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- September 30th
- New Viagra ad features only a woman for the first time
- Tracy Morgan: 'I can't believe Walmart is blaming me for an accident that they caused'
- North Carolina Senate race: GOPer Thom Tillis attacks Dem Kay Hagan on ISIS
- Federal judge rules against ObamaCare subsidies
- Study: Olive oil could help failing hearts
- Microsoft just announced Windows 10. It looks very familiar.
- Democratic Sen. Shaheen avoids meeting Scott Brown face-to-face for N.H. Senate debate
- The iPhone 6 will be available in China in October
- Caffeine-infused underwear won't help you lose weight, government says
- Putin: Russia and Kazakhstan are 'connected historically and today by a thousand threads'
- Report: White House intruder was finally stopped by an off-duty Secret Service agent
- California becomes first state to officially ban single-use plastic bags
- Polls: Republicans narrowly ahead in Iowa and Louisiana Senate races
- Study finds that dolphins may be able to detect magnetic fields
- Watch Liam Neeson use his particular set of skills in the first Taken 3 trailer
- Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps arrested, charged with DUI in Baltimore
- Human Rights org: U.S. airstrike in Syria killed only civilians, destroyed food supply
- Democratic Senate candidate plagiarized nearly his whole website
- The Cardinals are the most hateable playoff team
- Paris Fashion Week 2014 - in pictures
- NFL admits Muslim player should not have been penalized for touchdown prayer
- Mysterious feature on Saturn's moon baffles NASA scientists
- Ron Paul 'pleased' with secession movements for promoting freedom
- Mitt Romney claims a foreign government was reading his emails
- Watch the zany first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice
- Iceland's gender equality conference will only include men
- Police link suspect in Virginia student's disappearance to a similar case
- NASA finds that Earth's fourth-largest lake is almost completely dry
- Afghan government signs security pact with the U.S.
- 'Muslim machine gun' toy prompts supermarket apology
- Polls: Sizable bipartisan majorities back U.S. military action against ISIS
- Half the world's wildlife lost in the last four decades
- Brooks Newmark sting: Mirror apologises for using women's photos
- Jon Stewart slams Congress for cravenly ducking debate on ISIS
- Apple has released a partial Shellshock fix, but your Mac was probably never in much danger
- WWF: After 40 years, half of the world's wildlife is gone
- Netflix's first original movie is coming in 2015
- Man Utd plan £52m Juventus raid, Giroud signs Arsenal deal
- You have to sign a waiver to eat this 8,000-calorie breakfast
- Report: More than 3,000 migrants have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean in 2014
- Walmart blames Tracy Morgan for getting hurt when a Walmart truck hit his SUV
- Taylor Swift talks feminism, support for other female artists
- Football referees penalize Muslim player for post-touchdown prayer
- George Zimmerman's brother says George 'identifies with' Anne Frank, could be suffering from PTSD
- Survey finds that ATM fees continue to rise
- Using movie sets, a film studio aims to help people get over their fear of flying
- September 29th
- Wind turbines are killing more bats than ever
- Aretha Franklin out-divas Adele in roof-raising 'Rolling in the Deep' cover
- 45 dogs dead in North Las Vegas fire
- Man could go to jail for kicking stray cat
- GOP Senate candidate Ernst pulling ahead in Iowa
- This may be the happiest mug shot of all time
- Israeli PM Netanyahu compares radical Muslims to Nazis
- Listen to Lorde's fiery new single from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
- Report: Ted Cruz getting ready to run for president in 2016
- Why water fluoridation is a good policy
- New Iraqi comedy show lampoons ISIS
- Pope Benedict makes rare public appearance to join Pope Francis at Vatican event for elderly
- This robot will test your Thai food's authenticity
- The government spent $300,000 to study how bikes work
- Archaeologists discover 'Dracula's Dungeon' in Turkish castle
- Rick Santorum 'beginning the process' of a 2016 campaign
- California adopts 'yes means yes' law on sexual consent
- This is the character who died on The Simpsons last night
- U.S. troops will stay in Afghanistan past Dec. 31 deadline
- Study: Eating a deep-fried candy bar could increase your stroke risk in minutes
- Happy National Coffee Day. Don't forget to get your free cup of java.
- Ukrainian protesters topple iconic Lenin statue
- Ghani inaugurated as Afghanistan's president
- Hong Kong protesters defy police, expand pro-democracy protest
- Wall Street and its top regulators are in for a horrible week
- Hong Kong: police adopt tough tactics as protests escalate
- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi got a rock star's reception in New York
- The Pill isn't the best form of birth control for teen girls
- Arsenal eye Delph, Bender and Brozovic, but still want Khedira
- World War II vet, 93, visits Russia to thank soldiers who saved him
- John Oliver asks some uncomfortable questions about America's drone warfare
- Parents arrested as son, 5, found with cocaine in his system
- Consumer Reports: The iPhone 6 Plus doesn't really bend easily
- Protesters block Israeli-owned ship from unloading cargo in California
- Scenes from George Clooney's low-key, high-wattage wedding weekend in Venice
- Scientists: Water on Earth is older than the sun and solar system
- Virus spread by mosquitos hits more than 1 million people in Latin America
- Spice found in curry could help the brain heal itself
- September 28th
- Only in America: Share your lunch, get detention
- Watch Derek Jeter's most iconic play in pinstripes to commemorate the retiring shortstop
- Obama has faced three times as many threats as predecessors
- Obama: American intel 'underestimated' ISIS
- John Boehner: Obama may have 'no choice' but to deploy U.S. ground troops against ISIS
- SNL channels NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell: 'We fight women'
- Louisiana's Senate race — and control of Congress — could be decided in a runoff
- Poll: 10 percent of men more likely to watch NFL after domestic violence debacles
- Russia calls for 'reset 2.0' with United States
- Police blast Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrators with tear gas
- Best properties: outstandingly situated houses
- Week in pictures: 21 - 27 September
- September 27th
- For those who have everything: A collapsible, portable hot tub
- Remembering Jim Traficant: Watch the former congressman's legendary, wild speeches
- Swedish scientists admit to 17 years of sneaking Bob Dylan lyrics into research articles
- Bill and Hillary Clinton welcome grandchild: 'Charlotte's life is off to a good start'
- Spain's Catalonia region calls for independence vote
- Ferguson police department bans officers from wearing 'I am Darren Wilson' bracelets
- Photos: Japanese volcano erupts for first time since 2007
- Liberia's chief medical officer places herself under quarantine after assistant dies from Ebola
- Astronaut adorably comforts five-year-old boy worried about Voyager: 'It's a very tough little spaceship'
- Only in America: Media training for cops who might shoot suspects
- WHO officials: More than 3,000 people have died from Ebola outbreak
- September 26th
- International Monetary Fund will give $130 million in Ebola aid
- Michael Bloomberg is having trouble finding anti-gun candidates to endorse
- Report: 70 percent of new immigrants fail to report back to immigration officials
- Northern Ireland is distributing 'scratch and sniff' cards to help find cannabis factories
- Senate: Nearly a quarter of Americans ages 25-54 are not working
- Bruges is building an underground beer pipeline
- The state of Kansas is auctioning off sex toys
- North Korean state TV says Kim Jong Un 'suffering discomfort'
- The Washington Redskins are selling expired beer to fans
- Radiohead's Thom Yorke releases surprise album via BitTorrent
