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- December 31st
 - The eurozone is lighting at least $300 billion on fire annually
 - Taylor Swift played Santa to a few lucky fans this year
 - Gun owners in Maryland say they're targeted by cops making traffic stops
 - ISIS reportedly releases guide to raising an extremist baby
 - Burn victim creates booming business tattooing over scars
 - Palestine signs up for the International Criminal Court, risking backlash from the U.S. and Israel
 - Most cold home remedies probably don't work
 - Apple's next big device may be a pen
 - The Sony hackers reportedly threatened a U.S. media organization
 - U.S. spyware found on thumb drive of Angela Merkel's top aide
 - Gruber in 2009: ObamaCare will not be affordable
 - Don't panic! Play Doh will replace that toy that resembles a penis
 - Obama hits highest approval rating in over a year
 - This is what a burst salt facility looks like
 - Italy intercepts ship of immigrants after crew vanishes
 - Watch New Zealand ring in 2015
 - Tanking oil prices could derail Oklahoma oilman's billion-dollar divorce payout
 - 'Prankster' films Ellen 'dance dare' behind NYPD cops, gets literal pushback
 - U.S. transfers 5 Guantanamo detainees to Kazakhstan
 - U.N. Security Council rejects Palestinian statehood resolution
 
- December 30th
 - A handful of conservative congressmen are reportedly plotting against Boehner as speaker
 - Venus may have once had oceans of carbon dioxide
 - Security firm says the Sony hack was an inside job
 - Study finds children's movies have more murders than movies intended for their parents
 - NYPD has sharply curtailed arrests since fatal cop ambush
 - Oil prices drop to lowest levels since 2008 financial crisis
 - BBC pulls Princess Diana documentary after intervention from royal family
 - Surprisingly, 2014 was the safest year for air travel yet
 - Archaeologists discover what could be the largest underground city ever built
 - Back-to-back Oscar winner Luise Rainer dies at 104
 - Police gun deaths rose 56 percent in 2014, after calm 2013, report finds
 - The Jerusalem Biblical Zoo's endangered Sumatran tigress has eaten her 2 cubs
 - U.S. targets al-Shabab leader in airstrike
 - Netflix will let you trick your kids into going to bed early this New Year's Eve
 - Putin critic Alexey Navalny convicted of fraud, given suspended sentence
 - Shark kills teenage spear fisherman
 - Rep. Michael Grimm is resigning from Congress, after guilty plea
 - Debris, bodies from AirAsia flight found in Java Sea
 - 2014: the sporting year in pictures
 
- December 29th
 - The euro just hit a 2-year low
 - Here's why women have more severe allergic reactions than men
 - Drunk birds slur their songs — just like you
 - China blocks loophole access to Gmail
 - Steve Scalise, House majority whip, admits he spoke at a white nationalist summit in 2002
 - This wasn't the least productive Congress ever after all
 - High-ranking Episcopal bishop involved in fatal hit-and-run
 - Obama on hypothetical U.S. embassy in Iran: 'Never say never'
 - Watch troubled U.S.-bound Virgin Atlantic flight make emergency landing
 - Americans name Hillary Clinton the most admired woman in the world for a 13th-straight year
 - New York Mayor de Blasio booed at NYPD graduation
 - Obama: Midterms would have been better for Democrats if they had run on my record
 - Taliban celebrates U.S. 'defeat' in Afghanistan
 - High school basketball players uninvited from tournament over 'I can't breathe' shirts
 - Here are the most pirated movies of 2014
 - John Oliver wants to save your New Year's Eve by killing it
 - Female bullfighter Karla de los Angeles gored by bull, twice
 - Obama golf game forces soldiers to change wedding site
 - Obama: GOP 'nativists' blocking immigration reform
 - Giuliani: NYPD cops were wrong to turn their backs on de Blasio
 - California surfer survives shark attack
 - Palestinians prepare to submit statehood resolution to U.N.
 - The Interview raked in roughly $15 million from online streaming alone
 - Indonesia rescue chief: Missing AirAsia flight likely 'at the bottom of the sea'
 - At least 5 dead on burning Greek ferry
 
