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May 2014
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- May 31st
- For those who have everything: An overly pricey razor
- Secretary of Defense Hagel's strong criticism draws Chinese ire
- Fabien Cousteau aims to break grandfather's 30-day record living undersea
- House featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off sells for $1.06 million
- Only in America: Telling kids to resist the 'competitive urge to win'
- As police arrest a third suspect in India gang rape case, a community mourns
- Blackhawks stay alive, Heat shut down Pacers in playoffs action
- Brain surgeon claims bike helmets are useless
- May 30th
- Report: Donald Sterling to sue NBA for $1 billion over Clippers sale
- Pooping dog forces flight to make emergency landing
- Tyra Banks is getting another daytime talk show
- Jay Carney resigns as White House press secretary
- Mitt Romney says Joni Ernst 'didn't just sit at home needle-pointing'
- Woman plays dead to survive vicious bear attack
- Mariah Carey rides the NYC subway in a floor-length gown
- Bear takes 'power nap' atop Saskatchewan electricity pole
- Best properties: Houses for modernisation
- Obama: Shinseki has resigned as Veterans Affairs Secretary
- The White House's chart of troop levels is wildly misleading
- World Cup tickets are selling for as low as $9
- The most brazen, outrageous art heists
- Earth is nearing 'sixth great extinction,' alarming survey says
- Mark Zuckerberg and wife pledge $120 million to San Francisco schools
- Phil Collins came out of retirement to sing some old hits with a middle school band
- In Europe, Google will scrub your embarrassing search results
- U.S.: Russia has pulled the 'majority' of its troops from the Ukraine border
- Ukraine's president-elect vows to punish pro-Russia rebels behind helicopter attack
- Boehner and Pelosi stand up for embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Shinseki
- It doesn't matter how much Edward Snowden complained to the NSA before leaking its secrets
- Time put Laverne Cox on its cover, breaking the transgender barrier
- Drugs and prostitutes to boost economy by £10bn
- Meriam Ibrahim freed by Sudanese court
- New NHS chief calls for small hospitals and better local care
- England upbeat ahead of Peru World Cup warm-up
- Elon Musk unveils the Dragon V2 spaceship, which could take astronauts into orbit by 2017
- Arsenal target Di Maria takes aim at Spurs
- Meet Whisper, the dog who jumps off cliffs and lives to bark about it
- FDA announces stricter regulations on sunlamps used for tanning
- 'Manhattanhenge' a dud, makes Sarah Jessica Parker sad
- Southwest fined for advertising nonexistent $59 fares
- For the first time in 50 years, National Spelling Bee ends in a tie
- Dozens charged with using dead deer in $5 million insurance scam
- CDC: U.S. measles cases hit 20-year high, will continue to rise
- Ex-Microsoft CEO likely to buy Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion
- The Wonder Years cast reunites, celebrates by taking a selfie
- May 29th
- National Zoo 'enriches' its animals with musical instruments
- House Democrats campaign chief Steve Israel: Shinseki 'should resign, in my view'
- Watch this compilation of MSNBC apologies
- Only in Las Vegas is bottle service delivered by drones
- China sentences 55 prisoners in front of 7,000-person stadium audience
- Pope Francis to pray with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on June 8
- Glenn Beck reveals family history of rape and abuse
- Fox News nabs a half-hour interview with Hillary Clinton
- Thomas Piketty responds to the haters
- Google admits its workforce is overwhelmingly white, male
- Watch this hilarious country-western ode to the U.S. World Cup soccer team
- E-cigarettes should be prescribed on the NHS, says health body
- The lazy directing of modern American cringe comedy, explained
- First quarter GDP shrank 1 percent
- Willis Tower's glass ledge cracks under tourists' feet
- It's a hard-knock life for Quvenzhané Wallis in the new Annie trailer
- A third of the world is overweight
- Students outraged over high-school yearbook's photoshopping for modesty
- This year's craziest primary race is also the Tea Party's last shot at proving its might
- Prankster hits Brad Pitt in the face at Maleficent premiere
- Washington Post slams Obama's West Point speech
- Two girls horrifically gang-raped, hanged in India
- Officials: Missing Malaysia flight 370 isn't where we were looking, after all
- Southern California's Sriracha war is finally over, and Sriracha won
- Egypt's Sisi wins the presidency easily, unsatisfactorily
- Volvo is developing electric roads
- Twitter: hundreds of children investigated over online abuse
- Hulu is in talks to resurrect Community for a 6th season
- Arsenal fly to Madrid on mission to sign Morata and Di Maria
- Some adult male athletes drink human breast milk
- Obama hasn't given up on Syria's rebels
- Microsoft's real-time Skype language translator could be its first real breakthrough in a decade
- May 28th
- Vulnerable Democratic senators call for Shinseki to leave the VA
- Bill de Blasio wants to lift NYC's 15-year ferret ban
- Apple officially buys Beats in $3 billion deal
- Boston Airport: Don't worry about that plane engulfed in flames, it's just a drill
- Chelsea Handler is leaving E! in August
- Glenn Beck made a disgusting sketch mocking campus rape
- This $55 Frappuccino is the most expensive Starbucks drink ever
- LeVar Burton wants a million dollars to bring Reading Rainbow back
- Obama's mom named his sister after Maya Angelou
- Watch the first trailer for This Is Where I Leave You starring Tina Fey, Jason Bateman
- Study: Eating comfort foods doesn't actually make you feel better
- Homeless high schooler becomes class valedictorian
- Did skyrocketing personal debt cause the Great Recession?
- Ethiopian volcano spews stunning, deadly blue gas
- Flooding threat prompts Brazil's World Cup host city to declare state of emergency
- Maya Angelou dead at 86
- John Kerry responds to Edward Snowden: 'Man up' and return home
- London housing market 'in reverse', say experts
- Ralph Hall's loss: What does ousting a 91-year-old vet say about us?
