As Bill Cosby broke his silence today to thank two women for supporting him through the shitstorm of rape allegations swirling against him, three more women came forward with equally horrifying tales of drugged beverages and sexual assault.

Mariah Carey, she of a thousand octaves and probably a few more only dogs can hear, accidentally left her voice at home Wednesday during NBC's annual Christmas broadcast.

Thousands of Eric Garner protestors descended on midtown Manhattan Wednesday night, blocking streets and standing off with police while just blocks away, a star-studded lineup of celebrities blithely sang Christmas carols for a live NBC broadcast.

During a speech about a Staten Island grand jury's failure to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, Bill de Blasio shared a crushing personal anecdote: Even the mayor of New York has to have "the talk" with his black son about the interactions he'll have with police.

You'd think that smash hits like After Earth, The Smurfs 2, and That Other Spiderman Movie with Jamie Foxx in It would sell themselves. But with every Sony Pictures release comes a carefully tailored spin cycle—and if you look at the pitches, it's no wonder this studio is hurting.

Under a 1982 ordinance, every household in Kennesaw, Georgia, is required to own a gun and ammunition, "in order to provide for and protect" the city's safety. It should probably be no surprise that the city's council recently voted—also in the name of some backwards idea of safety?— to ban a mosque from opening.

Tim Loehmann, the Cleveland police officer who shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice to death last month, resigned from a smaller Ohio police force in 2012 after being found unfit for duty. Among other obviously disqualifying behavior, Loehmann was "distracted" and "weepy" during his firearm qualification session, according to just-released records from his brief tenure with the Independence police department.

It's a raw day here in the Big Apple, made all the more bitter by the malignancy of the news cycle. On days like these the Baby Name Critic thinks, how can we focus on baby names at a time like this? But the babies keep being born, and the parents keep naming them. So we soldier on.

This clip of a man jamming on a keyboard and singing what sounds like "everybody knows shit, FUCK" has been making the rounds today: It's been dubbed "The Everybody Knows Shit Fuck Dance," and declared "one of the internet's greatest achievements" from a "street musician who only knows four words." Only some of that is true.

Have you ever carefully stockpiled trash, only to have it disappear the moment your back was turned? According to a study published Tuesday from researchers at North Carolina State University, ants could be the culprit.

Rape accusations against Bill Cosby keep coming, but the comedian has yet to comment on any of them. Last night, however, he broke his silence on Twitter to thank Whoopi Goldberg and singer Jill Scott for supporting him. Both Goldberg and Scott have pointed out the lack of "rape kit evidence" to back up the allegations against Cosby.

Funnyman and former pretend president Chris Rock has some not-so-funny truths he would like to share with you. In a series of recent interviews with New York, Grantland, The New Yorker, and The Hollywood Reporter, the veteran comedian opens up about navigating Hollywood as a black man, Ferguson, the fallacy of race relations in America, responsibility, and being a role model.

"[T]here are issues in which the law too often feels as if it is being applied in discriminatory fashion. I don't think that's the norm." — President Barack Obama, November 24, 2014

"I don't feel that there's a law that's necessary to deal with that issue," NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said about police chokeholds last September. "I think there are more than sufficient protocols in place to address a problem."

The University of Texas, my alma mater, has a very large campus. Easy to lose stuff—like 100 jars of brains in formaldehyde.

A gargantuan new hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment is revealing an almost unfathomable amount of sensitive insider information, from countless social security numbers to embarrassing salary data. And we just came across this: a giant list of workplace complaints.

A major investor's group has proposed that hedge funds generate "gains above market benchmarks before charging incentive fees"—in other words, that they be worth the fees that they charge. Outrageous!

Daniel Pantaleo, the Staten Island NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner with a chokehold in July, will not face charges for the killing, a grand jury reportedly decided today. Garner, who was asthmatic, pled with police about his inability to breathe several times during the struggle that led to his death.

NYPD officer Philip Leroy, awarded "Cop of the Year" for the 114th Precinct in 2012, was arrested in Florida Monday night for allegedly trafficking cocaine.

Chuck Jose isn't the first person to perform his own version of the dance from Sia's "Chandelier" music video—Lena Dunham, Jimmy Kimmel, et al did it to death a long time ago—but he might be the first to do it as punishment for being a fantasy football loser.