- December 28th
 - For those who have everything: These staples are made of 14-karat gold
 - Connecticut police delivered Christmas toys in a $250,000 armored vehicle
 - Ferguson police spokesman suspended for calling Michael Brown memorial 'pile of trash'
 - U.S. ceremonially ends combat mission in Afghanistan
 - Jeb Bush is your new frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination
 - Police turn backs on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at cop's funeral
 - 2014: The year in pictures
 
- December 27th
 - New study suggests marijuana use in Colorado is increasing
 - The Carolina Panthers' defensive line coach bought Christmas presents for local family that was robbed
 - Watch Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris deliver his first promo
 - Malaysia evacuates thousands as nation struggles with worst flooding in decades
 - Photos: Thousands turn out to pay their respects at NYPD officer's funeral
 - For those who have everything: Beer — for your dog
 - China plans to publish lists of sanctioned religious venues, to 'root out illegal religious activities'
 - New studies suggest humans' skeletons became more fragile with switch to farming
 - North Korea blasts Obama over release of The Interview
 - Ukraine, rebels exchange POWs as Kiev suspends trains, buses to Crimea
 - Best properties: homes for the international jet set
 
- December 26th
 - Saudi Arabia to try female drivers in terrorism court
 - West Virginia quarterback Clint Trickett retires because of concussions
 - Egypt reportedly bans Exodus: Gods and Kings film
 - Zookeepers send baby gorilla shunned by her mom to new zoo
 - Visa, MasterCard stop servicing Crimea after sanctions
 - Jennifer Lawrence is 2014's top-grossing actor
 - Take a look back at 2014 on this week's cover of The Week magazine
 - U.S. to share North Korea intel with South Korea, Japan
 - NSA releases documents confirming a decade of illegal spying on Americans
 - Taylor Swift bought Hugh Jackman's shirt for $6,000
 - Congress could spend about $1.5 million to swap office space
 - Philadelphia police helped a woman deliver a baby on the subway
 - The ISIS caliphate is already crumbling
 - The Interview was illegally downloaded 750,000 times on Christmas
 - Walmart will let you trade in your unwanted gift cards
 - Turkish teen arrested for insulting Erdogan
 - Hackers claim responsibility for PlayStation and Xbox Christmas slowdown
 - Bernie Sanders will decide on a presidential run by March
 - Mourners mark 10th anniversary of Indian Ocean tsunami
 - Oldest stone tool from Turkey provides clues about human migration
 
- December 25th
 - Watch The Rock karaoke 'Here Comes Santa Claus' in a onesie
 - What we know so far about the killing of Antonio Martin
 - Uber starts charging a $2 fee for hailing taxis
 - Voters ban red light cameras; city councils sue voters to bring them back
 - Pope Francis prays for world peace at midnight Mass
 - Lab mistake may have exposed CDC worker to Ebola virus
 - 2014 is probably the last year to enjoy your Christmas drone (mostly) unregulated
 
- December 24th
 - For those who have everything: The sofa shaped like a giant bird's nest
 - Cash spill litters Hong Kong freeway, with predictable results
 - Palestinian killed after sniper attack on Israeli troops, breaking calm
 - Former President George H.W. Bush hospitalized with shortness of breath
 - Sony is opening pay-for-view streaming of The Interview today
 - Studies: Legal pot can make communities healthier and safer
 - ObamaCare numbers boosted by auto-enrollment — despite Obama administration warnings
 - Ohio town threatens to sue resident over zombie nativity scene
 - ISIS shoots down Jordanian warplane, captures pilot
 - Police officer fatally shoots man near Ferguson, raising tensions
 - Rodgers hints that Balotelli is not wanted at Liverpool
 - Netflix: Best new shows and movies this June
 - Glasgow bin lorry crash: service held to remember six victims
 - Obama praises Sony move to release North Korea film
 - Arsenal put strikers Dybala and Cavani on Christmas wish list
 - The first Entourage trailer is finally here
 
