is alerting his audience to a minor controversy at Bellingham High School in Washington State, involving a drama club awards ceremony that got out of hand. According to Donohue, one of the tasteless jokes told during the ceremony was “among the most vulgar expressions of anti-Catholicism that I have encountered in some time.” Sounds pretty bad!

Jim "Pee Wee" Martin parachuted down to Nazis-controlled Utah Beach the night before the Allied troops' invasion of Normandy, or D-Day, which was 70 years ago today. Now 93, Martin suited up and took the jump again. "It didn't [compare]," Martin told CNN, "because there wasn't anybody shooting at me today."

It doesn't matter what old people like me think of Josh Boone's The Fault in Our Stars. It's going to be modern classic whether we're with it or against it. It's a triumph of the human spirit and unregulated cell growth. It's for teens to believe in, and it's been a while since teens have had something to believe in. So what difference will it make if I say that The Fault in Our Stars is bland and corny?

Aaron R. Ybarra, the man police say opened fire with a shotgun yesterday at Seattle Pacific University, killing one and wounding two, was reportedly obsessed with school shootings, in particular the one at Columbine High School.

Two people are dead and three others were injured after a woman dropped her mobile phone into a pit toilet in China's Henan Province. The woman's husband climbed into the cesspit to retrieve the lost device, but fainted from the stench, initiating a series of rescue attempts that ended in tragedy.

Five years after the lowest depths of the recession, America has finally regained all of the jobs that we lost in that economic calamity. In absolute terms, America has never been richer. Now we can turn our attention to equality.

Gergo Saling, the editor-in-chief of Origo.hu, a popular Hungarian news site, was fired Monday shortly after the site published a series of critical reports about the Hungarian government, the last of which was about State Secretary Janos Lazar and his multimillion travel expenses. Critics are accusing the Hungarian government of taking advantage of its cushy relationship with Deutsche Telekom—the huge telecommunications corporation that owns, through a chain of subsidiaries, Origo.hu—to silence news organizations that criticize the government.

This correction now appears at the bottom of David Bezmozgis's review of Rivka Galchen's American Innovations in the New York Times Book Review, which was almost entirely preoccupied with critiquing the "particular sort of woman" he so incorrectly describes.