- Baseball didn't always have innings, and 28 other early sports rules
- George Clooney's wedding guests descend on Venice
- Don't be that guy: A visual etiquette guide to enjoying (and possibly remembering) Oktoberfest
- Reclusive author Thomas Pynchon has a cameo in Inherent Vice (but good luck trying to find him)
- Study: Cowbells could be hurting cows' ears
- Chris Pratt tells the strange story behind his ridiculous first headshot
- Innovation of the week: The barely wet washing machine
- The Daily Show uncomfortably, hilariously, solves the Redskins' name problem
- Balotelli unveils Liverpool hair tribute ahead of Everton derby
- Noodles laced with opium 'to encourage return visits'
- British lawmakers expected to approve airstrikes against ISIS
- Detroit elected officials regain control over their broke city's daily operations
- Denmark will join coalition against ISIS
- U.S. and Arab airstrikes hit ISIS oil targets again, for good reason
- Within hours of each other, 3 firefighters who breathed in WTC dust die of cancer
- Jon Stewart hammers Fox News' 'false patriotism' after Obama 'latte salute' freakout
- Pope Francis sacks Paraguay bishop accused of shielding sex abuser
- Police dogs trained to sniff out electronic devices storing child porn, other illegal items
- Man attempts to smuggle 51 turtles in his pants
- NRA ad for Scott Walker features dramatized home invasion: 'Vote like your safety depends on it'
- Norah Jones caps Conan's great George Harrison Week with 'Behind That Locked Door'
- Richard Branson is letting his staff take off whenever they want for as long as they want
- AP source: Ray Rice video sent to NFL headquarters was addressed to security chief
- News anchor who doesn't realize his mic is on curses, bashes the poor
- Study: As skirt sizes go up, so does the risk of breast cancer
- September 25th
- Eric Holder tears up announcing resignation: 'I will continue to serve'
- International Olympic Committee adds anti-discrimination clause to host city contracts
- Dem. congressional candidate: These naked people want you to vote for me
- Contempt of Congress hearing against Eric Holder will proceed without him
- Saudi prince joins ISIS bombing, receives death threats
- Mark Pryor facing tough race from Republican newcomer in Arkansas
- Rachel McAdams has reportedly been offered a lead role in True Detective season 2
- German gambler faces arrest, pays fine with slot machine winnings
- First female pilot for UAE bombs ISIS, Fox News host asks if that counts as 'boobs on the ground'
- Obama will create the world's largest fully-protected marine reserve
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- Polish zoo reunites amorous donkey couple after protests
- Alabama schools stalk students on Facebook, supposedly at the NSA's bidding
- British Prime Minister David Cameron to apologize to Queen Elizabeth for saying she 'purred'
- Dash cam video captures white cop shooting unarmed black man who was reaching for his driver's license
- Ferguson police chief issues a video apology to the Brown family, 'peaceful protesters', and city residents
- Hate political ads? Avoid these TV shows and channels
- Lindsay Lohan forgot her lines during her stage debut
- Groundhog dropped by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio reportedly died of 'internal injuries'
- Cat Stevens cancels first New York concert in 35 years over 'extortionate ticket prices'
- Kansas Senator Pat Roberts listed Virginia home as 'principal residence'
- Macs now at risk of bug more dangerous than Heartbleed
- How the rich devoured the American economy, in one chart
- Mitt Romney in 2016 sounds increasingly plausible
- Urban Outfitters is the world's top vinyl seller
- Spurs takeover called off as US investors baulk at valuation
- Judge denies defense request to move Boston Marathon bombing trial
- Sierra Leone restricts travel into 3 Ebola 'hotspots'
- Religious scholars: Blame Saudi Arabia for ISIS's theology
- Jon Stewart helpfully explains China's Alibaba to America: 'Craigslist with better graphics'
- French tourist beheaded by jihadists loyal to Islamic State
- PETA: Give inmate accused of cannibalism a vegan diet
- Disney World set to replace EPCOT's Maelstrom ride, chaos ensues
- Arsenal linked with free agent Yobo as big guns circle Reus
- Poll: A majority of Americans say sponsors should dump the NFL over scandals
- Researchers see a connection between exercise and dental problems
- Navajo Nation to receive $554 million settlement from U.S. government
- Obama chairs U.N. Security Council, gains approval of resolution to curb terrorist travel and recruitment
- Department of Justice to review case of man shot inside Walmart by police
- Rob Schneider ad dropped due to his anti-vaccination statements
- Alleged drug smuggler left 139 lbs. of pot in rental car, then went back for it
- A mention from John Oliver gave one scholarship fund a windfall
- ESPN suspends Bill Simmons for trashing Roger Goodell and the NFL on Ray Rice scandal
- Airstrikes target 12 oil refineries controlled by ISIS
- September 24th
- The same light bulb has been illuminating a California firehouse for 113 years (and counting)
- Inside Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIS
- New York parking cop stole more than $89,000 in quarters over 5 years
- Colorado students protest changes to history curriculum that promotes patriotism
- Derek Jeter is the 88th-best player of all time
- German Ethics Council says incest is a 'fundamental right'
- Landrieu's opponent slams her for helping out on keg stand
- Walking Dead-themed 'human flesh' burger coming soon
- 113-year-old time capsule discovered inside Boston's Old State House statue
- FBI: Mass shootings on the rise in America
- GAO: Secretive TSA sorting practices privilege millions of government employees
- People keep sneaking into Keanu Reeves' house
- Reporters say the White House sometimes demands edits to press-pool reports
- Check out the CIA's cheeky illustrated guide to the most-hated political clichés
- Dutch airline KLM is using an adorable beagle as its lost-and-found service
- Mall in the Philippines pulls rape-condoning T-shirt
- Emeril Lagasse: 'I have nowhere to go, really — other than broke'
- Physics professor says she has proof that black holes don't exist
- Canadian newspaper caption calls black NHL player 'dark guy in the middle'
- Night Tube: 24-hour weekend service to begin next year
- Alarmed customers find out the iPhone 6 Plus can bend in your pocket
- Scientists discover that humans and Neanderthals overlapped for 'much longer than we thought'
- The federal prison population has dropped for the first year since 1980
- Family of UK hostage Alan Henning sent audio plea for life
- It appears 4chan hackers didn't threaten Emma Watson with a nude-photo leak after all
- Abu Qatada to walk free after being cleared of terror charges
- Jon Stewart pretty convincingly compares the ISIS airstrikes in Syria to the iPhone 6
- The Pentagon wants you to see what it's like to bomb ISIS
- Liverpool face Sterling fight, Sneijder, Ronaldo snub Man Utd
- Vatican arrests ex-archbishop, will hold first ever child sex abuse criminal trial
- India now has a spacecraft in orbit around Mars, too
- To celebrate autumn, here's Paul Simon singing 'Here Comes the Sun'
- Dallas tour bus of Kennedy assassination: 'Big Things Happen Here'
- September 23rd
- Soda companies joining forces to help consumers cut calories by 20 percent
- Coalition wants to overturn Arizona's 'nude photo law'
- School board election worker charged with trading cocaine and cash for votes
- Study: A mother's iron intake may be connected to autism risk
- Hawaii is the latest state to overturn gun restrictions on legal immigrants
- Mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold is writing a book
- Polls: Democratic senators trailing in Alaska and Arkansas
- Watch the bizarre soap opera scene that inspired the creation of Batman villain Harley Quinn
- Human rights groups criticize China's sentencing of Uighur scholar to life in prison
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants a law to 'punish global warming skeptics'