- December 23rd
 - Obama applauds Sony's decision to release The Interview
 - Florida just passed New York to become the third most populous state
 - For those who have everything: Luxurious fox fur mittens
 - Sen. Rand Paul celebrates Festivus with an online Airing of Grievances
 - France is killing its 75 percent 'super tax'
 - 'Half-panda, half-dog hybrids': Italian circus owner charged with abuse, fraud after passing off dogs as pandas
 - This gorgeous timelapse video shows the Earth from space
 - Report: Sony to authorize screenings of The Interview
 - Study: For better sleep, ditch the e-reader
 - Only in America: Call the cops, get a $584 bill
 - ObamaCare enrollments hit 6.4 million in one month
 - Huge majorities of Americans support closer ties to Cuba
 - Want to ride a bike more safely? Permanent running lights may be better than helmets.
 - Sony threatens to sue Twitter unless users stop posting hacked emails
 - Gun control PSA urges kids to steal parents' guns and give them to teachers
 - The Washington Post's burning question: 'Is Santa a Republican or a Democrat?'
 - Pharrell's rep threatens YouTube with $1 billion lawsuit
 - Arsenal crocks return to fitness as stats highlight injury crisis
 - North Korea's internet is back on
 - Tim Burton: Beetlejuice sequel is 'closer than ever'
 - Japanese agency offers 'solo weddings' for single women
 - Chelsea line up Khedira, but Arsenal could turn to Sissoko
 - Glasgow bin lorry crash: three of six victims from same family
 - Federal judge approves Oklahoma's 3-drug lethal injections
 
- December 22nd
 - A federal appeals court just ruled a North Carolina abortion law unconstitutional
 - Here's why champagne bubbles might affect the future of energy
 - Study: Fast food linked to lower test scores
 - For those who have everything: The data-holding desk sculpture
 - NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio calls for pause in anti-police protests after killing of two officers
 - Al Sharpton plays audio of death threats he has received
 - FAA launches drone safety program
 - Monkey hailed as a hero after saving another monkey's life
 - North Korea has gone completely offline
 - NY Times: Prosecute Cheney for torture
 - Blues singer Joe Cocker dies at 70
 - NASA scientists want to send a crew to the clouds of Venus
 - Watch George Clooney make a visit to Downton Abbey
 - This may be the oldest living Christmas tree in the U.K.
 - Cleveland police union defends misbehaving officer by listing other cops who did worse things
 - This helmet smartly warns both bikers and drivers of potential collisions
 - NYPD makes its own safety a top priority
 - Sony: The Interview 'will be distributed'
 - Here are some CIA travel tips for the holidays, courtesy of WikiLeaks
 - Icelandic hotel is really sorry for selling 'Apartheid' cocktail
 - Sir Elton John marries David Furnish in Windsor – pictures
 - Gunman who killed two NYPD officers sent 'chilling' warning
 - Arsenal 'the only club' for Fekir as also Gunners eye Busquets
 
- December 21st
 - For those who have everything: Your very own, very slow, electric skiff
 - Serial investigates the mystery of Santa Claus in delightful Saturday Night Live parody
 - John McCain: Sony hack a 'new kind of warfare'
 - Dr. Evil hijacks SNL to diss North Korea and Sony
 - New York police turn backs on Mayor de Blasio to protest cop killings
 - Obama: North Korean cyberattack on Sony not an act of war
 - Gunman kills two NYC cops in ambush shooting
 - Week in pictures: 14 – 21 December
 
