That dreamy Rand Paul, he's so bold, he came out against Republicans' voter-ID crusade! Oh wait, his spokesman clarifies: "Senator Paul was having a larger discussion about criminal justice reform... At no point did Senator Paul come out against voter ID laws." Courage!

Here's a great way to start your Tuesday: During a House Judiciary Committee meeting last week, Rep. Joe Garcia (D-FL) picked his ear, looked at the wax on his finger, and then ate it.

A police officer was shot to death Monday afternoon as he responded to a domestic disturbance at a Brentwood, New Hampshire home. Shortly after the shooting, the home burst into flames and exploded during a live newscast.

H.R. Giger, the Swiss artist who designed the terrifying creature in the Alien movies, died on Monday from injuries suffered in a fall. He was 74.

Only one person knows where legendary DJ Casey Kasem is, and she's not telling anyone.

The rest of Donald Sterling's "I'm not a Racist" interview with Anderson Cooper aired tonight, and it was terrible.

Beyoncé and Jay Z did a quick photo-op at the Nets-Heat game tonight after a totally normal day without much going on.

According to a report in New York Magazine, HarperCollins kept secret for months a new book by a man who claims to have irrefutable evidence that the never-captured Zodiac Killer is his father.

A video recently posted to TerRio’s Vine account depicts the six-year-old internet sensation battling Ice JJ Fish, the self-proclaimed man who sings with "100 voices." It’s not so much a "dance off," as the description calls it, but rather TerRio pop-locking (quite terribly, tbh) for five seconds while Ice JJ's song, "On The Floor"—which has reached over 21 million views on YouTube—plays in the background.

A Chinese student living in Japan was attacked on social media after showing up late to a reservation at one of the finest sushi spots in Tokyo, trying to order "cooked sushi" to go, and then ranting about the food and service online.

If you haven't seen "Girl Getting Hit With Shovel," the best action and comedy film of the year (according to respected film review site Deadspin), you're doing yourself a grave disservice. If you have, you'll be able to better appreciate this mashup of A-Ha's "Take On Me" and the sound of a flying shovel making contact with a teen girl's head and shoulders.

Keith Crisco, the man locked in a tight battle with Clay Aiken for the Democratic nomination for North Carolina's second congressional district, died suddenly at his home on Monday, reportedly from a fall.

Most of the focus regarding Earth's rising sea level has been on the Arctic Ocean, where ice in the North Pole has been melting rapidly for decades. But now there's even worse news: in the South Pole, Antarctica is beginning to melt and the results will be catastrophic.

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station on Sunday in Hartsizk, Ukraine. A referendum on greater autonomy was held after pro-Russian activists took over at least ten cities in the eastern part of the country in a bid for less control from the central government from Kiev. Image via Brendan Hoffman/Getty.

The life of an ever-vigilant anti-government armed patriot is hard. And by hard, I mean dull and unproductive. Also, not very profitable. Maybe that's why all those guys hanging out cleaning their guns in Nevada are now begging hard-working Americans to please give them some money.

The NCAA declared the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux mascot "hostile and abusive" in 2005, and the state voted to remove it in 2012, which leaves the school without a nickname until 2015. Not to worry, though. A group of students has found a solution: Use the same mascot, but add a beer bong to the logo. There's no way this could possibly backfire.

The respectable, politically powerful golden child of the religious right says sexiness on college campuses comes from condom handouts and ends with totalitarian government.

"This is 43 minutes of nostalgic '90s insanity," reads the Uncanny Brett White Tumblr post accompanying this YouTube upload of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' appearance on a 1990 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Visitors line up for tickets at the Washington Monument on ahead of Monday's ceremony to celebrate its reopening. The monument, which sustained damage from an earthquake in August 2011, was under repair until this month. Image via AP.

Here's the full video of Solange attacking Jay Z in an elevator, via TMZ. Shortly after the first video cuts off, Solange continues to talk—yell?—at Jay Z. Several seconds later, she tries again to hit him and is pulled away. Half a minute or so passes, and she lunges at him again, walloping him with her purse, which spills all over the elevator. Then all three—Beyoncé, Jay, and Solange—calmly exit the elevator with their entourage..