Two NYPD lieutenants were hospitalized last night after being kicked and punched by protestors, officials said. One suffered a broken nose. "This is where we have to draw the line," NYPD chief of department James O'Neill told reporters.

According to a recent survey conducted by the BBC, more than a quarter of British adults feel lonely at least some of the time.

In comments published by the New York Post on Saturday, an "upbeat" Bill Cosby obliquely addressed the allegations that he sexually assaulted dozens of women, saying the media had to "go in with a neutral mind."

Negotiators at the U.N. climate talks in Lima, Peru managed to agree on a compromise deal early Sunday morning, the Associated Press reports, more than 30 hours behind schedule after 10 days of negotiations.

Authorities in Delaware have charged a 17-year-old boy with first degree murder after they say he fatally shot his father with a crossbow to avoid a confrontation about skipping school, The Washington Post reports.

The U.S. Attorney's Office and FBI announced yesterday that they had arrested one Charles A. Bennett on securities and wire fraud charges after Bennett attempted suicide early last month and confessed to his crimes in a note he'd left. His suicide attempt failed, the New York Post reported, and the NYPD found his note.

The Millions March NYC: Day of Anger protest takes place today. Anti-police-brutality demonstrators plan to march from Washington Square Park up to Herald Square and back downtown again to One Police Plaza—NYPD headquarters.

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Snark hater and Gawker Least Important Writer, 2012 David Denby is stepping down after 16 years as a New Yorker film critic, Indiewire reports. According to the magazine, Denby will "give up his fortnightly reviewing in early 2015 but will continue as a staff writer, contributing longer critic-at-large pieces."

Most people's birthdays are mostly shitty, most of the time. Not Taylor Swift's, though!

New York City's largest police union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA) is encouraging its members to sign a form letter asking Mayor Bill De Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito not to attend their funerals if they are killed while on active duty.

Police in Fort Plain, New York say a one-year-old child died this week after ingesting liquid nicotine, the "juice" used in electronic cigarettes, WABC-TV reports.

Sierra Leone will ban all public Christmas and New Year's celebrations in an effort to curtail further spread of Ebola, Agence France-Presse reports. The government's Ebola response unit told reporters on Friday that soldiers would be deployed to keep people in their homes.

"What the f***?! Oh sh**!" On Friday, Los Angeles was hit with a tornado for the first time since 2004, The Washington Post reports, an event captured on camera in a heavily bleeped home video.

Police in Portland, Oregon have arrested a suspect in the shooting that injured three yesterday outside Rosemary Anderson High School, the AP reports. In a statement, police said the shooting appears to have been gang-related.

Here's a lovely photograph of a sorority girl from the University of Maryland celebrating her 21st birthday in the traditional way—with a fun, alcohol-themed cake that's piled with mini-bottles, Blue Moon, and shitty wine and adorned with the inscription "suck a nigga dick." Wait, what was that last thing again?

In a hilarious blow to the credibility of an ex-gay organization, a billboard purporting to depict "identical twins: one gay, one not" actual features the same model twice. He is gay, and both of him were born that way.

At least three people were injured today during a shooting outside Rosemary Anderson high school in Portland, Oregon. KGW's Mark Hanrahan reports that the victims—two boys and one girl—were all alive when they were taken to the hospital.

IF a man has walked the stony path and IF he has seen the rising sun and IF he has sipped from the frigid waters and IF he has trod upon the rolling hills THEN and ONLY THEN may he—Eric? Eric. I'm literally doing a thing, right here. Stop.

According to a New York Times investigation, a group of Brooklyn NYPD officers may have planted guns and invented nonexistent informants in order to arrest as many as six innocent people.