Last month, Bloomberg Businessweek published a big story on how Walmart tracks its employees to most effectively anticipate dissent and undermine potential organizers. The piece draws largely on documents produced in the course of discovery for a case before the National Labor Relations Board. (Walmart is accused of illegally firing labor activists.) Now, Walmart alleges, labor group OUR Walmart “intentionally disclosed documents marked and designated confidential.” The documents, according to Walmart, were protected by judicial order.

There are more than a thousand endangered plants and animals in the U.S., but there are an infinite number of roads and dams that can be built. Guess which interest wins out?

Last week, Daniel Holtzclaw, a former Oklahoma City police officer, was found guilty on 18 of 36 sexual assault charges. On Monday, attorneys for seven of the 13 women who accused Holtzclaw in the criminal case asked a federal judge to allow a civil case to move forward.

Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant who deserted his post in the Patika province of Afghanistan in 2009 and was rescued after five years in Taliban captivity, will face a court-martial for the charges brought against him, military sources said on Monday.

The American Red Cross, lately, is very bad at being a charity. A deep investigation published by ProPublica today reveals a bit about why that might be.

Kristin Cavallari has posted two new original articles on her app: “Quick & Easy Holiday Makeup Tricks” and “The Power of Rose.”

The holiday season is a time to take a break from life’s dreary annoyances, so you can spend it with the people that you actually love and enjoy. Which is to say, the holiday season is not a time for Jeb. Jeb knows this. And he’s willing to leave you alone, too—for one low, easy payment of $25.

Here is a plainly delightful story. As a means of enchanting neighborhood children as well as advertising that all dinner parties at their home will be very uncomfortable, a family in Maine decided to express their disdain for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant with a Christmas decoration that depicts the jolly folk hero Santa Claus urinating on lights that spell out the acronym “ISIS.”

Someone went to all the trouble of surveying one thousand American consumers. Why?

A Paradise, California police officer who responded to the scene of a drunk driving crash will not face charges, Action News Now reports, after shooting the man behind the wheel as he tried to pull himself from the flipped vehicle.

Donald Trump, a man whose garbage output is matched only by his diet of garbage, just released a doctor’s note saying what fine shape he’s in, using the sort of language usually associated with a racehorse or fighting dog.

“Private equity firms charged $20 billion of ‘hidden fees’ to almost 600 companies they owned in the last two decades,” according to a new study. Remember: it’s lazy welfare recipients who are robbing this country blind.

In June, the escape of two inmates from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, thrust security issues at the previously little-considered state prison into the spotlight. A New York Times investigation shows that problems at the facility go way beyond the inability to keep prisoners in their cells, and they’ve been going on for years.

Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter announced earlier this month that by April 1, the U.S. military will open up all combat roles to women. A new study from the Rand National Defense Research Institute reveals how our nation’s elite Special Operations Forces feel about welcoming women into their ranks: HAVE YOU MET MY WIFE?

A French preschool teacher who ignited a manhunt in a suburb north of Paris after he said he was stabbed in the neck by an ISIS sympathizer admitted to police today that he actually just invented the entire story.

The only thing worse than 2014 was 2015, a 365-day active shooter situation interrupted only by the rise of a new American fascist movement. But underneath the mud and poop were these individuals who reminded us that there’s still hope for the world. Among them, a college girl in a toy jeep, an undaunted journalist, and a hot dog salesmen. Here’s who inspired us this year.

The big Paris Climate Discussion Meeting thing has wrapped up, with much optimism about the 195-nation agreement to deal with climate change. However: we did not get the one thing we really need.

Today in “Things To Panic About Even Though You Don’t Really Know What They Are”: junk bonds. Ahhhhh!

Egypt today denied the prevailing theory that the Russian plane crash was caused by a bomb, saying an investigation revealed no evidence of “illegitimate interference or an act of terrorism.”

After a terrifyingly impressive showing in the first round of local elections, France’s far-right Front National failed to win control of any of the country’s 13 regions in the final round, although it did win a record 6.6 million votes.