- December 20th
 - Putin hits back at new sanctions: 'No one will succeed in intimidating us'
 - Miss World pageant nixes swimsuit round from competition
 - Russian tax collectors are seizing cats as collateral
 - Archaeologists discover entryway to King Herod's palace
 - Innovation of the week: A smartphone driver's license
 - Uber wants to patent its 'surge pricing' system
 - Read JFK's 1961 letter to a little girl promising that the Soviets won't stop Santa Claus
 - Scientists suggest Antarctica tourism could be making penguins sick
 - Florida to begin recognizing same-sex marriages following Supreme Court stay denial
 - Watch: A Memphis Grizzlies intern's car was stolen, so the players bought him a new one
 - Only in America: Bribing students to buy healthy lunches
 - Watch this delightful supercut of all the times Stephen Colbert broke character on The Colbert Report
 - Internal FBI report finds agents often mishandle, lose evidence
 - Best properties: exceptional town houses
 
- December 19th
 - This beer claims to enhance your creativity
 - Vladimir Putin has invited Kim Jong Un to visit Russia
 - The Clintons' midterm travel expenses topped $1.5 million
 - Study: There could be life deep beneath the Earth's crust
 - Neil deGrasse Tyson: Aliens probably aren't fat
 - Rand Paul just picked a Twitter fight with Marco Rubio over Cuba
 - The Austin Police Department has a sexism problem
 - Children of elderly couple sue Bob Evans, claim meatloaf killed their parents
 - Parents of Aurora shooter beg for son's life
 - Marco Rubio, Rand Paul clash over Cuba
 - FIFA votes to keep Russia, Qatar as 2018, 2022 World Cup hosts
 - Ibuprofen 'could extend your life by 12 years'
 - This 'misunderstood genius' debunked the theory that bile and phlegm cause all your health problems
 - Stephen Collins says he's not attracted to children
 - Psychic birds could predict storms in advance
 - The FBI is reportedly investigating Gamergate
 - Major League Dreidel is a real thing, and 15 other facts about holiday traditions
 - Jeb Bush's Hillary problem: The Bushes and Clintons have become very cozy
 - Reports: Carly Fiorina is hiring staff members for a presidential campaign
 - Researchers say Dr. Oz's medical advice is usually wrong
 - Outstanding properties of the year 2014
 - Bill Clinton, Neil deGrasse Tyson, James Franco join Stephen Colbert to sing 'We'll Meet Again' instead of 'goodbye'
 - Alex Trebek joins Stephen Colbert for his last-ever Colbert Report sign-off
 - Raging Roy Keane haunts Villa with Christmas visit to Cleverly
 - Cairns stabbing: eight children found dead
 - This dazzling Star Wars-themed display features 100,000 lights
 - Arsenal target keeper Trapp and close in on Brazilian Silva
 - Hollywood ignored George Clooney's attempt to condemn the Sony hackers
 - Report: U.S. knew about attempts between an attorney and clerics to free ISIS hostage
 - Revlon to remove parabens, other chemicals from products
 - 8 children killed inside of home in Australia
 - Study finds link between autism and exposure to air pollution during pregnancy
 - International Monetary Fund to withhold bailout funds for Cyprus
 - NASA's Kepler finds massive alien planet 180 light years away
 - FCC rules 'Redskins' is not profane
 