- Pakistani father arrested for publicly stoning pregnant daughter to death
- One Direction band members apparently caught smoking joint in leaked video
- Edward Snowden: I was 'trained as a spy'
- Dallas-area bar fires manager over terrible domestic-violence joke
- NHS to fund Weight Watchers classes to tackle obesity crisis
- Canadian teens find kidnapped infant and alleged fake-nurse abductor through Facebook
- Riot police evict hundreds of migrants from Calais camps
- It will cost almost $2 billion to rid Detroit of urban blight
- Driverless Google car will have no steering wheel
- Arsenal lead the chase for Angel di Maria, Giroud to stay
- Mysterious millionaire is leaving envelopes filled with cash all over San Francisco
- Journey's Steve Perry randomly, majestically comes out of retirement at an Eels show
- The world's future scientists shine at the White House Science Fair
- Google's new car has it all — except a steering wheel, brakes, and need for a driver
- Tea Party exacts its revenge on GOP establishment, David Dewhurst in Texas primaries
- Cliven Bundy no longer a Republican, embraces Independent American Party
- Texas Republicans just forcibly retired the oldest member of Congress
- Michelle Obama: Don't 'play politics with our kids' health'
- Bad cookie who embezzled almost $370,000 from Girl Scouts sentenced to prison
- 50 Cent throws unbelievably bad first pitch at Mets game
- May 27th
- Ed Helms gives commencement address at Cornell University
- Study: Ants process information 'more efficiently than Google'
- Quentin Tarantino is making that movie he swore he wasn't going to make
- Sales of televisions in Brazil are 'soaring' ahead of the World Cup
- Departing basketball team owner, ex-U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl mails $500 checks to arena workers
- Watch these cute manatees greet boaters in Florida
- Iranian judge summons Mark Zuckerberg to court over privacy concerns
- Joe the Plumber: 'Your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights'
- Pixar releases new details about its next film, Inside Out
- True Detective's second season will have 3 protagonists
- Kanye West shares some happy photos from the West-Kardashian nuptials
- Carrie Fisher was forced to lose 35 pounds before she could play Princess Leia again
- When speed limits can kill
- Kanye West previews new track in Adidas ad
- This senator wins the prize for the worst response to the VA scandal
- WMO: 'Time is running out' to address climate change
- Watch Novak Djokovic become best friends with a French Open ball boy
- Camera captures a 45-foot paper airplane's graceful flight — and crash
- Study: Going on a low-calorie diet might prevent the spread of breast cancer
- Bill Murray crashed a bachelor party and gave an amazing speech
- Hillary Clinton jokes she considered calling her memoir The Scrunchie Chronicles
- Hillary Clinton: I wish I could 'revisit certain choices'
- Most gluten-free eaters probably aren't allergic to gluten
- Experts: Malaysia Flight 370 ran out of fuel, crashed in southern Indian Ocean
- Ukraine's new leader hammers rebels while promising diplomacy
- Young woman 'devastated' after alleged Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger blames her for his bloodthirsty misogyny
- Pope Francis will meet with sex abuse victims
- TSB share boost: will they make a good investment?
- This D.C. suburb may soon be America's worst-named neighborhood
- Newly sworn-in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with Pakistani counterpart
- Liverpool can win title says Rodgers as he signs new deal
- Pope Francis compares abuse by priests to 'satanic mass'
- Arsenal chase Bakkali and plan raids for Marshall and Williams
- Dilapidated Philadelphia house will be put to rest with a funeral
- Watch baffled grade schoolers confront an old Apple II computer
- Rap Genius co-founder out after annotating alleged killer's manifesto
- Emma Watson shares her college graduation selfie on Twitter, just like a regular person
- Rare white tiger quintuplets make their delightful debut in Austria
- John Oliver's week off didn't stop him from predicting last week's news, two weeks ago
- A look back at the first — and only — woman to receive the Medal of Honor
- Genetics mainly to blame for onset of allergic reactions in adulthood
- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley spotted playing banjo on the street in Annapolis
- CIA chief in Afghanistan outed in error by White House
- May 26th
- Nigerian officials claim to know the location of the missing girls
- Here's proof that only passengers should hold their breath while passing through tunnels
- Soft serve ice cream was created by accident 80 years ago today
- Elliot Rodger could not be stopped because 'being sad is not a crime'
- Only in America: The vibrator ban
- You are legally obligated to observe a national moment of silence at 3 p.m.
- Isolated Ukrainian separatists 'shaken' after failing to take control of airport
- Depressed goat lifts hunger strike after reuniting with donkey friend
- 3 people reported missing after a massive mudslide hits in Colorado
- European ally Petro Poroshenko wins Ukrainian election
- Syria’s bloodthirsty Brits blamed for beheadings
- May 25th
- Mark Sanchez's butt fumble jersey may get blown into outer space
- Sen. Richard Blumenthal: 'End the insanity' and revive gun control
- The New York Post's Kanye West, Kim Kardashian wedding recap is wonderfully pithy, perfect
- Slash shredded the National Anthem before the Kings-Blackhawks game and it was supremely boring
- 'Chocolate King' expected to win Ukrainian presidential election
- Pope Francis to mediate 'unacceptable' Palestinian-Israeli stalemate
- Drive-by killer vowed ‘revenge’ against ‘stuck-up’ women
- Week in pictures: 18 - 24 May
- May 24th
- French Open competitors show off their moves with surprisingly impressive dance-off
- For those who have everything: The most exclusive album ever
- Economist Paul Krugman responds to questions about Thomas Piketty's data
- It's official: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West said 'I do'
- Actress Leila Hatami apologizes for Cannes kiss as Iranian students call for her to be flogged
- Oregon police 'detain' adorable, orphaned bear cub overnight
- Only in America: The school too sensitive to honor its honors students
- President Obama alludes to VA scandal in weekly address
- May 23rd
- Netflix is in talks for a Wet Hot American Summer prequel series
- Professor trapped in Himalayan crevasse records his epic escape
- Trespassing teens hop fence to take polar bear selfies, enrage Toronto Zoo
- A.O. Scott's scathing Blended takedown is infinitely more entertaining than Blended
- Morgan Freeman sounds strangely pubescent on helium
- Serious doubts emerge about data used in Thomas Piketty's Capital
- USPS honors Harvey Milk with new stamp collection
- The new Doctor Who debuts in August
- Stephen King never cashed the $5,000 check he got for the Shawshank Redemption movie rights
- Quentin Tarantino wants to add 90 minutes of new footage to Django Unchained
- Does light pollution cause cancer?
- Woman miraculously delivers baby boy while in a coma
- Pope Francis won't join Facebook because of profane comments
- Innovation of the week: A faux liver
- Star Wars spin-off 'will be Han Solo origins story'
- $1 million will buy you a space voyage with Leonardo DiCaprio
- Best Properties: Fantastic modern houses
- Ex-CNN staffer claims his 'flamboyant' wardrobe got him fired
- Everything you need to know about Julian Castro, the Democratic Party's great Latino hope
- 47 charming facts about children's books
- Two 12-year-olds face charges for allegedly selling sleeping pills at school
- Bees for development
- Report: America is worried that Boko Haram is planning to attack U.S. interests in Africa
- Stephen Colbert mocks Marco Rubio's hazy pot-smoking evasions
- There's a promising new malaria vaccine made from the blood of children
- The first standalone Star Wars movie is coming in December 2016
- The Daily Show's Jason Jones makes his hilarious peace with India's democracy
- Malaria vaccine: immunity in Tanzanian children raise hopes
- Jon Stewart cuttingly reminds the GOP of its own terrible VA track record
- Tennessee dusts off its electric chair
- Chelsea to sell Luiz for £50m; Man U want £15m for Fellaini
- This video of a man catching a falling baby might be China's 'Evolution of Dance'
- Will Ferrell and doppelgänger Chad Smith settle their rivalry with a delightful Tonight Show drum-off
- When do we get the outtakes from Obama's stroll through Washington?
- Watch Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig's ludicrously good catch
- May 22nd
- Landon Donovan will not be at the 2014 World Cup
- Did the Tea Party just beat the IRS?
- Charlie Sheen went on a long, weird Twitter rant about Rihanna
- Watch state unemployment explode, then recede over the last decade
- Wyoming may bring back the firing squad to kill its one death row inmate
- Abercrombie is getting rid of its built models, nightclub vibe to lure back shoppers
- Forecasters predict a slow and quiet hurricane season
- X-Men-inspired magnet shoes let this guy clomp around upside-down on his ceiling
- Spanish bullfighting festival stopped after bulls start winning
- Billionaire mega-donors are already blowing through the old caps on campaign spending
- Man who saved abandoned newborn reunites with her at her graduation
- Big Hero 6: Watch the goofy trailer for Disney's first animated Marvel movie
- Russia lashes out at Prince Charles' alleged Hitler-Putin comparison
- Pope Francis is jumping into the Mideast peace mess
- High schooler nails perfect 'Billie Jean' rendition
- NFL: Redskins name presents 'positive and respectful image'
- Will Angelina Jolie run for office?
