Sports' best sibling rivalries: A slideshow
February 2, 2012, at 6:44 PMWhen family ties are tested in front of millions of fans, it makes for a really good show
Glitter bombing the GOP candidates: A video history
February 2, 2012, at 6:18 PMMitt Romney is the latest victim of the glitzy assault by gay activists, joining Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, who have also been stuck picking sparkles from their hair
Good day, bad day: February 2, 2012
February 2, 2012, at 4:27 PMWhile Facebook's IPO makes a grafitti artist a (likely) millionaire, hackers deface the Susan G. Komen website — and more winners and losers of today's news cycle
Trump endorses Romney: 'A blessing or a curse'?
February 2, 2012, at 4:25 PM
The bombastic Apprentice star tries to lend the GOP frontrunner a helping hand. Some pundits believe Mitt should have said, "Thanks, but no thanks"
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Will Egypt's soccer riot derail the revolution?
February 2, 2012, at 4:01 PMFirst fatal riots. Then a massive protest. Is this the justification for a crackdown that Egypt's ruling military has been looking for?
Could Amy Winehouse's death verdict be overturned?
February 2, 2012, at 3:42 PMThe coroner who ruled that the singer met "death by misadventure" was, it turns out, unqualified for her job. Will that nullify her findings?
Irony alert: Steve Jobs, vinyl music fan?
February 2, 2012, at 2:53 PMThe man who brought you the iPod didn't fire one up after kicking off his New Balances — he flipped on the record player instead
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Indiana's 'right to work' bill: A serious blow to Big Labor?
February 2, 2012, at 2:14 PMIndiana enacted the first "right-to-work" law in the nation's industrial North on Wednesday. What is this historic law and how much will it weaken unions?
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The child molesting glam rocker who almost profited from the Super Bowl
February 2, 2012, at 1:03 PMThe Patriots were allegedly planning to pay sex offender Gary Glitter royalties every time they scored a touchdown and played his song. Then a backlash erupted...
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Is Nevada's Tea Party too dysfunctional to trip up Mitt Romney?
February 2, 2012, at 12:07 PMThe insurgent movement made a big splash in 2010, but, in its current state of disarray, is failing to unite behind a non-Romney alternative
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Only in America
February 2, 2012, at 11:38 AMWhy touchscreens are a lot less nifty if you're blind — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation
Facebook's $5 billion IPO: By the numbers
February 2, 2012, at 11:28 AMEveryone from CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the graffiti artist who decorated Facebook's offices is about to get very rich off one of the biggest filings in tech history
13 CommentsWas Da Vinci's Mona Lisa a knock-off?
February 2, 2012, at 11:01 AM
Curators at Spain's Prado museum made a pretty remarkable discovery: A duplicate of the Mona Lisa that may have been painted before Leonardo Da Vinci's version
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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?
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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
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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?
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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
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Nominating Mitt Malaprop
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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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