Identical twins are rare, but monoamniotic identical twins, who share the same amniotic sac and placenta, are even more so—they make up just 1% of all twin pregnancies. That's why everyone is so excited that a lucky Ohio mom gave birth Friday to a pair of "mono mono" twins who clutched each other's hands as doctors held them up.

On Monday, a bipartisan delegation of Texas lawmakers will try to woo Huy Fong Foods, the company that makes the basically-toxic (and overrated) Sriracha hot sauce, away from Irwindale, California.

In a video obtained by the AFP on Monday, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said he would free the more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian school girls in exchange for the release of captured militants. The video also shows several dozen girls, claimed by Shekau to be the missing school girls, wearing full-length hijabs and praying.

A crazy Maury episode played out in real life when a producer accidentally arranged for an extremely dysfunctional couple to stay at the same hotel the night before their taping.

Anderson Cooper landed Donald Sterling's first public appearance since his racist comments went public, and the racist Clippers owner's defense is simple: he's not racist.

A dashboard camera captured the moment an Iowa cop almost died last week when a large oak tree randomly cracked and slammed directly into the SUV he was ticketing.

Shelly Sterling, wife of racist and banned-for-life former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers Donald Sterling, told ABC News that she will "eventually file for divorce" from her husband and will "absolutely" fight for her right to keep her stake in the team.

America's own War on Drugs™ is so well documented to the point of self-parody, but what of our ancestral progenitors across the pond? They are all snorting a lot of coke. So much, it would appear, that scientists in the UK say its found its way into the water supply:

Fans of Pawnee, Indiana and its residents will be sad to hear that the NBC hit show Parks and Recreation will come to a close at the end of its forthcoming seventh season. It hasn't been reordered for fall but will begin again midseason.

Jordan Belfort, the crazy rich maniac whom crazy rich maniac Leonardo DiCaprio played in last year's Wolf of Wall Street, does not like being asked if he's participating in unsavory financial behavior on Australian offshoots of American news magazines.

The outrage. After a fourteen-year dominance of the baby name charts, Jacob is no longer what parents are naming their tykes in the US. An equally biblical name has taken over the number one spot: in 2013, Noah was the most popular name given to baby boys.

Former governor of Wisconsin, Patrick Lucey, a tough Democrat who later became the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, has died at 96. His son Paul Lucey said he died after a brief illness at the Milwaukee Catholic Home on Saturday night.

For years, Eminem's strained relationship with his mother, Debbie Mathers, has been fodder for his albums and music videos (remember "Cleaning Out My Closet?").

The Borghese Gallery in Rome has resorted to the unthinkable in the art world by opening its windows to let in air as a way to prevent humidity from touching the works during the city's unusually balmy spring. The museum is home to precious art by Caravaggio, Titian, Rubens, and Raphael, among others.

A group of gunmen walked up and opened fire on a child's birthday party in Sacramento's Peregrine Park Saturday evening, the Sacramento Bee reports:

As the late Whitney Houston warned, children are our future. They will take care of us as we age into infinity, perhaps sustained by whatever Soylent-y foodstuffs we have by the time we've all circumvented the cold of death.

Poor man's Jared Leto, walking hair follicle Jake Gyllenhaal, sat next to Jay Z and Beyoncé at a Nets-Heat game last night and really struggled to find something to entertain both stars with. No common ground was found.

Derrick Ward, a Super Bowl-winning former running back for the New York Giants and the Houston Texans, had a lot to say about the NFL draft last night, where Michael Sam reacted to his draft pick by joyfully kissing his boyfriend.

Millions (millions) of tourists visit New York City every year. And every day New Yorkers must make the shrewd calculation to either acknowledge or direct tourists on their paths to Times Square and beyond, or to straight up ignore them.

Every year since 1987, The University of Chicago has hosted a campuswide scavenger hunt called Scav that will validate to your speculation that smart college kids are always up to some awesomely weird insider shit. The event is on its last day and the clues this year are typically esoteric.