- Billionaire Tom Steyer launches $100 million assault on GOP climate 'deniers'
- CNN reporter: Plane coverage bought us time to report VA story
- Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, others reunite to take a selfie
- Nick Collison's impossible tip-in with 0.1 seconds left was the only good thing the Thunder did all night
- The VA is nothing like ObamaCare
- Nearly half of Americans don't care who's in Congress, poll shows
- Allegedly intoxicated Fox News anchor arrested at airport bar
- 31 killed in terrorist attack in northwest China
- Thailand's army ousts government in coup
- John Inverdale loses Wimbledon job after 'sexist' remarks
- Edward Snowden now has his own comic book. Here's a preview.
- Narendra Modi wants to use solar energy to bring electricity to every home in India
- Luis Suarez could be out of World Cup with knee injury
- The Daily Show bittersweetly finds something worse than Fox News: India's news media
- Kidnap victim released after decade in captivity
- Balotelli abused by racist Italy fans, and has his say on Toure
- California woman says she was kept hostage for 10 years by her mom's ex-boyfriend
- Arsenal and Man Utd on alert as Fabregas hints at Barca exit
- Teachers probably shouldn't seek dating advice from 4th graders
- Miley Cyrus told a drunk Jennifer Lawrence to 'get it together' after the Oscars
- U.S. troops have been deployed near Nigeria to help #BringBackOurGirls
- May 21st
- House Republican has held more hearings on aliens than global warming
- Mexican players banned from having sex, drinking booze during World Cup
- This zoo offers visitors python massages
- Life Itself: Watch the Roger Ebert documentary's touching first trailer
- Florida is the worst place to live if you're a pedestrian
- Boston flies smallest Habs flag possible to honor hockey bet
- Bill Hader signs deal with HBO to create his own show
- 'Blood-curdling' screams heard from workers trapped in capsized $10 million yacht
- Same-sex marriage bans are on the ropes in all but two states
- Magic in the Moonlight: Watch the whimsical trailer for Woody Allen's latest romantic comedy
- Truck carrying millions of bees overturns, forces Delaware to activate 'bee swarm removal procedure'
- Feds propose new rules to end deceptive airline fees
- Hero mama bear rescues baby cub from Canadian highway
- Man of Steel sequel finally gets an official title
- Democrats' secret 2014 weapon: Expanding Social Security?
- FBI considers relaxing pot rules after it can't find qualified candidates
- Mitt Romney to GOP: You love me, you really love me
- NBA accuses L.A. Clippers of lying and 'destroying evidence' to protect Donald Sterling
- Mafia parasite makes bees dig their own graves
- eBay hack 'one of the biggest data breaches in history'
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Charlie Day's hilarious commencement address proves graduation speeches aren't useless
- Levi's CEO: Don't wash your jeans
- eBay tells customers to change passwords following hacking
- What if the moon orbited at the same distance as the International Space Station?
- Amazon Prime members: You can start binge-watching HBO shows right now
- Same-sex marriage is having the best week ever
- Watch the first video from the set of Star Wars: Episode VII
- 'Hero cat' throws out the first pitch in the laziest way possible
- Gambling winning streaks are real, and shockingly quantifiable, researchers suggest
- This is a perfect example of how the government wastes billions of dollars
- Where is the happiest place to live in Great Britain?
- 4th graders arrested for allegedly putting rat poison in teacher's water
- Mosquitoes: malaria species gathering in Britain's gardens
- China, Russia agree to $400 billion gas deal
- Stephen Colbert figures out that Hillary Clinton is Solange to the GOP's Jay Z
- Brazilian police strike weeks before World Cup begins
- France's 2,000 new trains are too fat for its stations
- Jon Stewart brightly mocks the NRA for opposing freedom of gun choice
- The Daily Show playfully examines some ways humans might go extinct
- Here's the song Led Zeppelin is accused of plagiarizing in 'Stairway to Heaven'
- Tuesday night's primary scorecard: GOP establishment 4, Tea Party 0
- Prince Charles 'compares Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler'
- Liverpool to sign £25m Lallana before World Cup starts
- Which group will freak out first about Minnesota's antibacterial soap ban?
- Sarah Silverman doesn't like being the textbook definition of 'offensive'
- Obama administration is releasing memo authorizing drone strikes on U.S. citizens
- Cleveland Cavs bizarrely win the NBA draft lottery for 3rd time in 4 years
- May 20th
- Mitch McConnell easily wins GOP Senate primary in Kentucky
- Iran arrests six young people for posting 'Happy' video
- Count the painfully awkward hugs and high fives as Minnesota officials celebrate hosting the Super Bowl
- Miley Cyrus' mid-song selfie was the least offensive part of her dismal Smiths cover
- Is Mike Pence too much like George W. Bush for conservatives?
- Louis C.K. is kind of conservative
- Indiana man avoids prison sentence after being convicted of drugging, raping his wife and filming it
- Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. wrote 2 books in prison
- 2 Colorado women injured in vicious moose attack
- Solar panel shipments to soar 30 percent in 2014
- Soccer legend Pele blasts Brazil's World Cup preps as a 'disgrace'
- Our favorite industries to hate are internet and cable providers, poll shows
- Disney announces Frozen on ice — and you can already buy tickets
- $60 million Texas high school football stadium deemed 'not safe' for use
- Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak calls climate-change believers 'unpatriotic racists'
- Conservative firebrand Dinesh D'Souza pleads guilty in campaign finance violation
- New York City's heroin epidemic spikes to 23-year high
- This beautiful San Antonio Spurs tribute video proves the team isn't boring
- Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill made a ridiculously raunchy 21 Jump Street wager
- Malaysia to finally release satellite data from missing flight
- Chipotle: Please don't wield guns while noshing on our burritos
- This ancient arthropod blood has saved your life
- McDonald's introduces nightmarish new Happy Meal mascot
- Cop jumps off 30-foot bridge to avoid an allegedly drunk driver
- Do mobile phones pose risk to children's brains?
- 26 women are asking Pope Francis for celibacy waivers for their priest boyfriends
- Russia's 'Fertilizer King' hit with world's 'most expensive' divorce settlement
- Ryan Giggs retires - the Man Utd legend in pictures
- Jimmy Fallon and Terry Crews perform the world's first — and hopefully last — 'nip sync duet'
- Jon Stewart angrily slams the Obama administration over VA hospital malfeasance
- The Daily Show explores India's 'adorable,' apparently superior democracy
- Paul McCartney cancels whole tour of Japan due to illness
- Kim Jong-un didn't have his ex-girlfriend machine-gunned to death
- Pancreatic cancer will be the second deadliest cancer by 2030
- Yaya Toure may quit Man City over birthday party 'snub'
- Mother charged with injuring a grade-school boy may have confronted the wrong bully
- Watch a World War II vet, 90, receive his college diploma
- Study: Married couples have similar DNA when they wed
- It took only minutes for Oregon's 23 first married gay couples to start getting hitched
- Burger King's odd new tagline embraces individuality
- Local New Hampshire police official resigns after shouting racial epithet about Obama
- Credit Suisse pleads guilty to criminal charge, will pay $2.6 billion in penalties
- Army declares martial law in Thailand, denies staging coup
- May 19th
- Americans are lying about how religious they are
- Storm chasers capture unbelievable-looking supercell thunderstorm on camera
- Pallbearers dress as superheroes at heartbreaking funeral for 5-year-old boy
- Why is there an elephant casually chilling on a Florida beach?
