Police have always abused, beaten, and killed people. They’ve just been getting more attention lately. And, just as important, police brutality is costing cities a lot more money now.

The Associated Press reports that after many weeks of deliberation, TLC has finally decided to cancel 19 Kids and Counting. The show “will no longer appear on the air,” the network said. This decision comes after it was revealed in May that the eldest Duggar son, Josh, molested several underage girls when he was a teen—including four of his sisters.

Scott Wiener, who sits on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, is happy to talk to any news organization about any issue—like banning public nudity or bad neighbor Mark Zuckerberg. But Fox News is not a news organization, and Wiener told them as much when they came after him for an interview about San Francisco’s undocumented immigrants.

According to the Associated Press, George H.W. Bush was hospitalized on Wednesday after falling in his Maine home and breaking a bone in his neck, but a spokesperson for Bush says the former president “is fine.”

Authorities in New Haven made a grisly discovery on Wednesday when they found a pair of human legs near a railroad station and a plastic bag containing “at least one” human arm during a subsequent search of the area, WTNH reports.

On Sunday, traffic cameras captured the surreal moment when a skydiving plane made an emergency landing on New Jersey’s Route 72 and yesterday authorities uploaded the incredible footage to Facebook.

Hood locator and father of 12 (!) DMX began a six-month stint in jail on Tuesday after failing to pay $400,000 worth of child support, WIVB reports.

Overlooked in the all the hubbub about the technical achievement and apparent rampant corruption behind Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s prison break Saturday was a tiny little bird friend used by the drug kingpin to test the air of the mile-long, 30-feet deep tunnel he escaped into from his cell’s shower.

Bill Cosby was, at a certain point in his life, one of the most successful pitchmen in American history. Many years and many rape allegations later, that is no longer the case. From corporate America to Barack Obama, everyone is now, and presumably forever, allergic to Bill Cosby.

Without directly accusing Bill Cosby of raping anyone, President Obama said Wednesday the dozens of accusations levied against the disgraced comedian clearly constitute rape.

On this day in 1971, President Richard Nixon, to the complete surprise of the American public, announced that he would be visiting communist China in 1972. It was an abrupt, about-face departure from a stance the vehemently anti-communist Nixon had campaigned upon. But the lost lives and political costs of the Vietnam war—as well as the insistent advice of Nixon’s Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger—led Nixon away from his intransigence and into a momentous meeting that would shape the course of American diplomacy and international affairs for decades.

In honor of America’s new Christmas, “Amazon Prime Day,” please take a moment to reflect on how the now-20-year-old Amazon got here: by treating many of its employees like shit.

“Stoner” rapper Young Thug was arrested by U.S. Marshals early Wednesday over a July 7 incident where he allegedly threatened to shoot a mall security guard in the face.

Amazon turns 20 today, which means it’s nearly the same age I was when I graduated college, moved across the country, and started living alone. The world has changed, and Amazon has its own transition period to undergo. But if it’s anything like me, it can manage these growing pains easily—with an overflowing digital shopping cart.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is running late. As a national correspondent for The Atlantic and author of the new book, Between the World and Me, everyone, it seems, wants a word with the 39-year-old Baltimore native these days. His book—which Toni Morrison christened “required reading” and which the New York Times hailed a “profoundly moving account”—is a deeply personal examination of the ways in which American violence and racism have wreaked havoc on its black citizenry. “[T]he question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the Dream,” Coates writes in the beginning portion of the book, “is the question of my life.”

Here’s your daily affirmation that it’s not good to be Chris Brown—according to the AP, a group of armed, masked men broke into the singer’s home last night and seriously terrorized his poor aunt.

The 15-year-old son of Australian musician and writer Nick Cave died Tuesday night after apparently falling from the cliffs at Ovingdean Gap in Sussex, England.

The man accused of shooting at George Zimmerman is not enjoying his time out on bail: neighbors say he was rearrested this week after he peed on a neighbor’s porch in an apparent act of retaliation.

Are you (or do you know) an internet-savvy teen with too much time on your hands? Do you want to help old normies understand your world? Will your parents let you write for a website that uses swears? If your answers are “yes,” come be a Teen Panelist for Gawker! Send an email to ashley@gawker.com and apply within.

If you were wondering what it looked like when Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán escaped from a maximum-security prison on Saturday night, good news: a security camera was running in his cell the entire time, and the footage was released tonight by Mexican authorities, along with a detailed look at the tunnel that led him to freedom.