The 16-year-old suspect in yesterday's shooting at Taft Union High School near Bakersfield allegedly used a list of bullies to target specific students during yesterday's attack.

The Heritage Foundation has released its annual list of the world's freest economies and, wouldn't you know it, the Asia-Pacific region is number one. Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand are all on top while the world's largest economy, America's, barely cracks the top ten.

"How can so much fucking crazy be contained within a two-page interview?"

McDonald's is set to become the United Kingdom's biggest book distributor, offering children's books as the world's shittiest "toy" that comes with its Happy Meals.

New polling data suggests New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may have exactly what it takes for a Republican to be elected president: Democrats like him more than Republicans do.

Six dozen Iraqis who were imprisoned by Americans at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere during the Iraq War sued a private U.S. contractor that provided employees to the prison. According to the NYT, "The plaintiffs complained of 'heinous acts' and torture at the hands of military and contractor personnel, including rape and sexual assault, beatings, forced nudity, humiliation and isolation." Not to worry, though—they are being fairly compensated for their discomfort.

With the ground burning around his home in Dunalley, Tasmania, resident Tim Holmes knew he and his family had only one place to hide: In the water.

As many as 50 people were injured, including at least one critically, after a commuter ferry crashed into Pier 11 just south of Wall Street during rush hour this morning.

Looking at the latest favorability figures is enough to establish that congress is wildly unpopular.

Monday morning, the internet was abuzz with word that Brad Pitt, celebrity father, has joined Chinese Twitter, Sina Weibo. Even more exciting was his first message to Chinese fans: "It is the truth. Yup, I'm coming…"

I'm ashamed to say that I was completely unfamiliar with the exploits of Jose Mujica, the onetime guerilla fighter who has been president of Uruguay since 2010. (So this is not "news" per se, but education is power.) Having been brought up to date by an excellent Simon Romero story on Mr. Mujica this weekend, we are prepared to declare him The President of Our Dreams Who Is the President You Would Design in Your Imagination But Never Expect to Exist in the Real World. Consider:

According to Politico, President Obama will nominate former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense on Monday. For those dreading the current, post-fiscal cliff lull in political bickering, the announcement will come as great news; Hagel has already faced criticism for anti-gay remarks in 1998, an interview in which he discussed the "Jewish lobby" in 2007, and for breaking ranks with Republicans during the Iraq War.

How could a Forbes article that opened with "university professors have a lot less stress than most of us" go so wrong?

The first comedian-founded atheist church in England is set to hold its first monthly service tomorrow. Pippa Evans (a "musical improv comedian") and Sanderson Jones (just a regular talking comedian) came up with the idea together.

A pilot employed by American Eagle was removed for his plane this morning by airport police after failing an alcohol breath test.

The future of gay couples' right to marry in Illinois could very well, as god intended, rely on the automobile industry. Illinois Senators have attached the legalization of gay marriage as an amendment to House Bill 4963, which itself amends the state's Collateral Recovery Act. Feasibly, a bill which seeks to "define 'automobile rental company'" could also end up defining marriage in the nation's fifth largest state.

If there's one thing that made this country great for the last two hundred years, it's the utility companies that built huge, fossil-fuel-burning power plants to pump out all the electricity this hungry, greedy nation could use. And how do we repay these fine industrialists now? By slowing down our electricity use. Is this Russia?

Family members of moviegoers who perished in the mass shooting at the Century Aurora 16 theater on July 20th are livid over an invitation by theater owner Cinemark to attend a movie screening at the reopened theater as part of a "special evening of remembrance."

The saga of the Journal News' decision to publish the names and addresses of gun owners in Rockland County now has another chapter.

2012 saw the public splits of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Heidi Klum and Seal, Will Arnett and Amy Poehler, amongst other couples. After 30 years of marriage, Rhea Perlman and Danny Devito called it quits in October. Their breakup was the official death of love as we knew it. There was no hope.