- The plummeting U.S. prison admission rate, in one stunning chart
- Jim Webb for president? It's not crazy
- NASA: We don't need Russia to keep space station operational
- Marco Rubio: There's 'no responsible way' to smoke pot
- Ex-student accused of making graduation bomb threat — so her family wouldn't know she dropped out
- E. coli scare causes recall of 1.8 million pounds of ground beef
- FBI director says terror threat greater than he assumed
- 'Flattered' Joe Biden turns down Connecticut teen's prom invite
- Celebrate the Rubik's cube's 40th anniversary with a few fun facts
- Americans would much rather have a philandering president than an atheist one
- Facebook reportedly building a Snapchat-killer called Slingshot
- Macklemore 'accidentally' dresses as hook-nosed Jewish caricature during secret show
- The Detroit Tigers looked wonderfully ridiculous decked out in Tiger-striped Zubaz
- Bobby Jindal wants to steal Ted Cruz's ObamaCare thunder
- Man sues New York, thousands of people for more money than exists on Earth
- Turkish PM's adviser goes on sick leave for injury to his leg — after kicking a protester
- 9/11 truthers plan subversive protest of terror attack museum
- Britain shows how real socialized medicine works
- 'Dark, brown, and stinking:' Olympians describe the dump that is Rio's water
- TV Baftas 2014: Broadchurch is big winner but BBC misses out
- Putin says Russia has ordered withdrawal of troops from Ukraine border — again
- EPA reveals America's top 100 users of renewable energy
- South Korea's president vows to disband the Coast Guard over botched ferry rescue
- Food should be regulated like tobacco, campaigners say
- Arsenal eye keeper Nardi as Sagna heads to Man City
- Studies find that dogs sniff out cancer with incredible accuracy
- 'Selfie,' 'hashtag,' and 'fracking' among the latest words added to dictionary
- Vintage video game geeks might be traumatized by John Oliver's same-sex marriage celebration
- Brad Pitt's New Orleans beer-toss to Matthew McConaughey is disappointingly meh
- At Cannes, director pitches a movie about the missing Malaysia Airlines plane
- John Oliver turns GM's scandalous defective-cars memos into a spot-on TV ad
- Michael Jackson (in hologram form) performed at the Billboard Music Awards
- AT&T, DirecTV to merge in $49 billion deal
- With latest price increase, tickets to Disneyland inching close to $100
- May 18th
- RNC chairman: Hillary Clinton's 'health and age is fair game'
- Watch this precociously slick boy impress some girls with the old foul ball switcheroo
- Fox News panel destroys Karl Rove for insisting Hillary Clinton suffered a 'traumatic brain injury'
- Jay Z, Solange explain their elevator brawl on SNL
- Bus dangles over highway after smashing through guardrail outside Boston
- Switzerland's minimum wage may soon be three times as high as America's
- Week in pictures: 11 - 17 May
- May 17th
- California Chrome wins big again at the 139th Preakness Stakes
- New Orleans Saints surprise paralyzed former Tulane player with a contract on his graduation day
- George W. Bush announces former 'First Dog' Miss Beazley has died
- For those who have everything: The guitar doorbell
- Pitbull's World Cup music video features whistles, Jennifer Lopez, and a giant inflatable soccer ball
- Players, fans give hockey legend Teemu Selanne incredibly touching tribute after his final game
- The Washington Nationals' Jayson Werth makes surprisingly perfect Mean Girls reference in post-game interview
- Scientists reveal a new contender for title of 'biggest dinosaur ever'
- Only in America: Leering dads at a high school prom
- Thousands flee as more deadly flooding threatens the Balkans
- Ukip is 'not a racist party' says Conservative minister
- May 16th
- Republicans block path to citizenship for military veterans
- The case for giving chickens virtual reality
- Porn is a 'public health issue,' claims faith-based panel
- Watch Alex Trebek rap his way through the hip-hop hits of the '90s
- Watch a Russian rocket explode shortly after take-off
- Watch the stunning first trailer for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar
- New York cab driver suspended for wearing a Nazi swastika
- Hillary Clinton on The View: 'I am running — around the park'
- News anchor learns of her friend's death as she delivers the breaking news on live TV
- Best properties: Lovely properties with income potential
- Innovation of the week: The 3D lipstick printer
- Microsoft announces new Halo video game, Steven Spielberg-produced TV show
- Barbara Walters is utterly infectious during one of her first on-air appearances in 1961
- What would an actual Godzilla attack look like?
- What U.S. cities will look like if sea levels rise 12 feet
- Barbara Walters corrals impressive group of female journalists to celebrate her retirement
- Michelle Obama is finally starting to talk about race
- Ryan Gosling enjoys knitting, and 47 other surprising celebrity hobbies
- How The New York Times is like Saved by the Bell
- Messi signs new Barcelona deal to steal Ronaldo's cash crown
- FAA, NTSB probe close call between 2 planes over Hawaii
- Japanese beverage company unveils plan to put first ad on the moon
- Scientists 'suppressed' paper over climate sceptic argument
- India's Narendra Modi won a landslide victory
- Jon Stewart takes a valiant stab at explaining India's massive national election
- Almost 40 percent of all U.S. copyright lawsuits for 2014 have been filed by one porn company
- Purdue's victorious Rube Goldberg machine is actually kind of terrifying
- Lists of alleged 'sexual assault violators' appearing across Columbia University
- Arsenal lead race to sign Mario Balotelli, Sagna off to City
- Is Jupiter's Great Red Spot becoming just a red dot?
- Relive the '90s with a new Arsenio Hall-Shannen Doherty interview about 90210
- Jack Nicholson trades the Lakers for... the Clippers?
- Jennifer Lawrence tests her acting skills by lying to Jimmy Fallon
- 34-year-old woman posed as teen, spent the past year as a high school sophomore
- Pregnant Sudanese woman sentenced to death for not recanting her Christian faith
- DNA from 12,000-year-old skull sheds light on the first Americans
- Clueless star possibly headed to Fox News
- May 15th
- Local New Hampshire police official defends using racial epithet against Obama
- N.C. woman calls 911 on botched Subway order
- It takes as little as 380 milliseconds to tell if a woman is pretty enough to be elected to office, study says
- Behold: Skylock, the solar-powered, Wi-Fi–equipped bike lock
- Can you now text your emergency to 911?
- This is what today's FCC newly proposed internet traffic rules mean
- Watch the extended trailer for the CW's The Flash
- Leather-clad, semi-toothless biker steals the show in Idaho gubernatorial debate
- Is country music dead?
