The 6 best Super Bowl commercials: A video roundup
February 6, 2012, at 11:01 AMDid your friends talk over all the good commercials during Sunday's big game? Catch up on the top ads that have fans and critics buzzing
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'Rape tag': The 'disgusting' new schoolyard game
February 6, 2012, at 10:31 AMElementary students in Minnesota alarm parents and educators with a variation of freeze tag in which participants hump one another to be unfrozen
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Why Russia won't take a stand against Syria: 4 theories
February 6, 2012, at 9:53 AMMoscow and Beijing block a United Nations effort to condemn Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. What is Russia hoping to gain?
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Only in America
February 6, 2012, at 9:51 AMThe U.S. boots a British tourist after officials misunderstand his Twitter slang — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation
Why GOP voters are sitting out the primaries: 4 theories
February 6, 2012, at 9:32 AM
Republicans are supposedly fired up about making Obama a one-term president. So why are they so meh about choosing a candidate to face him?
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Could volcanoes erupt in California?
February 6, 2012, at 7:00 AMThe Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley isn't nearly as dormant as experts long believed — meaning it might just be "ripe for an eruption"
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The man who stole a glacier... to make cocktails?
February 6, 2012, at 6:30 AMChilean police say they have busted a ring of thieves who swiped ice from a remote Patagonian glacier to sell to trendy restaurants
Facebook's 'eye-popping' IPO: 5 surprises
February 3, 2012, at 5:44 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
Pundits predict: Who will win the Super Bowl?
February 3, 2012, at 3:10 PMAs the Patriots and Giants gear up for a rematch of 2008's dramatic championship, sportswriters place their bets for Sunday's contest
'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
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Good day, bad day: February 3, 2012
February 3, 2012, at 2:03 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
How much do we love our cured meats? A whole lot, judging by our consumption of bacon-flavored alcohol, toothpaste, and, now, milkshakes
A Madagascar hissing cockroach named after your valentine — and more in our collection of bizarrely elite consumer products
Should the Plan B emergency contraceptive pill be sold in vending machines?
- America's bacon obsession: 10 bacon-inspired products
- Can dessert for breakfast help you lose weight?
- 9 controversial Rick Santorum quotes
- The Steve Jobs FBI dossier: 5 surprises
- Lake Vostok: The Antarctic's 15-million-year-old time capsule
- The $26 billion foreclosure fraud settlement: By the numbers
- 'Rape tag': The 'disgusting' new schoolyard game
- Love bug
- The Romney revolt: Has the GOP base turned on him?
- Good day, bad day: February 9, 2012
- A bike-conquering boy's 'hilarious' motivational speech
- What's the McRib made of, anyway?
- Bad Opinion Generator
- The 10 most expensive artworks ever sold
- The world of dog walking: 5 surprising facts
- 6 strange objects found in people's stomachs
- The last word: Advice from 'America's worst mom'
- 7 reasons voters are souring on Mitt Romney
- Tuesday's 'stunning' Santorum sweep: 6 takeaways
- The problem with outsourcing the military
Dana Liebelson
The problem with outsourcing the military
U.S. defense contracting is a mess of lax oversight, poor accountability, thin competition, conflicts of interest, and sometimes, grave misconduct
Edward Morrissey
Obama's boneheaded health-care fight with Catholics
The president desperately needs to woo Catholic voters in key swing states. So why on Earth is he picking a culture-war fight with them?
Daniel Larison
The brewing proxy war in Syria
As Western governments clamor for Bashar al-Assad's ouster, they roar toward a dangerous conflict with Syria's Russian and Iranian patrons
Robert Shrum
Nominating Mitt Malaprop
Romney has the GOP nomination wrapped up — but his serial verbal miscues will haunt him in November
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?
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