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- July 31st
 - English town honors David Sedaris by naming a garbage truck after him
 - Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly cheered when Orlando Bloom threw a punch at Justin Bieber
 - House Republicans embarrass John Boehner again
 - Bill O'Reilly took a poll on legalizing weed. You'll never guess what happened next.
 - Watch the star-studded, bizarrely unmusical Into the Woods trailer
 - NASA announces its Mars 2020 instruments
 - A day before 9/11, Bill Clinton said he could have killed Osama bin Laden
 - A new blood test may determine suicide risk
 - Internal CIA report concludes agency spied on Senate computers
 - Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
 - America's most unhealthy meal is at Red Robin
 - ObamaCare website costs taxpayers $840 million so far; insurance companies raking it in
 - Indianapolis man wins lottery for second time in three months
 - George W. Bush made an appearance on the Derek Jeter Farewell Tour
 - Democrats talk, email, and fundraise about impeachment way more than the GOP
 - Watch Vin Diesel sing Sam Smith's 'Stay With Me'
 - Driverless cars: eight obstacles in the way of technology
 - The Russell Brand-Sean Hannity feud just went nuclear
 - Ravel Morrison charged with assaulting two women
 - From Lukaku to Campbell: how big clubs play the loan system
 - Stephen Colbert gleefully dissects the Orlando Bloom-Justin Bieber gossip war
 - Netanyahu: Israel will destroy Hamas tunnels 'with or without a ceasefire'
 - Nato 'unprepared' to repel Russian attack, MPs warn
 - Jon Stewart demolishes Fox News and conservatives for their hypocrisy on corporate 'refugees'
 - Unbeweavable: Robbers make off with thousands of dollars worth of fake hair
 - Slideshow: Eastbourne and Britain's other fire-ravaged piers
 - Khedira boost for Arsenal as Everton land £28m Lukaku
 - Airline apologizes after flight attendant warns passengers about drug-sniffing dogs
 - In the Arctic Ocean, researchers find big waves where there once was ice
 - Study: There's a link between depression and rapid cognitive decline
 - American suicide bomber had returned to U.S.
 - What a catch: Fisherman finds extremely rare calico lobster
 - Penelope Cruz clarifies comments made on Israel and Gaza
 - Sen. Pat Roberts' Republican primary challenger confronts him during campaign stop, challenges him to debate
 
- July 30th
 - An ax flew into a car's windshield on the highway and miraculously no one was hurt
 - This is the perfect antidote to all that scary news out of North Korea
 - Meet the most ambitious spaceship NASA has ever built
 - The CW Network announces plans to host 'World Dog Awards'
 - Poll: A surprising number of Russians think Ukraine shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
 - Watch the mind-blowing new trailer for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar
 - Former IRS official refers to Republicans as 'crazies'
 - Happy National Cheesecake Day!
 - Tennessee lab cancels 'Southern Accent Reduction' class following objections
 - U.S. economy added 218,000 jobs in July, survey says
 - Study finds kids who read Harry Potter books become more tolerant of minority groups
 - Scientists solve mystery of centuries-old ship buried under the World Trade Center
 - Watch the zany trailer for Night at the Museum 3
 - Philadelphia restaurant debuts donut cheesesteak burger
 - Pope Francis unveils his top 10 secrets to happiness
 - Weird Twitter interviews Glenn Greenwald
 - Girls' Allison Williams will star in NBC's Peter Pan Live
 - Daniel Radcliffe infiltrated Comic-Con disguised as Spider-Man
 - Turkey's deputy Prime Minister: Women shouldn't laugh out loud
 - Women shouldn't laugh in public, says Turkey's deputy PM
 - U.S. GDP surged 4 percent in Q2
 - European ransom payments now bankroll al Qaeda
 - Van Gaal brushes off Mourinho jibe: can he be provoked?
 - Yosemite fire threatens giant redwoods
 - Germany now gets 28.5 percent of its total energy from renewables
 - Twitter shares soar despite £86m loss
 - Seven ways in which the Commonwealth Games are a bit s***
 - Royal photobomb competition heats up at Commonwealths
 - Lords say 'right to be forgotten' is unworkable
 - Did Carlos Tevez pay ransom to free kidnapped stepfather?
 - Watch: With seconds to spare, women trespassing on railroad tracks miss being hit by train
 - Spurs, Arsenal, Liverpool wait as Schneiderlin demands move
 - As deadly skin cancer rates keep climbing, surgeon general says to stop tanning and wear sunscreen
 - Woman forgets about her ex-boyfriend by replacing him (in photos) with Beyoncé
 - Theodore 'Dutch' Van Kirk, the last surviving Enola Gay crew member, dies at 93
 - Sheik Umar Khan, a leading doctor fighting Ebola, dies from the disease
 - UCLA, Sunset Boulevard flooded after enormous water main break
 
- July 29th
 - Clown crashes clown car
 - Adam Wainwright solicits suggestions for legendary first tweet — in his first tweet
 - Macy's, JCPenney busted for selling glass 'rubies'
 - Obama announces new U.S. sanctions on Russia
 - EA announces Netflix-like service for Xbox One games
 - Study: Infant rats can sense their mothers' fear using smell
 - Unborn baby saved after pregnant woman dies in Gaza
 - Afghan president's cousin killed by suicide bomber
 - Michele Roberts becomes first woman to lead a major North American sports union
 - Dubai offers children gold as weight loss incentive
 - Obama says a country without rule of law 'will not succeed' — but he's willing to override Congress
 - Ebola outbreak worsens but a cure may be coming
 - Silicon Valley street artists lampoon Obama on his fundraising path
 - Glasgow 2014: 'Sick' employee spotted dancing as a tea cake
 - New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles poster unwittingly contains 9/11 reference
 - Germany demonstrates the ObamaCare endgame
 - Watch Peyton Manning dance like your dad at the Broncos training camp
 - Study: More than 35 percent of Americans are facing debt collectors
 - Israel steps up strikes in Gaza
 - Texas man charged with sending envelopes with harmless white powder
 - Study: Bad timing killed the dinosaurs
 - Van Gaal warns Shaw and Zaha as Man U move on from Moyes
 - EU meets to impose sanctions on Russia
 - Russia violated nuclear test ban treaty, says US
 - Arsenal and Spurs launch raids as Southampton sale continues
 - Genius students use 3D printer to make an arm for young boy
 - Listen to Richard Nixon discuss panda sex
 - U.S. says Russia violated treaty by testing cruise missile
 - Watch Anderson Pooper, a paralyzed Dachshund, race her heart out
 - Judge rules against Donald Sterling, big time, in fight for the Clippers
 - For some reason, Freddie Prinze Jr. decided to put Kiefer Sutherland on blast
 - Study: Running for just 5 minutes a day could lower risk of heart attacks and strokes
 
