Last month the members of One Direction decided to film themselves passing a joint around in Peru and today the world sees them for what they are: a group of twenty-year-olds getting high in the back of a van.

The editorial staff of the Intelligencer Journal in Lancaster, Pennsylvania was disappointed on Friday to learn that a witch profiled in the Intelligencer Journal's "Faith & Values" section one week prior was also an alleged prostitute.

"I think one experiment with [casual] sex is fine. Just like trying cocaine once is fine. More than that is hedonistic and gross in my opinion." The upscale readers of UrbanBaby.com discuss the perfect number of sex partners before marriage.

The Smithsonian National Zoo's family of Asian small-clawed otters—the smallest, cutest otter species in the world—spent some time over the weekend with one of their favorite toys: a keyboard to bang on. With their small claws, natch.

Jim Karr, a Chicago coffee expert who worked at Intelligenstia Coffee and later founded a coffee start-up, died Saturday afternoon after the large coffee machine he was setting up fell on top of him.

With heroin use in New York City on the rise, the New York State attorney general's office will provide the NYPD with 19,500 kits containing the anti-overdose medication naloxone. The $1.2 million initiative is similar to one in Suffolk County, which has saved 184 lives since 2012.

Killers before Elliot Rodger have left behind long messages detailing their grievances, but his had a rare clarity. He hated women. He wanted to kill them. He set out this past Friday evening to do just that. You might think in terms of commentary on his motives, that would be The End.

President Barack Obama looks at the project of Peyton Roberston, who won the Discovery 3M Young Scientist competition for his "sandless sand bags" project, during the 2014 White House Science Fair on Tuesday. Image via Aude Guerruccip-Pool/Getty.

Ever determined to be relevant, racist separatist cattle rancher Cliven Bundy has announced he's leaving the Republican Party to join the Independent American Party, which recently endorsed a "wackaloon" conspiracy theorist and Sandy Hook truther.

Manuel "Meme" Uribe, Guinness record holder for "world's heaviest man," passed away Monday at a hospital in Monterrey, Mexico, the Nuevo Leon health department has confirmed. He was 48.

Stop obsessing over what that weird oozing bump on your arm might be and go see a doctor already because that Wikipedia page you have open is probably wrong and is only going to make your crazier. Also, stop touching it.

When the subject of lethal firearms and mass killers and gun regulations comes up, as it will again and again, keep this quote handy. These are the words of Elliot Rodger on getting home with his first handgun, not long before his massacre in Isla Vista:

Acclaimed designer Massimo Vignelli, perhaps best known for his aesthetically groundbreaking if publicly derided 1972 redesign of the New York City subway map, died Tuesday in his home in Manhattan. He was 83.

"I would not consider it fair if someone in Williamsburg were complaining that we weren't portraying Williamsburg in an accurate light," says a TV location scout, "considering that person probably just moved here from Ohio." It's too hard to tell who to dislike in Williamsburg these days.

An Orthodox priest conducts a blessing service in front of the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday. The Soyuz is scheduled to launch Thursday. Image via Dmitry Lovetsky/AP.

Kanye West is now officially a Kardashian, which means the clock has officially started on how long Kimye's wedded bliss will last. Gym chain New York Sports Clubs took the opportunity to remind everyone about Kim's previous wedding to Kris Humphries, an NBA player with career averages of 6.8 points per game and 72 days per marriage.

President Obama is expected to officially announce today that troop levels in Afghanistan will be reduced to just under 10,000 by the year's end. That means more battalions for Africa and Syria now!

Last night, Lifetime aired a sequel to its ridiculous adaptation of V.C. Andrews' pulp tale of incest and other parenting no-nos, Flowers in the Attic. Petals on the Wind felt exactly like the rush job it was—the sequel was announced in January a week before Flowers aired because that's how certain Lifetime was that it had a hit on its hands.

Professional bachelor George Clooney and fiancé Amal Alamuddin are reportedly getting married in Highclere Castle near London — aka THE Downton Abbey. It's the same castle as depicted on the popular television series about British people and Maggie Smith telling each other secrets and being very dramatic while sitting down.

Joe the Plumber is an idiot. But in his latest idiocy—a crass dance on the graves of the just-murdered mass-shooting victims in Isla Vista—he teaches us all an important lesson about exactly how conservative thought on individual rights has shifted in recent years.