The African Union says it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new mission that comes amid a wildly popular Internet campaign targeting the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. The mission is to be launched in South Sudan on Saturday and will last until Kony is caught, United Nations and African Union officials said at a news conference in Uganda. "We need to stop Kony with hardware – with military hardware in this case," said Francisco Madeira,...

Jason Russell, the director of the Kony 2012 video and the co-founder of Invisible Children, was detained by San Diego police Thursday for bizarre behavior, although they did not arrest him. His wife, Danica Russell, released a statement Friday blaming exhaustion for what she called his “irrational” behavior. According to NBC San Diego, said that Russell was detained for allegedly masturbating in public and vandalizing cars, the San Diego Police Department said. The SDPD also said that he seemed...