- July 28th
 - Satanic Temple seeks Hobby Lobby-style exemption from anti-abortion laws
 - Watch the gloomy first trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
 - Laura Ingraham 'keeping an open mind' about running for office
 - Frozen semen may be the key to saving endangered species
 - NSA surveillance harmful to press freedom: 'People are increasingly scared to talk about anything'
 - Noah's Ark theme park angling for $18 million in tax breaks
 - West Virginia Democrat shuts down Obama's electricity in new TV ad
 - Hillary Clinton tacks right: praises Bush, criticizes Obama, cozies up to Wall Street
 - Dollar Tree to buy Family Dollar for $8.5 billion
 - Jeremy Clarkson deliberately used racial slur, says Ofcom
 - Buzzfeed dismisses political editor over plagiarism
 - Handshakes are gross: Fist bump instead, study says
 - 80 percent of Florida Republicans support medical marijuana
 - Watch the first teaser for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1
 - Liberia shuts down borders to keep Ebola from spreading
 - Dinosaurs were killed off by a piece of 'colossal bad luck'
 - Congress reaches tentative VA reform deal
 - NHS: millions shut out of doctors' surgeries
 - Flying over warzones: Emirates to alter Iraq flight path
 - Arsenal land Ospina and Chambers. Is Schneiderlin next?
 - Watch tiny sea turtles make their way from the nest to the ocean
 - To raise awareness, man buys signs from the homeless, turns them into art
 - John Oliver really, really wants to #GoGetThoseGeckos
 - Sarah Palin launches online, subscription-based channel
 - Salmonella outbreak trial to begin this week in Georgia
 - Here's a sneak peek of the Simpsons-Family Guy crossover episode
 - Lightning strikes L.A. beach, 1 killed, at least 9 injured
 
- July 27th
 - Only in America: Save a duckling, get a ticket
 - Lindsey Graham: The United Nations is becoming 'anti-Semitic'
 - Federal judge strikes down D.C. handgun ban
 - Top House Republican repeatedly dodges Fox News' Obama impeachment questions
 - Watch 'Spider-Man' punch a cop in the face in Times Square
 - Americans really wish they had elected Mitt Romney instead of Obama
 - MH17 crash investigators turn back amid heavy fighting in Ukraine
 - Hamas asks for 24-hour truce following Israeli bombardment
 - Week in pictures: 20 - 26 July
 
- July 26th
 - The New York Times endorses marijuana legalization
 - Here's your first look at Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman
 - For those who have everything: A stockpot designed by a rocket scientist
 - Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg edges Google co-founders and Amazon chairman on Billionaire Index list
 - Watch this incredibly large dust storm roll across Phoenix
 - Russia's latest target is McDonald's Filet-o-Fish sandwich
 - Bolivian dancers don colorful costumes for Guinness record attempt
 - Only in America: Whining about 'boring' prison meals
 - Gaza death toll passes 1,000 as 12-hour cease-fire begins
 
- July 25th
 - Meet the new cast members for Game of Thrones season 5
 - GOP congressman goofs up, mistakes U.S. officials for foreigners
 - Daredevil 6-year-old rollerskates under 39 cars
 - Watch the gory new trailer for The Walking Dead season 5
 - Learn the true story behind Nicolas Cage's canceled Superman movie
 - Striking images show increasing tension in the Gaza Strip
 - Innovation of the week: A robotic mule
 - Plan B may still be effective for overweight women
 - Poll: A third of Americans want to impeach Obama
 - MH17: looters used British victim's bank cards
 - The world really did come close to disaster in 2012
 - Michelle Obama laments role of money in politics — then asks donors to write 'a big, fat check'
 - Ultra-rare Superman comic to be sold on eBay
 - Joe Biden: I should have had a 'Republican kid to go out and make money'
 - Russians baffled as gecko sex satellite is lost in space
 - Chinese manufacturers are now outsourcing to Africa
 - Sham marriages rising at an 'alarming rate', warn MPs
 - Decline in smoking and drinking among young
 - South Korea has robots to cheer at its baseball games
 - Arsenal tour makes pre-season 'impossible' says Wenger
 - Best properties: Riverside residences
 - Study: Tylenol doesn't help back pain
 - Amazon scares investors with $126m second quarter loss
 - French troops find the crashed Air Algerie flight, its black box, and no survivors
 - Spanish unemployment falls below 25 percent
 - Jon Stewart dissects Japan's odd, sexist fixation with genital sculpture
 - Mo Farah and other stars who aren't at Glasgow 2014 – in pictures
 - Breast cancer: 'revolutionary' one-shot treatment for NHS
 - Wiggins turns his back on Tour de France and questions Sky
 - Watch this adorable okapi get used to being on four legs
 - Arsenal prepare Martinez bid, Vidal says 'no' to Man Utd
 - U.S. considering refugee status for Honduran youth
 - Parents completely freak out when stranger leaves creepy dolls that look like their kids
 - Man shoots and kills suspected burglar who said she was pregnant
 - Jonah's tomb destroyed by ISIS militants
 - This is what Morgan Freeman sounds like on helium
 - Another Native American casino cancels Ted Nugent concerts after complaints from tribe community
 - Lucky siblings — all 17 of them — win $20 million jackpot
 - Gallup: Americans are closely divided over Israel's actions in Gaza conflict
 - Christian woman accused of apostasy meets with Pope Francis
 
- July 24th
 - Ben Affleck's Batman is still really sad
 - An annual festival for Eeyore's birthday and 26 other unbelievable local traditions
 - Watch Alex Rodriguez get punched in the face for picking a dumb fight with the Red Sox
 - Queen Elizabeth II masterfully puts all other photobombs to shame
 - Jerry Seinfeld says a Seinfeld reunion would be 'an embarrassment'
 - Could unenthused voters doom Democrats in November?
 - Kristen Bell poses as Mary Poppins, sings to promote minimum wage increase
 - Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
 - Study: Dogs may be capable of jealousy
 - State Dept.: ISIS is 'worse than al Qaeda'
 - Hillary Clinton leads Marco Rubio by 14 points — in Florida
 - ISIS demands female genital mutilation for Mosul women
 - The NSA is monitoring dead people
 - Social Security blows $300 million on 'IT boondoggle'
 - Jeb Bush to Congress: Don't use border crisis as 'excuse' to avoid immigration reform
 - Day after Native Americans cancel Ted Nugent show, citing 'racist' views, Nugent calls haters 'unclean vermin'
 - Watch the steamy 50 Shades of Grey trailer
 - A terror of tyrannosaurs: did dinosaurs hunt in packs?
 - Is Hamas using 'human shields' in its war against Israel?
 - Insurers to refund customers $332 million under ObamaCare
 - Flight AH5017: No survivors found in burnt wreckage
 - Algerian airliner crashes in West Africa
 - Doctors extract 232 teeth from tumour in Indian boy's mouth
 - George Takei shares a pretty profound insight into America's strength and dangerous flaw
 - Police 'spied on' grieving family of Jean Charles de Menezes
 - Jon Stewart finds a simple fix to the ObamaCare subsidy court chaos, despairs anyway
 - Bride and groom hold wedding at cemetery so spirits could attend
 - Arsenal to loan out Campbell as 'new Fabregas' signs on
 - Study: Heart attacks are deadlier for younger women
 - Small device detects date-rape drugs, could save lives
 - Man says his tweet about rude Southwest Airlines agent got his family kicked off of flight
 - Audra McDonald and Jimmy Fallon explain, in song, how to rock a party, become president
 - FAA rescinds security ban on U.S. airline flights to Israel
 - Disabled puppy gets a new lease on life with a cart made of toy parts
 - Teenage pilot trying to set world record dies in crash
 - From space, astronaut snaps photos of rocket fire, explosions in Israel and Gaza
 - Democratic Sen. John Walsh links plagiarism in 2007 thesis to PTSD strain from Iraq War service
 