- Scientists discover 3 new types of mushrooms — in a grocery store
- Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn to star in True Detective's next season
- Chinese restaurant admits to selling 'opium-laced noodles'
- Ex-Senator Jim Webb 'seriously' considering 2016 bid
- Japanese cookbook encourages use of condoms in sushi-making
- The street memorial for Michael Brown burned down overnight
- Scandal-plagued Louisiana congressman airs TV ad with his wife
- Study finds people drink more alcohol on days they hit the gym
- Cosmopolitan: We endorse Scott Brown's opponent, even though he posed nude for us in 1982
- Ebola could infect 1.4 million people by Jan. 20
- GAO: Healthcare.gov makers knew site was bad, tried to hide it
- Barclays hit by £38m fine for putting clients' money 'at risk'
- Dave Lee Travis: suspended sentence for indecent assault
- Keane, Cantona, Rooney, Beckham: Man Utd legends with beards - pictures
- Biden in 2012: Vote for Obama to avoid war in Syria
- William Shatner might be in the next Star Trek movie
- Emma Watson threatened by hackers after delivering feminist speech
- Milan Fashion Week 2014 - in pictures
- ISIS releases second video of British hostage
- State judge counters federal court, rules Louisiana gay marriage ban unconstitutional
- Charlie Sheen is '100 percent' interested in returning to Two and a Half Men
- Scott Brown: Vote for me, stay safe from ISIS
- Apple is reportedly shutting down Beats Music
- Cameron to meet Iran's president Rouhani over Syria intervention
- Study finds narwhal tusk size is correlated with fertility
- The U.S. snuck an al Qaeda raid into its Syria anti-ISIS airstrikes
- China is a major exporter of torture instruments, Amnesty International says
- Israel shot down a Syrian fighter jet over the Golan Heights
- Rockefeller heirs to stop investing in fossil fuels
- Jon Stewart gives a remedial science lesson to House GOP climate change skeptics
- In this video, you don't have to look too hard to see a bunch of men dressed like Where's Waldo brawling
- Man Utd: Strootman in, Rafael and Smalling on way out
- Police: Woman hid guns, ammo, and drugs in her luggage, then tried to get on a plane
- WHO: Ebola cases could triple to 20,000 by November
- SNL Martha Stewart mimic Ana Gasteyer makes spirited non-apology to Martha Stewart
- Men suspected in kidnapping and murder of Israeli teens killed in shootout
- U.S., Syria disagree on whether Syria knew about anti-ISIS airstrikes beforehand
- Chad could become 37th country in Africa to ban homosexuality
- Canadian legislator apologizes for offering shout-outs to small donors on the floor of Parliament
- Obama administration introduces new rules to combat corporate tax inversions
- U.S. begins airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria
- September 22nd
- Baltimore Ravens: We thought Ray Rice only slapped his fiancée
- The SEC gives record-setting $30 million to whistleblower
- Man forbidden from flying U.S. flag on his balcony because it could 'offend foreign people'
- Miss America was kicked out of her sorority for alleged hazing
- Climate-change marchers leave behind mounds of trash
- Stephen King's 11/22/63 is going to be a TV series
- Obama administration: Some Americans fighting with ISIS have returned to U.S.
- Kenan Thompson is leaving Saturday Night Live
- Warner Bros. celebrates Friends' 20th anniversary with a special tribute video
- Congress has only worked a full week 14 percent of the time since 1978
- Mitch McConnell is a turtle, claims Wikipedia edit made from inside Congress
- The New York Times identifies the senator who called Kirsten Gillibrand 'chubby'
- Watch the ridiculously filthy trailer for Seth Rogen and James Franco's latest movie
- Tony Blair outlines a seven-point strategy for defeating religious extremism
- Japanese construction company plans to have a space elevator by 2050
- NC State sociologists say Michelle Obama's healthy eating program is classist and sexist
- Navy testing surveillance drones to use for 'near worldwide coverage' by 2017
- Afghan election: Ghani and Abdullah form unity government
- Rick Perry cites Joan Rivers' death to support controversial abortion law
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt will (probably) play Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone's next movie
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez's books to be sold as e-books for the first time
- Amateur explorer reaches largest beaver dam on Earth
- Hamilton wins in Singapore but F1 title will be decided by luck
- Russians protest against Putin's involvement in Ukraine
- FIFA official: Qatar won't host 2022 World Cup
- Tony Blair: don't rule out the use of ground troops in Iraq
- Watch South Park skewer the Washington Redskins
- Starbucks is testing out beer lattes
- Hackers release more stolen nude celebrity photographs
- iPhone 6: Joan Rivers praises Apple 'from beyond the grave'
- Watch Emma Watson give a spot-on speech about feminism at the U.N.
- Florida woman reportedly gets third breast surgically implanted
- Man discovers 'spectacular' Viking grave in backyard
- Alaska CBS reporter says 'f--k it, I quit' on live TV, after disclosing pot club ownership
- Rand Paul says he's opening a San Francisco office
- This is what The Simpsons' Chief Wiggum sounds like singing Frozen's 'Let It Go'
- Willie Nelson helped Maureen Dowd overcome her bad pot trip
- Alibaba's IPO now ranks as the world's largest
- Climate change marches: hundreds of thousands demand action
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund, other philanthropies pledging $50 billion fossil fuel divestment
- Arsenal line up Khedira, Schar and Mings in January sales
- After 70 years, transatlantic pen pals are still going strong
- John Oliver asks some uncomfortable questions about the Miss America pageant
- For 20 years, one book for kids has been among the most frequently banned in the U.S.
- Ohio pastor fights strip club, wins topless protests at church
- NASA's MAVEN successfully enters Martian orbit
- Afghanistan finally has a new president-elect, Ashraf Ghani
- Blasts in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 2
- In Moscow, thousands march in protest of Russia's Ukraine policy
- Scientists: Global greenhouse gas emissions up in 2013
- September 21st
- Only in America: Death of the saggy pants ban
- The most powerful image from the People's Climate March
- Detroit Lions player injures self while taunting opponent
- Tony Blair: There will 'undoubtedly' be need for ground troops against ISIS
- Ray Lewis on Ray Rice: 'Some things you can cover up, and then there's some things you can't'
- NBC's Chuck Todd: Midterms are kind of like Starbucks vs. Chick-fil-A
- How Republican enthusiasm could cost Democrats the Senate
- Senator Mary Landrieu aids keg stand at football game
- Former Tennessee Titan Rob Bironas killed in car crash
- German families to sue Ukraine for downing of flight MH17
- Best properties: houses for boat lovers
- Week in pictures: 14 - 20 September
- September 20th
- Second man arrested on Saturday for attempting to enter the White House
- Hillary Clinton may not run for president after all, says senator who conferred with her
- Derek Jeter foul ball fails to impress little girl who hurls it back on the field
- For those who have everything: A GoPro camera for your dog
- Listen to Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson's 33-year-delayed duet
- Afghan presidential candidate will concede defeat if vote total remains secret
- Pope Francis appoints progressive bishop to head Chicago Archdiocese
- Report: NFL, Baltimore Ravens engaged in 'pattern of misinformation and misdirection' over Ray Rice case
- Intruder jumps fence, breaks into White House minutes after Obama departs
- Only in America: Grenade launchers for public schools
- September 19th
- Don't call it a comeback: Nicolas Sarkozy wants to be president of France again
- Michelle Obama urges donors to give money to prevent 'talk about impeachment'
- Innovation of the week: Heat Seek
- Democratic congressman: As many as 40 American ISIS fighters are back in the U.S.
