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August 2014
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- August 31st
- Libyan militants throw pool party in abandoned U.S. embassy's residential compound
- Japanese high school baseball game lasts 50 innings, four days
- Watch Nik Stauskas drain 15 straight 3-pointers in 46 seconds
- Top Dem. Dianne Feinstein: Obama 'too cautious' about ISIS
- Ted Cruz downplays the idea of another government shutdown
- China denies open elections for Hong Kong
- Rand Paul: 'Maybe it's time for a new president'
- Putin: It's time to consider 'statehood' for eastern Ukraine
- Poll: Sen. Mitch McConnell ahead by 4 points in Kentucky
- August 30th
- Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrbome claims he lost re-election because of support for gay marriage
- 3 weeks after Michael Brown's death, Ferguson holds peaceful march
- Only in America: The 'bless you' ban
- Scientists say Southwestern U.S. now faces 50 percent chance of decades-long 'megadrought'
- E.U. leader: Russia pushing Ukraine conflict toward 'the point of no return'
- Here is one of the funniest segments College GameDay has ever produced
- The Guardian Review publishes lost chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- San Francisco airport discovers foot-long millipedes in box marked 'toy car model'
- Chinese boy can't hear his cartoons, cuts high-rise worker's safety rope
- Federal judge rules Texas abortion restrictions unconstitutional
- For those who have everything: The $3,360 'thundercloud' lamp
- Pentagon: U.S. airstrikes against ISIS costing $7.5 million per day
- Best properties: houses with eco credentials
- August 29th
- Mitch McConnell's campaign manager quits in the wake of Iowa Ron Paul scandal
- More than one third of Americans receive welfare benefits
- Mississippi judge throws out Chris McDaniel's lawsuit against election result, says he missed deadline
- Pregnant Chelsea Clinton quits $600K NBC job
- Innovation of the week: A Bluetooth-enabled wallet
- Putin warns the West: 'It's best not to mess with us'
- Study shows that cellphone addiction is 'an increasingly realistic possibility'
- Archaeologists discover earliest known wooden toilet seat
- Obama refuses to reveal no-fly list criteria
- Poll: Democrats say climate change a bigger threat than ISIS
- Brother and sister arrested for having sex in tractor trailer after watching The Notebook
- Senegal confirms first Ebola case
- ISIS wants to turn the bubonic plague into a terrifying weapon
- Pope Francis will honor WWI deceased in Italy next month
- This dark horse Republican candidate's super PAC has raised more money than Ready for Hillary
- Week in pictures: 24-30 August
- WHO says this week has seen the most Ebola cases yet
- Canada and Russia clash in Ukraine Twitter spat
- Man United unveil Di Maria as Van Gaal dampens expectation
- Syrian refugee crisis: over three million forced to flee
- Diana Beard: I quit Bake Off 'due to illness'
- Ukraine: Nato to meet amid claims of Russian invasion
- Prost! The Daily Show tries to rekindle the U.S.-German friendship with an awkward beer summit
- Malaysia Airlines 'recovery plan' to cut routes and jobs
- Arsenal Falcao deal: has striker already joined Real Madrid?
- In Kosovo, shoppers flock to a store selling Hillary Clinton–inspired clothing
- Jon Stewart really doesn't want Rick Perry to go to jail
- Abercrombie & Fitch discovers that U.S. teens no longer like wearing its ads around
- Chicago police: Man with an ISIS flag threatened cops with bomb
- Rare panda triplets survive their first month
- Stephen Colbert really hates the new Scrabble words, tries to make up one of his own
- Scientists have sequenced the Ebola genome
- Toronto has to throw out its anti-littering campaign, after misusing major brand names
- Sanrio clarifies that yes, Hello Kitty is in fact a 'personification of a cat'
- Obama: 'We don't have a strategy yet' on battling ISIS in Syria
- Watch legendary surfer Laird Hamilton 'shoot the pier' — twice
- ISIS waterboarded captives, including James Foley
- August 28th
- Obama: 'Russia is responsible for the violence in eastern Ukraine'
- Hillary Clinton finally speaks on Ferguson: 'We can do better'
- 'We finally found it': Scientists get first look at 'monster' galaxy's formation
- Army report: ISIS has been growing since 2010
- Racism, sexism, discrimination reported at federal agency
- Louisiana water contaminated with brain-eating amoeba
- This year's iPhone mania is imminent
- Watch the harrowing first trailer for Rosewater, Jon Stewart's directorial debut
- Studies show dogs have 'separation anxiety' when kids leave for school
- Joan Rivers rushed to hospital in critical condition
- NATO: These satellite images show Russian troops entering Ukraine
- MLB analyst predicts Buster Posey home run, freaks out when it happens seconds later
- Adorable child is furious at his mother for getting pregnant
- 11-year-old translates Infinite Jest into more than 100 Lego scenes
- Bruce Springsteen is writing a children's book about a bank-robbing baby
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- DOT wants cars to constantly broadcast their speed, location, and direction
- Koch brothers work to stop police militarization, prevent another Ferguson
- Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton 'eager to shoot first' and ask questions later in Syria
- Lost village of Brazilian women appeals for single men
- Rooney 'right choice' to lead England and the 'ginger Pirlo'
- GOP-commissioned survey: Women think the GOP is 'stuck in the past'
- Poll: Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett down 25 points in re-election bid
- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had a secret wedding last weekend
- Tsarnaev sister arrested for making a bomb threat
- Michael Egan drops sex-abuse lawsuit against X-Men director Bryan Singer
- Philadelphia honors Mo'ne Davis' Little League team with parade
- WHO: Ebola could infect more than 20,000 people
- Italian race row senator blames voodoo curse
- Federal judge effectively decriminalizes polygamy in Utah
- British Jews and Muslims call for Middle East peace
- NRA Women could have picked a better time to tweet about kids having 'fun at the shooting range'
- Ukraine: Russia accused of new military incursion
- Jon Stewart warns ISIS: Be careful what you wish for, America is 'living your dream'
- Arsenal set for Carvalho swoop as Man Utd refocus on Vidal
- Former Michele Bachmann aide pleads guilty to covert endorsement-for-pay scheme
- Russia is steadily invading Ukraine, mounting evidence shows
- Laws regarding children and gun possession aren't as strict as you might think
- Watch the women of Friends reunite on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Hollywood producer says he was 'wrongly arrested,' mistreated by Beverly Hills police
- Omaha cops accidentally kill Cops crew member
- Maine Gov. Paul LePage says 'worst' part of his life is that 'newspapers are still alive'
- Here's Jiff, the fastest dog on two paws
- Hackers target JPMorgan Chase, other big banks
- August 27th
- Hello Kitty is a British girl, not a cat
- UFC fighter apologizes for grabbing tiger by the testicles
- Want to grow 12 acres of weed for the government? Now you can.
- Feds: School lunches a 'national security issue'
- Giant panda reportedly faked her pregnancy to get 'extra treats'
- Georgia college professor bans students from saying 'bless you'
- Poll: Gov. Scott Walker in tight race in Wisconsin, trailing among likely voters
- Souped-up, fully loaded cooler becomes most successful Kickstarter ever
- Confederate flag brandisher sets himself on fire for the ice bucket challenge
- A real-life version of the Friends coffee shop is opening in Manhattan
- Stocks hit new all-time highs this week
- Watch a trio of lion cubs play in their Johannesburg Zoo debut
- America is terrible at public transportation
- Tim Hortons celebrates Burger King buyout with 'Buffalo Crunch' doughut
- Here's why mozzarella is the best pizza cheese, according to science
- Chick-fil-A is now serving chicken and waffles
- This tiny South Pacific nation owns one of the most lucrative internet suffixes in the world
- Rick Perry is more popular with Iowa Republicans now that he's been indicted
- Senate Democrats want to avoid ISIS vote to improve their election chances
- Zara pulls anti-Semitic shirt from its stores
- Poll: People are self-censoring discussion of the NSA on Facebook and Twitter
- David Chase reveals whether Tony died at the end of The Sopranos
- Bobby Jindal is suing the feds
- 75 percent of white Americans don't have a close minority friend
- Mitt Romney on 2016: 'Circumstances can change'
- Is Snapchat really worth $10 billion?
- Grandmother survives 'fight to the death' with leopard
- Fox News host: Can we please let Putin be president for a couple of days?
- Study: Playing with dolls can indicate a couple's parenting style
- RBS fined £14.5 million for poor mortgage advice
- Leftover foreign currency: what to do with it
- Ryanair introduces business class fares for first time
- Girl of nine with Uzi shoots gun instructor dead
- Study finds 1,400 child abuse victims in English city
- Ukraine and Russia promise 'roadmap' to peace after talks
- Obama approves Civil War soldier for Medal of Honor
- U.N. scientist arrives in Germany for Ebola treatment
- Apple iPad Pro: first reviews of the huge iPad with its own pencil
- Rotherham: charity given £3m to help victims of sexual abuse
- Arsenal eye Welbeck and El-Haddadi as cover for crocked Giroud
- Jon Stewart reads Fox News the riot act on Ferguson and race
- Police: Man dies after eating methadone-laced underwear
- Could Scientology be the thing that turns Flint, Michigan, around?
- Open-ended Israel-Hamas cease-fire begins
- Instructor dies after being shot accidentally by a 9-year-old student
- Journalist Peter Theo Curtis reunites with family after 2 years in captivity
- Glam rockers Kiss and Def Leppard take Ice Bucket Challenge
- American Douglas McAuthur McCain dies fighting alongside ISIS in Syria
- Study: Married couples who smoke pot experience less domestic violence
- August 26th
- U.N. report: 'Irreversible' global warming may be on the horizon
- Playboy posts handy catcalling flow chart
- The New York Times won't endorse Andrew Cuomo: 'He broke his most important promise'
- CBS sued for selling NCIS farting hippo puppet
- Polls show GOP gaining steam in race to regain Senate
- Why isn't the media covering the killing of an unarmed white youth by a black police officer?
- Bernie Sanders is getting serious about challenging Hillary Clinton in 2016
- Scientists reportedly discover the first water clouds beyond our solar system
- Full House might be coming back to TV
- Tom Ford does the chicest ice bucket challenge yet
- Austin brewery unveils the world's first 99-pack of beer
- ESPN: Gay NFL player Michael Sam isn't weirding out his teammates in the shower
- Princeton researchers measure blood sugar with lasers
- Democrats hold a cushy edge in this key midterm election poll
- WHO calls for tighter e-cigarette regulation
- These college rankings have some surprising winners
- Only 10 percent of blacks think police do a decent job treating all races equally
- Why the Arctic is worth more than the entire US economy
- Feds spend $1 million collecting 'suspicious memes'
- 15 ancient monuments discovered beneath Stonehenge
- Watch John Boehner play with, identify with his squawking wind-up monkey
- White House: Obama can intervene in Syria without congressional approval
- Watch the chilling new teaser for Gone Girl
- China working on supersonic submarine that could travel from Shanghai to San Francisco in '100 minutes'
- Elk shows up for work at German office building
- Will the U.S. start bombing ISIS in Syria, too?
- Ohio senator calls for Burger King boycott
- Facebook's war on 'click-bait' may actually reduce click-bait
- The highest-paid CEO in America works for a company that has never made a profit
- PlayStation hit by hackers who threaten Sony chair's plane
- Medical marijuana likely reduces fatal painkiller overdoses, study finds
- VA inspector general apparently largely clears VA in Phoenix veterans' deaths
- Man United welcome Di Maria, Arsenal must bolster defence
- Ukraine calls snap election as Russian tanks 'cross border'
- Scotland is voting on independence in 3 weeks, and this debate may have tipped the scales
- This app will let you know which political parties are really benefiting when you buy groceries
- Sofia Vergara defends her Emmy skit after it's called 'blatantly sexist'
- The House will spend at least $350,000 on lawyers to sue President Obama
- After two decades, a legendary Las Vegas slot machine finally hands over its elusive jackpot
- Democratic senator's TV ad: My opponent voted to help spread Ebola so he could cut taxes for billionaires
- New California law aims to scare thieves away from smartphones
- John Oliver has a darkly comic solution to the male-female pay gap
- Separatists in Ukraine publicly terrorize alleged female spy
- Breaking Bad wins Best Drama at the Emmys
- Modern Family wins Best Comedy Series for the 5th year in a row
- Bryan Cranston wins one last Emmy for Breaking Bad
- Watch Billy Crystal offer a touching personal tribute to Robin Williams at the Emmys
- Emmy winner Julianna Margulies: 'What a wonderful time for women on television'
- Aaron Paul wins Best Supporting Actor for Breaking Bad
- Gwen Stefani butchers Stephen Colbert's name while presenting his award
- Watch Weird Al parody all of your favorite TV show themes
- FX's Fargo wins Outstanding Miniseries
- Watch a surprisingly passionate kiss between Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Bryan Cranston
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus wins Best Actress in a Comedy for Veep
- Jim Parsons wins Best Actor in a Comedy for The Big Bang Theory
- August 25th
- Hillary Clinton would rout Elizabeth Warren — in Massachusetts
- This is what you missed at Aaron Paul's insane Breaking Bad scavenger hunt
- Poll: Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love' greatest guitar riff of all time
- Study: E-cigarettes should be a 'last resort' for those quitting smoking
- Obama administration sends 3 officials to Michael Brown's funeral, sent zero to Margaret Thatcher's
- New 007 villain 'will follow in the tradition of Jaws and Oddjob'
- South Koreans will become extinct by 2750 unless they start having more babies, study warns
- This nail polish could prevent date rape
- Mourners bid Michael Brown farewell
- The Rubble Bucket Challenge: Gaza's answer to the ice bucket campaign
- 400 garden gnomes are missing in Austria
- ISIS uses captured journalist in propaganda campaign
- Russia wants to send another aid convoy into Ukraine without permission
- Fox News questions whether calling Michael Brown an 'unarmed teen' is evidence of media bias
- The Newsroom season 3 teaser hints at a dark ending
- Burger King wants to buy Tim Hortons so it can dodge U.S. taxes
- VA continues to mishandle veteran suicides
- Chinese group asks Pope Francis not to 'interfere' with the country's religion
- U.S. allies with terrorists to fight terrorists
- Study: Parents see their overweight kids as healthy
- New York Times: Michael Brown was 'no angel' because he smoked, drank, and rapped
- Watch the ridiculous last scene from the True Blood finale
- U.S. and British special forces are reportedly forming a super squad to hunt down ISIS's leaders
- The British Embassy is sorry for joking about that whole burning down Washington thing
- Pediatricians suggest starting school later to let kids sleep
- James Foley might have been executed by U.K.'s 'hip-hop jihadist,' reports British media
- Michael Brown's father asks for quiet ahead of the teen's funeral
- Leave it to Patrick Stewart to finally get the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge right
- Watch Bob Barker punch an animal-rights critic in the face (on TV)
- California's Napa Valley earthquake losses could exceed $1 billion
- Watch Beyonce's show-ending MTV Video Music Awards tour de force
- MTV Video Music Awards turned curiously serious, thanks to Miley Cyrus and Ferguson
- John Oliver 'literally destroys' piñatas, for the internet
- Actor and Gandhi director Richard Attenborough is dead at 90
- Watch Blue Ivy Carter almost upstage mom Beyoncé at Video Music Awards
- Islamist militants release captive U.S. journalist Peter Theo Curtis in Syria
- August 24th
- British Embassy tweets 200th anniversary of the burning of Washington in War of 1812
- Only in America: Demanding the right to pester tourists
- Paul Ryan sure wishes Mitt Romney would run for president again
- Britain 'close' to identifying James Foley's executioner
- Rand Paul: 'War hawk' Hillary Clinton would have trouble against me in 2016
- Michael Sam sacked Johnny Manziel, then taunted him with his own move
- Sarah Palin does the ice bucket challenge even though she's 'too old for this'
- Week in pictures: 17 - 23 August
- August 23rd
- Innovation of the week: A robotic bellhop
- Jamaica is holding national hockey team tryouts in Canada
- St. Louis police officer suspended for 'disturbing' video rant
- Dating Naked cast member sues because episode showed her dating naked
- New study projects slower climate change for next decade
- Sierra Leone cracks down on residents hiding Ebola patients
- Happy Birthday, Bao Bao! National Zoo panda celebrates one year
- Only in America: Cast a ballot, win a prize
- Russian truck convoy leaves Ukraine, but Western fears persist
- Best Properties: European properties for the well-heeled
- August 22nd
- Elizabeth Warren officially rejects the 'Ready for Warren' 2016 activist group
- Rick Perry is selling T-shirts with his mug shot on them
- American hero goes out of his way to stop pay-it-forward campaign at local Starbucks
- Researchers successfully hacked Gmail's smartphone app 92 percent of the time
- 24 was originally about a wedding
- For those who have everything: Video games for your treadmill
- Benedict Cumberbatch makes the ice bucket challenge actually seem like a good idea
- China broadcasting endless loop of Foley execution on huge screen in Beijing
- Dominican Republic bans Miley Cyrus concert
- Democrats think President Obama was 'tone-deaf' to go golfing after Foley announcement
- A Danish amusement park has a 'farting dog' ride, and 25 other amusing facts
- Clinton allies worried about 'Obama's third term' attacks
- Lena Dunham shares a brief, wacky teaser for Girls season 4
- Watch the (allegedly) leaked teaser for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight
- White House cybersecurity chief: 'You don't have to be a coder in order to really do well in this position'
- Study: Technology is depriving kids of social skills
- Mitt Romney did the ice bucket challenge in a suit
- This is what Sin City would look like without any special effects
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 bodies return home
- How taxpayers are subsidizing Bank of America's $16 billion mortgage settlement
- iPhone 6 Lightning cable 'to end USB frustration'
- 'Drunk' Paul Gascoigne taken to hospital after flat 'eviction'
- James Foley's family releases final ISIS email to parents, 'sheep-like' American public
- Spies 'undermining' efforts to monitor dark web
- Russia's truck convoy is entering eastern Ukraine
- Polio: double vaccine 'key to global eradication'
- Arsenal to miss out on Rabiot - but is Khedira deal back on?
- Shoppers in Venezuela might soon have to be fingerprinted in order to buy food
- Older people with vision trouble have an increased risk of early death
- Eva Green on her nudity in Sin City 2: 'Boobs have never killed anyone'
- Airbnb is making your dream of spending the night in Ikea a reality
- Over the span of 11 hours, almost 400 Starbucks customers 'paid it forward'
- GAO: Pentagon broke the law with Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap
- Atlantic Ocean currents could be behind global warming 'slowdown'
- Thousands of dollars raised online for the Brown family and Officer Darren Wilson
- August 21st
- Baseball hero Hank Aaron meets the Milwaukee Brewers' Hank the Dog
- You can now drink from a champagne glass modeled on Kate Moss' breasts
- Sleepy Hollow's Orlando Jones creates 'bullet bucket challenge' in support of Ferguson
- National Guard will withdraw from Ferguson
- Rick Perry: There is a 'very real possibility' that ISIS slipped into the U.S. from Mexico
- Talib Kweli destroys Don Lemon over CNN's coverage of Ferguson — live on CNN
- Laverne Cox's Wikipedia page was changed by someone on Capitol Hill
- The State Department won't let diplomats take the ice bucket challenge
- Toronto International Film Festival declares Sept. 5 'Bill Murray Day'
- Doctors remove a 36-year-old baby skeleton from a woman's body
- Alabama teacher placed on leave for making students re-enact Michael Brown shooting
- Study: Yoga could make you a better thinker
- Cured American Ebola patient speaks publicly for the first time: 'Today is a miraculous day'
- NASA discovers a mysterious source is still wrecking the ozone layer
- True Detective season 2 won't air until summer 2015
- Mo'ne Davis autographed baseball goes for $510 at auction
- Lawsuit: San Francisco unfairly ducks water limit rules
- Black artist poses as dead body at Philly's 'Love' sculpture, tourists continue taking photos
- The real question James Foley's death poses about America's policy on hostage negotiation
- 'One cold bastard': MSNBC's Joe Scarborough says Obama intimidates terrorists by golfing
- Veteran SNL writer: We were 'an arm of the Hollywood Democratic establishment'
- Bank of America reaches $16.65 billion settlement with the U.S. government
- 77-year-old John McCain to 21-year-old Johnny Manziel: 'Grow up'
- Want to watch The Simpsons marathon? This is how to find out if you have access.
- Chinese man proposes to girlfriend with 1,001 hot dogs
- Couples with big weddings report happier marriages
- How are British jihadists travelling to Syria and Iraq?
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- Your ramen habit could be hurting your heart
- New York gets to bed earlier than other major cities
- American doctor with Ebola to be discharged from hospital
- Americans' sense of job security rises to 20-year high
- Supreme Court halts Virginia same-sex marriages, set to start today
- You won't be able to visit Robin Williams' grave
- Watch kids gamely act out Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and other Emmy-nominated shows
- Beckham to Barton: footballers take the ice bucket challenge
- This college library is 11,000 square feet and will never hold a single book
- Balotelli heads to Liverpool in shock £16m transfer
- Russia shuts down several Moscow McDonald's, claims it has nothing to do with Ukraine
- Laura Ingalls Wilder's slightly risqué autobiography is finally being published
- Report: ISIS wanted cash, not policy changes, for James Foley's release
- Attorney General Eric Holder visits students in Ferguson, vows 'change is coming'
- Officials are exploring possible link between James Foley's abduction and 3 British citizens
- Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Ferguson: 'I'm sick of it'
- Study of kids finds unexpected link between artistic skills, intelligence scores, and genetics
- In foiled U.S. attempt to rescue James Foley, U.S. ground forces directly battled ISIS militants
- August 20th
- The richer you are, the more likely you are to think participation trophies are bunk
- Starbucks is bringing 'coffee trucks' to college campuses
- Matt Weiner says Mad Men would have had a lot more 'nakedness and violence' on HBO
- Study: Exercise improves kids' brains
- McDonald's will sell packaged coffee in supermarkets
- Vulnerable Democratic Senator Mark Pryor embraces ObamaCare in new ad
- Fed: Interest rate rises could come 'sooner than anticipated'
- Fox News host: 'History of Islam' shows a 'bullet to the head' is 'only thing these people understand'
- Cop points rifle at Ferguson protesters: 'I'll f**king kill you'
- The Ebola crisis has taken a nightmarish turn in Liberia
- Scientists shocked to discover plankton on exterior of International Space Station
- Coming to a TV near you: ABC's Chris Hadfield-inspired astronaut comedy
- Chinese coal consumption falls for the first time this century
- Craving junk food? Thank your gut bacteria
- Russia keeps trolling the U.S. over the unrest in Ferguson
- Showtime renews Masters of Sex and Ray Donovan
- Nurse turns her apartment into a hospital for 175 cats with leukemia
- Did George W. Bush kind of cheat at the ice bucket challenge?
- Sarah Palin on SNL: 'I know that they portrayed me as an idiot, and I hated that'
- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was hacked 3 times in 3 years
- U.S. military bans staff from reading Glenn Greenwald's news site
- Ebola isn't just killing people. It's ravaging West Africa's economy.
- Watch Chris Christie argue with a woman about Bruce Springsteen
- This chart shows the terrifying increase in ISIS killings this year
- Chuck Hagel could take military gear back from local cops — but probably won't
- Report: Obama knew of ISIS threat to kill James Foley
- Harry Reid wants to keep giving military gear to local cops
- The dream of U.S. high-speed bullet trains isn't dead. But it may start in Texas.
- Mitch McConnell: Expect more shutdown brinkmanship if Republicans take the Senate
- Pope Francis only expects to live for 'two or three years'
- The ten best places to live in England and Wales
- Looking to start a billion dollar business? Just copy Craigslist
- Police in Ferguson call Tuesday night's lower-key protests 'a turning point'
- Watch these rare snow leopard cubs make their debut
- Republican Dan Sullivan beats Tea Partier Joe Miller in Alaska Senate primary
- Arsenal hopes of signing Carvalho and Nastasic on ice
- 83-year-old man pleads guilty to hiding more than $1 million from IRS
- Watch Jimmy Fallon play Nintendo's GoldenEye with ex-007 Pierce Brosnan
- Israel-Gaza cease-fire collapses with renewed missile fire, airstrikes
- Mailman delivers lifesaving Heimlich maneuver to choking baby
- This Little League coach gives the perfect pep talk after his team's loss
- Jon Stewart is nostalgic for when shark attacks were the worst thing about August
- Benedict Cumberbatch will voice Shere Khan in Jungle Book adaptation
- Governor will not remove prosecutor in Michael Brown case
- James Foley's mother posts statement after journalist killed by ISIS: 'We thank Jim for all the joy he gave us'
- County in Liberia runs out of body bags for Ebola victims
- August 19th
- This is Rick Perry's mug shot
- Video purportedly shows ISIS beheading American journalist
- 99.8 percent of California suffering from 'severe' drought
- Breaking Bad stars reunite for a wacky Emmys parody
- Australian cafe owner reportedly told job applicant coffee is 'about white people'
- Casino missing nearly $21,000 after armored car drives off with forgotten bag on roof
- The NFL wants musicians to pay to play the Super Bowl halftime show
- This first look at Paul Rudd in Ant-Man is hilarious — for all the wrong reasons
- Self-driving cars could hit U.K. roads next year
- CNN anchor: Why not use water cannons on Ferguson protesters?
- Poll: Senate race up for grabs in solidly Republican Kansas, with a split vote against Pat Roberts
- Game of Thrones' 'Mountain' is officially the strongest man in Europe
- Ferguson security chief wants peaceful protesters to stay home
- Egypt teases U.S. over police crackdown on Ferguson protests
- University of Alabama sorority rush experiences new racism scandal
- Read a brand-new Harry Potter story from J.K. Rowling
- 'Electronic makeup' could change the beauty industry
- Washington think tank accidentally tells Amnesty International to 'suck it'
- Gisele Bundchen makes more money than Tom Brady
- Conservatives sue White House over government secrecy
- Howard Dean hopes Hillary Clinton becomes the next president
- This interactive map of paramilitary police raids is terrifying and depressing
- California slaughterhouse indicted for selling cancerous beef
- 3 relatives of Pope Francis killed in car crash in Argentina
- Redskins players raise hands before game in solidarity with Ferguson protesters
- Suarez outshone by fit again Neymar on Barcelona debut
- Study: Having good neighbors could reduce heart attack risk
- Inflation comes in on target
- Police in Ferguson came under 'heavy gunfire' last night, commander says
- Florida woman shoots grandson after mistaking him for intruder
- Letterman remembers Robin Williams with old stories, clips, and a forgotten Mork cameo
- Remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 victims will be flown to Malaysia
- Unidentified aircraft bombed Islamist targets in Libya
- Hundreds of police investigated over social media misuse
- Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015: best jokes from the past five years
- John Boehner has a clear tell when things aren't going well, says Paul Ryan
- Syria's declared chemical weapons have all been destroyed, U.S. says
- Marine's wife found dead in California, alleged lover arrested
- Arsenal chase Vargas loan deal as Podolski heads for Emirates exit
- 'Johnny Football' Manziel flipped off the Washington Redskins during Monday's Browns loss
- Watch what just might be the worst commercial of all time
- Engineers want to use darts to determine if there is life on Mars
- Rival dollar stores are now fighting to buy Family Dollar
- Man takes new jail mug shot with a T-shirt of his old mug shot
- School police in Compton cleared to purchase and carry AR-15 assault rifles
- Tiger Woods caddies as Jimmy Fallon tees off against Rory McIlroy in a bizarre game of 'Facebreakers'
- Chicken-suit wearing New Hampshire GOP staffer arrested for disorderly conduct
- Veteran SNL announcer Don Pardo dies at 96
- Police in Ferguson arrest Getty Images photographer
- Trayvon Martin's mother pens open letter to Michael Brown's family
- Was your child born in 2013? That's going to cost you $245,340
- August 18th
- Taylor Swift debuts 'Shake It Off' music video and release date for her new album 1989
- An enormous volcano in Iceland may be preparing to erupt
- Obama: Justice Department opening civil rights investigation into Ferguson
- Missouri governor lifts Ferguson curfew
- New drug could help alopecia patients grow hair
- Trucker saves family from massive car crash
- Taco Bell releases new dollar menu
- Ohio morgue attendant admits to having sex with corpses
- Alabama family catches record-setting, 1,000-pound alligator
- Gunmen stick up Saudi prince in Paris, seize $335,000 and diplomatic documents
- Why Sarah Palin is allying with Democrats on taxes
- Former Sen. Jim Jeffords, who switched control of the Senate in 2001, dies at age 80
- This is the guy who made the 'ice bucket challenge' go viral
- The government is struggling to get Native Americans to sign up for ObamaCare
- Boston police used facial recognition software on thousands of people at a music festival
- Watch Chris Christie dance with Jamie Foxx
- The face-kini: a swimwear trend that's going global
- Study: Lawyers are seen as bad parents
- Van Gaal: from hero to zero as Man Utd get a fast downgrade
- World's most-pierced man refused entry into Dubai
- Survey: More than one-third of Americans have no retirement funds saved
- Kurdish fighters reportedly recapture most or all of Iraq's critical Mosul Dam
- WikiLeaks' Julian Assange reportedly in poor health after 2 years in a London embassy
- Farm turns corn maze into a tribute to Derek Jeter
- Arsenal eye Rabiot and Khedira as Wilshere fears grow
- Missouri governor deploys National Guard to 'restore peace' in Ferguson
- Survey finds that 25 percent of military families need help putting food on the table
- John Oliver denounces the Ferguson police, and the absurd militarization of U.S. law enforcement
- Following controversy, SeaWorld San Diego will expand its orca environment
- Obama is back in Washington from vacation to address Iraq, Ferguson
- Ukraine forces enter center of separatist stronghold Luhansk. What will Moscow do?
- Here's what Venus and Jupiter's close encounter looks like around the world
- Preliminary autopsy shows Michael Brown was shot at least 6 times, including twice in the head
- Reports: Protesters, including a child, hit by tear gas in Ferguson
- Patients flee from Ebola quarantine center following attack by armed men
- August 17th
- Only in America: Denying a 97-year-old citizen the right to vote
- Watch Miss Texas stylishly throw the worst first pitch all year
- Hillary Clinton requires a 'presidential suite' for her speaking gigs
- Watch this little baby giraffe awkwardly clomp around the zoo
- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon: Cops tried to 'disparage the character' of Michael Brown
- Rick Perry: Felony indictment against me is a politically motivated 'farce'
- New Hampshire faces state of emergency after dozens overdose on fake weed
- One shot, others arrested as Ferguson protests slip back into chaos
- Week in pictures: 10 - 16 August
- August 16th
- Montana Democrats pick new Senate nominee, state Rep. Amanda Curtis, who faces uphill race
- For those who have everything: The Aromafork
- Rory McIlroy takes on Ian Poulter in an impromptu round of 'Who Wore it Best?'
- Innovation of the week: A high-tech baby-tracker
- Iraq's Yazidis beg for help as ISIS continues 'massacre' of religious minority
- Watch Hillary Clinton and Kevin Spacey plot a birthday present for Bill
- Mr. T shows up for jury duty in Chicago suburb
- Germany allegedly spied on John Kerry and Hillary Clinton
- Last night in Ferguson: Images from a frustrated city
- Only in America: The right to curse at your students
- Sen. Brian Schatz holds on to win Hawaii Democratic primary, after final votes are cast
- August 15th
- USA Basketball cancels Senegal trip amid Ebola fears
- How a man ended up $100,000 in debt — from chocolate
- Vogue releases its September cover
- Michael Brown's killer reportedly skipped town days ago
- Photo captures passenger plane taking off just as a tornado prepares to touch down
- This is (allegedly) what Han Solo will look like in Star Wars: Episode VII
- Google's underwater fiber-optic cables are being mauled by sharks
- Sweet tea gives Utah woman near-death experience
- Mansion owners have hilarious complaints about how difficult it is to be rich
- Report: EPA used decades-old data to make regulations
- FBI: 80 percent of U.S. law enforcement officers are overweight
- Robin Williams to be immortalized as a World of Warcraft character
- Study: Humans are responsible for nearly 70 percent of recent glacier melt
- Bacardi's new collection includes a $250 rum
- Starz renews Outlander for season 2
- Thames Baths plan for wild swimming in central London
- Fraudulent coffee filler: Another great reason to buy whole beans
- Yahoo releases teaser for Community's sixth season
- WHO: Magnitude of West Africa's Ebola outbreak has been 'vastly underestimated'
- Maine men charged with digging up their dead relatives
- Police reveal identities of undercover officers in sex case
- Man Utd poised to land Angel di Maria, but Benatia says no
- Iraq's political power struggle ends as Maliki stands down
- Long Island man, 101, has been reporting the weather for more than 8 decades
- Dust could be the first material brought to Earth from outside our solar system
- A new anti-HIV 'tampon' could save the lives of women
- That bottled water you're drinking is probably from a place hit hard by the drought
- Scientists find a way to make more than 1,000 robots work together
- Iraq Prime Minister Maliki makes it official, agrees to step aside
- Conan O'Brien takes the Ice Bucket Challenge, with a twist
- New state police commander is bringing calm to Ferguson, Missouri
- Ferrari shatters record, becomes most expensive car ever auctioned at $34.65 million
- Colorado town sues voters following error-filled election
- August 14th
- Unpaid internship at the Weinstein company auctioned off for $50,000
- Robin Williams had early stages of Parkinson's
- Sascha Bender started a fist fight by 'farting all the time,' and 29 other strange sports injuries
- North Koreans forced to donate metal for giant Dear Leader statues
- Extremely dedicated startup CEO makes birthday PowerPoint presentation featuring 1,284 slides
- TV news reporter describes being tear gassed by Ferguson police
- Poll: Hillary Clinton's lead over 2016 Republican hopefuls is slipping
- Palestinians are tweeting tear gas tips to Ferguson protesters
- Google pre-emptively awards Mike Trout MVP honors
- The new World Trade Center logo provides a bittersweet reminder of its history
- The Pentagon supplied Ferguson police with military apparatus being used against civilians
- Watch Ferguson police tear gas a news crew and shut down their camera
- Study's findings could stop asteroids from destroying Earth
- SMH! Oxford online dictionary adds some cray new words
- MSNBC host Joe Scarborough: Journalists arrested in Ferguson just 'want to get on TV'
- White House: Obama will keep donations from tax inversion companies
- The unlikely reason for North Korea's real estate boom
- SeaWorld blames bad publicity for revenue nosedive
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- This salmon cannon can shoot 40 fish a minute
- Best Properties: Pretty cottages under £500,000
- Watch Ferguson police bombard fleeing protesters with tear gas
- Jaguar unveils images of new '£1m' lightweight E-Type
- Oxford Dictionaries adds 'side boob,' 'YOLO' to its repertoire
- Arizona State football player comes out as gay
- Gaza truce holds despite exchange of fire
- Premier League: nine new arrivals to watch this season - in pictures
- AOL's dial-up plan is actually a pretty good deal
- Ferguson: state of emergency declared as protests continue
- Ukraine death toll jumps, as Russian aid convoy heads toward separatist-held crossing
- Gold for Farah, Porter, Dasaolu on wild Wednesday in Zurich
- One-armed pilot lost control of plane when false limb detached
- China's Communist Party says dogs are a menace to 'social peace and harmony'
- Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery posts video of his arrest in Ferguson
- Arsenal still keen on Cavani and could go after Mbia
- Watch as the Broadway cast of Aladdin pays tribute to Robin Williams
- Gov. Jay Nixon: 'Situation in Ferguson does not represent who we are'
- Study: More than 1.6 million deaths a year associated with excess sodium intake
- North Korea welcomes Pope Francis with a volley of short-range rockets
- Taylor Swift geeks out with Jimmy Fallon on 'Ew!'
- Pentagon: ISIS siege on the Yazidis is over, making U.S. rescue mission 'much less likely'
- Bones of flying reptile with butterfly-like head found in Brazil
- Ferguson police arrest two journalists
- August 13th
- Connecticut Republican Gov. nominee takes Ice Bucket Challenge, with his primary opponent pouring the water
- What do we do after robots take all the jobs?
- Obama might soon send ground troops to Iraq
- BBC News gets photo-bombed by breakfast-eating spider
- HBO renews The Leftovers for season 2
- Teen lives in Texas Walmart for days before being discovered
- Tiny Minnesota town elects dog as new mayor
- Study: Average citizens have practically zero influence on government policy
- NASA telescope observes light near black holes
- Study: Democrats pay black campaign staff 30 percent less than their white coworkers
- Kim Kardashian's selfie book stuns MSNBC hosts: This is 'why we're in decline'
- The Toronto Raptors' refusal to ditch Drake cost them $25,000
- Apple admits that only 30 percent of its employees are women
- Watch original footage from Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart's 1945 wedding
- Epic Meal Time created a 146,800-calorie Oreo
- Rick Perry: 'I'm awesome'
- UK unemployment down – but so is the average wage
- Police shoot, critically wound second man as Ferguson protests continue
- Murder suspect reportedly asked Siri about hiding a body
- Net neutrality? The FCC's public commenters were overwhelmingly in favor
- South Koreans protest Pope Francis' upcoming visit
- Obama sends another 130 military advisers to Iraq, weighs Yazidi rescue mission
- Jimmy Fallon honors Robin Williams with a spot-on impersonation, vintage clip
- Will Arsenal pay £8m for Tiote, Alderweireld or Manolas?
- Maserati's unusual paint job lands driver in hot water
- New York is America's 'unhappiest city' — and the 5 happiest are in one unexpected state
- More U.S. babies are being born to unmarried, cohabiting couples
- Robotic butlers could be coming to a hotel near you
- Jimmy Fallon does his best Kevin Spacey impression in House of Cue Cards
- Stanford math professor becomes first woman to receive prestigious Fields Medal
- Iran dumps Iraq's Maliki, effectively derailing his fight to stay in power
- Experts concerned as more older people die from meth intoxication
- Archaeologists uncover 'extremely important' ancient tomb in Greece
- Actress Lauren Bacall dies at 89
- August 12th
- Behold: A bacon-powered motorcycle
- Ferguson police won't name the cop who killed an unarmed black teen after all
- North Carolina woman finds butter-printed swastika on McDonald's sandwich
- Read the one great idea that got someone a job writing for Game of Thrones
- Hillary Clinton to end Syria beef with Obama by 'hugging it out' at a fundraiser
- Happy World Elephant Day!
- Fox News contributor: Michelle Obama 'needs to drop a few' pounds
- Marin County sheriff's department releases details of Robin Williams' death
- White House to roll back ban on lobbyists in government
- This is why chickens can live with their heads cut off
- Mitch McConnell's re-election bid is gaining steam
- Jason Momoa has reportedly been cast as Aquaman in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
- Top Obama adviser fires back at Hillary Clinton over 'stupid stuff' criticism
- This new virtual assistant wants to be the Siri of your dreams
- Judge rules the NSA can conceal which phone companies help spy on you
- Federal transparency website inaccurate 90+ percent of the time, figures off by more than $600 billion
- This candidly powerful anti-obesity PSA is already inspiring change
- White cop calls black protesters 'animals' in Ferguson, Missouri
- Windowless jet designed to look transparent from inside
- Senator Jeff Bridges? Don't count on it, man
- $2.4 billion Atlantic City casino to close after two miserable years
- George R.R. Martin's teachers warned him fantasy fiction would 'rot your mind'
- Indian executives: Asbestos could save the poor
- Fox News accidentally mourns Robin Williams with fake Mrs. Doubtfire clip
- Conan O'Brien delivers an emotional tribute to Robin Williams
- WHO says using untested Ebola treatments is 'ethical'
- Manchester United ban iPads and laptops from Old Trafford
- Another ObamaCare legacy: The federal government just got its own IT consultancy
- Mo Farah airlifted to hospital: runner reveals heart drama
- Incredibly rare panda triplets born in China
- Man Utd fire sale: Hernandez, Fellaini, Zaha and Nani to leave
- Iran bans vasectomies and other forms of permanent contraception
- Parents complain about health textbook that discusses bondage, sex toys
- Russia's 'humanitarian' mission to Ukraine is likely prelude to an invasion, NATO warns
- Experts say teen pot use may dim brain function
- Police fire tear gas during another night of protests in Missouri
- Hollywood reacts to the death of Robin Williams
- Cells grown in artificial tissue could help shape treatment for traumatic brain injuries
- Obama praises Robin Williams: 'He was one of a kind'
- August 11th
- Burger King's chicken fries are back
- Two-headed dolphin washes ashore in Turkey
- Couple dies taking cliff selfie
- Female pitcher leads her team to Little League World Series
- HBO won't recast role played by deceased Game of Thrones actor
- 'Supermassive black holes' may have destroyed three stars
- Watch the World Yo-Yo Champion's mind-blowing routine
- Far-right British politician tells young activists to copy Hitler for public speaking
- U.S. arms the Kurds in Iraq — to fight U.S.-armed ISIS
- Show love with selfies not locks, pleads Paris
- State Department spends $545K to teach employees not to embarrass themselves at congressional hearings
- Woman steals cell mate's debit card number, bails herself out of jail
- Watch the first teaser for Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul
- Canadian woman climbs barbed wire fence to stop plane departure
- Nascar star Stewart accused after hitting and killing rival
- Antibacterial hand soap could harm fetuses
- Researchers find new, massive penguin fossils in Antarctica
- North Korea is creating its own 'rosy' human rights report
- China's mountainous tower of trash
- In Iraq, U.S. bombs ISIS, Prime Minister Maliki attacks new Iraqi president
- Arsenal challenge Man Utd for Hummels but not Di Maria
- John Oliver colorfully explains why you should avoid payday lenders at all cost
- These stunning photos perfectly capture the super moon
- Man allegedly steals attorney's identity, then poses as lawyer
- The Ebola outbreak apparently started with a 2-year-old in rural Guinea
- 55 years later, man receives high school diploma wrongfully withheld from him
- Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan elected president, heralding big changes
- Looting reported during vigil for unarmed Missouri teen shot by police
- Study: Keystone XL pipeline could cause more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought
- Hillary Clinton: Not helping the Syrian rebels is what allowed ISIS to grow
- August 10th
- Only in America: The mall that bans praying
- Zack Snyder tells Detroit radio station to leave Aquaman alone
- Hawaii Democratic Senate race down to the wire — in leftover precincts and delayed votes
- Fox & Friends host on gun safety: 'Far more children died last year drowning in their bathtubs'
- President Obama delivers surprise video address at International Gay Games kickoff
- Russia offers Donetsk rebels troop support to 'avert an impending humanitarian crisis'
- Watch Albert Pujols end MLB's longest game this year with a walk-off homer
- NASCAR driver Tony Stewart hits, kills fellow driver in sprint car race
- Week in pictures: 3 - 9 August
- August 9th
- For those who have everything: The Kagu Cozy Room
- Wendy Davis campaign runs controversial rape ad
- GM recalls yet another round of vehicles
- Innovation of the week: Fashionable bike safety
- LeBron James' homecoming rally shows it's good to be king
- MSNBC's Chris Matthews blasts colleague Ezra Klein's Vox
- Egypt court bans political wing of Muslim Brotherhood
- Watch NASA's 'flying saucer' take its supersonic test flight
- Obama: 'I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq'
- Only in America: The wrong way to get people more comfortable with guns
- Judge rules against NCAA in O'Bannon case, but athletes' victory may be largely symbolic
- August 8th
- 53 percent of teens who talk on the phone while driving are chatting with mom or dad
- CBS Sports will air the first all-female sports talk show, starting this fall
- State attorneys general implore FDA to double down on e-cigarette regulations
- The title of Kim Kardashian's new coffee-table book couldn't be more perfect
- Israel and Hamas have resumed fighting
- The Democratic nominee for Tennessee governor wants to electrocute incumbent Bill Haslam
- Ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner hoping to start new restaurant in storm-ravaged Rockaways
- Boehner: Executive action on immigration reform would be a 'grievous mistake'
- Giant, deadly jellyfish baffles scientists
- Get McDonald's delivered to your door
- Virginia has the nation's fastest internet connection
- One incredibly determined Phillies fan just got his wish: A day at the zoo with Roy Halladay
- Will Arnett confirms there will be a fifth season of Arrested Development
- Andy Samberg's The Lonely Island is making a movie with Judd Apatow
- School suspends fourth grader for bringing Nerf gun to show and tell
- This table tennis rally is crazy exciting
- ISIS: We will raise our flag in the White House
- Swedish man arrested for being too buff
- Congress adds $20 billion in random earmarks to huge military budget
- Richard Nixon to Time in 1990: 'There's nothing trivial about Watergate'
- Indonesian girl found safe ten years after Boxing Day tsunami
- The slippery slope of bombing Iraq
- A brief guide to ISIS
- U.S. begins airstrikes on ISIS targets in Iraq
- Iselle is downgraded to a tropical storm as it hits Hawaii
- Shark Week: what is the most dangerous animal in the world?
- Gaza cease-fire ends as Israel and Hamas resume attacks
- Doctor Who: The five least 'user-friendly' Doctors
- LeVar Burton and Jimmy Kimmel imagine the inanity of a Tweeting Rainbow spin-off
- Suarez and Barcelona in court to have bite ban reduced
- Best properties: Single-storey houses
- Malaysia Airlines to be nationalised after MH370 and MH17 disasters
- Arsenal sell Vermaelen to Barcelona, is Wilshere off too?
- Jon Stewart seems kind of sympathetic to a President Rand Paul
- WHO: Ebola outbreak in West Africa is an international public health emergency
- Victims of Lone Star tick bites are developing serious allergies to meat
- Restaurant owner passes the buck to customers to cover minimum wage increase
- ESPN suspends Miami TV host Dan Le Batard over LeBron James–trolling billboard
- Study finds that almost 1 in 10 cancer survivors still smoke
- Scandal-plagued Rep. Scott DesJarlais narrowly ahead against Republican primary challenger
- Toddler triggers lockdown at the White House
- Sean Hannity is upset that Stephen Colbert likened him to 5-year-old viral 'newsman'
- Boo! Man fined for pretending to be a ghost inside English cemetery
- Look up: Super moon and meteor shower both happening Sunday
- Tennessee's Lamar Alexander wins primary
- Obama authorizes 'targeted airstrikes' in Iraq
- Origami-inspired robot can fold itself and walk away in less than 5 minutes
- August 7th
- CNN: U.S. begins airdrops in Iraq
- Wine dealer swindled clients out of millions by selling fake concoctions
- Study: Most Americans eat alone
- Montana's John Walsh drops out of Senate race
- Broadway's The Lion King cast spontaneously serenaded a New York subway with 'Circle of Life'
- MLS star Landon Donovan announces his retirement from soccer
- Why ISIS' seizure of the 'most dangerous dam in the world' is such a big deal
- Christina Hendricks brings Mad Men into the modern office
- Watch the frothy trailer for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Jobless claims the lowest since February 2006
- Tourist crashes drone into hot spring at Yellowstone National Park
- Google is incentivizing better website security
- Obama considers air strikes to help Yazidi Iraqis trapped by ISIS
- Obama attacks tax inversions, but his auto bailout funded one
- Former postmaster general says USPS is prostituting its stamp program
- Obama: 'I never have a green light' to bypass Congress
- The entire Wu-Tang Clan reunites on The Daily Show, debuts a new song
- Vietnam War refugee becomes the military's first Vietnamese-born general
- James Van Der Beek joins this fall's questionably named CSI: Cyber
- Study: Vitamin D deficiency may double risk of dementia
- Russia grants Edward Snowden three years of temporary residency
- Sorry, Republicans: Supporting Uber won't win you many millennial votes
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- How your packet of crisps can spy on you
- Hawaii braces for a rare double blast of hurricanes
- Economists are baffled by Russia's new sanctions against the West
- Stephen Colbert mocks Kim Jong Un's giddiness over North Korean lube
- China will create its own version of Christianity
- Islamic State: RAF jets carry out first air strikes in Iraq
- New online service lets parents select baby names based on available web domain names
- Arsenal could get clear run on Higuain as Liverpool eye Falcao
- Candidate for San Francisco Board of Supervisors fights nudity ban by being nude in Times Square
- Two Khmer Rouge leaders sentenced to life for 1970s Cambodia war crimes
- Thai officials discover a condo filled with babies born by different surrogates
- Officials think woman boarded Southwest flight as a stowaway because she was lonely
- Ted Danson had to play 'ditch the president' to escape Bill Clinton
- Possible zombie star found 110 million light years from Earth
- Report: Bank of America reaches record $16 billion mortgage settlement with U.S.
- Obama: Gaza cannot remain 'closed off from the world'
- Mississippi GOP chairman tells Chris McDaniel: No, I won't just make you the winner of the Senate primary
- Critics say iPads mounted on tortoises for installation isn't art, it's abuse
- August 6th
- The newest fancy restaurant trend: tickets instead of reservations
- Poll: The prime time for sexting is late Tuesday morning
- Fans are petitioning for Weird Al to play the next Super Bowl halftime show
- Universe's best dad builds seriously tricked-out NASA spaceship for his son
- Netanyahu defends Israel's Gaza actions
- Let's watch Kama the surfing pig catch a wave
- Terminator 5 gets an incredibly stupid new title
- Hummingbirds are freaks of nature
- Watch Eddie Redmayne channel Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything
- Denver sheriff's deputies are basically Super Troopers, minus the movie ending
- A quick and easy way to spot a narcissist
- British photographer claims selfie-snapping monkey is ruining his livelihood
- Kanye West: 'I'm the smartest celebrity'
- A small daily dose of aspirin can reduce the risks of certain cancers, science shows
- Watch these Australian commuters tip a train to save a man trapped on the platform
- The Walgreen Company to acquire British pharmacy chain for $5.27 billion, will keep headquarters in the U.S.
- Missouri carries out first execution since prolonged lethal injection in Arizona
- Argentine grandmother finds grandson 36 years after his abduction
- Get ready for a wave of American companies moving overseas
- The Daily Show shops for a brand of president other than Bush vs. Clinton, the 'Coke and Pepsi of politics'
- Italy's economy is back in recession
- Daniel Radcliffe explains how to make Elvis Presley's other favorite sandwich
- Apple is reportedly unveiling the iPhone 6 on Sept. 9
- Jon Stewart wants you to calm down about the Ebola outbreak
- An aspirin a day can keep cancer away, claims new study
- The Fault in Our Stars is headed to Bollywood
- Report: Sprint is dropping its T-Mobile takeover bid, naming new CEO
- Liverpool boss Rodgers warns Van Gaal and Man Utd
- Fatburger debuts the ultimate protein burger, with meat replacing a bun
- Arsenal Khedira boost thanks to Guilavogui loan move
- Jeff Goldblum makes groom's wish come true with Jurassic Park wedding photo
- Frozen writer to adapt classic A Wrinkle in Time for the big screen
- Watch live as the Rosetta spacecraft tries to orbit a shooting comet
- New standards for gluten-free product labeling now in effect
- Watch Tea Party Rep. Justin Amash slam his establishment GOP opponent — for calling to concede
- Hacking ring is said to have 1.2 billion stolen user names and passwords
- GOP Sen. Pat Roberts defeats Tea Party challenger Milton Wolf in Kansas primary
- 'Apparently,' it's this kid's first time on live TV, but you wouldn't know it by his awesome comments
- Tea Party Rep. Kerry Bentivolio loses Republican primary in landslide to party establishment's Dave Trott
- 14 injured after New York City sightseeing buses crash in Times Square
- August 5th
- Astronaut talks NASA into beaming the SEC Network to the International Space Station
- MSNBC correspondent accidentally claims Obama is 'from Kenya'
- GOP Rep. Mo Brooks digs in on 'War on Whites': Caucasians are only group 'you can lawfully discriminate against'
- There's a new Edward Snowden on the block
- Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept asked the government for comment on a story. The feds handed the scoop to the AP.
- This what a hunting great white sharks looks like
- New polls show close races for Democratic senators in Arkansas, Alaska
- Meet the new host of The Late Late Show
- Insurance company pays $21,000 of settlement in massive buckets of change
- Will the Tea Party oust any incumbent GOP senators this year?