- July 23rd
 - Arizona accused of botching execution
 - Mike Bloomberg unloads on Wolf Blitzer over FAA flight ban: 'Don't be ridiculous'
 - Ted Cruz accuses Obama of launching 'economic boycott on Israel'
 - Social media explodes after CNN columnist suggests eating dogs
 - Report: Montana Democratic Sen. John Walsh plagiarized thesis
 - GM has recalled almost twice as many cars in six months as automakers sold all last year in America
 - Get a rare new look at Marilyn Monroe with these never-before-seen photographs
 - Cardinals catcher uses Wolf of Wall Street music as walk-up song
 - Here's what Wisconsin looks like covered in millions of flies
 - The Amazing Spider-Man 3 pushed back to 2018
 - FDA recalls your favorite summer fruits over Listeria scare
 - Watch Chris Pratt French-braid an intern's hair during an interview
 - Only 1 percent of Republicans think ObamaCare has helped them
 - North Korea plans to open an underwater hotel
 - Poll: More than half of Americans are satisfied with ObamaCare
 - Jack White looked absolutely bummed to be stuck at a Chicago Cubs game
 - LeBron James sent his Ohio neighbors cupcakes to apologize for the media circus
 - Weird Al Yankovic lands the first No. 1 album of his career with Mandatory Fun
 - Dear White People trailer takes a satirical look at modern American race relations
 - Libertarians sue New Hampshire over alleged suppression of third parties
 - Penn State ex-coaches sue university for $1 million
 - Michele Bachmann: 'I could run' in 2016
 - Obama: I don't watch the news because 'whatever they're reporting about, usually I know'
 - Poll: U.S. government would be better with more women in office
 - Gaza: Al Jazeera blames Israel as bureau comes under fire
 - Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office accused of meddling with corruption investigation
 - Graham's Number is unimaginably huge
 - Clippers CEO: Doc Rivers will quit as coach if Sterling stays
 - San Francisco voters will soon decide whether to tax sugary soft drinks
 - Ten Commonwealth stars you may have heard of – pictures
 - Kerry arrives in Israel to push peace
 - World's first 'three-parent' baby born
 - CDC: Most overweight kids don't think they're overweight
 - Jon Stewart launches a Kickstarter to buy CNN from Rupert Murdoch
 - See how many '80s sitcoms you can name in this mashup cover of Frozen's 'Let It Go'
 - Where will you find Europe's sexiest men and women?
 - This one chart shows how ridiculously profitable Apple has become
 - The Daily Show explains a troubling type of legal 'highway robbery,' by cops
 - Ian Watkins: Lostprophets singer to contest prison term
 - Chinese city sealed off after squirrel causes plague death
 - Here's everything you need to know about the Hamas tunnels into Israel, in 2 minutes
 - Man found guilty of a crime, judge decides it's rhyming time
 - Israel calls US ban on flights to Tel Aviv a 'prize' for terrorists
 - Arsenal and Liverpool eye loan deals for Costa and Manquillo
 - City in China on lockdown after man dies from bubonic plague
 - Fleeing motorist tries to hide from cops in an in-session police academy
 - IBM's Watson supercomputer will help vets transition to civilian life
 - Boy with inoperable brain tumor asks for cards for his birthday, thousands flood in
 - Seth Meyers stages live New Yorker cartoons, while David Remnick over-explains
 - Study finds minimally invasive procedure could spread uterine cancer
 - Ricky Gervais on parenting: 'Kids are sponges — they don't give you anything back'
 - Six 'astronauts' are wrapping up a mission to Mars, via Hawaii
 - David Perdue wins Georgia GOP Senate runoff, will face Democrat Michelle Nunn
 - Study: Beef impacts the environment more than poultry, pork
 
- July 22nd
 - New polls show more close races for the Senate
 - Study: One in every 25 New Yorkers is a millionaire
 - U.S. finds no direct link between Russia and Flight 17 downing
 - Snoop Dogg claims he got high in a White House bathroom by pretending to poop
 - Chipotle's new business plan is to build stores with less seating
 - Israeli ambassador: Our troops should get a Nobel Peace Prize for their 'unimaginable restraint'
 - Man builds 'biggest fart machine ever,' plans to aim it at France
 - Democratic Rep. John Dingell: 'What's a Kardashian?'
 - ObamaCare is like Pizza Hut, appeals court explains
 - White flags mysteriously appear atop the Brooklyn Bridge
 - Count the awkward Ninja Turtles references in the new rap single 'Shell Shocked'
 - France faces 'new form of anti-Semitism', says PM
 - Hey, Hollywood: Stop saying we only use 10 percent of our brains
 - Marco Rubio: Hillary Clinton is a '20th century candidate'
 - Report: Hillary and Bill Clinton tried to get a critic yanked from MSNBC
 - Jail reverts to black-and-white jumpsuits thanks to Orange is the New Black's popularity
 - Beetles destroy George Harrison memorial in most ironic way possible
 - Gangs using rape as weapon for revenge on London streets
 - Study: You should get 7 hours of sleep each night, not 8
 - Apple prepares for biggest-ever initial run for a new iPhone model
 - Body found in South Korea identified as head of ferry company
 - The clock is ticking for signs of a big GOP win in November
 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 17's passengers' bodies arrive in Ukraine
 - Children exposed to religion 'more likely to believe in fairy tales'
 - Finally, you will soon be able to binge-watch all 522 episodes of The Simpsons online and on demand
 - Flight MH17: Facebook scammers exploit plane crash
 - Obama endorses statehood for Washington, DC (and, presumably, its 2 prospective Democratic senators)
 - Jon Stewart breezily truth-squads Russia and U.S. conservatives on Flight 17
 - A village in India now runs entirely on its own solar power grid
 - Yahoo Ending strives to make a death easier, digitally
 - Real Madrid land Rodriguez as Arsenal sign Ospina and eye Costa
 - New Toyota minivan feature makes it easier to scream at your kids
 - Texas Gov. Rick Perry's National Guard border deployment leaves a lot of unanswered questions
 - New law lets California students under 21 taste alcohol in the classroom
 - Native American casino cancels Ted Nugent concert, citing his 'racist' views
 - At Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado, the waitstaff packs heat
 - Sixth grade student surprises scientists with her lionfish discovery
 - Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer: 'End partisan primaries, save America'
 
