Pro tip: When posthumously profiling a teenager whose death sparked a national conversation about race, it's probably best to not shoehorn the deceased into the stereotype of a troubled black kid.

From The New York Times:

Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life. Shortly before his encounter with Officer Wilson, the police say he was caught on a security camera stealing a box of cigars, pushing the clerk of a convenience store into a display case. He lived in a community that had rough patches, and he dabbled in drugs and alcohol. He had taken to rapping in recent months, producing lyrics that were by turns contemplative and vulgar. He got into at least one scuffle with a neighbor. [The New York Times]

Brown, who was shot to death by a police officer earlier this month, was "no angel," apparently because he drank, smoked, and rapped. However, by that metric roughly 80 percent of all American teens aren't angels — since they've consumed alcohol and used drugs, too.

More problematically, though, the description seems to imply Brown was a bad egg who maybe had it coming. As many others have pointed out, "no angel" has a unique connotation when applied to the situation that, though it does not directly link rap music and booze to Brown's death, can easily be read as implying as much. Jon Terbush

Russian President Vladimir Putin took a tumble on ice on Friday while waving to adoring fans after playing in an ice hockey game in Sochi.

Putin was participating in the annual exhibition hockey game with former NHL players, playing alongside Russian hockey stars Slava Fetisov and Pavel Bure as well as several Russian governors.

Although his coordination was questionable, his scoring skills were on point as he boasted 8 points for his team.

But despite his stellar aim, all people seem to be talking about is his fall from grace, when he attempted to skate onto some carpet placed on the ice after the match's conclusion.

An Olympic skater he is not. Marianne Dodson

Kenan Thompson is having a pretty solid birthday.

The Saturday Night Live star, who turned 41 on Friday, just had his new sitcom The Kenan Show picked up to series by NBC, The Wrap reports. The show, which is produced by Chris Rock and Lorne Michaels, stars Thompson as the father of two girls whose father-in-law, played by Andy Garcia, tries to help him out in inappropriate ways.

This is yet another NBC project for Thompson, who is still expected to remain a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live. He has starred on SNL for 16 seasons now, the longest of any cast member, and he said on Ellen recently that he has no plans to leave anytime soon. "It's the best job in the world," he said. "I can't see myself just walking away from it like that."

In addition to SNL, Thompson has also been working with NBC on a series called Bring the Funny, a comedy competition show on which Thompson will be a judge. Deadline reports that "accommodations are expected to be made" so that he can work on both SNL and The Kenan Show at the same time, possibly including moving production of the sitcom to New York from Los Angeles. Thompson previously flew back and forth between the two cities to shoot the series' pilot.

And these are just Thompson's NBC projects. He's also a producer on a reboot of All That, which is headed to Nickelodeon and will feature Thompson's old Kenan & Kel co-star, Kel Mitchell, as a guest star. Get the orange soda ready for a Kenan-filled year, as the first of Thompson's new NBC shows, Bring the Funny, will premiere in July. Brendan Morrow

Uber is not having the uberprofitable day it was hoping for.

The ride-hailing company set its IPO at $45 per share on Thursday night, but ended up selling at $42 as soon as the market opened on Friday morning. Shares soon fell even lower to $41.06, nearly recovered to their original asking price by mid-day, and dropped once again to point Uber toward one of the worst first-day IPO performances of the decade.

Forecasts originally predicted Uber would price itself at $46-$48 per share, though its eventual decision of $45 per share with an $81 billion IPO was still massive. Still, the company never actually saw that set price materialize, and only peaked at $44.74 around 1 p.m. Uber's immediate 6 percent fall after the floor opened makes it one of just 60 companies who've seen a debut day loss of 5 percent or more in the past 10 years, Bloomberg notes. And there's a strong chance it could becomes the eighth of those companies to actually end up in the red for its first day.

Uber has barely gone a day without some kind of public scandal or outcry in the past two years, and this past week was no exception. Drivers for Uber and rival companies went on strike by turning off their apps on Wednesday to protest low wages and a lack of worker benefits. Uber later said it reached settlements with many of the 60,000 drivers who've protested, adding that those settlements would cost upwards of $170 million. The strike was planned to coincide with Uber's first day on the market, though it's unclear if the uproar had anything to do with Uber's dismal performance. Kathryn Krawczyk

A previously extinct species of bird has made a miraculous return from the dead.

The white-throated rail previously inhabited the Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean, but died off around 136,000 years ago after the island disappeared below the sea, reports CNN. But scientists have now found the bird has reappeared after sea levels declined several thousand years later, and it still inhabits the island today.

Scientists deem this phenomenon iterative evolution, per CNN, where a species repeatedly evolves from the same ancestor. This marks one of the "most significant" instances of it occurring in a bird species, reports CNN.

In both instances, the rail colonized the island and evolved to be flightless due to a lack of competing predators. Marianne Dodson

Google unveiled a new feature on Friday aimed at training unemployed military spouses and helping them find jobs that can be worked remotely, reports Fast Company.

Military spouses have a high unemployment rate of 16 percent, which is four times higher than the national average of 3.4 percent. Another 55 percent are underemployed, per a 2017 government study.

Through its Grow with Google initiative, which offers different career and training services, the company is introducing a new work-from-home jobs search function that would help military spouses who often have to move find remote work.

Google is also working with the military family nonprofit Blue Star Families to provide digital skills training to around 10,000 military spouses, the company said in a blog post. The initiative is aimed at increasing marketable IT skills among military spouses. The company announced the initiative on Military Spouse Appreciation Day. Marianne Dodson

Clarksville, Tennessee parents can rest easy. There's no clown driving around the city trying to lure kids into his car.

He was just handing out candy to children at a bus stop because it was his birthday, police have confirmed.

On Thursday morning, an adult called police to report a man driving around the city wearing a clown costume, local NBC affiliate WCYB reported. A group of fifth graders then furthered the panic, saying the clown drove up to their bus stop and "motioned for them to come to his vehicle" while promising them candy. The kids, very reasonably, ran away. The Clarksville Police Department then started searching for "a white male with a painted white face and red nose" and his female passenger.

What could've sparked a nationwide panic à la 2016 ended within a few hours, as the Clarksville Police Department posted that "EVERYONE CAN NOW BREATHE!!!!" on its Facebook page. It turns out the terrifying clown was actually "an older man who dresses up once a year on his birthday as a clown and hands out candy," the post says. Thursday was his birthday, so he went to some local business and then hit up the bus stop. People who know him confirm he is a "nice man," the post continues.

Get a breakdown of why clowns are often a "trigger word" for news coverage from a professional clown at The New York Times. Kathryn Krawczyk