Mario Cuomo, three-term governor of New York and near-presidential candidate, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.

Teens today are less lonely but have fewer friends than teens did twenty years ago a study conducted between 1991 and 2012 found. The research was published in this month's Personality and Psychology Bulletin. Did you forget to renew your subscription?

Where did the 120-mile-high geysers spewing out of the south pole of Jupiter's icy moon Europa go? Nobody knows!

Police union officials have denied that last week's plummeting arrest numbers are a result of an organized work stoppage or slowdown, according to the New York Times. Rather, officials say, this is a result of cops being scared and sad.

Earlier this week, Vocativ interviewed an eyewitness who said a viral video that has raised over $130,000 in questionably held donations was staged. Now a man who claims he's related to the video's homeless star has come forward, saying "it's all a scam" and his seemingly penniless brother is actually due to inherit $150,000 from their parents' estate.

Florida's Duval, Clay and Baker counties have ended the practice of courthouse weddings to avoid performing ceremonies for gay couples, the Florida Times-Union reports.

As the next step in his journey towards possibly considering running for president (maybe) Jeb Bush has resigned from all his remaining non-profit and business board memberships, the Associated Press reports. Happy 2016!

A day after the U.N. Security Council rejected a Palestinian resolution to end Israeli occupation by 2017, President Mahmoud Abbas announced that Palestine would pursue war-crimes charges against the Jewish state in the International Criminal Court.

Minimum wage increases go into effect in 20 states today, bringing the total of states that exceed the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hour to 29.

Goldman Sachs paid its top employees in the U.K. twice as much as other banks in the U.K. in 2013, according to Reuters, and also more than its employees right here at home, which may "cause internal friction." Uh oh!

A North Korean defector now working as an activist in South Korea told the Associated Press that he plans to drop 100,000 copies of The Interview into North Korea by balloon.

Happy New Year! I bet you feel like shit.

Earlier this month, Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan made headlines for failing to secure an indictment for Daniel Pantaleo, the Staten Island NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner. This week, Donovan is in the papers again, this time as the Republican Party's "clear front runner" for the congressional seat opened up by outgoing representative/convicted felon Michael Grimm.

According to the Associated Press, at least 36 people died and another 47 were injured after a Shanghai New Year's celebration turned into a deadly stampede.

If there's one thing we learned in 2014, it's that political cartoons are awful. Doubly so if your name is "Banksy" and triply so if your name isn't "Banksy" but you wish it were, like the aspiring satirist behind the piece seen above, which reportedly "has many outraged" in Detroit.

Veteran character actor Edward Herrmann has died, TMZ reports. He was 71.

According to a report from DNAinfo's Murray Weiss, the NYPD is investigating social media death threats against cops from alleged gang members who are apparently promising to turn tonight's New Year's Eve celebrations into "Kill a Pig Night." But who are these violent tweeters? Do they exist at all?

An upstate New York couple who sued their neighbor and complained about him to a District Attorney ended up arrested for stalking after they filmed a veritable "reality show" of evidence against him.

Dogs can do a lot of things: run, bark, etc. One thing they can't do, however, is hula hoop. Obvious? Not to this lady.

With just hours left to make 2014 an even shittier year, classy porn site Bangbros has released the latest film in its celebrated Bang Bus series, "Protestor Exercises Her Right to Take Cock!" Yes, it is a parody of the protests in the wake of the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.