- July 21st
 - New York approves new apartment with separate entrance for poor people
 - Celebrate National Eat Junk Food Day with this Harvard-created cake batter spray can
 - Tony Dungy wouldn't want Michael Sam on his team because 'things will happen'
 - FDA: Stay away from powdered caffeine
 - Flight 17 victims' bodies are finally headed home
 - North Korea is furious over viral video mocking Kim Jong-un
 - FX's Fargo will be back for a second season after all
 - Johns Hopkins will pay $190 million after women were secretly recorded by a gynecologist
 - Hillary Clinton wasn't a great Secretary of State, Americans say
 - Alleged Star Wars: Episode VII plot details leak
 - Obama on pro-Russian rebels: 'What exactly are they trying to hide?'
 - Benedict Cumberbatch breaks Nazi codes (and chases an Oscar) in the first trailer for The Imitation Game
 - U.S. airline security fees increase today
 - Weird Al says Mandatory Fun is probably his final album
 - Joe Biden to Vladimir Putin: 'I don't think you have a soul'
 - Shoplifting suspect arrested after posting selfie in stolen outfit
 - J.J. Abrams personally introduces Star Wars: Episode VII's X-Wing
 - Rick Perry plans to send 1,000 National Guard troops to patrol the border
 - Sunscreen works and you should use it
 - Premier League ticket prices: Arsenal breaks £2,000 barrier
 - Study: Danish DNA could be the 'key to happiness'
 - U.N. Security Council meets to discuss downing of jet in Ukraine
 - McDonald's dumps Chinese supplier over expired meat
 - Nurse found guilty of plot to behead and eat 14-year-old girl
 - Malaysians demand bodies of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 passengers before the end of Ramadan
 - Machete attack leaves three French rugby stars in hospital
 - IDF Instagram of child in crosshairs was from February
 - At Ikea, you can now pick up a dog with your dresser
 - Arsenal 'offer £24m' for Carvalho, Vermalen nears Man U move
 - Ohio veteran fighting to keep his therapy ducks
 - John Oliver, puppets take on the prison system
 - Agnes McKee, 105, makes throwing the first pitch at a Padres game look like no big deal
 - UN Security Council calls for ceasefire in Gaza after emergency meeting
 - MMA fighter with Down syndrome sues to be able to fight again
 - Good boy: Pit bull saves deaf teenager from fire
 - The Patriot actress Skye McCole Bartusiak dies at 21
 
- July 20th
 - Only in America: Toast selfies
 - Watch a 72-year-old Buzz Aldrin punch a jerk in the face for calling him a 'liar'
 - Rory McIlRoy's dad just made $340,000 with a 10-year-old bet on the British Open
 - Israeli PM Netanyahu: Hamas is to blame for dead Palestinian civilians
 - Rep. Peter King: 'Putin was involved' in Flight 17 downing
 - Weird Al's latest song isn't a parody, but it's still pretty dang funny
 - Fox News catches John Kerry in hot mic moment on Gaza: 'Hell of a pinpoint operation'
 - John Kerry: 'Enormous amount of evidence' tying Russia to Flight 17 crash
 - Turkish leader Erdogan: Israel has 'surpassed Hitler in barbarism'
 - Actor James Garner dead at 86
 - Get out of Ukraine, UK defence secretary tells Putin
 - Recovery not 'firmly rooted' warns Kenneth Clarke
 - Week in pictures: 13 - 19 July
 
- July 19th
 - For those who have everything: The Float
 - Russia blacklists 13 Americans in quid-pro-quo maneuver
 - This Malaysian artist created a perfect, exquisitely simple tribute to Flight 17's passengers
 - Calvin and Hobbes' Bill Watterson is auctioning off his Pearls Before Swine comics
 - Here's the Queen's Guard performing a cover of the Game of Thrones theme song
 - Newly released memo from Clinton Library harshly critiques Ruth Bader Ginsburg
 - Twitter bot catches Russian IP address editing MH17 Wikipedia entry
 - New Orleans jazz legend Lionel Ferbos dies at 103
 - Buzz Aldrin offers up delightful tips on how best to walk on the moon
 - Only in America: A TSA agent's capital confusion
 - Ukraine accuses Russian-backed insurgents of blocking access to MH17 crash site
 - All Christians are liars, Birmingham pupils told
 - NBC News reverses course, sending Ayman Mohyeldin back to report from Gaza
 
- July 18th
 - Arrested man orders pizza to police station, gets additional charges
 - Watch the first teaser for Homeland season 4
 - NASA: The moon's underground caves could house astronauts
 - Shining prequel The Overlook Hotel has a new director
 - Innovation of the week: Smart luggage
 - Putin's approval rating is at a record high in Russia
 - Obama: At least one American citizen killed in Malaysia Airlines crash
 - New Twin Peaks box set gives the TV series a new ending
 - Edward Snowden: Nude pictures are 'fringe benefits' of working at the NSA
 - Video purports to show Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 just minutes before takeoff
 - Everything is awful. This mini-documentary about the 'Forest Man' in India is the perfect antidote.
 - Amazon launches Kindle Unlimited, the 'Netflix for books'
 - Sherlock Holmes: an adventure in the public domain
 - Woman loses relatives in both Malaysia Airlines tragedies
 - The Malaysia Airlines tragedy shows Putin has 'lost control of the rebels'
 - Vladimir Putin's sneaky strategy in Ukraine has backfired
 - John McCain: A 2016 GOP win against Hillary requires immigration reform
 - Passengers are already avoiding Malaysia Airlines
 - Hamas underground - the tunnels that supply Gaza, in pictures
 - Passenger on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 posted a joke about 'disappearing' right before takeoff
 - Buk missile launcher: the weapon that may have shot down flight MH17
 - Arsenal sign Debuchy and eye Schneiderlin instead of Khedira
 - FedEx charged with delivering drugs from illegal online pharmacies
 - Amref Health Africa
 - Distinguished AIDS researcher Joep Lange among those killed on Malaysia Airlines jet
 - Study: There's way too much waste when it comes to growing crops
 - Murder suspect complains of tiny towels, expensive shaving cream in jail
 - Children as young as 10 can now legally work in Bolivia
 - White House calls for 'full, credible and unimpeded' investigation of Flight 17
 - New USGS earthquake hazard map shows increased risks for many parts of the U.S.
 
- July 17th
 - Watch a 19-year-old Kanye West rap at a record store
 - FBI warns Google's driverless cars could be used for terrorism
 - Joe Biden: Malaysian airliner 'blown out of the sky'
 - Israeli administration orders removal of 'men's only' sign from local religious court's bomb shelter
 - Karl Lagerfeld is getting his own Barbie
 - MSNBC falls for embarrassingly awful prank call claiming farts downed Malaysian jet
 - German soccer star donates World Cup winnings to needy Brazilian children
 - Why was the downed Malaysia Airlines plane flying over Ukraine, anyway?
 - Broadway icon Elaine Stritch dies at 89
 - Marco Rubio introduces bipartisan student loan bill
 - Missile that downed MH17 came from Russia, investigation rules
 - Microsoft lays off 12,500 employees via the worst email ever
 - Newt Gingrich: Help me save this adorable sad polar bear
 - Study: Binge drinking could improve your social status
 - The new black female Iron Man and five other diversity surprises
 - The subscription price of hyperinflation-predicting ShadowStats hasn't changed in 8 years
 - Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
 - Todd Akin: 'Legitimate rape is a law enforcement term'
 - Warren G. Harding's dog had its own seat at Cabinet meetings, and 40 other facts about dogs
 - Beyonce leads the MTV Video Music Award nominations, obviously
 - Legendary blues guitarist Johnny Winter dead at 70
 - Watch Stuart Scott's moving ESPYs speech about his seven-year battle with cancer
 - Bobby Jindal's presumed White House bid isn't going so well
 - Watch Drake sing 'Let it Go' while impersonating boxer Manny Pacquiao
 - Two suspects and a hostage killed in California bank robbery
 - Typhoon kills 38 in the Philippines before aiming for China
 - England face World Cup crisis as they slump in Fifa rankings
 - Singapore bans Archie comic for depicting gay wedding
 - Stephen Colbert gleefully mocks Rick Perry's 'metrosexual' presidential ambitions
 - Congressman busted for hiring drone as wedding photographer
 - Watch Stephen Colbert lose out on becoming the next Captain America
 - Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is getting a weekly, even-shorter spin-off series
 - Actual ex-dictator Manuel Noriega is suing Activision for making him look bad in 'Call of Duty'
 - Jerry Seinfeld makes a hilariously bad CIA whistleblower on Jon Stewart's Daily Show
 - Sexy Facebook profile photos may hurt women at work, study finds
 - Google Street View cars now on the hunt for methane leaks
 - Arsenal secure Debuchy, and Morata deal could be back on
 - Lowe's employees drop everything to fix Vietnam vet's broken wheelchair
 - Study: There are major risks to taking niacin for cholesterol issues
 - Whoopi Goldberg and Jimmy Fallon trade mouths, accents, and jokes
 - Marvel Comics announces black character as the new Captain America
 - Toddler rescues elderly man locked inside of hot car
 - The House takes a stand for legal marijuana
 - CDC wasn't careful enough with hazardous materials, director admits
 - HBO set to produce adaptation of All the Way starring Bryan Cranston
 - Scientists investigating what caused a massive crater in Siberia
 