- Watch this plane crash saved by a parachute
- Watch the first teaser for Disney's live-action Cinderella remake
- 9/11 ceremony won't taunt Chris Christie with 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' after all
- Rubio: It's 'the left' that denies 'scientific consensus' — on abortion
- Rush Limbaugh wins a Children's Choice Book Award
- Aaron Hernandez indicted for two more murders
- It sucks to be a Boston sports fan this morning
- New Twin Peaks box set will include 90 minutes of never-before-seen footage
- Thousands of fast-food workers are striking in protest of low wages
- Chipotle just took its high-class fast-food ethos too far
- Help Kim Jong-un incinerate capitalist scum in this arcade-style video game
- Does U.S. spending on science, space, and technology cause people to commit suicide?
- There's a fire-breathing robot dinosaur in the new Transformers trailer
- Saudi Arabian man reportedly divorces wife for driving
- iPhone 6 lifts Apple to biggest profit of any company in history
- Los Angeles neighborhood submerged 'knee high' after broken pipe gushes oil
- Turkish PM's aide caught on camera kicking mine protester
- Man United to unveil Van Gaal and assistant Giggs next week
- Stephen Colbert disagrees with Pope 'Moonbeam' Francis on alien baptism
- Jon Stewart unironically shames the media for its Solange-Jay Z fight obsession
- Jack Wilshere ready for the big time after Paul Scholes blast
- Liverpool eye Cavani as cover if Suarez quits for Real Madrid
- The Postal Service is trying to deliver a letter nearly 70 years after it was mailed
- In medical trial, a measles vaccine 'blitzkrieg' obliterated cancer
- Casey Kasem has been found, somewhere near Seattle
- Tina Fey explains why Ellen will be the first woman to break into late-night TV
- Fires in San Diego County destroy homes, force evacuations
- Joran van der Sloot to marry in prison, become father
- Alec Baldwin's biking arrest is much better in Taiwanese animation
- High school senior unseats incumbent West Virginia state legislator
- Dave Grohl to host HBO show on recording studios
- High-risk groups urged to take pill to prevent HIV infection
- May 14th
- Was Jill Abramson fired because she questioned the gender pay gap at The New York Times?
- The military wants to teach robots morality
- Brazilian police are going to a wear a terrifying 'Robocop' suit during the World Cup
- Man looking for love on Facebook rejected 5,000 times
- Bill Clinton gave the perfect response to people claiming Hillary has brain damage
- New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson steps down
- Heroic cat saves child from dog mauling
- Rihanna donates $25,000 to LAPD after selfie mishap
- David Ortiz broke up a no-hitter twice in the same game
- Ottawa is using drones to get rid of poisonous goose poop
- The trailer for ABC's Selfie is even worse than we imagined
- Nicotine poisoning is sickening child laborers on American tobacco farms
- British journalist admits to hacking into Kate Middleton's phone 155 times
- In April, eastern Russia and Mongolia got roasted like a Christmas turkey
- Retired officers urge U.S. military to plan for climate change
- Watch 60 years of Godzilla destroying all monsters
- Stephen Sutton: 'inspirational' teen cancer campaigner dies
- Florida couple feeds homeless, receives jail threat
- 1 billion people are anti-Semitic, survey finds
- Kevin Durant literally couldn't watch the tense finish to last night's Thunder-Clippers game
- China is burning nearly as much coal as the rest of the world combined
- This is what the world's largest $16 million yellow diamond looks like
- Faithful service dog walks in deceased owner's place during graduation
- CBS passes on How I Met Your Dad
- Two and a Half Men is finally ending
- Rand Paul completes his full 180 on voter ID
- Survey: People are more satisfied with airlines than ever before
- Scientists discover world's oldest sperm — and it's huge
- Judge orders Oscar Pistorius to undergo psych evaluation
- Brazil coach Scolari faces tax probe on eve of World Cup
- Stephen Colbert chooses between Pope Francis' socialism and Fox News capitalism
- Jon Stewart turns the tables on Karl Rove for his Hillary Clinton conspiracy
- Carl Reiner was writing about large derrières long before Sir Mix-a-Lot
- Jon Stewart mocks Democrat Harry Reid's poor oratory, Koch hypocrisy
- The UN's Syria envoy quit amid stalemate, chemical weapon use claims
- Turkish coal mine explosion leaves 200 dead and 80 injured
- Arsenal keen on Angel di Maria and Javier Mascherano
- Couple says they were served marijuana-laced McDoubles from McDonald's
- Anchor berates viewers who complained about tornado coverage interrupting TV show
- Study: Medications could be used for alcoholism, but aren't being prescribed
- Seth Meyers debuts the first of Late Night's rejected SNL skits, 'Jennjamin Franklin'
- George R.R. Martin explains why he writes his massive books on a DOS machine
- Searching for Sugar Man director Malik Bendjelloul is dead at 36
- New study says college football players have detectable brain changes
- Turkish coal mine explosion kills at least 200
- Judge rules Idaho's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional
- Proposed Iraq law would allow girls to marry at 9
- May 13th
- Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint filmed some brand-new Harry Potter scenes
- NYC storefront ditches mannequin with protruding ribs
- How Google results could rig an election
- Russia moves to prohibit the U.S. from using the ISS in 2020
- The stunning, mature work of photojournalist Camille Lepage, who was killed in the Central African Republic
- Watch a Dallas sports anchor brilliantly slam Michael Sam's haters
- Rand Paul is his own worst enemy
- Clay Aiken wins Democratic congressional nomination in North Carolina
- 104-year-old man sets European record as oldest person to complete 100-meter 'dash'
- Fierce winds blow bouncy house 50 feet into the sky, seriously injuring 2 kids
- Harvard's Satanic black mass canceled for obvious reasons
- More flights than ever before were canceled last winter
- Study: (Medical) marijuana is not a gateway drug
- Here is your first glimpse of Ben Affleck as Batman
- Poll: Third-party protest vote goes up to 11 in North Carolina Senate race
- Paint fumes can mess up your brain for decades
- Alec Baldwin arrested for biking illegally without I.D.
- Nebraska is latest battleground for mainline GOP vs. Tea Party primaries
- This brutally honest scene from last night's Louie tackles what it's like to be a fat girl
- Michael Buble sings 'Let It Go' with a full string orchestra
- Mike Huckabee: Judge who nixed Arkansas gay marriage ban should lose his job
- Google must delete those embarrassing links about you, says European court
- United Nations is hosting a four-day summit about 'killer robots'
- Ten of the best Nasa Instagram photos
- M. Night Shyamalan's new TV show looks like Twin Peaks meets The X-Files
- Flintoff set for T20 return after rekindling his love of cricket
- Karl Rove suggests Hillary Clinton has brain damage
- A treasure trove of Jackie Kennedy's secrets has been discovered
- Santa Maria: has Christopher Columbus's ship been found?
