An Indiana woman who named her hunting dog “Trigger” was injured when the chocolate Labrador retriever blew her damn foot to hell with a shotgun, reports The Guardian. Bad dog!

R.I.P. blogs, we hardly knew ye.

In Odessa on Sunday, The Guardian reports, a man wearing a Chewbacca costume was arrested for not producing the proper identification. Police had earlier detained him at a polling station, where he said he was voting for Darth Vader in the mayoral election.

Rangers in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park have reportedly found the bodies of 22 more African elephants who were poisoned by cyanide, reports The Guardian. It is believed the elephants were killed by poachers for their ivory tusks.

According to the Associated Press, the Green Berets who called in a deadly airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan earlier this month were aware that it was a hospital but believed it was occupied by Taliban fighters.

The woman accused plowing her car into a crowd at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade did so intentionally, the state’s district attorney said on Monday.

When it comes time to run for President—few things are more crucial to any good campaign than a rockin’, vaguely patriotic tune to blast as your stuffy, out-of-touch candidate comes bumbling out onstage. The second most crucial thing: A slightly less-rockin’ backup song to play when your first one gets canned because, as luck would have it, every good band hates you.

A video circulating on social media today shows a South Carolina school officer choking a student, slamming her to the ground and then dragging her across a classroom floor while attempting to place her under arrest.

Don’t you hate it when you’re out with your wife for lunch and you walk up by the dessert counter and then who do you see? Tim—the guy who can’t shut up about pneumococcal pneumonia.

Remember the thigh gap, the pointless and imaginary standard of female beauty? You’re never too young to have one of those. In fact, even a baby could/should have one! According to a handful of moms, this is true of Huggies, which possibly Photoshopped some non-touching baby thighs in a diaper ad.

A little over two months ago, former conservative reality star, former executive director of FRC action, and current sex rehab resident Josh Duggar was one of the first major celebrities exposed in Ashley Madison’s unprecedented data dump. At the time, we were able to confirm his two paid accounts using the associated credit card info. But now, thanks to tipster Nathan Turner, we also have his profile pictures. [See updates below.]

Last week, five Pi Kappa Alpha bros at Ole Miss were arrested for allegedly beating a student “within an inch of his life” outside another fraternity house. Why? According to the Associated Press, the alleged assault happened while the bros were trying to steal the other frat’s donkey statue.

A New Mexico man who said he had recently binge-watched The Walking Dead has been charged with murder after telling police he attacked his drinking buddy. He said he believed the other man had started “to change into a zombie” and wanted to bite him, Albuquerque news station KOB4 reports.

On Saturday, an anti-police brutality rally in Washington Square Park got an unexpected guest speaker in Quentin Tarantino. Today, the perpetually seething chair of the union representing NYPD officers responded by calling for a boycott of the director’s films.

A week after a daring raid against ISIS that freed 70 Kurdish hostages and left an American special forces operator dead, NBC News has obtained what it says is body-cam footage from the assault.

On October 24, 2015, Finley Jay Lanning entered the world at 9 lbs, 0 oz. He was born into the loving arms of his parents and the hearts of his fans—people who knew his name and were waiting for him.

Former Congressman Barney Frank visited the Gawker office last week to discuss Compared To What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank, the documentary about his life that’s now running on Showtime (and on demand). In front of a crowd, Frank and I discussed his doc, the closet on Capitol Hill, and his own coming out (which happened way back in 1987).

Two workers in the U.S. Capitol and Senate cafeteria say they’ve been “relentlessly harassed and intimidated by our bosses” for trying to organize a union. Perhaps their customers could help them out?

How did Donald Trump get his start? He did it the same way self-made American men have been doing it since time immemorial: hard work, bootstraps, determination, elbow grease, perseverance, and a tiny little pile of money from his daddy.

Opal Covey, a woman who identifies as a prophetess, is currently running for the mayor of Toledo, Ohio, for the fifth time. She also identifies as a miracle worker—a political Annie Sullivan, if you will—and her platforms include ridding the city of potholes and building amusement parks. “That will bring great wealth,” she recently told NBC24 on the latter.