"I shot at the bird and, I guess, one of my BBs hit this guy." Oklahoma State Rep. Steve Vaughan, author of a bill that created an annual "Second Amendment Day," has taken responsibility for the accidental shooting of a fellow hunter (who sustained only a minor injury).

Judge Timothy Black said in federal court Friday that he will order Ohio to recognize out-of-state marriages. The order will be a step towards recognizing gay marriages in Ohio, but the state will still keep its ban on performing same-sex marriages.

Jack Kingston is an 11-term Republican Congressman running in the primary to become Georgia's next senator, and his most recent ad features a phone call from a rather desperate "President Barack Obama."

Previously, the only scientifically identified basic human emotions were happy, sad, fearful, angry, surprised, and disgusted. In a new study published in the journal PNAS, scientists have added 15 new "compound" emotions to that list, which were created by making different combinations of the six basic emotions. Now, you can feel such exciting new sensations as "fearfully surprised" or "sadly disgusted!"

A 25-year-old man who lives with his mother (oh, his poor mother) in London claims to have slept with 200 women in the past year, all of whom he found through Twitter.

Witnesses and relatives of the soldiers wounded at the Fort Hood shooting say Spec. Ivan A. Lopez's fury was caused by a dispute over paperwork. Lopez apparently became angry after asking human resources for a leave-of-absence application but was told to come back the next day.

Four people were killed in a car crash in Astoria, Queens on Friday night. The group had been driving back from a birthday celebration when their car hit a curb and flipped into the East River. Two men and two women were pulled from Steinway Creek after being trapped in the car for more than half an hour.

As the month-long time limit on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's battery powered "ping"-emitting black boxes comes close to an end, a Chinese patrol ship searching the southern Indian Ocean as part of the multinational search effort discovered a pulse signal that may (or may not!) lead them to the missing jet.

A large turnout for the Afghan presidential election has led officials to extend the voting period on Saturday by an hour. The turnout comes despite Taliban threats against all participants involved in the election and militants carrying out fatal attacks on polling centers in recent days.

The week of April Fool's Day was a bit existentially dispiriting around here. The warning went out for April 1: Remember, a lot of what the internet will be getting excited about today is fake bullshit being spread in bad faith purely for the sake of getting people excited.

#CancelColbert? More like #PutColbertOnNetworkTVInFrontOfAnEvenLargerAudience, if rumors about CBS's plans to replace Late Night host David Letterman next year are true. Mashable reports Colbert is "the front-and-center candidate" for the job.

Dunkin' Donuts has some company: On Friday, the New York Department of Health temporarily shut down Dominique Ansel Bakery, maker of the famous Cronut, because of a "severe mouse infestation."

Consider a salad. It is made up of many ingredients. Yet we give then all one name: "salad." It's kind of funny.

GrubHub CEO Matthew Maloney, trailed by costume characters, walks the New York Stock Exchange trading floor before his company's IPO on Friday. Investors sent shares up 51 percent to $39.20 in early trading in its stock market debut. Image via Richard Drew/AP.

Bill O’Reilly wants to pummel the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, for demonizing the wealthy. “I want to beat him up,” the Fox News anchor said of Hizzoner. (You can hear the audio above.) O’Reilly revealed his violent wish at a Thursday fundraiser for the Church of Saint Mary, a Catholic parish and K-12 school in the Long Island hamlet of Manhasset. As the Bible says: The rich will inherit the Earth.

If you're a washed-up one-term Tea Party congressman and you're writing a soon-to-be-bestselling jeremiad on dirty libruls, here's a pro tip: Don't use a bunch of fake "founding fathers" quotes from the footers of your Ayn Rand reading group's email threads.

This weekend's New York Times Book Review poses the following question to its "Bookends" columnists:

Well, we got it! "A source" at HBO has confirmed that The Comeback, which previously ran in 2005, will return for a second, six-episode season, reports blogger Kenneth Walsh. Last month, rumors began to circulate that HBO had been meeting with creators Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King.

For almost a year, a 19-year-old London art-school brat claimed he'd stage a jarring art performance in which he'd publicly give up his virginity through anal sex with a male friend. Sounds awful, right? Well, the performance's execution turned out much, much worse.

Do you know who Bucky is? Do you remember a woman from the 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger movie who, now that we've shifted in time to present day, is deteriorating from old age and bad movie makeup?