Why did an influential Christian leader just quietly leave the 20,000-member megachurch he founded in 1985? "Our pastor, he committed adultery with more than one woman. Our pastor, he committed sexual immorality, habitually, through pornography." Hmm, you have my attention.

On Thursday, the father of a 17-year-old victim released video, captured on his son's cell phone, showing the last moments of several teenagers aboard the Sewol, the South Korean ferry that sank last month.

Security footage from a shop in Huainan, China shows a man picking up a 12-month-old baby and flinging it into the air in the midst of what appears to have been a fight with the shopkeeper.

Me. I Am Mariah...The Elusive Chanteuse is latest in a long line of eccentric Mariah Carey album titles (including Butterfly, Glitter, Charmbracelet, The Emancipation of Mimi, E=MC², and Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel). Carey officially announced her long-delayed 14th studio album (out May 27) last night via the video above, explaining that the title comes from her "first and only self portrait," which she drew at age 3.

As the twin phenomena of regulatory capture and decrepit political structures controlled by a small plutocracy enable a small class of rentiers to accumulate an ever larger share of the world's wealth, our patriarchal society spawns status-obsessed males seeking glory through gaudy displays of finery.

Protesters from workers' unions protest during a march to mark the May Day, which is also International Workers' Day, in Hong Kong on Thursday. The slogans, from left, read "Less holiday, Long working hours, No compensation." Image via Kin Cheung)/AP.

Flash floods around the Pensacola, Fla. area covered sidewalks and stranded cars, but they couldn't stop one man and his really tall bike. They all laughed at him and his impractical contraption, but who's laughing now?

National Poetry Month is now in the books. You probably didn't even celebrate. That's okay: Take a minute now to bask in the laconic rhythmic brilliance of this six-year-old kid who wrote some beautiful zen shit that you can't even fathom penning.

You might think that the U.S. government's small step towards a national health care system would somehow help bring the cost of prescription drugs down to reasonable levels. You could not be more wrong! You idiot!

NYPD officers apparently can't stop getting drunk and shooting people: Just before midnight Tuesday, Officer Brendan Cronin allegedly pulled up to a stop light in Pelham, N.Y. and fired 13 shots at a stranger's car, striking the man six times.

Huge Wheel of Fortune fan Trent Girone says he's studied the game since he was 2 years old and applied to be on the show at every opportunity. Last night, he finally made his big Wheel debut.

If you get your nuts in a vise, you'll be lucky to have them in a sling afterwards. In fact, you'll be lucky to stay alive. It's physiology!

Was anyone truly surprised that racist L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling would make bigoted remarks on tape? Jimmy Kimmel went down to L.A.'s Legends Barbershop to get a haircut and find out.

Ellen Willis is not a household name, but in a just world she would be. A leftist cultural critic and feminist, Willis was a defining figure of the New York cultural scene in the 1960s and 1970s. She was probably best known to the public as the first pop music critic the New Yorker ever had, a gig she held from the late 1960s into the 1970s. Music was not her only passion, though. She was an outspoken feminist commentator, and one of the early members of the New York Radical Women's collective, the effective cradle of the women's movement in New York. (Check out Susan Faludi's piece on the collective from the New Yorker last year for more details.) Willis died in 2006, but her writing has been experiencing a revival of late among younger pop culture critics, who are attracted by the energy and intelligence of Willis' work.

The armed anti-government play-warriors who built a military force around a racist redneck rancher in Nevada have split into rival factions and are now at the brink of civil war, calling each other crazies and traitors and spreading rumors that Eric Holder planned a drone strike on them.

Police arrested 62 New Jersey high school seniors early Thursday morning after the students broke into their school and went nuts, greasing doorknobs, flipping tables, and pissing in the halls.

The subject of the best interview of all time can now rest easy: The city of Portland has reversed course and decided not to flush more than 35 million gallons of treated water that a teenager allegedly pissed in last month. Instead, officials transferred the water to another reservoir, where it will be used as a pond-like "water feature."

An apparent gas explosion at a jail in Pensacola, Fla. killed at least two inmates and injured as many as 150 prisoners and corrections officers Wednesday night, according to state officials.

Following reports from the Globe and Mail and Gawker about a new Rob Ford crack tape, the Toronto Star published a story detailing the Toronto mayor's latest descent into heavy boozing and alleged drug use. The report focuses on the night of March 15 during which Ford allegedly rode a party bus, vomited in a club bathroom, and was insulted by Canada's second most famous citizen, Justin Bieber.

James Franco shared quite a few mildly disturbing stories about Lindsay Lohan during an appearance on the Howard Stern Show today.