- Poll: American men far more supportive of Israel's Gaza operation than women
- Justin Bieber ringtone saves man being mauled by bear
- Soccer players to FIFA: Artificial World Cup turf is 'discriminatory' against women
- Herd immunity: how vaccines protect the unvaccinated
- This interactive map of the Roman Empire is amazing
- True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto accused of plagiarism
- Watch Rand Paul ditch his meal to flee from immigration activists
- U.S. major general reportedly killed by Afghan soldier
- Scientists unveil the 'happiness equation'
- RAF escorts Qatar Airways plane to Manchester
- Watch Conan get some style advice from Laverne Cox on his Orange Is the New Black-themed cold open
- This is the story for True Detective season 2
- Biogenesis founder Tony Bosch surrendered to the DEA for peddling performance-enhancing drugs
- Arsenal: 'new era' as Usmanov calls an end to Kroenke feud
- Russia now has enough troops amassed to invade Ukraine at will
- A weakening Tropical Storm Bertha passes by the East Coast
- Cash for clunkers didn't help the economy
- Wine scammer to be jailed for selling fake vintages
- A retro Stephen Colbert fondly remembers Nixon on the 40th anniversary of his resignation
- Pro-gun children's picture book met with disbelief in America
- Jon Stewart thrashes Congress on immigration: Only Obama and the KKK have border security plans
- Ex-Israeli general compares Gaza to Nazi Germany, says there are no 'innocent civilians' there
- Google reports man for 'sending child porn'
- New study finds that potato chip bags are listening to your every word
- Liverpool reignite £19m Bony chase and close in on Moreno
- 5-year-old mayor in Minnesota is out after 2 terms
- Husband and wife of 62 years die within 4 hours of each other
- Justice Ginsburg: Supreme Court hugs gay rights, won't let women 'decide for themselves what their destiny will be'
- Study finds that hepatitis C in the U.S. could become 'rare' within 20 years
- Helen Mirren gets saucy, in Elizabethan costume, on Fallon's Tonight Show
- 'Frenemy,' 'selfie,' 'bromance' among the 5,000 new approved Scrabble words
- Keke Palmer will be the first African-American to play Cinderella on Broadway
- August 4th
- Montana newspapers call on Democratic Sen. John Walsh to drop out of Senate race over plagiarism scandal
- Nate Silver: Republicans still favored to retake the Senate
- New York City may have its first Ebola case — but don't freak out
- Tea Party loser in Mississippi GOP primary claims he actually won by 25,000 votes
- Vince Vaughn in talks to star in True Detective season 2
- Watch a 46-year-old Nolan Ryan repeatedly punch a dude in the face for charging the mound
- Gun-rights group writes 'wholesome' children's book on virtues of handguns
- Syracuse is America's number one party school
- GOP Rep. Mo Brooks: Democrats waging a 'war on whites'
- Sony is making a female superhero movie set in the Amazing Spider-Man universe
- Former White House Press Secretary James Brady dead at 73
- Mitch McConnell, five-term Senate incumbent, says he's the 'change' candidate in Kentucky
- Study: Playing video games a little bit each day can actually be good for kids
- The White House sent young Latinos undercover to mess with Cuba for less than $6 per hour
- Sorry, that Fifty Shades of Grey-themed hotel won't be opening after all
- Experimental Ebola serum may have saved two infected American doctors
- House intel report on Benghazi finds no secret Obama scandal
- Hotel fines guests $500 for posting bad reviews online
- James Gunn is already working on a Guardians of the Galaxy sequel
- Cliven Bundy: God told me to have a standoff with the government
- Indian government hires monkey-mimickers to scare macaque monkeys out of New Delhi
- Incredible Irish dog survives 300-foot cliff dive into the Atlantic
- Israeli troops 'paid little heed to warnings' to avoid hitting U.N. schools
- No, a bird didn't poop on Vladimir Putin
- 'War is bad for the waistline': Times of Israel blog stirs outrage
- ISIS just took control of Iraq's largest hydroelectric dam
- Here's what a really horrific day at work looks like
- New evidence emerges that Texas may have killed innocent man
- Portugal announces a $6.6 billion bailout of a major bank
- Palestinians accuse Israel of breaking unilateral ceasefire
- Giant tortoise detained by police following 'brief chase'
- Ukraine: refugees 'burnt alive' in rocket fire strike on convoy
- Lineker calls for World Cup boycott over Fifa 'corruption'
- Here's John Oliver's take on the blurred lines between advertising and news
- Arsenal in £24m Carvalho bid as they join hunt for Hummels
- Surrogate raising baby left by biological parents is 'willing to forgive them'
- American Idol finalist Michael Johns dies at 35
- Polygamous leader's compound now a cozy bed and breakfast
- Paul Feig in talks to direct Ghostbusters reboot starring women
- Man says he was fired after blogging about homophones, accused of pushing a 'gay agenda'
- August 3rd
- For those who have everything: Sunglasses that add a filter to real life
- Beyonce addresses Solange-Jay Z elevator brawl on 'Flawless' remix
- Watch Jim Thome blast a monster 511-foot homer for old times' sake
- GOP Rep. Steve King : If Obama acts on immigration we may have to impeach him
- Ban Ki-moon: Strike on U.N. school in Gaza a 'moral outrage and a criminal act'
- Mitt Romney 2016? There's a 'movement afoot' to make it happen, says GOP governor
- Report: Israel spied on John Kerry during peace talks
- Nepal has 'no hope' of finding survivors after massive landslide
- Week in pictures: 27 July - 2 August
- August 2nd
- Toledo officials warn residents not to drink toxin-filled water
- Bill Murray reportedly joins Disney's The Jungle Book, will voice Baloo
- Delivery drone carrying marijuana, cellphones crashes outside prison
- Innovation of the week: The smartshoe
- Mexico's volatile Sinaloa state passes law restricting reporters' crime coverage
- Watch Nancy Pelosi angrily chase Republican Tom Marino across the House floor
- Hundreds of feral cats are taking over a tiny New York island
- NASA's new rover will search for farmland on Mars
- Check out these delightful photos from Germany's Shepherds Championships
- Only in America: Better safe than sorry?
- Following horrific Team USA leg injury, Paul George reportedly out for entire 2014-15 NBA season
- Best Properties: Fantastic Farmhouses
- August 1st
- Jennifer Lawrence is single again
- Tara Reid debuts her Sharknado-inspired perfume
- Get your first glimpse of Josh Brolin as Thanos, the ultimate Marvel villain
- Israeli newspaper removes post on Gaza titled, 'When Genocide is Permissible'
- Government employees say they're only watching porn at work because they're bored
- Dallas Cowboys brazenly mail season-ticket holders playoff tickets, too
- This photo could wreck a one-time GOP presidential hopeful's career
- John Major praises 'guts and drive' of immigrants in the UK
- Pot, meet kettle: White House condemns Israeli bombing of a Gaza school
- Poll: ObamaCare is more 'unfavorable' than ever
- How to create the Mandelbrot set
- British homes 'bought up by dirty money'
- 'Deer urine farmers' are a real thing, and 25 other strange occupations
- The U.S. economy added 209,000 jobs in July
- U.S. Ebola patients expected to return to the U.S. for treatment
- Jon Stewart blasts Congress as the 'Sharknado 2 of government'
- Republican lawmaker: GOP members 'just don't want to vote for anything'
- Californians face just a 4.2 percent increase in ObamaCare premiums
- Food stamp usage drops for first time since recession
- Utah teacher fired after homophone blog
- Has the mafia's 'omerta' code of silence finally broken?
- Australian diver Melissa Wu bombs from ten metres
- Now you can send your pet's remains on a journey literally out of this world
- Arsenal dismiss Quintero talk, but is Vermaelen off to Man Utd?
- Army major keeps promise, brings child from Afghanistan to U.S. for surgery
- Eric Cantor set to resign from Congress on August 18
- Watch Jimmy Fallon and Julia Roberts try not to hurt each other while playing Face Balls
- Get moving: Doctor warns we are 'sitting ourselves to death'
- Biannual report finds one cop in Seattle issued 80 percent of all marijuana tickets
- See-through mice created by scientists look creepy, but could lead to medical breakthroughs
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