Eight people, including two American contractors, were killed this morning in a shooting at a U.S.-funded police training center just outside of Amman, Jordan. Two Americans were also wounded in the attack.

Around 6,000 federal prisoners were scheduled for release this month after a loosening of the harsh mandatory minimum sentences that came with three decades of successful and definitely not futile War on Drugs. It’s the largest single prison release in U.S. history. But, as John Oliver explained on his show Sunday night, they’re about to encounter the shitty, broken process of prison re-entry.

On the campus of the University of Missouri, graduate student Jonathan Butler has been starving himself in an effort to remove the school’s president Tim Wolfe from his position. Today, on the seventh day of his protest, Butler won.

Are there too many police or are there too few? In the months since Black Lives Matter activists first organized protests against police violence, the concept of over-policing has become key in understanding the dynamic against which they fight, especially in dramatically over-policed places like Ferguson. Some opponents contend that black communities are actually under-policed, citing rates of violent crime and 911 response time as the reason to increase police presence. The focus on numbers, however, belies the fact that both over- and under-policing have been used to oppress black communities.

The University of Missouri’s President Tim Wolfe has resigned in the wake of student criticism that he has not effectively handled racist incidents on campus. Over the weekend, a group of black players on Mizzou’s football team announced they would strike until Wolfe stepped down.

Half a dozen members of the Bird Protection League converged on bird traps in Audon, a township in southwest France, Monday morning in an effort to stop the alleged poaching of thousands of protected finches. But, as they soon learned, if you wanna save finches, you’ve gotta get through one angry, shovel-wielding man and his bikini briefs.

Two Brisbane, Australia blokes who review golf courses on YouTube, James Macklin and Connor Reeves, just wanted to have their shot at Queensland’s Hervey Bay Golf Club, but this kangaroo wasn’t having it, mate.

The near-collapse of the global financial sector in 2008 was our periodic reminder that banks that are “too big to fail” are a threat to the public. Now, seven years later, some action is being taken.

According to a new report in the New York Times, an attorney who worked in high-profile positions at Al Jazeera America, Sony and Def Jam records wasn’t really an attorney at all.

For the second day in a row, a freight train has derailed in Wisconsin, reports the New York Times.

A plainclothes NYPD detective shot an 20-year-old man in the stomach on Sunday after he tried to rob him at gunpoint, CBS News reports. The suspect was shot once in the stomach and is in stable condition. The detective was also hospitalized, with tinnitus.

“While my family may be the first guests to speak out about a wrongful death at an Airbnb rental, it shouldn’t exactly come as a surprise. Staying with a stranger or inviting one into your home is an inherently dicey proposition.”

Several videos emerged on Twitter Sunday purporting to show Tuscaloosa police violently subduing three University of Alabama students. Police were apparently responding to a noise complaint.

After police knocked on the door of his Pennsylvania motel room, a murder suspect from North Carolina, thinking the jig was up, shot himself on Saturday afternoon. The police, however, were there to arrest someone else altogether.

The World Bank—friend to hippy-dippy liberal types, ally to socialists, bastion of political correctness, a cadre of Social Justice Warriors if ever there was one—estimates that 100 million people could be pushed into poverty by 2030 by, you guessed it, climate change.

Well, here’s something depressing as hell: the Associated Press has the story of Congolese rangers engaged in violent conflict with armed outlaw groups who are targeting African elephants for slaughter. Damn.

You might be surprised to learn that the New York State assemblyman who helped to craft a bill designed to protect nail salon workers, which Governor Cuomo signed into law earlier this year, has now decided that this law (especially the provisions pertaining to wage fraud) is bad. Then again, you might not be so surprised when you learn that, according to the New York Times’ Sarah Maslin Nir—whose investigative reporting on the nail salon industry in New York prompted Cuomo to take those “emergency measures”—salon owners have been sending tens of thousands of dollars in political donations the assemblyman’s way.

Here’s a cool thing: the federal government granted $30 million in seed money to Maryland to study the construction of a maglev high-speed rail corridor between Baltimore and D.C., reports the Baltimore Sun. This futuristic-type train would cover the distance between the two cities in a mind-shattering 15 minutes!

Two people were stabbed early Saturday morning at rapper, producer, and Wu-Tang Clan founding member RZA’s Millstone, N.J., home, NJ.com reports. RZA himself apparently wasn’t home, but rather at Fun Fun Fest, in Austin, Texas.