It's been ten months under Bill de Blasio's leadership and little change has come to New York City. With his first year in office nearing an end, the everyday reality for many of the city's residents remains inescapable: police harassment and brutality have become a constant, and conditions only seem to be worsening. Despite the promises of de Blasio and Commissioner Bratton to overhaul the department in lieu of recent events—the death of Eric Garner, beating and pistol-whipping an unarmed Brooklyn teen, slamming a pregnant woman to the ground, and the arrest of a man who was legally permitted to perform on a subway platform—much has remained the same. To put it bluntly: the NYPD has lost control of its officers.

Dozens have evacuated as lava from Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island works its way down to Pahoa. The lava is moving at a rate of about 20 yards an hour, and according to NBC News, is about "less than the length of a football field" away from the nearest home.

Kim Kardashian's birthday on October 21st was the event it always is—she went to Hawaii, did a paid appearance at a Las Vegas nightclub, and went shopping. This year was extra special, however, because Kanye West let baby North ruin a morbidly expensive purse just for Mom.

For decades, the CIA and the FBI reportedly employed and protected at least 1,000 Nazis, using them as spies and later shielding them from prosecution, the New York Times reports.

The world of stock images is a weird and vast one, so it's not even surprising that this B roll stock footage of office workers taking each other's temperature with stethoscopes and dancing around a conference room exists.

In a scene out of an anxiety dream or maybe a greek yogurt commercial, Amy Poehler once unwittingly went on a date, dressed in her Parks and Recreation wardrobe, with Handsome Guy Actor John Stamos.

Anna Cardwell, the oldest daughter of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo matriarch Mama June, says her mom didn't believe her now-convicted sex offender boyfriend had been molesting her eight-year-old daughter.

Patrick Quinn, an avowed foot fetishist and former police officer in Harris County, Texas, allegedly told a woman he pulled over that she was free to go as long as she either gave him her underwear or let him smell her feet. And if he got close to her feet, he warned, "he was probably going to lick them too."

Marrying an investment banker is definitely a great thing. You get tons of money, for one, and you always get to see your husband. Also, he definitely isn't an insane and horrible human being who recklessly ravages his mind and body with drugs and alcohol to the point that he urinates and defecates all over your million-dollar homes.

Max-Arthur, the impossibly laid-back Roomba-riding housecat, cannot show you the world (shining, shimmering, splendid) because the Aladdin soundtrack is ⓒ1992 Walt Disney Records, but he can show you his Halloween costume.

Jaylen Fryberg, the 15-year-old freshman who killed two students at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Wash. on Friday, invited five friends to lunch via text message before opening fire in the cafeteria, according to Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary.

The Boston Globe, among our country's most venerated journalistic institutions, republished a New York Times story about chocolate on its website today. For some reason, the photo it chose to accompany that story on Twitter shows a chocolate butt plug next to a chocolate Santa Claus holding a chocolate butt plug.

Without a doubt one of the most fabulous and fearful toddlers in the game right now is North West, an eccentrically-dressed sixteen-month-old who is often photographed on the chic streets of Paris looking terrified in the presence of her parents.

Today, the internet has ascribed an inspiring bit of heroism to Paul Rudd, after video surfaced this weekend of a man who almost, kind of looks like Paul Rudd helping to prevent an alleged hate crime at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (as shown in the video above). Alas, @TheRealPaulRudd was actually thousands of miles away, likely doing nothing, while real American heroes got their hands dirty.

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Amazon's status as Wall Street's darling may have come to an end. A disappointing earnings report last week sent the stock sliding and caused loud grumbling about the choices of brilliant(?) prick CEO Jeff Bezos. To add to those doubts, here's a story from an Amazon warehouse employee.

There are lots of scary things about Halloween: Ghosts (human), ghosts (animal), zombies (real), and throngs of college students (drunk). But, as John Oliver points out, perhaps the most terrifying is the $2 billion worth of candy (plus some Necco wafers) that Americans will consume in celebration of the holiday.

The New York Times real estate section is always a window into the deranged material conditions under which we live. But this weekend's edition presented a particularly neat, quasi-intentional summing up of conditions in the city's current Gilded Age.

A judge dropped felony drug charges against Christopher A. Brooks on Monday after Brooks' arresting officer—Darren Wilson, who hasn't been seen in public since shooting Michael Brown to death on August 9—failed to show up in court.

According to an exclusive E! News report, America's Sweetheart Jennifer Lawrence, 24, and England's rocker dad Chris Martin, 37, broke up. Be not afraid, children, for Gwyneth Paltrow's hex—that bottle of Kiehl's she buried with some twigs in the backyard this summer—worked.