Comedian and Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead faced sharp criticism from both sides of the aisle after she joked on Twitter that yesterday's devastating tornado was in Oklahoma, "so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives."

The last we heard of notorious troll and hacker Andrew "Weev" Aurenheimer, he was partying in New Jersey before being sentenced to three and a half years for his role in hacking AT&T. But being locked in federal prison has not completely silenced him.

A former Teacher of the Year at North Marion High School in Marion County, Florida, was suspended without pay after a student complained that he touched her inappropriately with a banana during a college-level lecture on "cylinder objects, phalluses and/or sex symbols."

ESPN is laying off a portion of its staff today, a network spokesman confirms to us. How many? ESPN won't say. A tipster told us earlier today that it would be more than 400 staffers. A source at ESPN said that number is a little high, but it appears to be in the hundreds.

The latest Fed report on student loan debt includes some neat-o maps showing how all of America's student debt is distributed geographically. Washington DC sure is smart, and broke!

Senate investigators have found that Apple avoided paying taxes on "tens of billions" of dollars over the past four years by taking advantage of U.S. and Irish tax loopholes.