Glad that’s finally settled.

Nowhere is America’s affordable housing crisis more acute than in the California Bay Area. The problem: piss poor planning. Incredibly, an actual solution may be at hand.

The leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, was killed in an American drone strike in Pakistan this weekend, the New York Times reports.

Criminal court systems across the country are using Northpointe, a Minority Report-esque algorithm designed to predict an offender’s likelihood to commit another crime in the future, to aid decisions about things like eligibility for bail and jail-diversion programs. Unfortunately, just like many non-algorithmic…

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A series of seven nearly simultaneous suicide bombings ripped through two regime-held cities in Syria on Monday, Agence France-Presse reports, leaving more than 120 people dead and many more wounded. The Islamic State claimed responsibility.

Michelle Fields, the reporter who left Breitbart after her colleagues openly attacked her account of being manhandled by Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, has been hired by The Huffington Post, The Hill reports.

On Sunday, the White House was briefly placed under unofficial lockdown after two stray, possibly radicalized “party balloons” landed on the North Lawn, NBC News reports.

Early Monday morning, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi went on live TV to announce the launch of a military campaign to retake the city of Fallujah, which has been controlled by ISIS since early 2014.

Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld has confirmed he is standing by recent comments made earlier this week in which he compared probable Cheeto Donald Trump’s plan to deport undocumented immigrants from the U.S. to Kristallnacht, a historically significant event which took place during the Holocaust.

In the great and historic tradition of my forebears, I’d like to wrap up my illustrious career as the weekend warrior for Gawker dot com with a ranking. The subject of this list is that widely unappreciated group of odd- and even-toed mammals, those noble ruminants of the grasslands, that clade of hoofed wonders: the…

If I told you that actress and suspected human tree Shailene Woodley is a supporter of presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, how shocked would you be on a scale of “not shocked” to “nope, still definitely not shocked”? Well then.

The “All-Star” event in any sport is a special one, since the best competitors get to battle it out with not much at stake but their pride. NASCAR has one also, and they try to make the race unique by using a new, oddball format each year. This year was so bad, though, that not even competitors knew what was going on.

“If I had terminal cancer, it would be better than this, because at least [then] I did not cause it,” former vegan restauranteur and current Rikers Island resident Sarma Melngailis told The New York Post. Called the “vegan Bernie Madoff,” Melngailis is awaiting trial after being caught while ordering a pizza on the…

“Do you know who I am?” is never a flattering way to refer to oneself.

It should come as no surprise that Donald Trump, a man who bullies his opponents like a mobster, allegedly had business dealings with members of organized crime groups.

On Friday night, Daniel Holtzclaw was interviewed over the phone by 20/20 from jail. He maintains his innocence.