Rookie police officer Terence Olridge was shot and killed while off duty this afternoon in Cordova, a Memphis, Tennessee suburb, reports NBC News.

Gloria Allred, an attorney for one of the women accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault, told reporters on Saturday that the comedian gave a deposition for several hours on Friday at the Omni Hotel in Boston, the local CBS affiliate reports.

California Governor Jerry Brown today signed into law the California Racial Mascots Act, banning, among other things, the epithet “Redskins” from use as a school sports team name or mascot throughout the state.

President Obama tonight on 60 Minutes stopped short of describing Hillary Clinton’s ongoing email scandal as “not that big a deal” but did suggest the issue has been “ginned up” by political opponents for political reasons.

According to the Guardian, there have been at least 1,000 mass shootings in this country Sandy Hook, the bloody milestone having been passed in Inglis, Florida, just a few hours after Chris Harper Mercer killed himself and eight other people in Roseburg, Oregon.

Atlanta: come to be honored at the BET Hip-Hop Awards, stay because you’re in jail pending a $482,190 bond.

A 10-year-old boy in Northern Utah was killed while warming himself on a four-wheeler when a hunting companion’s rifle accidentally discharged, reports the Associated Press.

The 44th annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta was held in, well, Albuquerque, New Mexico this weekend. It ended spectacularly today, with more than 500 giant balloons ascending into the cloudless sky. Look at them go! Will they ever come down?

Four men who were arrested in May for forcing two women, one a 14-year-old, into prostitution have now been indicted for human trafficking, conspiracy, child endangerment, and other counts, reports the Associated Press.

Cats are known the world over for being evil little shits. And this cat is also an evil little shit. But this cat puts his evil ways to use for the good of all living things, waging war for a thousand generations against flutists. The flute is the thing that is worse than cats, and this good cat, rather than compound his badness by playing the flute, is taking a stand. That puts him on the side of the right. Good cat.

Amid accusations of mismanagement, overspending, and undisclosed bonuses to executives, the directors of a Donald Trump-branded development in Panama City—Central America’s largest building—fired Trump’s company, the Associated Press reports, as the manager of the building and the hotel it contains.

A Danish zoo—not the one that killed a young giraffe and fed it to the lions as a form of population control, but a different Danish zoo—has announced that it will thaw and dissect a young female lion that has been kept in a freezer since it was put down nine months ago to avoid inbreeding.

Karen Dolley, a 43-year-old Indianapolis woman who skates as “Foul Morguean” with the Naptown Roller Girls, cornered a man who’d broken into her home on Thursday night, using only her wits, bravery, and a Japanese-styled sword she owns, called a “ninjato.”

Last summer, the NYPD dragged a half-naked Brooklyn woman out of her apartment in handcuffs. Now, the New York Daily News reports, Denise Stewart, 49, has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and the police department.

Before I met Sierra Mannie, I met one of her sentences: “What I do know is that I don’t care how well you can quote Madea, who told you that your booty was getting bigger than hers, how cute you think it is to call yourself a strong black woman, who taught you to twerk, how funny you think it is to call yourself Quita or Keisha or for which black male you’ve been bottoming—you are not a black woman, and you do not get to claim either blackness or womanhood.”

Tensions escalated across Israel and Palestine Sunday as a pregnant Palestinian woman and her child were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said. Elsewhere, the New York Times reports, according to Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, a Palestinian woman killed herself and a police officer after she tried to ignite a gas balloon in her car.

On Saturday night, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office released two external reports that found the police officer who, within two seconds of exiting his patrol car, shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice last year acted “within the realm of reasonableness.”

A police officer in Round Rock, Texas grabbed a 14-year-old student by the throat and threw him to the ground on Thursday, as shown in a video that surfaced some time later that night.

“The primary reason people meditate, the experts tell me, is that it may reduce stress. Fine. But so does quality sleep and exercise. And you can reduce stress simply by changing the way you think about it.” Some people you know immediately must just be a pleasure to be around.

Apparently, the New York Times reports, access to the Apple News app, which was announced in June and may or may not contain the secret to the future of journalism, has been disabled in China.