- This is what it feels like to get an epidural after 32 hours of labor
- Joe Biden rounds out his terrible week with another awful gaffe
- Alibaba begins trading at a crazy $92.70 per share
- Here's what fans say to celebrities on the street
- This is exactly what's in the new iPhone 6
- Shonda Rhimes attacks New York Times for inaccurate, racially charged column
- Nearly two-thirds of Americans can't name all three branches of government
- Number of British women testing for breast cancer doubled since Angelina Jolie went public with her mastectomy
- Close to a quarter of Americans are open to state secession
- Russian fighter planes are running amok over Western Europe
- Child who suffers from rare, serious nosebleeds cured with pork
- Pabst was just bought by a Russian beverage company
- Russia identifies 'North Korean'-style irregularities in Scottish independence vote
- Watch the first trailer for Tim Burton's Big Eyes
- The White House tells the NFL to 'get a handle' on its domestic violence problem
- Australian drops his new iPhone 6 on live television
- Marvel's Deadpool is finally getting his own movie
- Here's what Scotland looks like the morning after voting to stay
- Even with Scotland on board, the UK is probably headed toward federalism
- John Cantlie: video of British hostage released by Islamic State
- France has conducted its first airstrike on ISIS
- ‘English Messi’ Dele Alli snubs Arsenal and Chelsea
- Iran sentences 'Happy' tribute video stars to 6 months in jail, 91 lashes each
- Bill Clinton on ISIS: 'We can't win a land war in Iraq — we proved that'
- FIFA officials return gifts in corruption scandal
- Pound surges as Scotland says 'No' to independence
- Jon Stewart gets lazy, roasts Joe Biden (plus Shakespeare and Michael Che)
- What's this robber's weapon of choice? A banana
- NBC: Chris Christie didn't know about or order George Washington Bridge closure plot
- Mortuary student told to park her hearse elsewhere
- The world's population could grow to 11 billion by 2100
- Study finds that antidepressants quickly change the brain's structure
- Here's how British newspapers are celebrating Scotland's vote to stay in the UK
- Darrell Hammond is back at Saturday Night Live
- 'No' side wins the Scotland independence vote, after referendum that shook the UK
- The 'No' campaign is comfortably ahead in Scotland's independence referendum
- Sierra Leone orders residents to stay home for 3 days to combat Ebola
- Study: Dogs can be pessimists, too
- Senate votes 78-22 in favor of Obama's plan to arm Syrian rebels
- September 18th
- Kansas Democrat wins fight to get taken off the ballot in Senate race
- ISIS releases new video showing British hostage
- Scotland's Royal & Ancient Golf Club will admit women for the first time in history
- Chicago not naming high school after Barack Obama after all
- Mexico could impose $1,270 fine after Miley Cyrus twerked on its flag
- Ted Cruz wants Americans who fight for ISIS to lose citizenship
- J.J. Abrams teases fans with a Star Wars/Batman crossover video
- Tom Brady's old resume proves he was just as inexperienced as you were coming out of college
- Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to Congress: 'Live free or die'
- The Air Force is making pocket-sized surveillance drones
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- Public university adds invasive sex survey to mandatory sexual harassment training
- CNN anchor awkwardly discusses how hitting children is like training a dog
- Watch Derek Jeter mingle with stunned New Yorkers in farewell ad
- Watch the wacky magic act that won America's Got Talent
- If Scotland secedes from Britain, parts of Scotland may secede from Scotland
- Alice Gross: why did police not know about killer’s past?
- Jon Stewart mocks ISIS over apparent jealousy of Ebola, airs mock Ebola terrorist video
- Australian police raid suspected ISIS supporters to thwart random public beheadings
- VA watchdog: Maybe VA hospital wait times did contribute to veterans' deaths
- Teen crashes SUV after friend sets his armpit hair on fire
- Jon Stewart gets nostalgic for when the NFL's biggest fear was the 'distraction' of a gay player
- Arsenal 'shock favourites' to sign Edinson Cavani
- Neil Patrick Harris lets the reader choose their own adventure in his new autobiography
- Study: Chimpanzees don't kill due to human interference
- Will Scotch be on the rocks if Scotland votes for independence?
- Candidate for Minnesota Supreme Court convicted of refusing breathalyzer test
- Cardinals' Jonathan Dwyer becomes 3rd NFL player yanked over domestic violence charges on Wednesday
- Watch Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, and Jimmy Fallon duke it out during an impressive lip sync battle
- Skeletons unearthed in England found holding hands
- September 17th
- Fox News polls: Tough battle for Senate in four states
- Science: Artificial sweeteners aren't very good for you
- House passes bill that would arm Syrian rebels to fight ISIS
- Poll: Trust in media at an all-time low
- Joe Biden called Asia 'The Orient'
- Obama administration now requiring gun buyers to declare race, ethnicity
- Poll: Gov. Scott Walker pulls ahead with likely voters
- Survey: 10 percent of Americans have smoked marijuana before work
- Poll: Americans in the South think Scotland should secede from Great Britain
- Chinese president urges Chinese tourists to 'eat less instant noodles' abroad
- White House vending machines haven't joined Michelle Obama's war on obesity
- NFL to begin HGH testing for the first time under new drug policy
- Joe Biden under fire for using anti-Jewish slur
- FBI: U.S. airstrikes increased support for ISIS
- Beyoncé and Jay Z might be recording an album together
- Oklahoma considers using nitrogen gas for executions
- A simple urine test could be used to screen for HPV
- John Boehner knocks 'knuckleheads' in House Republican conference
- France says the name 'ISIS' is offensive, will call it 'Daesh' instead
- Majority say Obama not tough enough on ISIS
- King Richard III's violent end revealed by scientists
- Ten steps to 'tackle climate change and grow economy'
- The Minnesota Vikings reverse course and suspend Adrian Peterson
- Arsenal to miss out on Brazilian playmaker Luiz Gustavo
- Companies told to link bosses' pay to performance
- American man caught trying to swim to North Korea
- The Daily Show declares war on (prescription) drugs
- Craig Ferguson used to drop acid with bandmate Peter Capaldi, the new Doctor Who
- Watch Lonely The Brave perform Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' as an emo anthem
- Mom says daughter's Talkin' Barbie is actually Swearin' Barbie
- L.A. school district will relinquish some of the military weaponry it received from federal program
- Observation tower in the Amazon rainforest will monitor climate change
- NASA will pay both Boeing and SpaceX to shuttle astronauts to space
- Meet Morten Storm, the CIA's mole inside al Qaeda
- New York man indicted on charges of planning to kill U.S. troops, aiding ISIS
- Top U.S. general open to U.S. ground troops fighting ISIS, if necessary
- Parents of Aurora shooting victim file lawsuit against ammo, body armor suppliers
- NFL Players Association formally appeals Ray Rice's suspension
- Source: Doctor conducted Joan Rivers' biopsy without consent, snapped a selfie in the room
- Former Auschwitz guard, 93, accused of playing a role in 300,000 deaths
- September 16th
- Scientists dissect rare colossal squid
- Mitch McConnell ad: Hey, Obama fired a gun, too
- Saudi man reportedly asks potential groom to give iPhone 6 as dowry
- The $2.2 million reason Congress won't end the NFL's tax-exempt status
- Krispy Kreme is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Ghostbusters with special-edition doughnuts
- ISIS forums include plans for bombing the U.S.
- Poll: Majority of St. Louis County residents think media made Ferguson situation worse
- RGIII forbidden from wearing his Jesus shirt to press conference
- Bobby Jindal: Obama administration full of 'science deniers'
- Watch the first episode of the Veronica Mars spin-off Play It Again, Dick
- Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling have a new daughter
- Blood tests could diagnose depression
- The number of Americans without health insurance fell by almost 4 million in early 2014
- Bill Clinton: Netanyahu can't make peace in the Middle East
- Study: Conservatives and liberals smell different
- Netflix orders 2 seasons of new Judd Apatow sitcom
- Date set for rapist and murderer's 'mercy killing'
- NASA: This August was hottest on record
- The NSA wants to map every internet-connected device worldwide
- US launches new strikes against Islamic State militants
- Arkansas State player dramatically fakes own death on botched trick play
- Archaeologists discover 'long-lost' Roman fort
- Poll: Republican Sen. Pat Roberts trails by wide margin — in deep red Kansas
- U.N.: We need more than $1 billion to fight Ebola
- Matt Damon is taking over the Bourne franchise again
- This is the secret North Korean office that runs Kim Jong Un's slush fund
- Donald Trump's former casino closes in Atlantic City
- Egypt celebrates new Suez Canal with stamp of Panama Canal
- Scottish independence odds: bookmakers shorten odds on No
- London Fashion Week 2014 - in pictures
- Beer titan AB InBev might try to buy slightly smaller rival SAB Miller for $122 billion
- Jon Stewart explains the difference between Obama's and Bush's wars on terrorists
- Obama is sending 3,000 U.S. military personnel to fight Ebola in Africa
- Lego art comes to London - pictures
- Anonymous hacks Thai police websites over death sentences
- The Daily Show downplays ISIS's threat to America by mocking Lindsey Graham
- Arsenal and Liverpool on red alert for restless Pedro
- 10-year-old goldfish survives surgery to remove tumor
- Apple sold a record 4 million iPhone 6's in first 24 hours
- Suicide blast in Kabul kills 3 NATO soldiers, injures more than a dozen
- Belgian inmate receives permission to be euthanized
- Watch the robotic cheetah created by MIT researchers in action
- America's rudest drivers aren't in Boston or New York after all
- Researchers: Kids are being prescribed antibiotics they don't need
- Boeing appears primed to beat SpaceX for massive NASA space taxi contract
- Barbra Streisand performs her duets with Jimmy Fallon, in multiple characters
- Burlington, Vermont's electricity now 100 percent renewable
- Hurricane Odile destroys homes, causes massive flooding in Baja California
- Official: Airstrikes hit ISIS position near Baghdad
- September 15th
- Liam Neeson speaks out in favor of gun control
- Venezuela has a shortage of breast implants
- Nearly half of China's wealthy want to leave China
- Hollywood's top actors reveal the movies that make them cry
- House Republicans are preparing a bill to arm Syrian rebels — with some strings attached
- Pizza Hut is sorry for offering a 'free small animal' with your pizza
- Scientists think this ancient meteorite hints at life on Mars
- London is now home to a life-size Amy Winehouse statue
- Obama justifying war on ISIS using the Bush war authorization he tried to repeal
- Watch the intense new trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1
- Poll finds race relations are 'the same' or 'worse' under Obama
- The DOJ to train community leaders to spot 'radicals'
- Chinese city debuts 'cell phone lane' for distracted walkers
- Mitch McConnell's Democratic opponent: 'I'm not Barack Obama'
- Diver accidentally discovers world's oldest gold coin
- Most people are just fine eating gluten
- Microsoft is buying Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billion
- Coca-Cola revives the beloved '90s drink Surge
- Poll: Scott Brown, Jeanne Shaheen tied in New Hampshire Senate race
- NASA builds the world's largest welder — to construct the world's most powerful rocket
- These 20 seconds sum up the fundamental weirdness of this year's Miss America Pageant
- Hillary Clinton teases 2016 bid in Iowa: 'I'm back!'
- Bill Murray showed up at a suburban birthday party in South Carolina this weekend
- Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei says Iran turned the U.S. down on ISIS first
- The European Space Agency announces spot where the Rosetta probe will land on comet
- John Oliver highlights Obama's ISIS dilemma by picking on Peru
- Daniele Watts: actress detained by LAPD 'for kissing white partner'
- California nudist camp accused of stealing water, says it needs it for skinny dipping pool
- Cristiano Ronaldo 'wants £500,000 a week to join Chelsea or Man Utd'
- Airlines now are barely spending any money on food for passengers
- John Oliver channels British romantic comedies to plead for Scotland to stay
- A record number of centenarians live in Japan
- Experts: Botox use in young people could stunt their emotional growth
- Sweden votes out conservative government
- The power of the internet reunites a man with photo found in World Trade Center debris
- Several Arab nations have signed on for anti-ISIS air battle, say U.S. officials
- Poll: Close to 70 percent of Americans not confident Obama's plan will defeat ISIS
- Hurricane Odile barreling toward Baja California
- September 14th
- Only in America: The 'meatless Mondays' backlash
- ESPN's Hannah Storm on Ray Rice debacle: 'What exactly does the NFL stand for?'
- White House denies it threatened families of slain American journalists
- John Kerry: On second thought, 'we are at war' with ISIS
- Kanye West stops show, demands wheelchair-bound fan 'stand up'
- Sen. Bernie Sanders confirms he's 'thinking' about running for president
- Vikings fan in Adrian Peterson jersey tailgates while brandishing a switch
- ISIS claims to behead British aid worker
- Week in pictures: 7 - 13 September
- September 13th
- For those who have everything: A 'magical' virtual reality headset
- Atlanta Hawks release open letter of apology to fans
- 'Six Californias' petition campaign fails to make the ballot
- Warren Buffett's company subsidiary is marketing pot-growing spaces
- Ex-NSA director Michael Hayden: ISIS airstrikes are like 'casual sex'
- Air France cancels 50 percent of its Monday flights ahead of pilot strike
- Innovation of the week: Smart chopsticks
- Illinois TV anchorman makes heartbreaking, on-air announcement of terminal brain cancer diagnosis
- Skirmishes test Ukraine ceasefire as Russia sends unapproved convoy across border
- Check out these incredible images from Friday night's northern lights show
- Only in America: The pooping-in-the-woods lawsuit
- September 12th
- Rep. Mark Sanford broke up with his girlfriend in a very long post on Facebook
- Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson indicted in child injury case
- Feds spend $3.2 million in taxpayer money getting monkeys drunk
- Ian Paisley, longtime Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is dead at 88
- Teen boy may face 2 years in jail for staging oral sex with Jesus statue
- Watch the last 4 presidents announce plans to bomb Iraq
- James Foley's brother says the State Dept. 'threatened' him to prevent him raising ransom funds privately
- British museum uncovers secret portrait of Queen Elizabeth I under classic painting
- Girl meets President Obama and is sad he's not Beyoncé
- Thomas Edison reportedly made the first viral cat video, and 35 other cat facts
- San Diego schools bring in mine-proof 'tank'
- The world's tallest dog has died
- Reeva Steenkamp's family and friends 'disappointed' by verdict
- Paul Ryan: Rage Against the Machine 'were never my favorite band'
- Pope Francis will visit Sri Lanka next year, may name the country's first saint
- Mideast leaders are wary of supporting America's anti-ISIS campaign
- Welbeck not up to scratch, says van Gaal, as Falcao checks in
- Teen petitions to use laser cat photo as senior portrait
- Arsenal 'red alert' in chase for Mario Gotze
- New economic sanctions target Russia's biggest businesses
- San Diego taxi drivers object to odor test
- The classic iPod is dead
- Oscar Pistorius convicted of culpable homicide
- Islamic State may have 31,000 fighters, CIA says
- Study finds that people under 30 are reading more than their elders
- Jon Stewart doesn't like the 'Crusade-y vibe' of Obama's coalition against ISIS
- Police: Man hid narcotics in stuffed animal wearing anti-drug shirt
- Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton beaned in the face, prompting bench-clearing brawl
- A Married...With Children spin-off could soon hit the small screen
- Yahoo was told to give user data to U.S. government, or face $250,000-a-day fine
- CIA: ISIS now has an estimated 31,000 fighters
- Democrats ahead in three key Senate races
- Jimmy Fallon and the Muppets Twitter-reminisce about childhood
- Saturday Night Live shake-up: Comedian Michael Che headed to 'Weekend Update'
- Convicted school shooter escapes from Ohio prison
- Enormous Spinosaurus was likely the first dinosaur to swim — 97 million years ago
- U.N. peacekeepers released by Syrian militants
- September 11th
- Study: Dog movies make certain breeds more popular
- Poll: More than three quarters of voters think ISIS will try to strike U.S. soil
- John Kerry: We're not at war with ISIS, per se
- Tender and heartbreaking tributes on the 13th anniversary of 9/11
- Army officer forbidden from entering daughter's school because his uniform could 'offend' students
- If you must blow up pianos in the name of science, don't forget to do this
- Study: Divorce has a greater effect on wealthier children
- Majority of Americans think Islam promotes violence more than other religions
- Missouri state rep. is suing the Obama administration to stop his daughters from getting birth control
- Watch a clip from the insane-sounding unofficial Breaking Bad sequel
- Burger King is serving black cheese in Japan
- 'Rival' senators to be stranded on island in Survivor-style reality TV show
- Pelosi pushes to train Syrian rebels despite reports they sold journalist to ISIS
- Honolulu bans sitting on sidewalks in anti-homeless measure
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- D.C. teacher sorry for making students compare and contrast George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler
- Study: Anti-anxiety drugs are linked to Alzheimer's disease
- Watch Mike Piazza blast a towering home run and soothe New York post-9/11
- Massive 7,000-year-old city discovered in Croatia
- Ted Cruz booed off stage while defending Israel
- Man who beheaded mother goes missing from mental institution
- Yes, ISIS agents have discussed entering the U.S. through Mexico
- 35 arrested in clash at a Ferguson protest
- Ozone layer has begun to recover, say UN scientists
- Gates Foundation donates $50 million to fight Ebola
- Jimmy Kimmel cleverly explains net neutrality using distinctly analog technology
- Judge finds Oscar Pistorius not guilty of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
- Catalonia backs independence in vote which 'means nothing'
- Richard Kiel: five unusual facts about the late Bond villain
- Rising anti-Semitism in Europe 'cannot be ignored'
- Alex Trebek embraces his past by growing back his 'stache
- You think you're angry at the NFL over its Ray Rice debacle? Watch Jon Stewart.
- US vows to 'take out' Islamic State wherever it exists
- Solar storm traveling 2.5 million miles per hour headed to Earth
- Arsenal set to agree Carvalho move, but no Samper deal
- Thousands of Kurdish women are volunteering to battle against ISIS, others in Syria
- Actor Richard Kiel, famous for playing Bond villain Jaws, dies at 74
- Sen. John McCain attacks Jay Carney during CNN debut
- Scientists say the ozone layer is slowly recovering
- John Hodgman discusses starting to smoke weed at age 43
- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford hospitalized with abdominal tumor
- House Republicans react to Obama's address
- Dominatrix threatens Canadian senators with exposing politician clients
- In prime time address, Obama lays out anti-ISIS strategy
- Hagel: U.S. ready to carry out its mission
- Obama: 'If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven'
- Obama: 'The Islamic State' is neither Islamic nor a state
- Official: Saudi Arabia will agree to U.S. request for anti-ISIS training program
- Watch address by President Obama on anti-ISIS strategy
- September 10th
- Obama: 'We will degrade, and ultimately destroy' ISIS, without U.S. combat troops
- Dollar General refuses to stop trying to buy Family Dollar
- Michael Moore: Obama will be remembered as 'first black president,' but 'that's it'
- Here's a good rule of thumb for interpreting science news
- Study: Eating fish could help prevent hearing loss
- Cuba labels U.S. embargo a 'genocidal act'
- Colorado and Washington residents can use welfare money to buy marijuana
- Man butt-dials 911, gets arrested for drugs
- McDonald's wants to trademark 'McBrunch'
- Hillary Clinton used Oscar de la Renta's fashion show to help stop elephant poaching
- DOJ memo reveals legal rationale for drone assassination of American citizen
- 61 percent of Americans think fighting ISIS is 'in our national interest'
- Rand Paul: Obama should be able to figure out if police need bayonets
- California sushi restaurants allegedly bought rice filled with bugs, rat poop, and mold
- America's trust in the government to do anything right hits new record lows
- Here's how to see Egypt's pyramids from the comfort of your couch
- William Pooley: British Ebola nurse 'desperate' to return to West Africa
- Dick Cheney was not president, New York Times clarifies in correction
- Study: Grief can affect your immune system in old age
- Ex-White House Press Secretary Jay Carney joins CNN
- Obama is considering airstrikes and arms shipments to counter ISIS in Syria
- Check out Batman v. Superman's awesome new Batmobile
- Keith Richards wrote his first song imprisoned in a kitchen with Mick Jagger
- Stonehenge: project reveals secrets of what lies beneath
- Kerry travels to Iraq to back inclusive new government
- China is sending 700 troops to South Sudan
- Father reportedly confesses to killing five missing children, aged 2 to 8, in Alabama
- Man Utd sell two million shirts but profits plunge after Moyes
- Archaeologists uncover 'super henge' near Stonehenge
- Here's what it sounds like when The Cure covers The Beatles
- Suicide bomber kills leader, 11 commanders of key Syrian rebel group
- Hundreds of patients 'wake up' during surgery
- If you use iTunes, you already have U2's new album, free of charge
- Man City FFP fine goes to Man Utd, Arsenal and other rivals
- Arsenal after 'starlet' Samper and 'wonderkid' Alcacer
- Jon Stewart offers ISIS rival al Qaeda some advice: Embrace your 'artisanal, slow-terror' brand of murder
- Study finds an increase in drug use among pilots involved in fatal crashes
- It turns out you can play '99 Red Balloons' surprisingly well using only red balloons
- Grandmother, 94, serves as flower girl in granddaughter's wedding
- Want to park your car at home? That will be $1 million
- Mike Tyson crowns Rob Ford 'the best mayor in Toronto history'
- Britney Spears helps Jimmy Fallon list the pros and cons of dating Britney Spears
- NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo wins Democratic primary, but gets stiff opposition from left wing
- There is a way to make sitting 8 hours a day less damaging to your health
- New titanosaur found inside of cliff wall in Tanzania
- Scandal-plagued Rep. John Tierney loses Democratic primary in Massachusetts
- Scott Brown wins Republican primary for Senate from New Hampshire
- September 9th
- ISIS threatens Twitter employees in U.S. and Europe
- Ted Cruz hints at government shutdown to stymie Obama on immigration
- Latinos threaten to boycott midterm elections because of Obama's amnesty stall
- Al Franken's loyalty to Obama may hurt his re-election
- Madden NFL 15 is cutting Ray Rice
- Here's your first look at the Apple Watch
- Apple introduces new iPhone payment system, Apple Pay
- GOP Rep: Harry Reid runs the Senate 'like a plantation'
- NASA is skeptical a meteorite actually caused that giant crater in Nicaragua
- Here's Steve Jobs introducing the first iPhone
- New York Democrat alleges his party is illegally funding his primary opponent
- Finally, a DVR that will (almost) never run out of space
- The future of America may depend on whether Hill staff crave a sweet or salty snack
- America reaches peak pumpkin with Pumpkin Spice Oreos
- Ray Rice's wife defends husband, criticizes media for 'horrible nightmare'
- Majority of Americans say Obama's presidency has been a failure
- 3,900-year-old bone armor suit discovered in Siberia
- New York Fashion Week - in pictures
- Animal fur could save children from asthma
- NFL claims it only sought Ray Rice videotape from the cops — not the casino
- Watch a Six Flags roller coaster collapse in flames
- Luton Airport reopens after hair-straightener scare
- IKEA's fastest-growing market is in China
- Amazon slashes price of its new Fire smartphone to 99 cents
- Archaeologists make stunning find in mysterious Greek tomb
- Europe agrees to new Russia sanctions as Ukraine cease-fire teeters
- Iraq: new government opens way for US military expansion
- Ryan Adams enlisted Garry Shandling, Jeff Garlin, and zombies to promote his new album
- Stephen Colbert chides Obama for copying the GOP on delaying immigration reform
- Dutch report: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 downed by 'high-energy objects' from Russia or eastern Ukraine
- Man Utd and Liverpool fight for Kramer, Arsenal eye Candreva
- Man wakes up from coma able to speak an entirely different language
- Researchers celebrate the birth of a baby orca in Puget Sound
- After Ferguson, Retro Report digs into the origins of SWAT teams and their 'mission creep'
- Study: Climate change is threatening half of all North American bird species
- Bill Maher has some advice for Hillary Clinton: 'Just go away'
- It's Team Fallon vs. Team Roots in a PG-13 Tonight Show Family Feud
- The Senate will debate its right to limit campaign spending
- Nonagenarian newlyweds: Iowa women together for 72 years finally get married
- U.S. air marshal attacked with syringe in Nigerian airport now in quarantine
- Home Depot latest company to suffer from credit card data breach
- Harvest supermoon to light up the sky Monday night
- September 8th
- Independent candidate Greg Orman edges out GOP Sen. Pat Roberts in new Kansas poll
- Ted Cruz introduces Expatriate Terrorist Act to stop Americans from joining ISIS
- Watch a remake of the DuckTales intro, starring actual ducks
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee wants John Boehner to invite Ukrainian president to speak to Congress
- Bill Murray just came up with the perfect cast for an all-female Ghostbusters reboot
- ISIS is using weapons marked 'Property of U.S. Govt.'
- New York City is 350 years old today
- Scott Brown gave a 'hero' award to a woman who may not vote for him
- George Clooney reveals details of his upcoming nuptials
- Poll: Democrat Bruce Braley on top in crucial Iowa Senate race
- The TSA sends random, unchecked passengers through its Pre-Check line
- Olive Garden offers 7-week unlimited 'Pasta Pass' for $100
- Poutine: why posh chips and gravy are taking over the UK
- Detroit firefighters use soda cans and fax machines to find out when there's an emergency
- Chinese boy discovers 3,000-year-old sword in a river
- Stephen Hawking: 'God particle' could destroy entire universe
- Report: The poorest member of Congress is worth negative $3.7 million
- See Kathy Bates with a beard in the first American Horror Story: Freak Show trailer
- Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka got married in Italy this weekend
- Watch the grisly new trailer for The Walking Dead season 5
- Global food security 'threatened by Middle East conflict'
- Newly released video shows the vicious punch that got Ray Rice a puny two-game suspension
- GM is making a hands-free Cadillac
- Study: Blue whales have recovered to pre-hunting levels off U.S. West Coast
- Mountain lion attacks 6-year-old in Silicon Valley
- Princess Charlotte to start nursery school in January
- Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton are expecting a 2nd child
- Obama's plan to destroy ISIS could take 3 years
- Arsenal and Man City battle it out over £25m Marco Reus
- Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy is dead at 93
- John Oliver delivers a surprisingly tender eulogy for the dead Russian space geckos
- John Oliver unpacks the special horrors of student debt, and for-profit universities
- DNA evidence has plausibly revealed the identity of Jack the Ripper
- A rare respiratory virus in the Midwest is sending hundreds of kids to the hospital
- September 7th
- Only in America: The Greek yogurt lawsuit
- Watch Derek Jeter's humble retirement speech
- Rick Santorum: Rand Paul is a flip-flopping isolationist
- Al Jazeera retracts story claiming ISIS beheading videos were staged
- Ted Cruz on ISIS: 'Take them out' now
- Obama: U.S. to 'start going on some offense' against ISIS
- Poll: Mitch McConnell opens wide lead in re-election bid
- U.S. broadens campaign against ISIS with airstrikes near another Iraqi dam
- Obama insists he's not punting on immigration to save Senate Democrats
- Week in pictures: 31 August - 6 September
- September 6th
- N.I.H. discovers improperly stored ricin, other dangerous pathogens
- FIFA financial watchdog official arrested on suspicion of money laundering, corruption
- Sierra Leone announces three-day public lockdown to combat Ebola outbreak
- For those who have everything: The Swash
- Adorable lion cubs make their debut at the Philadelphia Zoo
- Questions swirl around extremely rare double-albino-lobster catch
- Ex-Egyptian president Morsi charged with leaking state secrets
- Watch a pair of deer deftly navigate rush-hour traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge
- Only in America: Studying homosexual habits
- Obama skeptical of fragile Ukraine ceasefire: 'It has to be tested'
- Best properties: sublime mill houses
- September 5th
- Chris McDaniel still appealing his defeat in Mississippi Senate race
- Not a single state decreased its obesity rate last year
- Australian engineering students create robot couch, help move humans closer to peak laziness
- Family Dollar rejects Dollar General's latest bid
- Man smuggled cocaine across the border 7 times before getting caught
- Florida fisherman hauls freakishly gigantic shrimp out of the ocean
- Obama's approval rating hits administration low again
- Here's a photo of President Obama at Stonehenge
- WHO suggests using survivors' blood to treat Ebola
- Rare 7-foot-long sunfish washes ashore in Washington state
- Starbucks will open 'express stores' with shorter lines
- Hillary Clinton to decide on another White House bid by early 2015
- AMC orders pilot for another Walking Dead series
- The top 10 percent of whites own 65.1 percent of all U.S. wealth
- Margaret Atwood's latest story won't be published for 100 years
- Cornell University has a Dragon Day, and 39 other college traditions
- U.S. citizen suspected of running ISIS's social media
- SCOTUS doesn't bother to fact check its sources
- The FDA has effectively banned some fancy cheeses like Roquefort
- After alleged coup attempt, Lesotho Prime Minister Thabane returns under South African police guard
- The FCC chairman thinks your internet is too slow and too expensive
- Scarlett Johansson had a baby girl
- Apple promises to add more iCloud security after celebrity hacking scandal
- Unemployment rate falls to 6.1 percent
- U.S. doctor with Ebola is going to Nebraska
- Study finds 18 percent chance Ebola will arrive in the U.S. this month
- Disillusioned British jihadists beg to come home
- The Daily Show slyly lets child-immigrant repellers make their best case
- UNICEF: 1 in 10 girls raped or sexually abused before age 20 worldwide
- London beheading: man held after 'random attack'
- Watch Joan Rivers interview Mr. Rogers in 1983
- Ukraine: Russian troops and tanks cross border, Nato says
- Arsenal eye veteran free agent Yepes to shore up defence
- Late night hosts remember Joan Rivers, one of their own
- BP's 'gross negligence' in Gulf oil spill could cost it another $18 billion
- Jimmy Fallon, Meghan Trainor, and The Roots rock 'All About That Bass' on toy instruments
- Sam Smith puts his own groove on Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car'
- Hackers breached HealthCare.gov server, apparently left empty-handed
- September 4th
- Kansas Sec. of State says Democrat's name must stay on ballot for Senate race
- Common Core homework helper takes 56 seconds to solve 9+6
- These two videos, 45 years apart, perfectly capture Joan Rivers' enduring, trailblazing career
- Doctors remove 43.5 socks from dog's stomach
- Venezuela's Socialists deliver altered 'Lord's Prayer' to Hugo Chávez
- Feds withheld $2.4 million for 12,000 veterans by accident this month
- Joan Rivers has died at 81
- Mitt Romney: Don't cut military spending or we'll see 'world war'
- Delaware Gov. Jack Markell is really sorry for tweeting that sexy model photo
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- WHO estimates that one person commits suicide every 40 seconds
- Rand Paul explains how he would have stopped ISIS
- Researchers discover enormous 65-ton, 85-foot-long 'Dreadnoughtus' dinosaur
- Hundreds of police departments are plagued by serious racial disparities
- Sitting at a wobbly table? Fix it with math
- Food Crime Unit to be set up in response to horsemeat scandal
- New study suggests e-cigarettes are a 'gateway drug'
- Study: Millennials are more skeptical of government than previous generations
- West Virginia police want a $35,000 robot to assess SWAT situations
- America is so over those NSA leaks, says former NSA director Michael Hayden
- German cow escapes slaughterhouse, heads to Oktoberfest
- Euro QE is here
- There is a 99.999 percent chance humans are causing climate change
- Rosie Perez and Nicole Wallace join The View
- Stephen Colbert tackles Obama's ISIS 'don't have a strategy' line with President Frank Underwood
- Study: Eating fruit daily could lower the risk of heart disease
- New deep-sea 'mushrooms' puzzle for scientists
- Jon Stewart calls BS on Vladimir Putin, wants Obama to be more hawkish on Russia
- Radical review proposes free social care and NHS merger
- Here's a quick way to test if your AA batteries are dead
- Mysterious 'fake' phone towers discovered in the US
- Police 'on the verge of decriminalising' some crimes
- Jon Stewart blames everyone for the nude celebrity photos hack (except the celebrities)
- Arsenal targets Rabiot and Reus available in January
- With ISIS stealing its thunder, al Qaeda declares jihad on India
- Chloe Grace Moretz sort of promotes healthy eating in Divergent parody 'Snackpocalypse'
- Justice Dept. launches broad civil rights investigation into Ferguson police practices
- Texas Republican candidate Greg Abbott climbs up through parking garage in his wheelchair for new TV ad
- DNC chairwoman Wasserman Schultz compares Gov. Scott Walker to a domestic abuser
- Democrat drops out of Kansas Senate race, potentially creating opportunity for independent candidate
- September 3rd
- After bill passes allowing concealed guns on campus, Idaho professor shoots himself in the foot
- Innocent man released after 31 years on death row
- Poll: Mitch McConnell leads challenger by 4 points in re-election bid
- Bernie Madoff's last surviving son dies
- The Department of Energy creates 'green coloring books' for school kids
- Study: Playing music could improve kids' brains
- The Washington Post gives Obama administration 4 'Pinocchios' for backtracking on 'JV' comment
- University of Kansas decides community service is too 'punitive' a punishment for rape
- Bran Stark and Hodor won't appear in Game of Thrones season 5
- Local heroes free bear that had head stuck in bucket for two months
- The Congressional Black Caucus voted to preserve police militarization
- Dwayne Johnson will star in DC's next big superhero movie
- This is what it's like to be Robert Downey Jr.
- Conservative tax warrior Grover Norquist went to Burning Man — and loved it
- Wes Welker denies taking Molly, wonders if someone slipped something in his drink
- LinkedIn 'may have gone too far' with its China censorship
- Germany bans Uber taxi service – app vows to continue
- Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson on ISIS: 'Convert them or kill them'
- Get your first look at Allison Williams as Peter Pan
- Pope Francis tells Iraqi Christians they are the 'heart' of the church
- Disney is bringing a new Frozen story to movie theaters
- NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade to end ban on gay groups
- Rand Paul: As president I would 'destroy ISIS militarily'
- Indian summer may follow wet August, say forecasters
- Germany is still full of radioactive boars, thanks to Chernobyl
- Why has Putin agreed to 'ceasefire' with Ukraine?
- Steven Sotloff is the 9th journalist murdered in Syria since 2012
- 'She Blinded Me with Science' singer becomes professor
- John Oliver and Cookie Monster anchor a twisted, family-friendly newscast
- Ukraine announces 'permanent cease-fire' after phone call with Russia's Vladimir Putin
- Jon Stewart ruthlessly mocks the sexist old men of the Senate, and their defenders at Fox News
- The new CVS won't sell you any tobacco products
- Man Utd line up Strootman for 2015 as Cleverley joins exodus
- DNA evidence clears a North Carolina inmate Justice Scalia cited to support the death penalty
- Adam Levine and Jimmy Fallon nail some tough, random musical impersonations
- Obama is sending 350 more troops to Iraq, to guard U.S. Embassy
- September 2nd
- Check out the indoor ocean in Maryland where Navy ships are tested
- Apple denies responsibility for celebrity photo hack
- Alaska Democrats merge with independent candidate for governor
- Parents of slain Seal Team Six member call for Obama's resignation
- Two former senators to lobby for Russian bank slapped with U.S. sanctions
- Dutch artist puts giant inflatable hippo in the River Thames
- Listen to two unreleased Adele songs
- 3 men arrested for illegal hedgehog hunting
- Justin Bieber arrested for assault and dangerous driving in Canada
- You probably aren't eating too much salt
- NYC high school football player collapses and dies during practice
- Study: You can make yourself like healthy food
- Federal contractors say Obama is using them to test policies he can't get through Congress
- Haruki Murakami will release another book in 2014
- The Pentagon is giving weapons to campus security at many universities, too
- Fast-food workers to stage massive strike demanding $15 hourly wage
- North Korean military warns UK over Channel 4 drama
- Russian space geckos didn't survive their journey
- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's wedding photos reveal a festive family affair
- FBI investigating source of stolen celebrity photos
- CeeLo Green: 'People who have really been raped remember'
- Archaeologists discover Stonehenge was once a full circle
- Study: College football coaches are worth their giant salaries — just like CEOs
- Islamic State accused of 'ethnic cleansing on a historic scale'
- Study: Watching action films may cause overeating
- 32 teens escape detention center in Tennessee
- Nato to create 'spearhead' strike force to counter Russia
- Putin aide: That 'taking Kiev in 2 weeks' line was 'taken out of context'
- The dollar store wars continue as Dollar General raises its bid for Family Dollar
- Scotland's pro-independence camp narrows gap in the polls
- 'Java Juggs' coffee carts were allegedly fronts for prostituting baristas
- Eric Cantor has landed a new job at an investment bank
- Major new study endorses a low-carb, high-protein diet
- Skin cancer: 'worrying' rise in hospital cases
- Falcao to Man U as deadline day spree sets league record
- U.S. hits Islamist militant group al-Shabab in Somalia
- To contain Russia, NATO may set up a rapid-response 'spearhead' force in Eastern Europe
- Survivor lead singer Jimi Jamison dead at 63
- Poll: Kentucky voters oppose changing law to allow Rand Paul to run for president and Senate at same time
- September 1st
- Only in America: The prison bunk bed lawsuit
- Vladimir Putin: I can 'take Kiev in two weeks' if I want
- Miley Cyrus: Reading Facebook comments is worse for you than smoking weed
- Rick Perry deletes tweet mocking rival as 'the most drunk Democrat in Texas'
- Demonstrators take over Pakistan's state TV headquarters
- Judge blocks Louisiana abortion law
- Tube terror threat hoax dismissed by police
- Man Utd transfer news: Falcao flies in - what about Vidal?
- Putin demands 'statehood' for southeast Ukraine
- Deadline day: Arsenal and Man United set for manic Monday
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