- December 18th
 - Sierra Leone's leading doctor just died of Ebola
 - U.S. kills 3 ISIS leaders in Iraq airstrikes
 - Oklahoma, Nebraska sue Colorado over marijuana
 - A machine-gun theme park is opening in Florida
 - Security review concludes the White House needs 'a better fence'
 - These insects have sex in your coffee before you drink it
 - Why it's very unlikely that cell phones cause cancer
 - Alison Grimes threatens to take Rand Paul to court
 - India just launched its biggest rocket ever
 - University of Michigan professor writes anti-Republican op-ed, faces calls to resign
 - Paramount blocks screenings of Team America: World Police
 - Rand Paul: Improving Cuban relations 'probably a good idea'
 - Endeavoring fish use oyster shells as speakers
 - These airlines are the most likely to lose your luggage
 - Kobe Bryant is the least valuable player in the NBA, per this one metric
 - John Boehner dings Obama, looks to new Congress in rhyming holiday poem
 - Kim Jong-un covers this week's issue of The Week magazine
 - U.S. executions fell to a 20-year low in 2014
 - First-time flier opens plane's emergency exit 'for fresh air'
 - Paleontologists discover Triassic reptile in China
 - Vladimir Putin: The West wants to turn the Russian bear into a 'stuffed animal'
 - School punishes blind child by taking away his walking cane and replacing it with a pool noodle
 - Tennessee town bans city employees from making negative comments about it on social media
 - Archaeologists discover ancient stamps that could support existence of the Bible's David and Solomon
 - Activists plan to fly balloons carrying The Interview DVDs into North Korea
 - Three alternatives to pensioner bonds for your savings
 - Marco Rubio: Obama's Cuba policy emboldened Iran to get nukes
 - EU court: Obesity 'could be a disability'
 - Ozil close to Gunners return: is he the man to inspire Arsenal?
 - Mixed reaction in Miami's Little Havana over Obama's Cuba policy
 - Mad over Cuba, Colbert calls for a U.S. trade embargo on Vatican City
 - Scientists identify 53 drug compounds that could treat Ebola
 - The latest Kazakh security device: a personal guard wolf
 - Christmas poems: 12 celebrations of the festive season
 - Blatter's Fifa party wrecked as ethics investigator Garcia quits
 - The Daily Show exacts revenge on Fox News for Jay Z dis
 - Study: Inmates could have survived 1962 Alcatraz escape
 - Man U Bale move under threat from new Chelsea Hazard deal
 - AMC Theatres testing movie-a-day pass
 - Texas movie theater has found a pretty splashy replacement for Sony's The Interview
 - Dog with 3D-printed prosthetics can now run free
 - Libby Lane named Church of England's first female bishop
 - Life expectancy up in almost every region of the world
 - Mitt Romney actually has a pretty good idea for what Sony should do with The Interview
 - Report: Steve Carell film set in North Korea canceled
 - Teen exonerated 70 years after execution
 - Stolen art worth millions found after 6 years
 - More than 50 soldiers sentenced to death in Nigeria
 
- December 17th
 - Judd Apatow: The Interview cancellation is 'disgraceful'
 - The oldest U.S. black college may shut down amid financial troubles
 - Alan Gross speaks out: It's a 'blessing' to be an American
 - Indiana policeman sparks outrage with 'Breathe easy' shirts
 - This nonprofit group wants to compost dead bodies
 - Obama is making record use of 'presidential memoranda'
 - Former Walmart employee files complaint over discrimination against pregnant workers
 - Pope Francis celebrates his birthday with tango dancing
 - In Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton expressed regret for not freeing Alan Gross
 - These are the jobs with the highest and lowest obesity rates
 - Top FIFA ethics investigator resigns, claims FIFA is hopelessly corrupt
 - Americans can now bring back $100 worth of Cuban cigars
 - Pope Francis helped broker Cuba deal between President Obama and Raul Castro
 - Guantanamo Bay personnel 'shocked' by Cuba news
 - GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold accused of creating 'hostile' sexually charged workplace
 - This is what your Christmas lights look like from space
 - Virginia state legislator keeps making law while spending nights in jail for sex with a minor
 - Thierry Henry Sky deal makes him best-paid pundit on TV
 - 72 percent of Latinos support Obama's immigration order
 - Police have apps to scan your social media and give you a 'threat rating'
 - Police officer took 4 pounds of marijuana home. He won't face charges.
 - 57 percent of Americans think U.S. race relations are 'bad'
 - Sierra Leone begins searching for Ebola victims door-to-door
 - Stephen Colbert makes analyzing the pros and cons of cheap gas surprisingly entertaining
 - Apple ends online sales in Russia as ruble falls
 - Skylon: how the Mach 5 space plane will work
 - Even Afghanistan's Taliban condemns Pakistan school massacre
 - American Apparel officially fires founder Dov Charney
 - Church of England names Rev Libby Lane first women bishop
 - The Daily Show has a predictably good laugh at South Dakota's 'Don't Jerk and Drive' campaign
 - The Interview: premiere cancelled as hackers threaten '9/11 attack'
 - Oops: By mistake, Johns Hopkins sends acceptance emails to rejected applicants
 - Man United get De Gea boost as Bayern target Sterling
 - New York premiere of The Interview canceled
 - Watch Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon travel back to 1997 on The Tonight Show
 - Macadamia nuts are having a moment thanks to Korean Air tantrum
 - Los Angeles to buy 7,000 body cameras for police officers
 - FDA warns against unnecessary ultrasounds
 - NASA: California needs 11 trillion gallons of water to get over the drought
 - Clifford the Big Red Dog creator Norman Bridwell dies at 86
 
