On Wednesday, Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper who stopped and arrested Sandra Bland, who died, three days later, in jail, was indicted for perjury. In a statement, the Texas Department of Public Safety said that it would “begin termination proceedings” against Encinia.

Two Yemeni detainees, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih al-Dhuby, have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Ghana, the Pentagon said Wednesday. There are now 105 detainees at the U.S. military prison in Cuba.

Kristin Cavallari had a baby about a month ago. She named her “Saylor,” spelled just like that.

Like many people, Juanita Broaddrick has been on Twitter since 2009, but couldn’t really figure out how to use it until recently. “I didn’t even know what ‘followers’ were until yesterday!” she told me on the phone this afternoon.

Jeb Bush—a man whose campaign has, one imagines, not followed the trajectory he hoped it might—has a new talking point: his daughter, Noelle, and her struggles with drug addiction, a subject he once explicitly requested the media not report on.

Watching a 63-story Dubai hotel explode into flames on New Year’s Eve and smolder well into New Year’s Day, you might’ve been wondering the same thing I was: Why do so many of Dubai’s skyscrapers catch fire? And how terrifying is it that this city can’t seem to stop this from happening?

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office announced today that it has declined to file charges against Bill Cosby regarding two incidents of alleged rape that happened 43 years apart.

Another week, another pile of encyclopedic gems Wikipedia’s heartless editors decided to cull from the herd. Luckily for you, we’re not letting them off that easy.

In response to earlier coverage of Jeb Bush giving a turtle figurine to a child, Bush campaign communications director Tim Miller writes to Gawker:

Bristol Palin gave birth to her second child, a girl named Sailor Grace, on December 23, 2015. That’s what Sarah Palin wants you to believe, say truthers. Yes, with the birth of a new Palin baby comes the birth of a new conspiracy theory. In brief: Palin truthers claim Bristol is lying about when she gave birth in…

Former New Mexico governor and big cannabis CEO Gary Johnson is running for president as a Libertarian, he announced today. He’s not going to win, but he will probably make Rand Paul even less of a viable presidential contender than he already is.

Lately, the thought of opening my Macbook first thing in the morning flushes me with dread. There are many reasons for this to be so, but the one at the forefront of my mind when I rise is also the most primal: I know my Macbook will be miserably cold to the touch.

Jeb Bush found his spirit animal: a small, presumably inanimate turtle, which he carries around in his pocket and gives to children at campaign stops. Zacharie, 13, looks vaguely upset by his gift.

A terrible year for Chipotle just got worse, with the announcement of a federal criminal investigation into the Mexican chain’s norovirus-laced burrito death bars.

The two men technically at the center of the standoff at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon may have turned themselves in. But that doesn’t mean the angry mob of armed militia cosplayers holed up in an empty nature trail lobby is ready to give up the good fight. Instead, they’ve been running around Facebook asking…

Peter Liang, the NYPD officer who shot and killed Akai Gurley in a darkened housing project stairwell in 2014, is opting for a jury trial, DNAinfo is reporting. His trial is scheduled to begin January 21.

You may have heard some recent doomsaying about people fleeing Ben Carson’s presidential undertaking. To counter the doubters, Ben Carson has released this proof-of-life photo of his campaign, where he sits alone in a hotel room. Video chatting with New Hampshire schoolchildren. On a very tiny tablet.