- Brazilian police instruct World Cup visitors not to 'scream' if robbed
- There's a bright side to the Highway Trust Fund's near depletion
- Stephen Colbert gleefully tackles Fox News' Hillary Clinton-Monica Lewinsky conspiracies
- Jon Stewart serves up a brutal critique of Boko Haram, with a side of Rush Limbaugh flambé
- 17 chemicals could be linked to breast cancer, researchers say
- Arsenal face summer transfer woe as Draxler says 'no'
- Studies show teens just aren't reading the way they once did
- Man claims in new book that his dad was the Zodiac Killer
- Explorer believes he has found the remains of Columbus' Santa Maria
- Donald Sterling says Magic Johnson should be 'ashamed' of his HIV, asks Anderson Cooper about liking a girl
- Deep sea explorer Nereus lost in the ocean, likely imploded
- Legendary Top 40 DJ Casey Kasem is missing
- May 12th
- Burglars steal commemorative spoons from James Garfield's tomb
- Red wine's magic ingredient might not help you live longer after all
- Kevin Bacon's brother stars in clever turkey bacon ad
- Twitter rolls out 'mute' feature
- U.S. Navy invents a covert e-reader for sailors
- John Boehner: 'I'm living on borrowed time'
- Americans celebrate the re-opening of the Washington Monument
- America's taste for good beer is making hops way more expensive
- The Kennedy Center is hosting a concert headlined by YouTube stars
- Liberal pundit: Chris Stevens wasn't 'murdered' in Benghazi
- ABC is covering all marriage licenses in NYC today in honor of Modern Family
- Unemployment and weight gain piling up into vicious cycle
- The collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet has scientists extremely worried
- Sriracha maker: Attempts to regulate my factory 'almost the same' as communism
- Report: Beyonce's sister attacked Jay Z in an elevator
- World Cup audit finds $275 million in alleged graft from a single stadium project
- Pippa Middleton fired as newspaper columnist after 6 months
- ESPN on Michael Sam's kiss: We weren't making a 'political statement'
- WHO: Alcohol kills 1 person every 10 seconds
- Care cost limit of £72,000 'won't help most pensioners'
- Obama may not cost Democrats the Senate
- Shaw, Barkley and Sterling in England World Cup squad
- Why we will never run out of aluminum
- Why Donald Sterling said it
- Russian politician claims bearded lady's Eurovision win marks the 'end of Europe'
- How electric currents can help sleepers control their dreams
- Pro-Russia Ukraine separatists appear to win probably symbolic secession vote
- Interest rate rise predicted as CBI warns on house prices
- 4 reasons it was a pretty amazing weekend for LGBT rights
- Man Utd and Liverpool circle Saints stars Shaw and Lallana
- In Uruguay, marijuana is good, tobacco is bad
- Cocaine is making its way into the British water supply
- Russia's Eurovision secret is out: voters backed Conchita
- Astronomers: We found the sun's far-flung solar sibling
- John Oliver and Bill Nye show the right way to debate climate science
- Rare twins born holding hands, just in time for Mother's Day
- Chuck Hagel is open to reviewing military's ban on transgender people
- According to its founder, we're all celebrating Mother's Day wrong
- May 11th
- Only in America: Trying to marry your computer
- Iranian leader blasts America's 'stupid and idiotic' stance on missile proliferation
- How a strip club unwittingly helped develop the idea of net neutrality
- Oops! Canadian politician's subway photo-op broken up by police
- Parks and Recreation is ending after next season
- Poll: Spending time with mom is the best Mother's Day gift
- SNL's Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama spar over who is the better mom
- Marco Rubio: Humans aren't causing climate change
- Ukrainians head to the polls in disputed referendum
- Michael Sam celebrates historic NFL draft with a kiss from his boyfriend
- Can you name your MEP?
- Week in pictures: 4 - 10 May
- May 10th
- Florida man wants to open town council meeting with satanist prayer
- For those who have everything: The CasaBubble
- Vladimir Putin shows off decidedly mediocre hockey skills
- Unidentified 9/11 remains returned to site in somber ceremony
- China outlines plans for outrageously grand and incredibly unlikely undersea train to the U.S.
- North Korea threatens new nuclear tests
- Republican Rep. John Mica rolls into pot hearing with fake joint
- Arkansas judge strikes down state's gay marriage ban
- Gary Barlow should keep OBE despite tax scheme - Cameron
- Meet Larry Wilmore, Stephen Colbert's post-Jon Stewart replacement
- May 9th
- Tom Cotton hits Democrats for 'fake outrage' over Benghazi
- Noah, Sophia are 2013's top baby names
- Owners of sunken South Korean ferry linked to mass cult suicide
- This tear-inducing video may actually sell you on Google Glass
- The big problem with Apple's reported $3.2 billion Beats Audio acquisition
- Report: With Rio reeling, IOC mulls London as 2016 Olympic back-up
- NBC renews Hannibal for third season
- Turkish dating game show contestant reveals murders of wife, lover — promises it won't happen again
- Celebrate Mother's Day with this Ode to Mom playlist
- ABC orders a comedy called Selfie
- Innovation of the week: The unloseable sunglasses
- Fired HGTV hosts say the network was 'bullied' into canceling their show
- Best Properties: Picturesque homes in conservation areas
- Wendy's is winning the fast-food wars by copying Chipotle
- This is how Amazon bullies companies into submission
- A universe death clock, built in Minecraft
- Netflix hikes prices by $1 for new subscribers
- Mousetrap Theatre Projects
- ABC renews Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., picks up another Marvel show
- Oklahoma delays all executions for 6 months
- Mitt Romney: Raise the minimum wage
- Conservatives hit Hillary Clinton on Nigerian schoolgirl abductions
- Eurovision audience loudly boos Russians for making it to the finals
- Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, 77, begins mandated community service at a retirement home
- Jon Stewart mirthfully chronicles New York State's amazing yogurt debate
- The House approves the GOP's new Benghazi inquiry
- The Daily Show's 'Deranged Millionaire' wants to buy the L.A. Clippers, too
- MPs criticise HMRC plan to raid bank accounts
- Chiefs hit back at plans to strip police of anti-terror powers
- Vibram USA must pay millions to customers who purchased FiveFingers shoes
- Man Utd and Chelsea frustrated in race to sign for Edinson Cavani
- Food crops will take a hit as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise
- 'Cannibal Cop' is now a cook in prison
- Jimmy Fallon unearths some cringeworthy 'MomQuotes' for Mother's Day
- James Franco reveals he doesn't get (or care) how the internet works
- Snapchat settles with the FTC over privacy issues
- Apple close to buying Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion
- Clueless cast reunion has everyone totally buggin'
- May 8th
- The GOP's civil war, in one chart
- Study reveals how polar bears can be really fat, but totally healthy
- Romney-endorsed candidate Wehby is having a bizarre month
- More and more people are biking to work
- California city wants to make bullying a misdemeanor
- Here's what the U.S. Air Force would do in the event of a Godzilla attack
- Burger King enters breakfast war in laziest way possible
- The Tea Party is more unpopular than ever
- The makers of Wonder Bread are the most Republican company in the U.S.
- Anna Wintour and Sarah Jessica Parker critique men's Met Gala fashion
- Harry Reid's Koch brothers hypocrisy
- Photos of exotic animals visiting the doctor
- Will any NFL team draft Michael Sam?
