Ken Silverstein, a veteran of Harper's, the LA Times, and many other places, is one of America's great crusading balls-to-the-wall lefty investigative journalists. His new book explores power, intrigue, and corruption in the global oil industry. He will be answering your questions at 1 p.m. Ask your question now!

Oh, those damned namby-pamby leftists with their weak-ass hashtag slacktivism. If only they knew that what really changes the world is dudes with guns. Thankfully, Marine Todd here will set them straight. With a hashtag sign. Get it? Har har!

The six Iranians arrested Monday for filming a video of themselves dancing to Pharrell's "Happy" have been released, according to reports.

Beleaguered retail empire Target announced weak-ass first quarter earnings today, thanks in large part to its disastrous Target Canada division, which lost $211 million just this quarter. How did Target Canada become the laughingstock of the retail industry? A Target Canada veteran explains in detail, below.

Conservatives are helping draw needed attention to the VA's fuck-ups, and that's seriously good. Now, what do they have to say about the Army recruiting and retaining unbalanced sociopaths who thieve, deal, murder, and organize anti-government militias on bases?

Over the past 30 years, more than 1,200 indigenous women have disappeared in Canada. The aboriginal community estimates that some 43 of them have been plucked off what is known as the Highway of Tears, a 500-mile stretch of road that runs through the wilds of British Columbia. It may not sound like a whole lot, but consider 43 families not knowing what happened to their daughters or why. The majority have not even had their losses acknowledged by the police, who only count 18 missing.

More good news for JPMorgan Chase, the investment bank which has paid $30 billion in fines in the last two years: the firm's ex-head of investment banking in China was recently arrested in Hong Kong by an anti-corruption agency in an investigation believed to be related to the bank's possibly-illegal nepotistic hiring practices.

Willow Smith's controversial bedroom photo with actor Moises Arias has prompted an investigation by the Los Angeles Department of Children & Family Services, RadarOnline reports.

Bacon lovers in Frederick, Md. are up in arms after their Beer Bacon Music festival failed to supply them with a sufficient amount of cured pig product. This shall not stand!

It took almost 30 years for Larry Kramer's acclaimed play The Normal Heart to be adapted into a movie—Ryan Murphy's take on Kramer's autobiographical account of the early days of AIDS will premiere Sunday on HBO. In a rare interview with the New York Times, the now frail former Gay Men's Health Crisis/ACT UP activist Kramer explained his version of why Barbra Streisand's adaptation never got off the ground: She didn't want to portray gay men fucking.

In a morning press conference, President Obama called for congressional cooperation and a comprehensive review of the VA's operations amid allegations that many of its hospitals faked records to to delay treatment of sick veterans. "If there is misconduct," he said, "it will be punished."

Poor poor Rick Santorum. You try to keep America on the moral straight and narrow, and then it all blows up in your face. Like when you fight for the appointment of a tough-as-nails conservative judge who reverses your home state's ban on gay marriage.

Portland, Ore. police responded to a 911 call at around 7 a.m. Tuesday morning from a woman who believed her car was under attack by a pirate. But instead of a routine pirate attack—oh, Portland—they discovered an armored man who claimed he was a High Elf.

The New York Times does not like gossip, especially gossip about The New York Times.

Teen achievement unlocked: a 16-year-old Colorado Springs boy described by police as a runaway managed to avoid arrest for credit card theft after rappelling down from the fourth-floor of the Antlers Hilton on a rope made from bedsheets.

The video above depicts nothing less than a sonic hijacking. Gothamist reports that yesterday, a Brooklyn resident rode an N train holding about 50 kids who played recorders stop after stop after stop, for a total of 40 minutes. What assholes.

Sen. Mitch McConnell easily beat back a Republican primary challenge from Matt Bevin, the Tea Party-approved cockfighting enthusiast who was vying for his Kentucky Senate seat. Lesson learned: Don't mess around fighting with cocks.

The customer is always right, so when an asshole online reviewer demanded that servers at a restaurant in West Virginia "show more skin," the owner of the place was happy to oblige—just not in the way the troll was hoping.

In what officials are calling one of the largest cases of its kind, authorities have charged 70 men and one woman in the New York City area for anonymously trading child porn.

The more I read the news on my web-enabled smartphone, the more it becomes clear to me that there are precisely four words that must be banished from the English language. Why four? My column doesn't have space for more than that.