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A 66-year-old white woman in Connecticut is alive and unharmed, despite brandishing a realistic-looking BB gun outside a police station, then pointing it at officers while shouting “Boom boom boom” and “Shoot me!”

Ah, the penis. That most comical and vulnerable of body parts. It was a bad year for all of us, but for the approximately 1.2 billionth year in a row since the emergence of sexual differentiation, it was a particularly rough year for groins. This selection of real, horrible injuries proves that Murphy’s Law is centered on the crotch.

Giant squid are some of the most elusive creatures of the sea, having never been caught alive on camera until 2012. Which is why it’s so strange that this bold guy is just hanging around the harbor in Toyama, Japan. U OK, Squid?

On Monday, an Ohio grand jury decided not to bring charges against the two officers, Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, captured on camera fatally shooting 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014.

A group of cloistered nuns known as the “Pink Sisters” for their rose-colored habits have successfully completed 100 years of continuous prayer by working in shifts. Now, they are working to achieve the next 100.

“They attacked us in waves.” On January 22, America’s long-feared reality will finally hit. Only Chloë Grace Moretz and a random dude’s abs will be able to save us.

Today, in the very worst of cautionary tales: a 33-year-old man fell to his death from a San Diego cliff while preoccupied by an electronic device.

Over 50 police officers were called to Mall St. Matthews in Louisville, Kentucky, to break up a brawl involving nearly 2,000 teens. “Businesses were in the process of closing their doors, steel grates, and you had juveniles that were not allowing businesses to close up—[they were] climbing on the grates,” said police spokesperson Officer Dennis McDonald. “This was a riot. It was crazy.”

Lin-Manuel Miranda was reading Ron Chernow’s Hamilton on vacation, goes the fable of the year, when he was struck with inspiration. Later, at the first public performance of a song from his musical, he told his audience at the White House that Alexander Hamilton was “someone I think embodies hip-hop.”

The unusual but somehow completely natural friendship between Scott Disick and Chris Brown continues to thrive. The two men, both of whom have a history of substance abuse issues, are reportedly keeping each other sober.

At the end of World War II, an estimated 200,000 South Korean women were forced by the Imperial Japanese Army to work in brothels as “comfort women,” a euphemized term for sexual slavery, for the Japanese military. On Monday, South Korea accepted Japan’s reconciliatory apology and offer to contribute 1 billion yen ($8.3 million) to a victims’ fund.

Observations like Tinashe’s most recent in an xoNecole profile are so categorically obvious that it’s frustrating that they must be said time and again: the entertainment industry as a whole has a racial bias against black women, which adversely affects all the black women within it.

Star War: Woke AF has made over $1 billion worldwide in just 10 days—faster than any movie in history—and The Hollywood Reporter is chalking up its unbelievable box office numbers to repeat viewers and a “broadening” audience that includes, wait for it...women.

Welcome to Big Time Small-Time Dicks, a regular column on The Slot that explores local politicians, small-town scandals and everything else making life miserable on a local level. This week: The year in dicks, remembered.

A new Gallup poll shows that Hillary Clinton has been named the most admired woman in America for 20 years in a row. That victory might be a little sweeter if the poll wasn’t pretty clearly based on name recognition alone: Americans also say they admire President Obama, Pope Francis, Donald Trump, and—sure, why not—Bernie Sanders.

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A German man died on Christmas Day in what appears to have been a failed attempt to rob a condom machine by blowing it up. The man, 29, was hit in the head with a flying shard of metal. This is certainly a cautionary tale of some kind.

This weekend, starfish carcass Donald Trump yelled so loudly he turned inside out.

After Kelly Rutherford officially lost custody of her children a few weeks ago, I assumed their story was over. It was downright stupid of me to think that, however, because the sequel trilogy to this never-ending saga has only just begun. The force has awakened in Rutherford’s ex, Daniel Giersch, and now he’s suing Vanity Fair for defamation over a piece the magazine published about the pair’s legal battle in October.

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Japan’s sushi industry is notoriously male-dominated, but a group of intrepid female chefs have begun to combat the sexism preventing women from working in the field. In Tokyo’s Akihabara district you’ll now find a restaurant called Nadeshiko Sushi — and every single employee is female.

Jay Bradford should probably start investing in lottery tickets, because his luck seems to be of an extraordinary sort. On December 12, he lost his wedding band in the middle of the ocean. On December 16 he returned to look for it — and what do you know? He actually found it.

Japanese mountaineer Kei Taniguchi died last week while climbing the Daisetsuzan range in northern Japan.

David Spade was not amused by the recent episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls featuring Barack Obama , saying he “thought a president should have a little more dignity.” A clip from TMZ shows Spade being asked about a recent tweet in which he questioned the president’s appearance on the wilderness survival reality show.