- Judge releases Bernie Tiede, whose small-town murder inspired Richard Linklater's movie, Bernie
- 77 percent of Ukrainians oppose secession
- Watch the chilling Dawn of the Planet of the Apes trailer
- Behold: A terrifying octopus that can open jars from the inside
- University of Georgia students post ad on Craigslist asking to be run over to avoid finals
- Poachers are destroying the California redwoods for contraband coffee tables
- Cannabis credit co-ops: Colorado approves weed-only banking system
- North Korea calls Obama a 'crossbreed' in viciously racist attack
- Nintendo defends decision to block gay characters
- WHO: New Delhi has the world's most polluted air
- Cable news pundits destroy studio in on-air brawl
- Hundreds reported dead after Boko Haram attacks Nigerian village
- The Daily Show finds a West Virginia Republican in favor of government regulation
- Jon Stewart mocks the Clintons, the Bushes, Rick Perry, and the 2016-obsessed media
- Louis van Gaal bares his teeth as media pursue Man Utd heir
- Man Utd lose out to Spanish gold in football’s rich list
- Vanity Fair landed its Monica Lewinsky essay the old fashioned way
- Barclays: thousands more job losses as 'bad bank' unveiled
- This new computer model of the universe delivers amazing results
- Javi Martinez in Arsenal's sights as Wenger weighs £100m transfer purse
- On his 90th birthday, man sentenced to prison for drug trafficking
- Erectile dysfunction drug could help boys with muscular dystrophy
- Bill Cosby explains the difference between having kids and grandkids
- Jimmy Kimmel prepares for Mother's Day by reminding us that our moms have secrets, too
- Malala Yousafzai tells kidnapped Nigerian girls to 'never lose hope'
- Rare 'firenado' caught on camera in Missouri
- Fast food workers from around the world set to strike on May 15
- House votes to hold former IRS official in contempt
- May 7th
- Hillary Clinton: No reason for more Benghazi hearings
- California high schoolers caught making an NFL-style draft for prom dates
- Putin: Russian troops withdrawn from Ukraine border
- Terry Crews is the new host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Cher, Wu-Tang Clan team up on two songs
- Iran's president rejects proposal to ban WhatsApp
- Relive Michael Jordan's most iconic shot on its 25th anniversary
- Monica Lewinsky's return: A trap for Republicans?
- HGTV cancels new show after hosts revealed to be anti-gay
- Nintendo refuses to include same-sex relationships in upcoming video game
- South Africa heads to the polls
- Stanford University will no longer invest any of its $19 billion endowment in coal
- (Probably American) Minecraft vandals damage Denmark's model country
- This touching tribute video is proof that WWE wrestlers are big-hearted teddy bears
- Oakland post office orders tree trimming, accidentally sends nesting baby birds through wood chipper
- NBC is going to air the Olympics for another two decades
- Ecstasy: an effective PTSD treatment?
- Fourth-graders inspire N.Y. State Senate to make yogurt the official state snack
- 9 percent of Americans think aliens may have hijacked Flight 370
- Rob Ford finally speaks about rehab
- Watch Kevin Durant's touching MVP speech and try not to cry
- The GOP civil war is over... and the tea party won?
- Charlie Crist: GOP's 'intolerable' views turned me into a Democrat
- Power Rangers will be rebooted as a blockbuster movie franchise
- A British airline wants to use drones to perform safety inspections on its planes
- Pittsburgh Pirates win on a bonkers walk-off replay
- Man City reach for the title as Uefa clips their wings
- Poll: 1 in 5 would have sex with a robot
- Airport surveillance camera captures stowaway teen stumbling around plane after landing
- Thai court ousts Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra
- Today in gay wrongs: Jon Stewart looks at how lesbians are faring in red America
- Jacko snub cost Fulham Premier League slot – Fayed
- Every nation will probably have armed drones within a decade
- Watch a live video stream from the International Space Station
- 50 sharks killed in controversial Australian cull
- The Daily Show mockingly tallies the score in the War on (Occupy) Wall Street
- Are you ready for Rep. Clay Aiken? North Carolina might be.
- Arsenal prepare big-money bid for Morgan Schneiderlin
- Co-op Group: urgent reform needed to avoid ‘grave harm’
- Breakdancing 'monks' pay tribute to Adam 'MCA' Yauch
- In honor of its anniversary, here are some Eiffel Tower facts
- The Vatican has punished at least 3,420 priests since the sex abuse scandal dropped
- Economists say the War on Drugs is not working
- Seth Rogen, Zac Efron show their feminine sides on The Tonight Show
- Study: Stress could help fight chronic inflammation in the body
- Thom Tillis beats Tea Party for GOP Senate nod in North Carolina, Rep. Walter Jones beats establishment
- From toilet to tap: Texas town to transform wastewater into drinking water
- May 6th
- Seeing Jesus in your food is normal, says science
- Today is International No Diet Day
- The Yankees could bench Derek Jeter because of this one dismal stat
- Sen. Tim Scott travels on anonymous listening tour
- MSNBC apologizes for cringe-worthy Cinco de Mayo segment
- Only 7 percent of journalists are Republicans
- Americans only watch 17 of the hundreds of channels available on cable
- U.S. teen abortion rate now lower than before Roe vs. Wade
- Is Michelangelo's David about to collapse?
- GOP House candidate prefers terror attacks to TSA pat-downs
- Watch Melissa McCarthy un-rob a restaurant in the new Tammy trailer
- Prince William flies coach — just like you!
- Sir Roger Bannister celebrates 60th anniversary of his first sub-four-minute mile
- Majority of millionaires say wealth inequality is a 'major problem'
- Spring Breakers 2 will be coeds vs. Christians
- Oregon governor performs CPR on woman in the street
- Rutgers rescinds paralyzed alum's commencement address invite without telling him why
- Why George H.W. Bush stopped calling Ukraine 'The Ukraine'
- China has a small contingent of trained monkeys protecting its air force base
- Obama's climate change challenge: Americans just don't care
- North Carolina Republican primaries: Two key races to watch
- Nigel Farage branded 'racist' and 'fascist' by his teachers
- Adele (probably) just revealed her next album
- Climate change is already screwing up America
- Report: Rob Ford turned back from entering United States
- Did Fox News use footage of random Asian people instead of Koreans mourning the ferry disaster?
