Is Komen's flip-flop really a victory for Planned Parenthood?
Caving to pressure, the cancer-fighting charity apologizes for defunding Planned Parenthood. But that doesn't mean Planned Parenthood will get its Komen grants
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Weekend talking points: 7 top stories
February 3, 2012, at 6:00 PMWhat happened this week? Mitt Romney owned Florida. A cancer charity courted controversy. And Simon Cowell fired a longtime colleague
The week's best photojournalism
February 3, 2012, at 5:30 PMIn some of the week's most remarkable images, mini Gandhis unite, racing dogs mush, and Taiwanese people send wishes into the air
Pundits predict: Who will win the Super Bowl?
February 3, 2012, at 5:10 PMAs the Patriots and Giants gear up for a rematch of 2008's dramatic championship, sportswriters place their bets for Sunday's contest
Good day, bad day: February 3, 2012
February 3, 2012, at 5:03 PMHackers successfully foil the FBI, while Germany grapples with the disturbing rise of "animal brothels" — and more winners and losers of today's news cycle
Facebook's 'eye-popping' IPO: 5 surprises
February 3, 2012, at 4:44 PMA number of revelations are hidden among the data points in the social network's S-1 filing
Is Komen's flip-flop really a victory for Planned Parenthood?
February 3, 2012, at 4:05 PMCaving to pressure, the cancer-fighting charity apologizes for defunding Planned Parenthood. But that doesn't mean Planned Parenthood will get its Komen grants
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Only in America
February 3, 2012, at 3:47 PMA man rents his living room to Super Bowl fans for $1,600 — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation
'Give Me All Your Luvin': Madonna's 'ego-boosting' new video
February 3, 2012, at 2:55 PMNicki Minaj and M.I.A. join the Queen of Pop for her new football-themed video, strategically released days before her widely hyped Super Bowl performance
Why we'll never find another planet like Earth
February 3, 2012, at 1:56 PMIt doesn't matter how hard NASA looks, says Mark Fischetti at Scientific American. Until it identifies another planet with plants, Earth remains stubbornly unique
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1 boat, 145 water skiers: A record-breaking stunt
February 3, 2012, at 1:41 PMVery odd things have been known to happen off the coast of Tasmania. This is one
Komen's new cure?
February 3, 2012, at 1:40 PM
The breast cancer foundation's funding fail — and more in our collection of editorial cartoons
The dangers of quick thinking
February 3, 2012, at 1:38 PMOur intuition is often wrong, says Daniel Kahneman, especially when we're searching for patterns and causes
Europe's unrelenting deep freeze: By the numbers
February 3, 2012, at 1:31 PMHundreds have died as a wave of cold air from Siberia pushes temperatures in many towns to their lowest point in a century
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Daniel Radcliffe in The Woman in Black: 'Life after Harry Potter'?
February 3, 2012, at 12:58 PMAfter 10 years of playing the heroic wizard in the highest grossing franchise of all time, the 22-year-old actor attempts a risky cinematic stretch
Would Jesus raise taxes on the rich?
February 3, 2012, at 11:57 AMYes, He would, suggested Obama at Thursday's National Prayer Breakfast. Is the president playing politics with scripture?
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In some of the week's most remarkable images, mini Gandhis unite, racing dogs mush, and Taiwanese people send wishes into the air
A man rents his living room to Super Bowl fans for $1,600 — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation
Would Jesus tax the rich to help the poor?
- The last word: He said he was leaving. She ignored him.
- Why we'll never find another planet like Earth
- Is Komen's flip-flop really a victory for Planned Parenthood?
- Facebook's 'eye-popping' IPO: 5 surprises
- Europe's unrelenting deep freeze: By the numbers
- 'Give Me All Your Luvin': Madonna's 'ego-boosting' new video
- A drinking age for soda?
- Good day, bad day: February 3, 2012
- Dissecting the Mayan apocalypse
- Pundits predict: Who will win the Super Bowl?
- Good day, bad day: February 2, 2012
- 4 bizarre ways Apple guards its secrets
- Obama's mortgage plan: Who really benefits?
- The Milky Way's 500 million potentially habitable planets
- Why the Florida primary is so important: 4 reasons
- Facebook's mandatory Timeline switch: 4 talking points
- Was Da Vinci's Mona Lisa a knock-off?
- America's Super Bowl feast: By the numbers
- The girl barred from flying because her purse was considered a lethal weapon
- The gorilla that walks like a man
Robert Shrum
Nominating Mitt Malaprop
Romney has the GOP nomination wrapped up — but his serial verbal miscues will haunt him in November
Edward Morrissey
Obama is not the most polarizing president ever
Despite The Washington Post's rather preposterous claim, this president is not the nation's most divisive ever. Not even close
Paul Brandus
Obama's 5 biggest mistakes
The president's Republican opponents will surely spend 2012 hammering away at his failures. So what exactly are they?
Yunte Huang
Newt the goat
The struggling Republican was born in 1943, the Chinese year of the goat. And as Gingrich's wrongheaded policies prove, the zodiac readings don't lie
Daniel Larison
The West's inimical posturing on Iran
The EU approves a ban on Iranian oil imports, but what the West really needs is a complete reappraisal of its dealings with Tehran
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