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  • Vicious squirrels are attacking Rego Park residents, leaving one woman so badly scratched up that the snow in her front yard turned red with blood.
  • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked an effort for an immediate vote on $2,000 stimulus checks, saying that the Senate would "start a process" to consider bigger payments.
  • A new AP investigation found that child labor in Indonesia and Malaysia is used to supply palm oil used in Girl Scout cookies.
  • The oddest real estate listing yet: Someone claiming to be the owner of the United Order of Tents, the oldest Black woman fraternity in the United States, is selling the Brooklyn headquarters for $9.75 million.
  • Every major news outlet in America is trying to answer the question: what is going on in Georgia? The U.S. Senate runoff elections on January 5th will essentially determine the fate of President-elect Biden's agenda. This story, from the Times Magazine's Audra D.S. Burch, might be the best.
  • Ed Yong is back with a new article in The Atlantic about what our second year of COVID-19 might look like and how the United States might begin to recover psychologically.
  • 20-somethings rejoice: Aly & AJ have dropped a remix of Potential Breakup Song and I'm here to say that it slaps.
  • Here's a list of 10 romance novels to read after finishing the new Netflix series Bridgerton that are sure to fill the Duke of Hastings-shaped hole in your heart.
  • And finally, the robots will be learning Tik Tok dances to entertain humans as we're rounded up into work camps: