Ta-Nehisi Coates has won the National Book Award for nonfiction for Between The World And Me.

Hawk’s hawk’s hawk’s hawk’s hawk Lindsey Graham intends to propose an authorization for the use of military force that would allow the U.S. President to wage unlimited war against ISIS, world without end. Total war. Because this has never been a bad idea.

Two female suicide bombers—one as young as 11—blew themselves up at a crowded mobile phone market in the city of Kano, in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 15 people, a day after a bomb blast elsewhere in the country left more than 30 dead.

Any NYPD officer shot a man in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights on Wednesday afternoon after telling the alleged Bloods gang member not to reach for a gun he had dropped while fleeing a car crash, DNAinfo reports.

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada is being investigated by a Utah county prosecutor in relation to so-called “pay-to-play” schemes, reports the Associated Press.

The guitarist in the band Survivor is suing Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign, the Associated Press reports, over the Arkansas governor’s use of the band’s 1982 hit, “Eye of the Tiger.”

ISIS supporters circulated a video on Wednesday that appears to threaten New York City. In a statement, the NYPD said that it was aware of the newly-released video, but that there is “no current or specific threat to the City at this time.” The video can be seen here.

A deeply confused pack of hoodlums has been terrorizing a local ISIS den (of books and other assorted gifts) in Denver ever since the (unaffiliated) ISIS-perpetrated attacks in Paris last week. Now, the store’s owners have a message for the world: Please leave ISIS (Books & Gifts) alone.

Since the end of September, Kristin Cavallari has posted 26 links on her public Facebook page. Four of those links concern Kristin personally. The other 22 are links to articles on LittleThings.com, a viral parenting/DIY content factory with an occasionally conservative bent.

Today, your future president Donald Trump doubled down on his assertion that the Paris terror attacks could have been stopped by armed civilians, telling Boston-area radio host Jeff Kuhner the following (via Buzzfeed):

Rick Santorum is many things: For one thing, he’s a Taurus. He’s also, surprisingly enough, still running for president. But did you know he’s also kind of an idiot: “The president’s policy is to keep ISIS within their bounds; ISIS’s objective is to keep their territorial integrity. Now, what does that sounds like? It sounds like president Obama is in cahoots with the strategy of ISIS to maintain their territorial integrity.”

Today, Roanoke, Va., mayor David Bowers acknowledged similarities between banning assistance to Syrian refugees based on their country of origin and the use of Japanese internment camps during World War II.

The Annenberg public polling firm just released the findings of Republican voter focus group, in which each candidate is described with a litany of the worst and most confusing metaphors: Donald Trump is “Dennis the Menace: ‘doesn’t necessarily have bad intentions, but he can screw some things up.’”

New poll: “13.9% of respondents said they had been polled on politics previously. Of those, 18.4% said they lied on a previous poll.” Stupid general public.

What if I told you that you could lose 15 lbs. in five months with no calorie-counting, treadmills, or embarrassing weigh-ins? You can even eat snacks. All you have to do is work yourself into blindly racist huff one-to-three times per day, and you will see results. Just ask Donald Trump!

Imagine a bold reinvention of U.S. geography. Vermont, home of the dreaded Bernie Sanders, is forced to merge with Connecticut, and the rest of New England marches northward in celebration of the socialist purge. The Carson campaign would like you to know: If such an imaginary hybrid state did exist in real life, Carson would definitely not support Syrians taking refuge there.

It’s generally safe to assume that anything coming from the propaganda-spewing terrorist organization ISIS is deeply, incontrovertibly wrong. But when it comes to overgrown hacker collective Anonymous—ISIS is, for once, right.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian national who intelligence officials believe to be the ringleader of ISIS attacks in Paris that killed 132 people, died in a raid early this morning, reports the Washington Post, citing “two senior European intelligence officials.”

Standing outside of a private club for fancy men this morning, senator and presidential hopeful Ted Cruz made it clear that he is ready to buck with Barack Obama. “If you want to insult me, you can do it overseas, you can do it in Turkey, you can do it in foreign countries,” Cruz intoned. “But I would encourage you, Mr. President, come back and insult me to my face.”

Earlier this year, England’s attorney general accused the magazine publisher Condé Nast of interfering with the 2013 News of the World phone-hacking trial by permitting British GQ to publish a courtroom report—excerpted here—by the American media columnist Michael Wolff. The charges were brazenly contemptuous of press freedom, but as we noted at the time, they apparently inspired Condé to erase nearly every trace of Wolff’s column from the internet. Today, the Lord Chief Justice of London’s High Court of Justice ruled against Condé in an eleven-page decision, holding the publisher in contempt of court: