For the past six Decembers, DJ Earworm has dropped The United State of Pop, his annual mashup of 25 of the year's biggest pop songs. The much-anticipated seventh edition arrived today, but without much of a bang.

A new poll shows populist (by American standards) darling Elizabeth Warren running at 10% in a hypothetical Democratic presidential primary, while Hillary Clinton stands at 65%. Still, the Clintons fear Elizabeth Warren. Why?

The holiday season is here, and for America's teens that means one thing: preseeennnttsss!!

Marvin Tramaine Hill II was arrested by Des Moines police yesterday after allegedly hitting his pregnant wife with a McDonald's McChicken sandwich "because he doesn't like them."

When a young woman says she's been raped at college, some people—her peers, administrators, and otherwise-disconnected conservative pundits—will go to great lengths not to believe her for various, usually bad reasons. So it's unfortunate that Rolling Stone's investigation of rape and its aftermath at the University of Virginia asks the reader to simply believe a woman who says she was violently gang raped by seven fraternity brothers at a party in 2012, because some people don't want to do that.

Two men have been charged with raping a 16-year-old girl during a Halloween party last month at the off-campus residence for Johns Hopkins University's Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter. The suspects allegedly assaulted the teenager in one of the fraternity's bathrooms.

According to a new report, One World Trade Center is not only sort of the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, it's also the most expensive skyscraper in the entire world. I can't think of a better symbol for the city's resilience in the face of hardship than spending a shit ton of money.

On today's edition of the intellectual roundtable Fox and Friends, the hosts agree that "they should have a test before you vote."

Mark Geragos, the lawyer representing Kesha in her sexual assault claim against super-producer Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, claimed on Twitter yesterday that Luke was also the record producer who raped Lady Gaga when she was 19.

NBC News' chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman, who hasn't been heard from or on-air since breaking the voluntary 21-day quarantine she agreed to after a cameraman on her crew tested positive for Ebola, apologized this morning on NBC's the Today show (synergy!) for "breaking her promise."

Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon have a thriving musical partnership, wherein Fallon has someone on his staff remix clips of Williams into hip-hop cover songs, and Williams good-naturedly plays along. Once a year or so, Honey Bri-Bri also makes an appearance on Fallon's "Slow Jam the News" segment, where he returned last night to discuss immigration reform.

New Jersey's Kean University got some free publicity recently when its wise administrators saw fit to purchase a $219,000 conference table. Those administrators? Still busily defending that table. May this hilarious table talk never die.

Ariana Grande's most festive fan was placed on psychiatric hold last week after he showed up at her record label headquarters in New York City wearing a Santa suit. Perhaps inspired by Ariana's new single "Santa Tell Me," 29-year-old Tim Normandin ignored warnings from cops and tried to meet the star.

Professional prankster Roman Atwood, a real human being with a wife and children, has a new hit video: In "Killing My Own Kid PRANK!!," he fakes throwing his son over the balcony of his family's Ohio home to freak his girlfriend out. Killing your kids—hilarious!

Taylor Swift, a singer who has always insisted on the importance of women helping other women, helped one woman to lose her modeling job this week, the Daily News reports.

A civil lawsuit filed today claims that Bill Cosby once took a fifteen-year-old girl to the Playboy mansion, gave her alcohol, and sexually assaulted her.

The boy who was found hidden behind a fake wall in his father's house Friday managed to engineer his own escape after enduring years of mistreatment, police say.

According to reports, an American mother of twins was stabbed to death Monday after getting into an argument with another woman in an Abu Dhabi shopping mall bathroom.

In the wake of Michael Brown's death and a subsequent call for funding from President Obama, body cameras for cops have moved close to the center of the national conversation around police reform. According to a speech today from Bill de Blasio, they'll be coming to New York as soon as this week.

"Hedge funds are shutting at a rate not seen since the financial crisis, as many managers post disappointing returns and an elite group of firms dominate money raising," Bloomberg reports. "Hedge funds, on average, have returned just 2 percent in 2014."