George Zimmerman is an unemployable broke asshole, so maybe it's no real surprise that he's also an amateur artist. That original painting he was hawking on eBay this week — the one he described with a joke about Trayvon Martin ("my art work allows me to reflect, providing a therapeutic outlet and allows me to remain indoors :-)") — has potentially sold for six figures.

It's never been a secret that the United States has heavily funded and influenced the Colombian government's battle against FARC, which the U.S. believes to be a terrorist organization. What has been secret however, is just how far the CIA has gone in Colombia, which includes the targeted killings of FARC leaders.

On its repeated lies about CIA operative Robert Levinson, The New York Times public editor writes: "Ms. Abramson called the unattributed statements that appeared in The Times 'regrettable.'"

Late yesterday afternoon, 17-year-old Claire Davis died from injuries suffered during this month's shooting at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo. Davis had been on life support for the past eight days after being shot from point-blank range by a shotgun wielded by shooter Karl Pierson.

For the 27th year, vandals in Sweden have burned down a giant goat made to symbolize the Christmas spirit.

A burglar in Spain has handed over tapes he stole to police after finding that they contained graphic content of a man sexually abusing boys. He put the tapes in an envelope, along with the address of the home he had burgled.

Friends who drink together stay together, especially if one of those friends is a New Jersey woman picked up for DUI. On Thursday night, Readington Township police announced the arrest of 34-year-old Carmen Reategui, as well as two loyal and stupid friends.

Justine Sacco, AIDS-free white person, has officially been fired by IAC, which is asking the Internet to call off the dogs. Eventually we all will move on, likely to another racist.

A Florida man was quickly arrested after he left his own wallet at the crime scene.

[Newlyweds Mikhail and Margarita Nakonechniy share a tender moment in front of barricades on Independence Square, in a gesture of support for pro-Europe activists in Kiev, Ukraine. Photo by Sergei Chuzavkov via AP]

Dennis Gabryszak is a New York assemblyman representing the state's 143rd district who very soon will no longer hold that job. Yesterday, three former female aides filed separate claims that describe how awful it can be for women working for powerful men. Among those claims:

Eight days after I buried my mother, I learned that she was considered indigent in the state of Colorado. This, above all else, broke my heart. Somehow, the knowledge that my mother was officially poor erased all the progress we’d made in the second half of her life—poof—just like that. There we were again, in the mid '80s, after my father left us, bankrupted his company and tried to bring us down with him. My mother and I hunkering down while she tried to fight him in court, garnish his wages. Me, working one, two and then three jobs during high school, shape-shifting on a daily, if not hourly, basis.

Here is a comprehensive list of topics discussed in the pit at Brooklyn's Barclays Center during Thursday night's Beyoncé concert:

A Chinese businessmen had just completed the purchase of a French vineyard when his helicopter crashed while touring it.

Canada's supreme court, finding that the laws were "grossly disproportionate," struck down Canada's anti-prostitution laws yesterday, giving Canadian lawmakers one year to craft new legislation that will create a safer environment for prostitution.

Yesterday, a white person tweeted something horrible. We tend to do that, but this time there was a catch: this white person — Justine Sacco, the global head of communications for the Barry Diller-led firm IAC — was on a 12-hour flight from London to Cape Town, giving the internet an inordinate amount of time to gather its torches.

Two astronauts have begun an emergency spacewalk to fix a malfunctioning pump module on the International Space Station, wearing suits that have also malfunctioned recently.

Scientists have figured out a way to reverse aging. But, the scientists caution, it's not a cure for death.

The Utah attorney general is requesting an emergency stay to block same-sex marriages in the state pending an appeal of a ruling that Utah's gay-marriage ban is unconstitutional. "I am very disappointed an activist federal judge is attempting to override the will of the people of Utah," said Governor Gary Herbert.

Belka, the twenty-day-old Alaskan Malamute-Siberian Husky mix, has a lot to learn about the brand new world around her.