The Department of Justice has just announced that the suspected Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has been charged from his hospital bed. Tsarnaev will not be tried as an enemy combatant in a military tribunal. Instead, he is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and will be tried in a federal civilian court.

White House spokesman Jay Carney says Tsarnaev cannot be tried in a military tribunal because he is a U.S. citizen (he was sworn in on September 2012). "We will process this terrorist through our system of justice," just as they've tried and convicted other terrorists since September 11, 2001. An elite interrogation team will question Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights.

Last February, the Carnival Cruise ship Triumph embarked on the trip from hell. After the ship ran into issues and had to be towed for days, passengers reported raw sewage running down the walls, food shortages, and backed up toilets full of disgusting waste. It sounded just awful. But now that same ship has done something even worse. It killed someone.

With apologies to the scores of passengers who had what amounts to a really bad vacation, when the Triumph came unmoored in Mobile, Alabama and a dockworker went missing, that became a worse tragedy than your horrible trip. Perspective, people.

Even back in February when it was happening, it was hard to understand why it made such big news. As awful as it was, no one died. No one was horrifically ill or injured. It was just really uncomfortable.

Joe Rickey Hundley is a 60-year-old man accused of a horrific crime. Allegedly, on a plane last month, he slapped a crying toddler on a plane and told the baby's mother to "shut that (n-word) baby up." It's unconscionable, horrible, and memorable because of the depravity. And yet, now, his defense lawyer says Hundley was just insane with grief, flying out to Atlanta to take his only child off life support.

So should that matter?

Since the incident, Hundley, who worked for AGC Aerospace and Defense, has lost his job. He is being tried and could face prison and a six-figure fine for his allegedly drunken assault on a defenseless baby. And yet, as a mom, I can't help but feel for him.

A family of four, including a 4-year-old child, is missing off the coast of Monterey, California after taking their sailboat named Charm Blow out for a day trip. A chilling distress call says the family was "abandoning ship," but the Coast Guard has had no luck finding the family. All the electronics (including the GPS) on board the ship apparently failed.

The family had told the Coast Guard they were going to build a life raft out of a cooler and a life preserver. The Coast Guard searched for them through the night, and several other vessels and aircraft have joined to help, but all to no avail.

This story is a parent's absolute worst nightmare. To be bobbing out at sea with a small child who either can't swim or is a new swimmer, with nothing but a cooler to hold on to? I can't even imagine. I hate to criticize them, but the fact is, a warning had been issued for strong winds and rough seas in the area over the weekend. Small crafts were warned to stay out. Hear the call below:

Some things are bound to get lost: Keys; random phone numbers we've scribbled down onto a piece of mail while on the phone; the remote control. But other things -- things like, oh I don't know, cruise ships -- are a bit harder to lose. But it happens apparently. An empty boat that's now been deemed a Russian Ghost Ship has recently turned up off the west coast of Ireland after being lost at sea all by its lonesome for weeks now. How did it get lost? Funny you should ask ...

The world was stunned when Olympian "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius was arrested in South Africa for the murder of his girlfriend, the beautiful reality show star and model 29-year-old Reeva Steenkamp. The double amputee, who overcame incredible odds to compete against able-bodied athletes at the Olympics, broke down in court and has reportedly maintained that his mistook his girlfriend for an intruder. She was found shot four times in the bathroom of the home the couple shared. But sources are leaking to South African newspapers some more alleged details from that night -- and they paint a picture of a horrific night and a brutal deliberate murder.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse: You know those long-suffering Carnival cruise passengers who just finally, finally, FINALLY made it back to shore after days of being lost at sea on a sewage-filled ship of horrors? Those cruise passengers who were so relieved that their terrible ordeal was over they literally kissed the Alabama ground? Well, turns out their ordeal wasn't over at all.

Apparently the "caravan" of buses chartered by Carnival to transport the miserable travelers from Mobile to New Orleans has run into some technical difficulties ... "at least one of the buses" has become stranded. Oh my god. OH MY GOD. Being stranded on a charter bus would be a nightmare under the best of circumstances, but AFTER days of drifting on one big poop deck?!

The Carnival cruise ship that's been powerless and stranded in the Gulf of Mexico, AKA the SS Vacation From Hell, has finally made its way back to land. Last night, at around 10:15 p.m., passengers began to disembark the Carnival Triumph in Mobile, Alabama; the last "vacationer" exiting the ship at 1:00 a.m. Some people were seen kissing the ground after they arrived in the U.S. Others, understandably, are still reeling from the ordeal.

And, um, kind of can't blame them. Sleeping in a tent and raw sewage running down the walls -- not exactly a rejuvenating getaway.