- December 16th
 - Nativity baby Jesuses are now armed with GPS trackers
 - Los Angeles prosecutors won't charge Bill Cosby
 - When you get your period could predict your risk of heart disease
 - Methane gas on Mars could mean signs of life
 - Rick Perry explains how Hanukkah is a lot like the Boston Tea Party
 - People magazine's worst-selling issue of 2014 featured Hillary Clinton on the cover
 - Poll: Most people are fine with religious holiday displays on public property
 - Arizona county proposes placing a hiring ban on smokers
 - Ted Cruz: 'Hillary Clinton is the next president' if the GOP nominates Jeb Bush
 - Teens are smoking, drinking, and getting high way less than last year
 - Rio's Olympic waters are home to a drug-resistant 'super bacteria'
 - NASA built a $349 million tower only to shut it down before it was ever used
 - The Walking Dead spin-off will be set in Los Angeles
 - North Korea calls for U.N. probe into U.S. 'torture crimes'
 - SCOTUS: Police can stop you for violating nonexistent laws they think are real
 - 'Oh God, it's Mom': Pundit's mother calls into C-SPAN to nag sons about family time
 - IRS returns woman's life's savings — but says they can take it back whenever they want
 - Google's 'Year in Search' reveals 2014's trending searches
 - Russia's currency crisis: Vladimir Putin's shenanigans have finally caught up with him
 - Jeb Bush says he's 'actively exploring' 2016 presidential run in typo-ridden Facebook post
 - Vladimir Putin named Russia's 'Man of the Year' for 15th-straight time
 - Vermont dubbed 'Peace Corps heaven,' with most per capita volunteers this year
 - Lou Reed, Green Day, Joan Jett inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
 - French soccer sensation Thierry Henry retires
 - Study: Productivity — and monetary earnings — decrease on hotter days
 - Study: Men who like spicy food have more testosterone
 - Stephen Colbert literally debates himself over American torture
 - Google Year in Search: Malaysia Airlines and Suarez top 2014 stories
 - Australia identifies, praises two slain hostages from Sydney cafe siege
 - Pakistan: Taliban has killed at least 84 students at military-run school
 - Rouble rebounds as Russia sells foreign exchange
 - Rooney issues Man United title warning as Christmas looms
 - 'Psychopath': Jon Stewart is as impressed with Dick Cheney's torture views as you'd expect
 - Bitcoin has fared even worse this year than the Russian ruble
 - Arsenal plot double swoop on Serie A for Hamsik and Destro
 - Navajo Nation spends thousands to buy back sacred artifacts at French auction
 - GOP blames Ted Cruz for Obama's year-end confirmation deluge
 - Roman Polanski's new legal team wants his case closed
 - Jimmy Fallon and Oprah imagine starring in a long-lost soap opera
 - This is the first robot to buy a ticket, fly on a commercial airplane
 - Judy Blume is back with a new adult novel based on events from her youth
 - Carbon monoxide makes 81 people sick at hockey game
 - UN: In South Sudan, tens of thousands have died in 1 year
 - You can't tattoo your pet in New York
 
