Taylor Berman · 04/02/14 07:01AM

A restaurant in Iquique, Chile burns after an 8.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the Chilean coast Tuesday night. At least five people died overnight and two northern regions in Chile were declared disaster areas, though no major damage has been reported. Image via Cristian Viveros/AP.

Gabrielle Bluestone · 04/01/14 10:06PM

New York City private school kids: not generally the most vaccinated bunch.

Gabrielle Bluestone · 04/01/14 06:10PM

For the first month in close to eight years, there were no American military deaths in Afghanistan.

Sarah Hedgecock · 04/01/14 04:50PM

A Balinese girl tries to avoid a kiss during the Omed Omedan kissing festival in Bali, Indonesia, on Tuesday. During the festival, village priests dump buckets of water over couples to douse their passions. Image via Firdia Lisnawati/AP.

Federal Prosecutor Puts Anonymous Commenters in First Amendment Peril

Michelle Dean · 04/01/14 03:21PM

A corruption case out of New Orleans has turned into a fight over an issue that might be of interest to certain users of this here website: Do commenters on a news website have an absolute right to anonymity? And it all traces back to a federal prosecutor with an out-of-control, borderline-rehab-requiring online commenting habit. Federal prosecutors: They're Just Like Us.

Second Amendment Men Rally in New York Around Crazy Effigy of Cuomo

Adam Weinstein · 04/01/14 02:28PM

Is it an effigy? Is it a "puppet"? Dude, when it's a likeness of the governor being hoisted by a demonstrator in a minuteman uniform over a crowd of angry gun-toting protesters in the capital, the optics sort of overpower the semantics.