The White House released a video yesterday in which President Barack Obama called for the FCC to reclassify Internet service as a utility in order to put protect net neutrality with strict regulations.

Hollaback's street harassment video, which has gone viral with over 34 million views in just two weeks, has spawned numerous parodies and spin-offs filmed in various cities across the world.

The Republican party's sweeping majority gains across-the-board in the U.S. midterm elections this week has prompted an unusually "in-your-face" hashtag campaign aimed at Hillary Clinton and her allies from Kentucky's U.S. Senator Rand Paul on Twitter.

Today's unveiling of the presumably official title for Star Wars VII, "The Force Awakens," triggered a slew of alternate title suggestions from the fans on Twitter under the hashtag #RejectedStarWarsTitles.

Federal agents have arrested 26-year-old San Francisco resident Blake Benthall as the alleged operator of the online drug marketplace Silk Road 2.0, which is estimated to have facilitated upwards of $8 million in sales as of September this year.