On last night's Late Show, David Letterman grilled America's sacred moonchild/actress Shailene Woodley for over three minutes on her well-known clay-eating habit. During her answers, she came off as both a good sport and a good sport who takes her clay-eating and good-sporting very seriously.

You can only take Love & Hip Hop Atlanta so seriously. Though ostensibly part of the candid reality television genre, it is at its alternately withered and overflowing heart a soap opera filled with a cast of fair-to-decent improv performers. "It's fake till it's real," is how my friend Derrence put it to me this weekend. Between spikes of seemingly uncontrollable emotional intensity, the show's vicious tentpoles, Love & Hip Hop Atlanta generally feels artificial and staged, as though the conversations we see have already been rehearsed at least a few times.

A man accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old nephew on Saturday as he demonstrated the laser sight on one of his guns by pointing it at the boy's head.

Somewhere in Freehold, N.J., hundreds of teen girls were screaming.

The object of Jimmy Fallon's "Word Sneak" game is to work some preassigned random words into a conversation as seamlessly as possible. But for Bryan Cranston to do that, he'd have to know what a badonkadonk is. Which he clearly does not.

Ralphee the kitten has a neurological condition called feline cerebellar hypoplasia, which impairs her fine motor skills and ability to walk, making her what's affectionately known as a "wobbly cat." Fortunately, her buddy Max the cattle dog is always there to look out for her.

On Tuesday, just five weeks after the UN published its own damning report on climate change, the White House released its National Climate Assessment. The findings, contributed to by more than 300 climate scientists and technical experts, are terrifying.

Last night, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber performed CPR on a woman dying from an apparent heroin overdose, likely saving the woman's life.

During the airing of tonight's 24: Live Another Day, Fox aired an extended trailer for their upcoming Batman prequel, Gotham. It features Ben McKenzie as Detective James Gordon, Jada Pinkett Smith as a new character called Fish Mooney, and all the original characters in the comic before they turn into their future selves.

An earthquake in northern Thailand yesterday killed one person and injured several. The magnitude 6.3 quake split a road in half, and resulted in smashed windows, cracked walls, and a number of damaged Buddhist temples.

A club owner in North Carolina has told the Winston-Salem Journal that Steve Wiles, an anti-gay marriage GOP senate candidate, was a drag queen working under the name Miss Mona Sinclair in the early 2000s.

If you stare hard enough into the back of Sarah Jessica Parker's Met Gala gown, taken in New York this evening, you enter the grid. Via Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Adding on to the already devastating tragedy of the Sewol ferry that sunk off South Korea in April, a South Korean civilian diver who was searching for missing people has died after becoming unconscious on a search today. He was 53.

An Australian grilled cheese maker called Jafflechutes, a name that I'll address with much concern later in this post, has succeeded in crowdfunding their parachute-based grilled cheese operation for a visit to New York, as soon as this month.

The winners of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards were announced last week and with it, we've learned thanks to Animal NY that finally, wet dog photography is finding its place. Photographer Sophie Gamand of France has won the Portraiture award.

Like James Franco before him, another one of America's heroes has become embroiled in an unseemly underage texting scandal that began on Instagram. Say it ain't so, Captain America!

At the Rialto Unified School District in California, an assignment given to eighth graders asked students to argue whether they "believed the Holocaust was a real historical event or a political scheme to influence public emotion and gain wealth."

We already knew it was happening, but The Comeback's second season has been officially confirmed by HBO. It will run for six episodes in the fall, probably sans Malin Akerman. Aw, baby girl!

It's been almost two years since Saved by the Bell's Lark Voorhies returned to pop culture via a bad makeup job (followed by another). Looking at these pics from Friday's Los Angeles premiere of Where We Started, though, it feels like no time has passed at all.

A teen driver who filmed himself crashing into four vehicles, injuring 5 people, has been arrested for leaving the scene of a crash. Police found him after he uploaded video of the incident to YouTube under the title "Me Driving Like an Idiot."