Recent commencement speakers at Howard University include Barack Obama, John Lewis, and Jesse Jackson. This year's selection: Puffy.

The city of Portland announced late Wednesday that it will flush nearly 38 million gallons of treated water because a teenager was busted peeing into a city reservoir.

He's just a man. A man with a dream. A dream of not getting pulled over all the time because of the name he inherited. Also, a dream of allegedly doing some drugs, which, you know, irony!

During a live broadcast on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin finally admitted what the world already knew or suspected: that Russian troops entered Crimea before a crucial March referendum. But the true surprise occurred later in the program, when Edward Snowden called in to ask Putin if Russia's surveillance programs were similar to the United States'.

South Korean Coast Guard officers search for the 287 passengers who remain missing after a ferry sank off the coast of South Korea on Wednesday. Nine people, including five high school students, were confirmed dead, though that number is expected to rise drastically. Image via Ahn Young-joon/AP.

X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer was accused of repeatedly drugging, threatening and forcibly sodomizing a minor in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Hawaii.

An antibiotic-resistant salmonella outbreak linked to a California poultry farm broke out in October. Six months later, it's still getting people sick.

Digital pop culture surgeons Eclectic Method combed through decades of film, TV, and music, and came up with the "420 Mix," a supercut of pop culture's love affair with weed.

At least fifteen people were injured this evening when a firetruck rammed through a Los Angeles dumpling shop.

Two convicted sex offenders accused of murdering at least four women in California were literally on the government's radar the whole time—police say the men, who checked in with probation officers on a regular basis, were both wearing court-ordered GPS ankle devices.

Two days ago, an Oregon man named Alan Marion received a postcard sent from Portland. But the postcard wasn't addressed to him: instead, it was meant for his great-grandmother Florence, which makes sense since it was postmarked Feb. 20, 1940.

ABC News has never won a Pulitzer Prize, since Pulitzers are not for television. That didn’t stop ABC News president Ben Sherwood from demanding that the awards committee (which doesn’t recognize television) recognize ABC for its role in the reporting that won another (non-television) outlet a Pulitzer earlier this week. Sherwood’s public campaign has already turned ugly.

Mike Huckabee will be president. Or Jeb Bush. Or Rand Paul. Or Paul Ryan. Or Chris Christie. Or Ted Cruz. Or Marco Rubio. Or Rick Santorum. Or Scott Walker. Or Rick Perry. Or John Kasich. Or Undecided. But not really, because King Hussein Obummer will declare martial law before 2016.

Taylor Swift, superstar with extensive dating requirements and tags on her stylish pants, shocked a longtime fan by showing up unexpectedly at her bridal shower.

People walk past an Ukrainian Army combat vehicle parked near a railway in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Wednesday. The central government has so far been unable to rein in the insurgents, who have seized government facilities to press their demands for broader autonomy and closer ties with Russia. Image via Evgeniy Maloletka/AP.

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, a rising GOP star who's spearheaded the party's outreach to women, was caught on audio calling her 2010 opponent "that little bitch" and complaining that teachers are overpaid because "they already don't work, you know, two and a half months out of the year."

A Tampa Bay-area high school teacher was arrested this week after admitting she'd had sex "20 to 30 times" with an underage student and aborted a pregnancy that resulted from the illicit relationship.

On Wednesday, Robert Rizzo, the corrupt former city manager of Bell, California, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay $8.8 million in restitution. Earlier in the week, Rizzo was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for tax evasion.

In case you forgot for a second that being the spawn of someone rich and powerful affords you countless ways to circumvent your problems, here's another: NYU president John Sexton, center, turned two single dorms into a duplex during a housing shortage for his son, the New York Post reports.

As my colleague Rich just reported, Louisiana lawmakers defended their ban on consensual oral and anal sex today, even though it's unconstitutional. Weirdly, though, Louisiana has no problem with people fucking corpses. It turns out they're not alone.