The latest round of Benghazi hearings are, in theory, tailored to focus on how the attack happened and who, if anyone, is to blame. But for Rep. Trey Gowdy, a real high school hall monitor of a politician, there’s a larger issue at hand: Sidney Blumenthal’s unkind emails.

On Tuesday night in East Harlem, a man named Tyrone Howard allegedly fired a single shot at NYPD officer Randolph Holder, striking him in the head and killing him. Holder’s death is a tragedy, and despite what New York City mayor Bill de Blasio would have you believe, it has nothing whatsoever to do with prison reform.

Five Pi Kappa Alpha brothers at Ole Miss were arrested Friday in connection with an assault that allegedly left another student beaten “within an inch of his life.” Tucker Steil, James Basile, Christian Guy, Kyle Hughes, and Austin Rice—real names—were charged with everything from hazing to larceny to felony assault. Given their smiley mugshots above, they don’t seem too bummed out about it.

Dripping with smarm, Rep. Peter J. Roskam (R-Ill.) twice offered to stop talking (perchance to dream) so Hillary Clinton could look at her notes during the Benghazi hearing Thursday.

“After surviving most of the cutbacks, Jeff told friends and family that he would soon be wearing a blue badge.” Dave Jamieson tells the story of one Amazon temp warehouse worker who died on the job.

The Secret Service, who (despite their very best efforts) have yet to actually succeed in killing the President, are sleepy. So sleepy, in fact, that the Inspector General is issuing an alert after finding two distinct Secret Service members fast asleep at their posts.

I know what the alleged Grindr serial killer did last summer and frankly I find it horrifying—Celebrity Masterchef is still on the air?!

U.S. defense officials said one American soldier was killed Thursday morning as Special Forces and Iraqi troops raided an ISIS-run prison in northern Iraq, the first U.S. soldier killed in action in Iraq since 2011.

Cranial bee sting victim Donald Trump is a leading presidential candidate, despite the fact that he is clearly a stupid, racist clown. Can Donald Trump say anything too stupid to dissuade his own backers?

A teacher and a young student were killed Thursday morning when a masked man with a sword attacked a school in the Swedish town of Trollhattan.

It’s a bird—it’s a plane—it’s old man Jeb and he’s going off script again.

The family of a black man shot and killed by a Florida police officer on Sunday have, according to the New York Times, reportedly been told by prosecutors that Corey Jones, whose gun was found on the ground near where he was shot, never fired his weapon before his death.

I dunno, this burglar...this might be my favorite burglar of all time.

“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the American agency that tracks worldwide temperatures, announced Wednesday that last month had been the hottest September on record, and in fact took the biggest leap above the previous September that any month has displayed since 1880.”

Donald Trump, a lint-filled navel seeking the Presidency, spared some words tonight for the big Joe Biden news:

On Wednesday, a U.S. district judge in Los Angeles dismissed the long-running lawsuit against Jay Z and his producer Timbaland over their sampling of an Egyptian song in Jay’s 1999 hit single “Big Pimpin’.”

Baltimore prosecutors are investigating allegations made by 11 women that public housing maintenance men refused to perform basic and necessary repairs when the women refused to have sex with them, reports the Associated Press.

Police say that a 38-year-old woman has admitted to sending a series of anonymous threats to a family in Champlin, Minnesota, CBS Minnesota reports. The first threat came in the form of a note in the mail that read, “The children look delicious. May I have a taste?”

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer shot and killed a knife-wielding Mexican man at a border crossing in Calexico, California, on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.

Paul Ryan’s candidacy for the soon-to-be-vacant House Speaker position just got a major boost towards realization: the House Freedom Caucus now says they will support Ryan for the position, “all but guaranteeing he’ll get the job,” according to the Associated Press.