Now we know why Miami's airport evacuated last night: Something suspicious was found in the suitcase of a man previously jailed for smuggling the plague. Meet Dr. Thomas Butler, a white guy from Texas who works in Saudi Arabia.

There is something inherently awful about all bridesmaid dresses, but they make for amazingly good TV. And with all the contestants hating one "bride" in particular, it made for an exceptionally fraught reception.

A New York Times article this morning examines the latest iteration of an age-old problem for the Democratic party: getting young voters to give a shit about politics between presidential elections. Are these kids already bored with the "Democrat" fad?

Everyone knows that natural selection has made men genetically disinclined to ask for directions when they're lost. (Prehistoric men who stopped to ask for directions were often eaten by sabre-toothed tigers.) Turns out their stubbornness costs them $3,000.

Politico, the Beltway's go-to sociopath news outlet, has weighed all of Barack Obama's "options" for 9/11 this year and finds "few" good ones. There are apparently some grave political risks for Obama on 9/11 if he doesn't mourn properly.

Hurricane Earl is weakening. The storm's been downgraded to a Category 1 and may not even be a hurricane at all when it reaches New England late tonight. And the tropical storm warning for NYC has been lifted. Hooray!

No More Deaths, an aid organization that tries to prevent border-crossers from dying in the desert, as they do in droves, is celebrating a Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that leaving water bottles in the desert isn't littering.

Last year, secret-sharing website Wikileaks released 573,000 pager intercepts from 9/11. A group of German psychology students used this data to create an "emotional timeline" of the day, tracing the ebb and flow of sadness, anxiety and anger.

Bosnian police say they've identified the teen filmed throwing puppies in a river. (She now faces a $6,400 fine for animal cruelty.) The girl lives in a town called Bugojno, which means 4chan was probably correct in its identification.

The Hollywood scion and Law & Order: SVU star recently purchased a $7.3M, 7,000 sq.ft, 11 bedroom vacation home in East Hampton. It was built in 1890, has "6.6" bathrooms (!), and hopefully no horrible sex felonies.

Tennis is the most repetitive of sports. But yesterday a real live fight broke out in the stands at the U.S. Open! Most exciting moment ever, at a tennis match? It seems likely.

You have probably been thinking to yourself lately: "What are the best practices for selling Jell-O shots to drunk young men at bars?" What a coincidence! Because The Wall Street Journal can tell you exactly that.

Ever worry that you'll be the victim of a horrible crime, and you won't have the chops to tell the story to the local news? Watch this woman tell her story (of a robbery in Kansas City), and learn.

Having trouble stalking your Facebook friends efficiently? Help is on the way! Facebook is currently testing a new feature (dubbed the "Stalker Button" by Mashable) that makes online stalking easier than ever. So what does it do?

Stephen Hawking's new book, The Grand Design, is a nuanced analysis of the intertwining of metaphysics and physics through the ages. But all anyone wants to talk about is that the book says God wasn't needed to create the Universe.

New York's bedbug panic is no longer confined to the hoi polloi: The superhuman cyborgs who work in Google's Gotham uber-office have found bedbugs at work. Google is infected. Repeat: Google. Is. Infected.

A former Washington Post reporter is said to writing a comprehensive profile of Mark Zuckerberg. Comprehensive enough, maybe, to include the old romantic entanglement Zuckerberg just fibbed about. Prepare to do a little more sweating, Mark.

The NRA has begun mobilizing its usual election-year lie campaign about Democrats wanting to ban all weapons. Today, the gun lobby's "Trigger the Vote" wing released this redneck-comedy video featuring Chuck Norris, an actor from the 1990s. It's not terrible!

Among the pieces of evidence presented in support of California's new anti-paparazzi law—which passed on Tuesday—was this video of paparazzi terrorizing Kate Moss at LAX. Here's the video, alongside the images that landed in that week's tabloids.

A new Times Square TV ad depicts Google CEO Eric Schmidt as a creep in an ice cream truck. It's just the latest critical swipe at the company, Fast Company's Ariel Schwartz reports.