Walmart announced today that it is closing 269 stores, including 154 in the U.S. This is a very bad sign for Walmart. But is it a bad sign for you?

Do you still eat at Chipotle? Even after various outbreaks of E. Coli, salmonella, and norovirus swept across its North American locations? If your answer is yes, you must be a very dedicated Chipotle consumer. Which is why you may want to plan ahead for February 8, when every Chipotle restaurant will close for several hours so that its executives can address food safety concerns with staff. A spokesperson for the Denver-cased fast casual chain discussed the plan with Oregonian reporter Lynn Terry:

Steven Avery’s defense attorneys Dean Strang and Jerry Buting appeared on today’s episode of CBS This Morning to discuss their client, Making a Murderer, and the seemingly damning evidence that directors Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi didn’t include in the show. When Gayle King asked if Strang and Buting were convinced of Avery’s innocence, Strang replied, “I’m not convinced of his guilt,” implying what many viewers have taken away from the show: The prosecution did not prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt.

According to reports, a private clinical drug trial in France went terribly wrong last night, landing at least six of its subjects in the hospital, with one patient confirmed brain dead.

To any reasonable observer, including and especially its own residents, New York City is a swirling vortex of greed, debauchery and sin. Over the past few days, Tea Party hero and Texas Senator Ted Cruz has correctly, if awkwardly and ham-fistedly, noted the hard reality of “New York values” in the course of criticizing his opponent (and perhaps the most famous New Yorker on the planet), Donald Trump. A spokesperson for a Cruz-supporting SuperPAC recently told reporters, “New York is home to many wonderful people and places, but the emphasis is more on money than morality, on self-aggrandizement than humility.” And during Thursday night’s GOP debate, Cruz added, “Everybody understands that the values in New York City are socially liberal and pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage. And focus on money and the media.”

Discussions of raising our nation’s poverty-level federal minimum wage are often met with the objection that paying workers more would kill the profitability of businesses like restaurants. Not so, says a new study.

Chris Christie, who has nothing substantive to say and nothing left to lose, interrupted Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz debating tax policy, to finally let his Jersey out. “You had your chance, Marco,” he said, boxing out the senator from Florida. “Ya blew it.”

According to the New York-based Sikh Coalition, a Los Angeles bus driver, who was wearing a turban was attacked and called a suicide bomber this past November, ending up in the hospital. Police, the Sikh advocacy group said, should investigate the assault as a hate crime.

During an otherwise unremarkable response to a question about Second Amendment rights at tonight’s debate, Donald Trump revealed one major flaw in his plan to be President: He has absolutely no idea how the government works.

Goldman Sachs has agreed to a $5 billion civil settlement with federal prosecutors and regulators over claims relating to its sale of bad mortgage securities to investors, which contributed to the financial crisis seven years ago.

Tonight at 9 p.m., a mere seven (!) GOP candidates will take the stage in South Carolina to scream at each other en masse for the first time in 2016. And we’ll be liveblogging the whole damn thing.

The Brooklyn district attorney alerted the court Thursday that he would not make the initial deadline to obtain indictments against four of the five teenagers arrested on suspicion of raping an 18-year-old woman at a Brownsville playground earlier this month. As such, those suspects are to be released without bail.

The undercard of tonight’s GOP debate (yes, another one) began at 6 p.m. on Fox News, a time when very few people are at home engaging with their televisions. The debates are so openly pointless that Rand Paul didn’t even bother to show up to this one, choosing instead to do anything other than listen to Rick Santorum’s fossilized god warrior shtick for the hundredth time.

On Thursday, videos of the fatal police shooting of Cedrick Chatman, a black teenager, by a white Chicago police officer in January 2013 were released. Police had said that Chatman pointed a dark object at police as he ran away, the Chicago Tribune reports. The object, it turned out, was a black iPhone box.

Mike Huckabee got into a screaming match at a campaign stop in Iowa earlier this week when a woman asked him about his continued support for the Duggars. Mike Huckabee’s response? About five straight minutes of him yelling “You don’t know them!” over and over and over again.

What does Kristin Cavallari think about other female celebrities? She doesn’t typically say. But during a 2014 promotional tour for her ill-fated E! talk show The Fabulist (yes), Kristin revealed in an interview her thoughts on one Sienna Miller. Here is the relevant question and answer from that interview, which aired on E!:

On Making a Murderer, Steven Avery’s former fiancée, Jodi Stachowski, was portrayed as his rock (you also may remember her Ski-Doo jacket, her “Warning: Does Not Play Well With Others” T-shirt, and that time she left her purse on the bed). She conducted herself as devoted to Avery up until the point when her probation officer ordered her to move away from the Avery property and issued a “no contact” order (which she got in trouble for violating at least once).

And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man. And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

A Gulf War veteran who legally uses medical marijuana to treat his post-traumatic stress disorder is fighting with Kansas child welfare officials for custody of five of his children, who were taken from him after a dispute in April, the Denver Post reports. According to their story, Raymond Schwab was told that a condition of the children’s return was that he provide four months of drug-free urinalysis tests, including cannabis.