- July 16th
 - Two-thirds of scientists across 32 disciplines say they've been sexually harassed
 - You can rent Billy Joel's Hamptons beach house for your next vacation
 - Russia wants to reopen a Cuban spy base to give it 'eyes' in the West
 - Man tries to kill spider, burns his house down
 - Republicans like atheists more than they like Muslims
 - Man breaks into Kennedy compound, says he was 'looking for Katy Perry'
 - Scott Brown refers to the 'Massachusetts delegation' while running for Senate in New Hampshire
 - NBC Polls: Tie in Iowa Senate race, big Democratic lead against Scott Brown in New Hampshire
 - Here's your first glimpse of Ultron, the new villain in the Avengers sequel
 - Listen to this Comcast rep berate a customer trying to cancel his service
 - You'll want to stick around for the twist at the end of Weird Al's 'Royals' parody
 - Watch the first woman to finish the American Ninja Warrior course in action
 - Adele confirms new album, 2015 tour
 - KKK hands out candy in South Carolina
 - Arizona Republican mistakes YMCA campers for terrified migrant children
 - John Boehner's lawsuit against Obama is a 'political stunt,' voters say
 - Adam Wainwright confessed to giving Jeter a free hit in his final All-Star Game
 - University lecturer in Thailand gives A's in exchange for 7-Eleven coupons
 - Seth MacFarlane is being sued for stealing the Ted premise
 - Warren Buffett gives his biggest annual charity gifts ever
 - California approves $500 fine for wasting water
 - Hansen says Walcott 'football brain' jibe is his one regret
 - Rupert Murdoch is reportedly trying to buy Time Warner
 - Taranis: British stealth drone passes top-secret trial
 - Stephen Colbert diagnoses Obama with a bad case of 'senioritis'
 - British nurse 'planned to rape, kill and eat' 14-year-old girl
 - Jon Stewart ardently tries to get Hillary Clinton to declare her presidential run, kind of succeeds
 - Officer 'taken off child abuse case' after MP list revelation
 - New 'Hidden from Google' website lists 'censored' links
 - Officer says 'disruption tactics' used in Stephen Lawrence case
 - Meet Cujo, the U.S. military's oddly endearing new robotic pack mule
 - Uruguay to host 2030 World Cup after Fifa 'fascist' row?
 - Arsenal 'agree fee' for Khedira as Chelsea muscle in on deal
 - Jon Stewart deftly shames Republicans itching to deport the Central American immigrant kids
 - This needlessly risqué video makes a pretty good case for net neutrality
 - Democratic Sen. Mark Warner to headline 'Ready for Hillary' fundraising event
 - American League gives Derek Jeter a final All-Star victory
 - Campaign to split California into 6 new states says it will be on the 2016 ballot
 - Dick Cheney not supporting impeachment of Obama, says it would be 'a bit of a distraction'
 
- July 15th
 - Tokyo cafe rolls out a Pikachu-themed burger
 - NASA: We will find alien life within 20 years
 - Actual chimps attend Dawn of the Planet of the Apes screening
 - Janet Yellen: 'Too many Americans remain unemployed'
 - German politician: We'll counter U.S. spying by using typewriters
 - Tommy Wiseau's new sitcom looks even weirder than The Room
 - Japanese artist asks fans to 3D print her vagina, gets arrested
 - Weird Al's 'Blurred Lines' parody will school you in grammar
 - Marvel's new Thor will be a woman
 - Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran likely to win reelection — and now running strong with black voters after GOP runoff
 - Watch the wacky new trailer for Big Hero 6, Disney's first animated Marvel movie
 - NBC poll: Democrats ahead in two Senate swing seats
 - Anne Hathaway, Kristen Stewart, and Brie Larson breakdance in drag for Jenny Lewis' 'Just One Of The Guys' video
 - Inflation spike prompts talk of interest rate rises
 - Cheetah smuggling 'driving species towards extinction'
 - Diet and exercise are surprisingly effective in preventing Alzheimer's
 - Study: Rhode Island's accidental experiment with legal prostitution sharply cut rape cases
 - Peace Corps tries to woo applicants with new rules
 - Pro-Russia separatists claim downing of Ukrainian military transport plane
 - Watch a devilish Daniel Radcliffe face fire and snakes in the new Horns trailer
 - Vagina artist found guilty of obscenity in Japan
 - After Germany's World Cup win, Stephen Colbert declares Benedict XVI pope again
 - Songwriter inexplicably gets plastic surgery to look like Justin Bieber, fails
 - Jon Stewart returns from vacation to a world gone mad
 - Man U reject £34m Vidal fee, Arsenal snub Khedira demands
 - Meet the futuristic, World Cup–tested machine that could help speed you through airport security
 - Family of Hamas 'mastermind' killed as Israel-Gaza talks fail
 - Broadway viewers just weren't into a Tupac musical
 - Comic-book legend Archie is about to be latest high-profile victim of gun violence
 - Obama calls for ceasefire in Gaza: Death of Palestinian civilians 'a tragedy'
 - Egypt proposes a not-totally-implausible Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan
 
- July 14th
 - Harry Reid: Judge Judy would throw out GOP's Obama lawsuit 'in half a second'
 - Incredible time-lapse video shows Earth from 250 miles away
 - Bill Murray's baseball team held an Atheist Game and angered the Baseball Gods
 - Kristen Bell 'would be down' for a Veronica Mars sequel
 - Scientists create 'alien' material so dark you can't even see it
 - No, Obama wasn't nominated for an Emmy
 - Here's why your iced coffee is so expensive
 - Pizza Hut is rolling out its own dessert pizza
 - Republicans suddenly love the activist Supreme Court
 - Weird Al parodies Pharrell's 'Happy' with 'Tacky'
 - Dem Sen. Mark Begich: 'I'm a total thorn' in Obama's butt
 - Woman grew 'nasal tissue' on back after stem cell treatment
 - Precocious middle school metal band signs $1.8 million record deal with Sony
 - Naked selfies: why factory reset won't erase your phone
 - Even Red Sox fans tip their caps to Derek Jeter in this stirring farewell video
 - The most adorably radical action shots from the annual surfing dog competition
 - Medical treatments are more harmful than you think
 - Rand Paul and Rick Perry are still fighting over who is more Reaganesque
 - Butler-Sloss steps down from Westminster abuse inquiry
 - Conductor Lorin Maazel dies at 84
 - Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl may return to active duty
 - Germany win the World Cup final - in pictures
 - China's next ambition: World Cup victory
 - Pope Francis: one priest in 50 is a paedophile
 - Banner with swastikas flies over New York beaches
 - Man Utd after World Cup stars Hummels, Di Maria and Cavani
 - Electronic devices could be making you itch
 - Dozens arrested after riots break out in Argentina
 - Babe Ruth's 1918 contract for $5,000 sells for $1.02 million
 - In one year, NASA's New Horizons will make it to Pluto
 - Trailer for the new season of Doctor Who promises aliens, dinosaurs, and more
 - New seat design could squeeze even more passengers onto airplanes
 
- July 13th
 - Germany wins World Cup
 - Only in America: Giving liberals the finger by 'coal rolling'
 - House Judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte says no impeachment of Obama
 - Germany will win the World Cup, video game predicts
 - Maybe Pope Francis didn't say two percent of clergy are pedophiles, Vatican suggests
 - Watch hundreds of divers joyfully rock out at an underwater music festival
 - The supermoon looked absolutely chilling behind Brazil's giant Jesus statue
 - Russia warns Ukraine of 'irreversible consequences'
 - Israel sends ground troops into Gaza
 - Week in pictures: 6 July - 12 July
 
- July 12th
 - Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Cory Booker is trolling for selfies with senators
 - For those who have everything: The environmentally friendly beer cooler
 - Woman finds python in engine block of stalled pickup truck
 - U.N. Security Council calls for Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire
 - Shaquille O'Neal offers up expertly color-wheeled defense of LeBron
 - Hostess announces another sweet comeback: The Chocodile
 - Tim Howard gets snubbed as FIFA announces finalists for Golden Glove award
 - Ohio amusement park plans to rename a coaster for LeBron James
 - Irish priest warns Catholic parishioners against 'unsavoury' yoga
 - Innovation of the week: A cancer-detecting bra
 - Vince Gilligan, AMC finally offer up some photos and details on Better Call Saul
 - Science says an apple a day could improve women's sex lives
 - Last living member of the Ramones, Tommy Ramone, dies at 65
 
- July 11th
 - U.K. dance council seeks to ban same-sex couples from competitive ballroom dancing
 - Normcore no more: Jerry Seinfeld is now a high fashion model
 - Infamous Belgian soccer fan already lost her modeling contract
 - Colin Farrell is in talks for True Detective's second season
 - This is how Cleveland's hometown newspaper is welcoming LeBron James back to the Cavs
 - Study: Smelling farts may be good for your health
 - LeBron James just doubled the value of the Cleveland Cavaliers
 - N.H. Sen. Kelly Ayotte to officiate for the wedding of Scott Brown's daughter
 - Aerosmith 'earned more' from Guitar Hero than albums
 - Zoo gorillas escape enclosure, and find where the treats are stored
 - The true average penis length, and other surprising facts about sex
 - Meryl Streep will star in HBO's Master Class
 - Who will win the World Cup... of fatness?
 - Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
 - Scientific journal retracts 60 articles thanks to illicit 'peer review ring'
 - Best properties: houses with historical connections
 - Court finds Florida redistricting unfairly favors GOP
 - WHO says all gay men should take antiretroviral medicine to combat 'exploding epidemics' of HIV
 - Polar vortex returns for summer
 - Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe will play detective duo in new film
 - Baby 'cured' of HIV tests positive for the virus
 - Yo app warns of missile strikes in Israel
 - Nando's tax haven network exposed
 - Other people's flatulence 'may be good for you'
 - More obese patients to get NHS weight-loss surgery
 - Thousands of draft notices sent to men born in the 1800s
 - Arsenal finally land Sanchez, are Khedira and Remy next?
 - Coin toss decides which candidate for magistrate judge wins election
 - George Carlin honored with street name, but local church isn't happy
 - Beautiful 'beads on a string' captured in space by Hubble Telescope
 - UN: More than half of the world's population living in cities, and billions more are coming
 - Eileen Ford, Ford Models founder, dies at 92
 - HIV returns in young girl thought to have been 'cured'
 
- July 10th
 - 'Smart girls' never swear, Nixon claims in new White House tapes
 - Angelina Jolie and the Coen brothers bait the Oscar committee with the Unbroken trailer
 - 'Heroic,' 'hapless,' and 'disgrace': The most common words used to describe each World Cup team
 - Watch Reese Witherspoon rough it in the new Wild trailer
 - Photo of Bowe Bergdahl smiling with Taliban member sparks controversy
 - Take a look at these gorgeous hot air balloons at the European Balloon Festival
 - Madeleine Albright just made Leslie Knope's — er, Amy Poehler's — day
 - Cleveland zoo lets owl predict LeBron James' destination. Owl promptly picks Miami.
 - This Frozen/Orange Is the New Black mashup is perfect
 - Did anti-ObamaCare ads actually boost health care enrollment?
 - The nerdiest clue LeBron James will sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers
 - Watch the campy Sharknado 2 trailer
 - 74 percent of Republicans are happy with their new ObamaCare plans
 - Donald Sterling calls his wife a pig, says he'll die before selling Clippers
 - Todd Akin issues apology — for having apologized about 'legitimate rape' comment
 - Germany expels top U.S. intel official over spying allegations
 - Americans are moving less than they used to
 - Martha Stewart thinks her new drone is 'lots of fun'
 - Colorado says annual legal pot demand will hit 130 tons
 - Israel steps up its Gaza offensive as death toll rises
 - Alec Baldwin might play a 'Rob Ford-type' mayor in new TV show
 - Google Glass hack adds 'mind control' feature - video
 - Audi break-in spree: police warn of 'emergency key' risk
 - Advocacy group for the disabled headed to court over voting rights
 - Brothers reunite after 37 long years apart, find they live similar lives
 - Medical marijuana dispensaries in Berkeley will likely start giving out free pot
 - In a controversial move, J. Crew now selling XXXS, or size 000, clothes
 - Study finds global use of last-resort drugs on the rise
 
- July 9th
 - 40 percent of colleges haven't investigated a sexual assault claim in five years
 - Here's your first look at Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes
 - Police have a warrant to see a teen boy's erection
 - Seinfeld emojis are on the way for when you want to text about nothing
 - Happy National Sugar Cookie Day!
 - GOP lawmaker clarifies climate change denial: Fine, Mars and Earth are not the same temperature
 - Author of How to Survive the Running of the Bulls gored by bull
 - Science says the most polluted place in the world is in...London?
 - This man became the face of Brazil's World Cup misery
 - Obama laughs off Colorado dude's attempt to get him high
 - Washington Post columnist suggests it's OK to hit cyclists
 - Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn's debut novel will be made into a TV show
 - 3DTouch 'smart thimble' could replace mouse – video
 - Disney is making a live-action Dumbo movie
 - This heartbreakingly minimal Brazilian front page perfectly sums up Germany's World Cup rout
 - Watch Christian Bale as Moses in the trailer for Exodus, Hollywood's new Biblical epic
 - Citigroup reportedly nears a massive settlement over mortgage securities
 - Seoul's mayor is building hotels for bugs
 - Deadly storms strike the East Coast
 - What will Japan learn by resuming 'research' whaling?
 - John Wayne's heirs are suing Duke University
 - Abuse inquiry judge accused of conflict of interest
 - Alps murder mystery: wife's ex died on same day. Coincidence?
 - UK firms 'sold chemical weapons ingredients to Syria'
 - Brazil reacts to the end of the World Cup - in pictures
 - Liberty tax dodge: George Michael named in secret files
 - Rosie O'Donnell is in talks to rejoin The View, with one big demand
 - Thanks to a TV show, woman discovers her house was once a serial killer's lair
 - Arsenal £28m Sanchez deal 'good as done' as agent flies in
 - Researchers could soon formulate a blood test that helps with early Alzheimer's diagnosis
 - Democrats will try to legislatively undo the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision
 - Generous pilot buys pizza for 160 passengers on grounded flight
 - Try not to get queasy watching these guys test the world's tallest water slide
 - Man wearing horse-head mask gets handshake with President Obama
 - Dick Jones, the voice of Disney's Pinocchio, dies at 87
 - High-tech finger ring can read to the visually impaired in real time
 
- July 8th
 - Walmart yanks decorative poster of Nazi concentration camp
 - Study: Siblings are more likely than parents to influence child obesity
 - Scientists found some smallpox vials lying around in an unsecured federal lab
 - Man named 'Alpacino' accused of murder
 - Is craft beer killing Bud Light?
 - Royal baby lands Vanity Fair cover
 - Ohio maverick raises more than $40K on Kickstarter — for potato salad
 - Russian Orthodox priest calls World Cup a 'homosexual abomination,' citing pink shoes and fun haircuts
 - The Insane Clown Posse and Juggalos can't sue the government, judge rules
 - That time Babe Ruth ran into a wall and knocked himself unconscious
 - London's $855,000 parking garage
 - Listen to Paris Hilton's new song "Come Alive"
 - Christian bakery refuses to make pro-gay marriage Bert and Ernie cake
 - Tyra Banks: Plastic surgery will soon be 'as easy and quick as going to the drugstore'
 - ACLU asks why this small-town police force gets two grenade launchers
 - Armed anti-government militias vow to secure the U.S.-Mexico border in a 'legal and lawful manner'
 - Netflix is looking for a professional binge-watcher
 - Is Team Scotland's uniform the worst Commonwealth kit ever?
 - Rest easy: inflation is low and steady
 - Rick Perry turned down an invitation to meet Obama
 - Crumbs just shut down all of its stores
 - Ted Cruz thinks voter fraud may have cost the Tea Party the Mississippi GOP primary
 - J.K. Rowling reveals a grown-up Harry Potter
 - Obama administration says it will turn back child immigrants
 - Here's Tom Hanks dancing to 'This Is How We Do It'
 - Super typhoon hits Japanese islands
 - Taylor Swift wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal
 - Kickstarter potato salad project raises $35,000
 - Isis threat to UK blown out of proportion, says ex-MI6 chief
 - Alzheimer's: test breakthrough raises hopes
 - Redheads could become extinct, thanks to climate change
 - Liverpool and Barcelona face hitch over £75m Suarez fee
 - Google co-founder wants people to work less, have robots pick up the slack
 - Watch movie critics passive-aggressively say nice things about director Michael Bay
 - The CIA marks its #twitterversary by joking about Tupac
 - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Jimmy Fallon's 'Young' cover Iggy Azalea's 'Fancy'
 - Sen. Bob Menendez claims Cuba plotted to smear him with fake prostitution story in 2012
 - Wireless birth control could hit the market in 2018
 - Obama writes column in Israeli newspaper: Peace is necessary for 'secure and democratic future'
 - Man who fell asleep at baseball game sues Yankees, MLB, and ESPN for $10 million
 - Bird with 21-foot wingspan could be the largest to ever live
 
- July 7th
 - Whale poop could mitigate global warming
 - Study: Nearly 1 in 5 high school seniors smoke hookah
 - MLB All-Star Game to feature self-serve beer machines
 - Watch a creepy Neil Patrick Harris in the new Gone Girl trailer
 - Federal judge tells Supreme Court to 'STFU' over Hobby Lobby ruling
 - West End revival of Cats will feature a rapping feline
 - Fox News blames 'antagonistic feminists' for making women bad wives
 - Americans blame George Bush, not Obama, for Iraq crisis
 - Why cheerleaders in North Korea have little to cheer about
 - Watch Sylvester Stallone in the new Reach Me trailer
 - Is LeBron James headed to the Cleveland Cavaliers?
 - This stat explains how effective your medicine really is
 - Selfies are disrupting the Tour de France
 - Derek Jeter, 20th best shortstop in baseball, to start All-Star Game
 - BBC News stops giving air time to climate deniers
 - Ukraine pushes pro-Moscow rebels to final showdown in the last separatist stronghold
 - Transformers 4 will likely become China's biggest film ever
 - F16 close shave at Waddington Air Show - video
 - Iron Man designers to build body armour for US army
 - Australia 'told refugees to find own way back to India'
 - The costs of illegal immigration are rising, thanks to U.S. bank regulators
 - Gaza strikes: half of dead were women and children
 - Arsenal want Bender, but will Juventus scupper Sanchez bid?
 - With a pop-up wedding, couples can (basically) get married anywhere
 - Man who took vow of poverty wins $259.8 million lottery jackpot
 - The TSA may now order you to turn on your smartphone before takeoff
 - Oregon to honor thousands of 'forgotten souls' from mental institution with a memorial
 - John Oliver finds the essence of America in 4th of July fireworks extravaganzas
 - Watch as a giant panda celebrates 1st birthday with traditional games, special cake
 - Forget Cheetos: New vending machines dole out caviar and cupcakes
 
- July 6th
 - Only in America: The 5-year-old accused of 'sexual misconduct'
 - Anti-Obama July 4 parade float accused of being racist
 - Children of same-sex parents have stronger family ties, study finds
 - Tim Howard for defense secretary? Obama promises to 'think about it'
 - President Warren Harding's love letters with mistress to go on public display
 - Rick Perry defends conspiracy theory blaming Obama for immigration surge
 - 90 percent of NSA intercepts hit 'ordinary' people, not intended targets
 - John Boehner explains why he 'must' sue Obama
 - Week in pictures: 29 June - 5 July
 
- July 5th
 - For those who have everything: Brogamats
 - Headbanging can make your brain bleed, science confirms
 - Hillary Clinton: Edward Snowden should return to the U.S. if he's 'serious'
 - Marvel at this magical drone's-eye view of fireworks
 - Only in America: Suing over your commute
 - Vladimir Putin calls Obama for July 4th, asks him to 'cooperate'
 - Brazilian star Neymar out of World Cup after freak injury
 
