Taylor Berman · 04/03/14 10:04AM

According to Army Secretary John McHugh, Spec. Ivan Lopez, the gunman who killed three people at Fort Hood on Wednesday before killing himself, "had a clean record" prior to the shooting. McHugh also confirmed that Lopez had been deployed in Iraq but said he did not see combat.

Sarah Hedgecock · 04/03/14 09:50AM

Lucy Hamlin and her husband, Spc. Timothy Hamlin, wait for permission to re-enter the Fort Hood military base, where they live, following Wednesday's shooting. Image via Tamir Kalifa/AP.

J.K. Trotter · 04/03/14 09:09AM

New Jersey’s Star-Ledger is creatively destroying the jobs of 167 employees, 40 of whom worked as editors, reporters, and photographers. “The newsroom is not unionized,” the paper’s own report states.

Japan Loving That Garbage Coffee

Hamilton Nolan · 04/03/14 08:54AM

Here in America, the home of taste and sophistication, we drink "tea," to demonstrate that we are not crude savages. In Japan, however, no "thousands of years of cultural legacy" can hide the fact that they drink garbage coffee.

Hamilton Nolan · 04/03/14 08:06AM

Former Manhattan court stenographer Daniel Kochanski, fired for "repeatedly typing, 'I hate my job, I hate my job' instead of the trial dialogue," is today's working class hero.

U.S. Secretly Created 'Cuban Twitter' to Undermine Castro's Government

Taylor Berman · 04/03/14 06:37AM

For more than two years, the United States secretly funded and developed ZunZuneo, a text-based social media platform, in order to encourage an uprising against the Cuban government, according to a report in the Associated Press. USAID spent at least $1.6 million—money that was publicly earmarked for programs in Pakistan—on the the clandestine project, which, at its peak, reached 40,000 Cubans and involved front companies in Spain and the Cayman Islands.

Active Shooter Reported at Fort Hood

Gabrielle Bluestone · 04/02/14 05:02PM

A gunman opened fire on Fort Hood in Texas this afternoon, killing at least one person. According to authorities, the man is still at large.

Taylor Berman · 04/02/14 04:55PM

Attention, ladies: Ten months after it was first announced on live television, Vladimir Putin's divorce from his wife Lyudmila is officially final.

Hamilton Nolan · 04/02/14 04:24PM

Though 55% of Americans say they favor legalized weed, a new poll finds that 75% of Americans believe it's "inevitable" that weed will be legalized. Just legalize it already. They'll save so much money on polling.

David Brooks May Not Have Gotten Divorced After All

J.K. Trotter · 04/02/14 03:00PM

Back in November, the Washington Post reported that New York Times columnist David Brooks and his wife of 27 years, Sarah, were divorcing. The unsourced item, under the collective byline of the “Reliable Source” gossip column, rattled a certain portion of the Acela corridor: Here was a leading conservative pundit, a father of three who has blamed single mothers for the country’s “fraying social fabric,” dismantling his own marriage.