America's most famous pregnant singer, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, has just posted a picture of herself styled as a beautiful pregnant sand monster en repose to Instagram. While pregnant with meaning, the image is unaccompanied by any caption, leaving the public to draw our own conclusions. Is Beyoncé pregnant? Is Beyoncé an ancient sand monster who takes human form to perform wicked deeds? The answer to the first question is almost certainly yes, as indicated by Gawker's prior coverage on the subject. The answer to the second question is also almost certainly yes.

Five people were shot early Sunday morning at a San Jose nightclub where Chris Brown was making an appearance, SF Gate reports. All are expected to survive, so it seems fair to say none came to more harm than Brown's already limited dignity.

You might accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior, but do you take him serious? If not, you should probably watch out for Pastor Eric Dammann, who admits to straight-up socking a kid as hard as he could for "playing games with God."

A coyote was caught on an Upper West Side basketball court last night, the New York Post reports. Police tranquilized the animal and plan to release her back into the wild.

When last we left Rupert Murdoch, he was tweeting wrong, bigoted things about Egyptians. Now, he is tweeting wrong, bigoted things about Muslims! ("Moslems," actually.) The world is just so full of things to be wrong about. Thankfully though, J.K. Rowling has stepped in to restore balance.

The AP reports arsonists attacked the offices of a German newspaper that reprinted Charlie Hebdo's Muhammad cartoons on Sunday, throwing a Molotov cocktail through a basement window. No one was injured and the fire was quickly extinguished. Police have detained two men suspected of the crime.

After a string of deadly terror attacks that began with Wednesday's Charlie Hebdo shooting, as many as a million people swarmed the streets of Paris today for a unity rally that also drew more than 40 world leaders, including Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestine's Mahmoud Abbas, the U.K.'s David Cameron and Angela Merkel of Germany.

Amedy Coulibaly, who took fourteen hostages and killed four in a kosher supermarket before he was shot and killed by French special forces on Friday, pledges allegiance to the Islamic State in a video released today on what is reportedly an official ISIS forum.

Are these videos funny? Yes. Are they cruel? Not really. Do they demonstrate the need for dogs and cats to unite as one and overthrow their human overlords, putting them under the blade or at least in an embarrassing Aladdin costume or two?

According to the Valley News, 64 Dartmouth students have been charged with honor code violations after the school discovered widespread cheating in an ethics course designed to help struggling student-athletes.

A woman shot her husband, a soldier at Fort Bragg, in the chest yesterday after mistaking him for a home intruder, the Associated Press reports. He'd come back into the house to bring her breakfast in bed.

A former high school teacher already facing a variety of rape charges related to sex with underage students was arrested in Utah this week after prosecutors say she sexted and had intercourse with a third teen while out on bail.

The Guardian reports that French police are searching frantically for Hayat Boumeddiene, the ex-girlfriend of Amedy Coulibaly who was killed last night after taking 14 people hostage at a kosher supermarket. Boumeddiene is believed to be armed and dangerous.

Daniel Donovan, the Staten Island District Attorney who failed to indict the killer of Eric Garner, was selected on Saturday as the GOP nominee for the empty congressional seat left by fellow Republican Michael Grimm, who pled guilty to felony tax fraud last month.

On Friday, the final performance of Bill Cosby's three-city Canadian tour was disrupted by the most vocal demonstration against the accused rapist yet, with around 30 protesters marching out of the venue chanting "We believe the women" and another reportedly shouting, "You're a piece of shit. You rapist."

"Art has to be a kind of confession," James Baldwin said, fifty-four years ago. "If you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too." Baldwin, more than any other American writer, showed us how every sentence contained the possibility of discovery for both writer and reader. Over the course of the ensuing months, I'm going to ask some of the country's most incredible creators to let readers into the crevices of how they do the work of facing and discovering life. Every creator will be asked the same six questions.

Joseph Gibbons, a filmmaker and former M.I.T. professor, is facing felony robbery charges in two states after after allegedly filmed himself stealing $1,000 from a Manhattan bank on New Year's Eve and $3,000 from a bank in Rhode Island in November, the New York Post reports. Gibbons.

Harry Gleeson, an Irish man hanged in 1941 for the brutal murder of Mary McCarthy the year before, will receive Ireland's first posthumous pardon in the coming weeks, The Irish Times reports.

George Zimmerman, America's chosen mascot for the reasonable use of lethal force, was arrested in Florida late Friday night on suspicion of domestic violence and aggravated assault with a weapon, again. At a court hearing Saturday morning, a judge granted Zimmerman a $5,000 bond.

The tail of AirAsia flight QZ8501 was lifted from the sea bed today, 100 feet below the surface and 20 miles from the passenger jet's last known location, Reuters reports. The black box is still missing.