- July 4th
 - NASA wants to show you the best fireworks display in the universe
 - Innovation of the week: Glance
 - Pope Francis has a China problem
 - Obama on immigration reform: I'm 'doing everything I can'
 - German man reportedly arrested for spying for the U.S.
 - Win weekend tickets to the Port Eliot Festival
 - Japanese scientists discover a cure for aging (but it only works in flowers)
 - 'Lost' Amazon tribe forced out of the rainforest
 - Brazil bridge collapse mars World Cup party
 - Iraq just moved one step closer to replacing Maliki
 - Overpass collapses in deadly accident near Brazilian World Cup stadium
 - Hurricane Arthur weakens after rattling North Carolina
 - How China took over July 4th
 - Scolari lashes out as Brazil adapt to ‘underdog’ status
 - Didn't like the Hobby Lobby decision? You're going to hate the Supreme Court's follow-up.
 - Cavendish prepares for Yorkshire Dales dash
 - Who will win the World Cup... of happiness?
 - Hacking trial: Andy Coulson faces 18 months in prison
 - PM considered plan to train and arm 100,000 Syrian rebels
 - Chimpanzee language revealed through translated gestures
 - Best Properties: Attractive boltholes up to £350,000
 - Save the Rhino International
 - Arsenal may be outgunned in race to sign Saloman Kalou
 - Louisiana GOP Senate candidate Bill Cassidy announces his 17-year old daughter is pregnant
 
- July 3rd
 - Why does ice crack in your drink?
 - Iran's foreign minister to Obama: 'Let's try mutual respect'
 - Pitbull will serenade the Obamas for the Fourth of July
 - Chris McDaniel now offering $1,000 reward for proof of voter fraud — and asking for $15 donations to fund it
 - Once Upon a Time casts its Frozen stars
 - Here's your first look at Superman in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
 - Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
 - Fox News ignores positive jobs report
 - Unemployment rate plummets to 6.1 percent
 - Evacuations ordered as Hurricane Arthur gains strength, heads for the Carolinas
 - Daryl Impey: First drugs setback for Tour de France before it starts
 - Panorama researcher leaked data on secret army unit in NI
 - Loic Remy in Arsenal sights as Wenger's trigger-finger twitches
 - Musician tackles original song while impersonating 29 celebrities
 - Authorities: Colorado teen fell in love with ISIS fighter, arrested on her way to join him
 - As a baby, Jewish woman unwittingly became the face of the perfect Aryan child
 - These words may sound modern, but they really aren't
 - Study: Dark chocolate could be the key to improving blood flow
 - Security tightened for U.S. bound flights amid bomb fears
 
- July 2nd
 - This Game of Thrones-themed wedding was ridiculously authentic (except no one got murdered)
 - Here's the George Takei documentary's first trailer
 - Harvard researchers regrow human corneas
 - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford discusses drug abuse
 - Google's Maps-based quiz game is your new favorite time-waster
 - FIFA official 'worried' by drunkenness at World Cup
 - Ryan Gosling hated Rachel McAdams during The Notebook's filming
 - Rush Limbaugh: Women wouldn't need birth control if they didn't 'do a certain thing'
 - VA offers doctor's appointment to man who died two years ago
 - Amazon.com says America's most patriotic city is Virginia Beach
 - Russia won't let House of Cards shoot at the United Nations
 - IBM's Watson made its own barbecue sauce
 - Kelsey Grammer joined Twitter to school the internet in proper grammar
 - McDonald's makes the worst fast-food burger in America, survey says
 - Texas Gov. Rick Perry criticized for being 'West Coast metrosexual'
 - Watch the first trailer for The Killing's final season
 - Target kindly asks customers to leave their assault rifles at home
 - Obama is the worst president in 70 years, says America
 - Watch a behind-the-scenes look at The Walking Dead season 5
 - Tim Howard could have saved the dinosaurs, Twitter claims
 - NASA has a professional smeller
 - No DNA evidence for Yetis - but polar bears 'found in India'
 - Sherlock will return for a 4th season and a special
 - Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy team up in the heartwarming St. Vincent trailer
 - Watch Iran's pretty impressive frame-for-frame ripoff of Modern Family
 - Tim Howard National Airport? Federal petition aims to rename D.C. hub
 - Bear cub sticks head in cookie jar, climbs into nearby tree, prompts decidedly unique rescue operation
 - Palestinian teenager found dead in possible revenge killing
 - Watch these soccer 'fans' discuss Landon Donovan's nonexistent World Cup play
 - Howard, Navas, Cesar – hero goalkeepers of the World Cup in pictures
 - Arsenal hope to derail Sanchez, Suarez Liverpool swap
 - Travel Channel pulls Adam Richman's new show following Instagram outburst
 - Study finds that bone marrow transplants can reverse sickle cell disease in adults
 - Elderly woman injured by exploding laptop
 - Triple black hole system discovered in a galaxy far, far away
 - Watch a shirtless jogger yell at Toronto Mayor Rob Ford during a local parade
 - North Korea fires short-range projectiles for the third time this week
 - Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is the new CEO of a marijuana company
 - FTC alleges T-Mobile charged hundreds of millions in bogus fees
 - DNA testing unable to prove existence of Bigfoot
 
- July 1st
 - Belgium knocks the U.S. out of the World Cup
 - Google acquires music streaming service Songza
 - Starz is developing a TV series based on Neil Gaiman's American Gods
 - A California museum has every Pez dispenser ever made, and 28 other odd museums
 - Poll: Louisiana Senate race could go down to the wire — in December
 - Yes, Cameron Diaz is naked in Sex Tape
 - Is the Census Bureau underestimating American breweries?
 - U.S. Navy gets its first female four-star admiral
 - Lobbyists can now quietly bankroll lawmakers' fancy trips
 - Serena Williams mysteriously stumbles and flails during Wimbledon match
 - Maine Gov. Paul LePage denies talking about 'hanging' state Democratic leaders
 - Get pumped for U.S. vs. Belgium with these spine-tingling hype videos
 - America has always been at war with Belgium
 - Watch a supercut of 31 Orange Is the New Black actors on Law and Order
 - Chris Christie on Hobby Lobby ruling: Was the Supreme Court right? 'Who knows.'
 - Louisiana's incarceration rate is 5 times that of Iran
 - Americans care more about the IRS than the World Cup
 - Georgia's 'guns everywhere' bill goes into effect
 - China's Manhattan replica is a ghost town
 - Bryan Singer reveals first glimpse of X-Men: Apocalypse
 - Nicolas Sarkozy 'charged' with corruption
 - Hamas and Israel call truce amid high tensions in Jerusalem
 - France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy held for questioning in corruption probe
 - Liverpool land Lallana as Barca heap praise on 'noble' Suarez
 - Nanny nightmare: Fired woman refuses to leave family's home unless on her own terms
 - Watch John Oliver cogently pre-criticize the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling
 - All hail Queen B: Beyoncé is the world's most powerful celebrity, according to Forbes
 - They Might Be Giants really wants you to download their new, free live album
 - Survey finds that almost half of adults would not survive without their phone for 24 hours
 - NASA's carbon dioxide tracking satellite ready for Tuesday launch
 - Doctors' group says healthy women don't need regular pelvic exams
 
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