- Woman survives in a mangled car for 5 days without food or water
- High-tech liquid scanner set to shorten airport queues
- Germany's Bayer is buying Merck's familiar brands for $14.2 billion
- Australian moguls in street brawl 'over Miranda Kerr'
- Billy Bob Thornton and Arsenio Hall chillingly perform Craigslist missed connections
- The Daily Show cheerfully tries to find the real conservative in Lindsey Graham's Senate primary
- One in six people would have sex with a robot
- Lake District mountain for sale as Earl tries to pay off debts
- Jon Stewart snaps at Fox News over its selective outrage on Benghazi
- Suicide bomber kills 47 at school assembly in Nigeria
- Asthma death study exposes errors on a 'horrifying scale'
- Arsenal lead race to sign 'displeased' Mario Gotze
- Club owner: State Senate candidate against gay marriage was a drag queen
- Sober woman arrested for drunk driving after deputy falsifies report
- Cleveland viral video star Charles Ramsey reflects on rescuing kidnapped women one year ago
- California school district is revising an assignment that questioned the existence of the Holocaust
- Watch the extended teaser for Fox's new Batman prequel, Gotham
- See the glamorous fashions worn to the Met Gala
- Protesters call for a boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel over human rights issues
- May 5th
- Photos: Israel commemorates its Memorial Day
- Americans want Democrats to control the Senate
- Beijing creates 'Airpocalypse' beer as tribute to the country's notoriously bad air
- White House on Benghazi investigation: We cooperate with 'legitimate' oversight
- Shaun White crashes high-school prom
- The NBA is using Donald Sterling's racism to raise money for charity
- Video games don't cause violence
- Wes Anderson is having a Grand Budapest Hotel-themed cruise
- Proof Wu-Tang Clan is the best lyrical hip hop act
- Study: Supreme Court justices support free speech more often when they agree with the speaker
- You can now buy stuff from Amazon on Twitter
- Polio is making a huge comeback
- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin would not campaign with Obama
- Supreme Court rules in favor of prayer at public meetings
- Iowa Republican fires gun at shooting range, promises ObamaCare will be next
- Pew's new election poll is brutal for Democrats
- 7 infrastructure projects it's nuts to not start building immediately
- Brooklyn ex-cop arrested for creating anti-Semitic graffiti
- After the Kentucky Derby, expect Rand Paul to get more favorable coverage on Fox News
- Bloody Marys, other umami-rich food and beverages might taste better in midair
- John Oliver valiantly tries humor to make Americans think about the death penalty
- Got $21K? Fly in luxury with a private bedroom, bathroom, and butler
- Rare, ugly goblin shark caught in the Gulf of Mexico
- First openly gay Episcopal bishop is getting a divorce
- Twins reunited after almost 8 decades apart
- This is the most Joe Biden-y photo you've seen all year
- Studies show that young blood could reverse aging
- Create your own iconic Mariah Carey album title
- May 4th
- Only in America: Calling the cops over a banned book
- Powerade dumps flame retardant-associated chemical
- Rick Perry defends the death penalty
- Lindsey Graham: GOP not 'playing politics' with Benghazi
- SNL's Donald Sterling says he's the 'real victim'
- Star Wars nerds will hate this picture of 'Leia' kissing the enemy
- Joel McHale burns Chris Christie as a 'glutton for punishment'
- Obama mocks his 'stellar 2013' at White House Correspondents' Dinner
- L.A. Clippers coach Doc Rivers gets emotional after Game 7 win
- Cameron: I'm ready to take on Nigel Farage
- Week in pictures: 27 April - 3 May
- May 3rd
- California Chrome wins Kentucky Derby
- For those who have everything: The Instagram marshmallow
- Bachelor party en route to Kentucky Derby discovers dead body in rented RV
- Hard Rock Casino bans Ben Affleck for counting cards
- Kevin Spacey and Jimmy Fallon nail a Barbershop rendition of 'Talk Dirty'
- Only in America: The 'jiggle test'
- Apple wins $119 million from Samsung in patent dispute
- Villagers mourn, search for survivors in wake of Afghan landslide
- Ukraine: 'We will not stop,' following deadly Friday clashes
- Teachers raise ‘serious concerns’ over Islamic plot
- Scotland Yard reviews new Max Clifford allegations
- May 2nd
- 17 people treated for overdosing on synthetic marijuana
- Saturday is Free Comic Book Day
- Injured Anaheim police dog Bruno heads home
- Surprise: Kerry Washington had a baby two weeks ago
- Dolce and Gabbana sentenced to 18 months in jail for tax evasion
- Stan Lee explains how he created Spider-Man
- The FBI reportedly told a Muslim American he 'might get hit by a car'
- The GOP's newest strategy for the 2014 midterms: Benghazi
- 5 things you thought were dinosaurs but aren't
- Fraternity members graffiti beached whale carcass
- Innovation of the week: The Boom Boom
- Oh my god, the World Cup is only 41 days away
- Listen to Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake's 'Love Never Felt So Good'
- Tina Brown to Hillary: Don't run for president
- Man wins $1.5 million after New Brunswick refuses to let him open 'Buck Foston's' bar
- The botched execution of Clayton Lockett was worse than you thought
- Free trial: get this week's digital edition of The Week
- Japanese fans think new Godzilla is too fat
- Astronaut will deliver college commencement speech from space
- The epic drama of the rock-climbing baby bear
- Let's watch Kevin Spacey play a bad guy in the new Call of Duty commercial
- Former White House official on Benghazi: 'Dude, this was like two years ago'
- Unemployment rate plunges to 6.3 percent
- Ann Maguire: second teenager arrested over teacher’s death
- Ukraine's latest attempt to retake several eastern cities is not going well
- Republican donors still love the Bush family
- China doesn't want to be the world's largest economy
- Best Properties: Remarkable conversions
- Flat sells for £140m as Bank warns of 'dangerous' bubble
- Oklahoma will never allow this monument to Satan on its capitol grounds
- The Dallaglio Foundation
- Pogba accuses Man United and Ferguson of 'disrespect'
- Boy with autism has his own strain of medical marijuana and is thriving, mother says
- Arsenal must fight Man Utd for Fabregas and Schar
- Jon Stewart cheerfully annotates Bill O'Reilly's Beyoncé obsession
- Follow these tips to (almost) always win rock-paper-scissors
- NYC is looking to transform old phone booths into Wi-Fi hot spots
- Everything you need to know about storing food in the fridge, animated
- Baby rhino struts his stuff for the first time at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park
- Magma levels rising, but Mount St. Helens is not likely to erupt soon
- Ohio teen shares prom with 89-year-old great-grandmother
- 23 Syrians are vying to get on presidential ballot with Bashar al-Assad
- May 1st
- Bummed George Bush laments how Putin 'changed'
- Vine finally has a website with search and discovery features
- ObamaCare's last-minute enrollment spike, in one astounding chart
- 50 overexcited teens treated for asphyxia at a One Direction concert
- Is the media Hillary Clinton's biggest enemy?
- Benjamin Netanyahu: 'You're all slaves' to selfies and smartphones
- Report: Justin Bieber asked Rob Ford if he had any crack
- Photos: Here comes the Kentucky Derby
- 60 teens arrested for breaking into high school and peeing everywhere
- Watch the high plains states slurp down their aquifer
- Hillary Clinton leads Jeb Bush — in Florida
- Snapchat rolls out new messaging, video call features
- Watch the first teaser for The Simpsons' LEGO episode
- Only 5 percent of White House reporters say Obama has been more transparent than Bush
- Kurt Cobain died with this note about Courtney Love in his wallet
- MH370 report: Lack of real-time tracking added 'significant difficulty' in finding plane
- The San Jose Sharks made history in the worst way
- This is what Baltimore's block-long street collapse looks like, in context
- The Daily Show lividly audits the 'bureaucracy of dunces' behind recent federal screw-ups
- Paxman quits: why did he go with juicy election coming up?
- Jeremy Clarkson: I didn't mean to use N-word - video
- Police not recording one in five crimes, claims watchdog
- 'GlutenFellas': Jon Stewart spices up the already amazing saga of Rep. Michael Grimm
- Gerry Adams arrest: victim's daughter to 'name names'
- Miss Cleo talks money, fake accents, and 'spooky people' in a new interview
- Arsenal warned off Draxler, and could lose Sagna to City
- NASA shows off its futuristic new Z-2 space suit
- Rob Ford to take leave, seek help for drinking problem
- President Obama drops an 'N Sync reference, takes us back to 2000
- Jimmy Fallon and Cameron Diaz photobombed tourists wearing Pharrell hats
- Kidnapped Nigerian girls likely sold as brides to militants
- These Mean Girls facts are totally grool
- Student accepted to all 8 Ivy League schools picks Yale
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