Remember when hunters and gun-owners were serious conservationists and stewards of the environment? The NRA sure as hell doesn't.

Toyota is moving most of its U.S. operations from California to Texas. The state of Texas is paying the company $40 million to relocate. This represents an utterly stupid and useless case of corporate welfare detrimental to the public interest.

Mark Harris could win North Carolina's GOP Senate primary next Tuesday. If so, he may easily become the state's next U.S. senator. And he could do it all with sketchy "love offerings" from parishioners caught on tape passing the hat at the church where he's a pastor.

Four years of university completed, tens of thousands of dollars spent, and now you're ready to accept your diploma and head off to reckon with an economy where the unemployment rate for new college graduates just went down to 11%. What can you do on stage that would be a perfect metaphor for your life situation?

Remember this moment. Someday your kids will ask you where you were when you found out that some jackass had run a beer mile—like a regular mile, but with more beer—in under 5 minutes, setting a new world record.

In the latest development in the crypto-soap-opera that is the Mt. Gox bankruptcy, plaintiffs in an Illinois class action brought by angry depositors have agreed to settle its claims against the beleaguered Bitcoin exchange. The settlement agreement, filed with an Illinois court yesterday, sets up the story as a heartwarming "We Are the World"-type reconciliation:

They came to defend an old cattleman and their principles of life, liberty, and property. But apparently other rightful property owners in rural Nevada don't feel terribly free under the security regime recently built around them by the militiamen protecting rancher Cliven Bundy.

The person who has been arrested more than anyone else in Los Angeles in the past six years is not a drug dealer or a gang member. It is Annie Moody, a 59 year-old homeless grandmother who lives on skid row.

#WorldsMostTalkedAboutCouple Kim and Kanye Kardashian's huge blowout wedding is scheduled to go down in France next month, but the two are actually getting married this week in a secret ceremony, TMZ reports. Well, as secretly as Kimye can do anything, anyway.

Jimmy Fallon challenged Emma Stone to a lipsync-off on the Tonight Show Monday, and while Fallon had the home field advantage, the Amazing Spider-Man 2 actress delivered on style and degree of difficulty. And Ludacris.

At least six people were injured in a shooting this morning at a FedEx facility in Kennesaw, Georgia. More than 50 law enforcement officers have responded to the scene, though the gunman reportedly remains at large (UPDATE: The suspect was found dead, from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound).

For the second straight day, powerful storms swept across the southern United States, killing at least 13 people in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The death toll from two days of severe weather in the region now stands at 29.

In a speech today in Washington, Hillary Clinton spoke about the devastating tornadoes that have hit the Midwest, particularly calling out Arkansas, where Clinton used to live.

Beatrice the dog was stolen from her backyard in Milwaukee, burned over the majority of her body, and then left in the cold for eleven days. When she was rescued, several veterinarians vowed to save her—for free, and with the help of some pigskin.

Shots fired: in a move to protect the health of its citizens, Europe has ostensibly banned American apples from ever making it to their grocery store shelves. Following regulations by the European Food Safety Authority, our apples, which are too high in residues of DPA, won't make it across the ocean.

As late-night TV experiences a number of shakeups, Craig Ferguson, the Scottish host of The Late, Late Show, has announced he'll be leaving CBS at the end of the year.

The Cincinnati Zoo just got itself a cool new buddy: their 7-year-old giraffe Tessa gave birth to a baby girl giraffe calf who is currently nameless. The gates have been opened for the lay public to name the new creature, but you only have three days until the contest ends. Get moving.

Harper Lee, who only wrote one book, the great To Kill a Mockingbird, has finally consented for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to be turned into an eBook. It only took 54* years, but who's counting?

Jeff Hunsicker, a Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, shared his talents in African dance when he was on the game show last week. This video is very difficult to turn away from.

Administrators at Cedarville University, a Baptist institution in Ohio, have openly admitted to confiscating all the copies of an alternative student publication that had recently written in support of gays and lesbians and criticized university officials.