Some photos and videos are uploaded to the Internet and explode seemingly overnight. Feverish sharing transforms these bits of media into global sensations and starts new trends. Many feel encouraged to join in with the fun and keeping up with the cool kids. Some of these trends entice us to do wonderful things for each […]
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The Alameda County Sheriff on Tuesday posted the mugshot of a man accused of attempting to stab congressional candidate Rudy Peters.

Arrested: Farzad Fazeli (35) was arrested for assaulting a local political candidate for Congress. https://t.co/nNNEmrtiMB pic.twitter.com/MjNbWaKkZk
— Alameda County Sheriff (@ACSOSheriffs) September 11, 2018

BREAKING: Farzad Fazeli, 35, accused of trying to stab Congressional candidate Rudy Peters with a switchblade at a festival in Castro Valley after making "disparaging remarks" about the GOP, per @ACSOSheriffs pic…

Last week, the man who pushed Kendra Webdale to her death walked out of prison and into a mental health system that has been heavily influenced by her killing.

Now that we’ve just reported the attempted stabbing of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s opponent, here’s another threat made against Trump supporters:

Police are on scene of a mass shooting threat at a MAGA event at the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC https://t.co/0B2TpysiWC pic.twitter.com/E0yOb8AM9N
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) September 11, 2018

As people who scan Twitter all day, we see a lot of threats by Twitter randos that don’t seem to carry much weight, but Cassandra Fairbanks wasn’t about to let this tweet go by without alerting police:

Reported this to the DC police…

In a sea of unprofessional, disingenous hacks, Jake Tapper stands out as one of the few reliably solid journalists. But even those who don’t care for his reporting can at the very least give him props for his support of our military.
Tapper’s book, “The Outpost,” which tells the story of the brave troops who defended Combat Outpost Keating from Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan in 2009, is being made into a movie…

CBS News’ David Begnaud has confirmed with a senior official at FEMA that these viral images shared to Facebook earlier in the week do indeed show “what may be millions of water bottles” that were sent to Puerto Rico by the U.S. federal government and then never delivered to those in need by local authorities:

BREAKING: What may be millions of water bottles. meant for victims of Hurricane Maria, have been sitting on a runway in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, since last year, according to @FEMA, which confirmed the news to me, late tonight, after pictures, posted today on social media, went viral…

Humanity had its darkest year in at least a decade, according to a Gallup survey of the emotional lives of more than 154,000 people around the world.

Jewel thieves have always been considered to be a cut above ordinary criminals. Perhaps it’s because they tend to rely on brains more than brawn. Defeating an impossible security system and getting into, and out of, a locked vault holds many of us in awe. And, of course, the jewel thief has long been a […]
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A new study finds that you can build strength in just 13 minutes with a single, brief set of each exercise, if you work really hard.

There is more to luminescence than fireflies and glow-in-the-dark toys. Fluorescence, which is mostly absorbed light being released, is responsible for some of the most awe-inspiring natural spectacles and scientific discoveries. In recent years, glowing has shown up in strange places, in unexpected species, and in surprising ways that are invisible to the human eye. […]
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