“Although the events that unfolded at the Osborn Playground on Jan. 7 are still unclear, what seems obvious, as it did in the case of Akai Gurley, mistakenly shot to death in a dark stairway in the Louis Pink Houses...is the inconsistency with which ‘broken windows’ policing is practiced.”

In addition to Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati, and pastor Saeed Abedini, Iran also announced the release today of Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari. Bafflingly, Khosravi-Roodsari’s imprisonment seems not to have been previously reported.

Here is the 1999 interview, brought to you by the Cruz campaign, in which Donald Trump elucidates what Ted Cruz now is referring to as “New York values.” He deflects a question about same-sex marriage, tacitly supports gays serving in the military, and declares himself “very pro-choice.”

Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele thinks Donald Trump is going to get the party’s nomination. Michael Steele also thought people didn’t like him because he was “streetwise,” but there it is just the same.

On Monday evening, two members of the American militia movement, Charles Carter and Vincent Smith, got into an argument at Smith’s house, in the small Texas town of Pottsboro, just across the border from Oklahoma. The argument turned violent: Smith shot Carter in the head, killing him.

Overnight on Friday, gunmen linked to Al Qaeda seized a luxury hotel, popular with Westerners, in the capital of Burkina Faso. By Saturday morning, security forces had killed four attackers, the Associated Press reports. At least 23 other people were also killed.

Sesame Street’s 46th season premiered on HBO today, with back-to-back half-hour episodes (the shortened run time, down from hourlong shows, is “is viewed as a more manageable amount of time for children to focus,” according to a recent New York Times piece). With the new episodes’ controversial move from PBS to a premium cable network comes ground-level changes, some of which are reflected in the clips above from the first two episodes—Elmo’s in his brownstone (which overlooks a bridge that resembles Philadelphia’s Walt Whitman), Oscar’s got his recycling bin, and Hooper’s Store now looks a place where you can buy a bunch of kale, Stumptown Coffee, and a stick of butter. Muppets, after all, have always been artisanal, through and through.

According to the Associated Press, Iran has announced, via state television, the release of 4 Iranian-American prisoners. The semi-official Fars News Agency reports that Jason Rezaian, a reporter for the Washington Post, is among them.

At long last, after spending two weeks begging for Miracle Whip and tampons in an Oregon wildlife refuge, one of the armed militia LARPers finally got arrested by local law enforcement. Not because he was illegally occupying a government building, mind you—but because he took one of the feds’ vehicles for a joyride to the local Safeway.

In the summer of 2014, anonymous hackers flooded the internet with private nude photos of major (and minor) celebrities. Two years later, new details show the FBI thinks they identified Jennifer Lawrence’s hacker. But no one’s facing charges.

Above is the headline accompanying Billboard magazine’s review of David Bowie’s Blackstar, which was released just days before he passed away from cancer. You can understand why the headline is different online but, honestly, they nailed it the first time.

Kristin Cavallari’s debut book Balancing in Heels (formerly titled Balancing on Heels) will reportedly hit shelves sometime this year. Kristin says the tome will include “really just everything in my life.” Like the name of her favorite perfume, perhaps?

“Why didn’t we bomb the shit out of them?” a man asked me. “Why aren’t we bombing the shit out of ‘em? Give me a B-52 and I’ll go over there right now.” It was a chilly night in Texas, but his mind was more than 6,000 miles away, in Libya. He and I and some 30,000 other people had come to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas—home of the Dallas Cowboys—for the outsized world premiere of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.

Astronomers have discovered a supernova that shines brighter than any other in the observable universe.

After presenting to the world his ethically dubious and tediously written exclusive interview with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, and after being implicated in the drug lord’s capture, Sean Penn is ready for his mea culpa, which he will deliver this Sunday on 60 Minutes. CBS has put up a teaser for the interview, in which Penn says he has “a terrible regret” about his article.

In April 2015, the New York City television station NY1 filed a open-records request for “unedited video files from the NYPD’s body camera program” captured during five specific weeks in 2014 and 2015. Four months later, the New York City Police Department agreed to review and release the footage—but only after NY1 paid a $36,000 “copying fee.” NY1 appealed the N.Y.P.D.’s decision and, in a letter dated September 16 of last year, was once again denied by the N.Y.P.D.’s deputy commissioner of legal matters.

Roy Bay, who shocked the internet earlier this week by arguing against a proposed Human Rights Ordinance expansion in Jacksonville, Florida, at a city council meeting by claiming to have molested boys in bathrooms without ever having been punished, lives on property owned by Evangel Temple, a Jacksonville church that has campaigned against expanding the HRO to include LGBT protections, according to Action News Jax.

It’s not even 1 p.m. yet, and the U.S. stock market has fallen more than 500 points today, capping a full week of sharp declines and general fear. Financial apocalypse TK??? We hope so—for the excitement! Assuming we don’t get laid off.

A recent scandal out of Cranston, Rhode Island, is rocking the small New England city to its core. Sue Stenhouse, executive director of Cranston’s Senior Enrichment Center, resigned last week after asking a male bus driver to don a wig, earrings, and a really quite flattering shade of pink lipstick so that he would appear to be an elderly woman when he stood behind Stenhouse at a press conference.