The Games of the XXXI Olympiad seem cursed for a number of reasons—but this particular tragedy, no one could have foreseen. For this is the tale of proud volleyball mom Cindy Lloyd’s exploded luggage. And shampoo was fucking everywhere.

Last week, the Washington Post reports, the CIA forgot that it had placed “explosive training material” under the hood of a Loudoun County, Virginia, school bus. The bus took students to and from school on Monday and Tuesday this week—the material still hidden in the engine compartment.

New York City Transit officials are planning to release inert gas and DNA particles into the subway system in order to study the effects of a terrorist bio-attack, the New York Post reports. This is a waste of time, because terrorists are much more likely to just kill us with guns.

Donald Trump, who is currently leading Republican primary polls by saying things like, “I would bomb the shit out of ISIS,” revealed today more of his nuanced plans to combat the terrorist network. In a call to his fans at Fox & Friends, he said he would “take out the families” of ISIS members, too.

A man has been charged with planting a fake bomb at a mosque in northern Virginia, the Associated Press reports. The bomb was found last week, authorities said, and the man was arrested Monday.

From time to time the Department of Homeland Security sends undercover investigators to airports, armed with fake explosives, firearms, and other contraband, just to test the TSA. The results are not reassuring.

An electrician conducting a pre-sale inspection on a Massachusetts home discovered the entire house was wired to explode when someone flipped a particular light switch.

On top of everything else, a bomb blew up outside the office of the Colorado Springs, Colorado NAACP chapter yesterday.

Passengers were evacuated from an American Airlines flight at New York's JFK airport Sunday morning as police investigate a bomb threat onboard.

Ailina Tsarnaeva—sister of accused Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev—turned herself in to New York City police Wednesday evening after allegedly making bomb threats during a telephone call.

An Air National Guard A-10 attack aircraft inadvertently dropped a 25-pound (dummy) training bomb around the Arkansas River last month, officials revealed. But hey, far worse things have been dropped around the Arkansas River lately.

An Egyptair flight from Cairo to New York was redirected to the U.K. this morning after a passenger found a note in the plane's restroom that read "I'll set this plane on fire" and included a seat number.

Here's what investigators have said they know, so far, about the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured 183 people on Monday: The explosive devices used were built out of conventional pressure cookers placed in nylon backpacks. What they don't know: anything else. The "range of suspects and motives remains wide open [...] Someone knows who did this," Special Agent Richard DesLauriers, the lead investigator, told reporters. "[T]he person who did this is someone's friend, neighbor, coworker or relative." The Bureau is actively soliciting photographs, tips and information; examining the bombs; and using face-recognition software in an attempt to generate leads. No one has claimed responsibility, and the "Saudi national" briefly placed in custody after the bombing (whose suspecthood was loudly touted by the New York Post and Fox) is no longer a person of interest. It will be a "long, painstaking investigation," Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick told WBUR this morning, but "every hour, every day" will get us "a little closer." [NBC, AP, image, of the Public Garden following an interfaith service at Arlington Street Church in Boston, via AFP/Getty]

At least two homemade bombs detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Copley Square just before 3 p.m. today, setting off explosions that killed three people and injured more than 100, many of whom lost limbs. According to early reports, three other explosive devices were found nearby, one of which was set off by police in a controlled detonation (a simultaneous fire at the JFK Library is said to have been unrelated). There are no suspects in custody, but police are searching for a person of interest who tried to gain access to a restricted area just before the bombs went off.

Ten years ago today, President George W. Bush announced the U.S. invasion of Iraq, to "disarm" the country, "free its people," and transform it into a "united, stable and free country."

The Associated Press has obtained an "EXCLUSIVE" document purporting to prove that Iran is working to build a nuclear weapon with "more than triple the explosive force of the World War II bomb that destroyed Hiroshima." Behold! The Chart of Doom!

Both landing a job and finding a way to fulfill sexual fantasies can be difficult things to do. Sadly, after writing a bomb threat on the back of his restaurant job application, a man in Nebraska is no closer to achieving either goal.

You know a news story is going to be good when it begins with, "It will be an explosive-free weekend for the northeast Georgia college student..."

Today the last of the B53 nuclear bombs—a 10,000-pound "monster weapon" way, way more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, if you can imagine—will be dismantled in Texas (i.e. executed on bomb death row), joining its 340 or so brothers and sisters in Cold War-era weapon heaven. Though inaccurate and "dumb" by some accounts, the B53 was special in its own way. "We have nothing that comes close to it in the stockpile anymore, and neither does Russia," Hans Kristensen of the Federation of the American Scientists told Wired. "It's the end of an era."

While drum circles imperil the future of Occupy Wall Street, the protesters of Occupy Maine (yes, that's a thing, and please, people, no "The 99% cahn't get theyah from heeah" jokes) have been contending with a far more serious threat: Someone tossed a homemade chemical bomb at the Portland encampment.