A sixth grader was suspended—and now faces expulsion—for taking a razor blade away from a classmate who was cutting himself. Her school has a "zero tolerance" weapons policy.

Unstable cult leader Fred Phelps, the man behind the "GOD HATES FAGS" "protests," has died. Go make a donation to Human Rights Watch in his memory.

Last night, CNN anchor Don Lemon posed an interesting question to his guests: Did a black hole cause Flight 370 to vanish?

"There's some indication that what makes a bisexual person may be less about what they're strongly attracted to and more about what they're not averse to." - An American Institute of Bisexuality board member, as quoted in this fascinating New York Times Magazine story on the quest for scientific proof of bisexuality.

Thursday morning, President Obama announced new sanctions against Russia. "The United States is today moving, as we said we would, to impose additional costs on Russia," Obama said, adding that the sanctions will have a "significant impact on the Russian economy but could also be disruptive to the global economy."

Who doesn't love a romantic comedy about a staid conservative chasing a wild free sprit? Even when the uptight one is a major regulatory institution and the the free spirit is an online exchange for a digital currency?

William Melchert-Dinkel (pictured), a former nurse in Minnesota, served a year in prison for encouraging two people (who did commit suicide) to commit suicide. Yesterday, the state supreme court said that what he did was not a crime.

Anti-gay activist and Catholic League head Bill Donohue said he has applied to march in New York's upcoming LGBT Pride parade. He plans to carry a banner that reads "Straight Is Great." An NYC Pride representative says he's welcome to do so. Inclusion that allows a bigot to make a fool of himself is an A+ response.

A music teacher pulled over by police with a tuba in her backseat admitted to stealing more than 50 instruments from her school district and selling them to buy heroin.

Retired corporate executive "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, dubbed a "psychopath" for his relentless commitment to slashing jobs at the companies he ran, was escorted out of an Ocala, Florida City Council meeting this week for shouting.

Louis C.K. once pointed out that the aspiring actors who ask Sean Penn questions on Inside the Actors Studio are never going to be famous. It's true, with one notable exception. His name is Bradley Cooper, and he just humped C.K.'s leg in American Hustle.

On Sunday, a teenager from New Jersey was arrested after sneaking to the top of 1 World Trade Center in the middle of the night and taking photos from its roof for more than two hours.

Texas death row inmate Ray Jasper was executed by lethal injection last night. He wrote to us twice as part of our "Letters from Death Row" series. You can read his letters to us here, and a letter from the brother of his victim here. He is the fourth one of our death row correspondents to be executed.

Do you own a backpack? Do you wear it, on your back, in public? Here are a few helpful reminders about the nature of your backpack and your role as a member of the human species.

With only two letters on the board, Wheel of Fortune contestant Emil has what seems like an unsolvable puzzle in front of him. But somehow he walks away with $45,000 and a pat down from Pat Sajak.

Australian satellites located two large objects that appear to be parts of an airplane floating in the southern Indian Ocean.

An armed meth head was no match for Australia's premier male stripping troupe, the Thunder From Down Under, who recently took a gunman down thanks in part to the strength of their "dynamic dance routines, barely there costumes, state-of-the-art lighting and chiseled abs."

Police just discovered a different kind of white powder in a Georgetown dorm room—ricin. A 19-year-old copped to manufacturing it and campus officials say there is no immediate threat to students.

A short video cobbled together from a four-month undercover PETA investigation of a prominent horse trainer shows the underside of horse racing.

Rob Ford has found a new way to get his heart rate up.