“They were trashing my grapevine, beating my cat. It was like a frat party. They were insane,” said Wendy Hooker, a New York resident who called a raccoon trapper after seeing the animals “wilding” in her yard. The New York Times chronicled the burgeoning raccoon problem in New York City in great depth and profundity.

A group of militiamen who have taken over a national wildlife refuge in Oregon have been joined by the notable Bundy family, a group of anti-government ranchers headed by a racist patriarch.

Not sure if you heard, but Kristin Cavallari shared a makeup-free selfie this holiday weekend.

Just like dentures, Metamucil and fringed lampshades, cable news has a devout following in just one sector of society: the old one.

Should we be surprised that Donald Trump, a man who made national news for mocking someone with a disability, would vengefully withhold medical care for a sick infant? The answer is no, no we should not be surprised.

George R.R. Martin has had it up to here with you Game of Thrones freaks bullying him.

A total of 47 prisoners were executed in Saudi Arabia, including a well-known Shiite cleric who had criticized the government and sparked protests in the past.

Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter Natalie Cole died in L.A. on Thursday at age 65, according to a statement from her family.

While Hillary Clinton’s claim that Trump was “ISIS’s best recruiter” may not have been totally verifiable a few weeks ago, she didn’t have to wait long for that to change. A newly released video from Al Shabab—Somalia’s resident Al Qaeda affiliate—uses footage of Trump spouting deeply Islamophobic rhetoric as a direct recruitment tool for its terrorist organization.

Kristin Cavallari is currently “working on some good stuff” for her mid-priced jewelry line Emerald Duv, according to the Twitter account associated with the brand (@EmeraldDuv1).

On Friday, Reuters reports, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been trying to consolidate power since becoming prime minister in 2003, offered the Third Reich as an example of a good, effective, well-run government.

In 2015, according to the Guardian, a total of 1,134 Americans were killed by law enforcement officers. The British news organization’s “Counted” project found that young black men were nine times more likely than anyone else to be killed by police this year.

“Texas is so gun-friendly that it is easier to get into the Capitol in Austin with a firearm than without one—licensed, gun-carrying lawmakers and members of the public have their own no-wait security lane, and the unarmed masses have to stand in line and slog through the metal detectors.”

The Taliban inaugurated 2016 with a suicide bombing in Kabul, killing two person and wounding 15, Agence France-Press reports. The bombing targeted Le Jardin, an Afghan-owned French restaurant popular with foreigners.

The Washington Post has a story on Iraqi migrants and refugees returning home from Europe after finding themselves worse off than they’d been before they left: “I went to Europe and discovered Europe is just an idea.”

Natalie Cole, singer of “This Will Be” and “Unforgettable” (and daughter of Nat King Cole) is dead at 65, TMZ reports. She struggled with drug addiction, liver disease, and Hepatitis C. She was married three times and leaves behind a son.

An employee of a Mexican resort where Ethan and Tonya Couch hid from justice this month tells the Dallas Morning News that while the pair were staying there, the “affluenza” teen went to a strip club, spent more money than he had, and had his mother bail him out.

On Thursday, a 63-story luxury hotel in Dubai, the Address Downtown, burst into flame. Nearby, at the Burj Khalifa, a fireworks display heralded the new year. On Friday morning, the Associated Press reports, smoke continued to billow from the Address as firefighters continued working to contain the fire.