As aquifers dry up, after years of drought, vast swathes of California are sinking—in some places more than a foot a year—causing billions of dollars of damage to the state’s infrastructure: “It’s shocking how a huge area is affected, but how little you can tell with your eye.”

Further details emerged Sunday in the fatal police shooting that left two people, a teenager and his 56-year-old neighbor, dead this weekend, as the victim’s families demanded answers from the police department and mayor’s office. The Chicago Police Department is already under a separate federal civil rights investigation.

Though she has technically finished composing her debut book Balancing in Heels (formerly titled Balancing on Heels), Kristin Cavallari has not stopped writing for the public. She most recently published an article on her app titled “Quick & Easy Holiday Makeup Tricks.” It begins like this:

“We’re going to see ... With kids and grandkids and all this, it’s kind of hectic ... We’ll look into it. If our time is available, then yeah, maybe we’ll do it. Maybe. We’ll have to see,” said Randy Reynolds, a diehard Donald Trump supporter who’s just not sure if he’ll show up to vote. The Washington Post reports that many of Trump’s supporters, unsurprisingly, say the same thing.

The death toll for a wave of storms and flooding hitting the central and southern U.S. is continuing to climb.

A bizarre controversy is erupting in Pennsylvania politics, with the state’s Attorney General at the center, drowning in a pool of terrible memes.

Crime is down in the Modern Gomorrah, but not everyone has accepted it.

A total of 965 people fell dead this year after hearing the blast of a gun that belonged to a police officer.

A periodic reminder from Kristin Cavallari that she named her Yorkshire terrier after Brigitte Bardot:

In his first audio statement released in seven months, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threatened an attack on Israel and other nations in a statement on Saturday, according to CBS.

The battle between Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is about to come to fisticuffs—or, at least, some strongly-worded open letters.

“She was 14 going on 35, and I never forced her ... I did not represent myself as someone who didn’t sleep with students,” said Marc Gafni, a spiritual leader who was accused of sexually exploiting a 13-year-old girl, among other allegations. Gafni gave a bad and awful interview to The New York Times, published Saturday, that hurts one’s heart to read.

“In my Islamic country, a girl was disrespectfully, dishonorably lynched and burned, and what has happened? We have left our home. They never caught all the people. What are we to do?” asked Mujibullah Malikzada, elder brother of a 27-year-old woman Farkhunda Malikzada, who was accused of burning a Quran and was brutally beaten to death by a mob of men in Afghanistan as police watched. The New York Times published a heart-wrenching account of Malikzada’s death—and the lack of justice for Afghan women—in harrowing detail on Saturday.

Chicago police shot and killed two people Saturday morning, including a teenage boy and a neighbor who may have been caught in crossfire, according to early reports.

For the first time in half a decade, a foreign journalist is being effectively expelled from China, as punishment for her coverage of the government’s handling of ethnic violence in the country’s western Muslim region.

How’s your Christmas going so far? Enjoying quality time with your family? Cloistered in your apartment fielding curses from a rain-soaked delivery guy? It doesn’t matter—because either way, you are almost definitely having a better Christmas than anyone in the White House press corps.

“Mr. Worldwide” has always been in search of a Mrs. Worldwide, a special someone with whom to share his enormous wealth and love of Miami. Perhaps a fellow Floridian would do the trick! Enter Jeb Bush, formerly of the moniker Jeb!, a man who may just be the future Mrs. Worldwide—or at least Mr. Worldwide, Jr.

“Both leaders agreed to take forward the bilateral dialogue process in a positive manner,” said Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, the Pakistan foreign secretary. Chaudhry was addressing the meeting between Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday, an event that marked the first visit of its kind in more than a decade.

A series of tornadoes sweeping across the U.S. left ten people dead this week, and more warnings are expected for the weekend.

Did anyone receive a copy of Kristin Cavallari’s debut lifestyle book Balancing in Heels this morning?