*Protesters tossed firebombs and advanced upon police lines Thursday in Ukraine’s embattled capital. Government snipers shot back, killing at least 70 people and wounding hundreds of others, according to a protest doctor. Video footage on Ukrainian television showed shocking scenes Thursday of protesters being cut down by gunfire, lying on the pavement as comrades rushed to their aid. Trying …

  *Venezuelan security forces and demonstrators faced off in streets blocked by burning barricades in several provincial cities on Thursday as protests escalated against President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government. At least five people have died since the violence broke out last week, the most serious unrest since Maduro was narrowly elected in April 2013. There have been scores of injuries …

  “The game, known as Neknominate, is thought to have originated in Australia and is now sweeping the world. It involves you filming yourself downing a drink — often alcoholic and of large quantities — and then nominating a friend to outdo you. All this is posted on social media — be it Facebook or YouTube. But what started for …

  “Police in Georgia on Friday served a warrant for a probation violation at the trailer park home of a man and his son, a 17-year-old aspiring Marine. In the process of serving the warrant on the boy’s father, an officer fatally shot the teen. His crime: according to his attorney, he did nothing more than answer the door while …

  Members of the all-women Russian protest group Pussy Riot said they were beaten with whips on Wednesday by Cossacks who are helping patrol Sochi during the Winter Olympics. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who served prison sentences over a protest in a church against President Vladimir Putin, said they were attacked in Sochi as five band members tried to …

  “As part of the ongoing feud between Fox News anchor and consonant-hoarder Gregg Jarrett and CNN anchor Don Lemon over Lemon’s audacious expression of an opinion on the Michael Dunn trial, Jarrett advised Lemon to gain “a measure of maturity.” As luck would have it, we have a helpful video demonstration of the maturity that Jarrett references, starring one …

  *A nun was sentenced today along with Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli for their role in the nuke protest that occurred on July 28, 2012. The three anti nuclear weapons activists broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and defaced some walls in one of the most secure parts of the compound. Sister Megan Rice, …