Caleb Logan Bratayley, watched by millions on YouTube during his life and livestreamed by his family after his death, mysteriously died last month at the age of 13. Now, the Bratayleys (not their real last name) have released the young entertainer’s cause of death: a congenital, untreatable heart condition.

Scientists have long said that we must try to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius or less if we want to preserve much of our way of life. According to new estimates, it’s not looking good.

For the last year or so, a man featured on Bravo’s Real Housewives of Orange County tried very hard to convince the show’s cast and viewers that he was suffering from cancer. But a key element of his story just bottomed out, in a very public way.

In April, several months before Rachel Dolezal became head jester of racial appropriation court, Rush Limbaugh called celebrated black image activist and feminist Michaela Angela Davis, “a mixed-race little orphan Annie.” The statement was shockingly ugly, a blatant reminder from the court’s self-appointed king that, even in 2015, the intermingling of races would not to be tolerated. Davis, who does not identify as mixed race, would never be allowed to determine her own identity. Last week, upon publishing a piece in the Washington Post titled, “The day my daughter realized she isn’t white,” Lisa Papademetriou unwittingly stumbled into place beside Limbaugh and was coronated queen.

Neel Kashkari, the at-the-time little-known Goldman Sachs banker who was put in charge (by Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson) of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (that is, the bank bailouts) in 2008, has been named the new president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank.

A 28-year-old British man, most notable for his 2006 victory on the quiz show Countdown, tracked down a Scottish teenager who’d written a negative review of his self-published novel and shattered a bottle of wine on the back of her head. The aspiring author pleaded guilty to the 2014 assault in a Scottish court Monday, the Mirror reported.

Out of all of Ben Carson’s various fabulist fever dreams currently floating around, the one about a Florida woman trying to sue him for child support pales in comparison to, say, the one about him trying to murder a pal (or was it a family member?) with a knife. But for something with such legal import, there’s surprisingly little documentation—other than Carson’s word—to prove it ever actually occurred.

The “podcast revolution” is sweeping the media. Now, we bring you Gawker’s first and best podcast: Food on Franklin.

Legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint died Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack in Spain. He was 77.

There’s a long tradition of parents rubbing whiskey on their babies’ gums to soothe teething pain. Pediatricians don’t recommend it, but it seems like American adults survived it relatively unscathed. Putting booze in a baby’s bottle, though, is a whole other thing.

Jeb Bush’s Super PAC “has purchased more than 8,000 advertising spots targeting Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina,” yet he’s still “in fifth place and in single digits in all three states.” That’s weird.

An unsuccessful stockbroker charged with murdering his wife reportedly admitted in court this week that he had considered selling his 13-year-old daughter in Mexico to collect on her inheritance.

Tomorrow is Veterans Day. Spare a thought for the hundreds of veterans currently sitting on death row somewhere in America.

A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that Louisiana may retry Albert Woodfox, the last member of the “Angola 3” still incarcerated, who a lower court ordered freed in June, The Advocate reports. Woodfox has been in solitary confinement for nearly all of the past 43 years.

The town of Three Rivers has been blessed by a boom of bears and bear cubs, reports the Los Angeles Times. Bears!

Donald Trump, it turns out, may not be the Christmas Grinch we all thought he was. No, he’s something much worse: a heat miser with a heart of coal, but a façade as warm and tan as a plump Christmas goose.

A man who was “acting bizarrely and standing in traffic” was fatally shot by Los Angeles police officers today, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Indonesia—having passed on half-measures like shadow-triggered spear-walls and dogs with bees in their mouth and when they bark they shoot bees—has come up with an outside-the-box idea for guarding its death row drug convicts: crocodiles. A body of water teeming with crocodiles.

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal cast doubt on a story candidate Ben Carson was told about himself in his 1990 autobiography involving a fake psychology test. Now, BuzzFeed News reports, it would seem that Carson was indeed the victim of a hoax—just not the hoax that he thought.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been charged with capital murder in the case of a Honduran man who was decapitated in an act of drug cartel violence earlier this year.