- December 15th
 - Bill Cosby's wife cites Rolling Stone UVA rape story in defense of husband
 - NASA discovers Mercury is 'under steady siege' from meteor showers
 - This 17-year-old says he made millions trading stocks between classes
 - Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old tomb of Pharaonic queen
 - Colorado gun group: Let marijuana users have concealed carry permits
 - Driving app causes traffic jam in California neighborhoods
 - Players Association sues NFL over Adrian Peterson suspension
 - Police storm Sydney cafe, ending hostage situation
 - U.N. report: More than 1,300 people killed in Ukraine after cease-fire
 - Sydney hostage taker identified as Man Haron Monis, an Iranian-born cleric and alleged sex offender
 - Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'culture'
 - Elizabeth Warren says she's not running for president — at least not yet
 - The NYPD is sued an average of 10 times a day
 - Cleveland police union demands apology for Browns' Tamir Rice protest
 - Islamic State militants publish rules for sex slaves in Iraq
 - Part of downtown Sydney will remain closed amid hostage standoff
 - Russian military jet in 'near miss' with passenger plane
 - Uber briefly quadruples prices for rides out of hostage-crisis Sydney
 - Kobe Bryant passes Michael Jordan in all-time NBA points scored
 - Amazon 1p 'sale': software glitch causes stampede
 - Arsenal offer Sanogo as bait to land Brazil enforcer Romulo
 - Sydney siege update: victims named as details of gunman emerge
 - David Koch says he's a 'social liberal,' not responsible for social conservatives he bankrolls
 - PetSmart sells itself to investors for $8.7 billion
 - Colbert interviews 'fiscal conservative' Smaug, who blames 'liberal Hollywood bias' for bad-guy casting
 - Gunman takes people hostage in Sydney cafe, shows black flag
 
- December 14th
 - Only in America: Fall into a coma, lose your benefits
 - Watch Johnny Manziel get sacked and taunted with his trademark money celebration
 - Texan sneaks into North Korea, claims the U.S. is a 'Mafia enterprise'
 - John McCain blasts CIA torture hypocrites for 'rewriting history'
 - Pope Francis didn't really say all dogs go to heaven
 - Martin Freeman's Bilbo Baggins joins The Office in delightful SNL parody
 - No government shutdown: Senate passes $1.1 trillion spending bill
 - Week in pictures: 7 - 14 December
 
- December 13th
 - Buckingham Palace officials discover mushrooms with 'hallucinogenic properties' in gardens
 - Senate Democrats use rare Saturday session to push judicial, administration confirmations
 - Photos: Thousands march in Washington, D.C. to protest police brutality
 - South Dakota shutters 'Don't Jerk and Drive' campaign because of double entendre
 - Angelina Jolie has to miss her Unbroken premiere because she has chicken pox
 - Wily Texas dog literally eats his owner's homework
 - Indonesian mudslide kills at least 17 people, leaves dozens more missing
 - Brett Lawrie takes young Blue Jays fan who cried when he was traded out for pizza
 - NFL upholds Adrian Peterson's suspension, denies appeal
 - Best properties: houses in the centre of villages
 
- December 12th
 - As reindeer populations decline, this restaurant wants Rudolph to be your holiday dinner
 - NYC Mayor de Blasio erects 'privacy fence' around Gracie Mansion
 - Obama: 'I spend most of my time watching ESPN in the morning'
 - France wants to keep its terminally ill sedated until death
 - Employment rate for law school grads is at 6-year low
 - The U.S. military buys more Jack Daniel's Single Barrel whiskey than any other purchaser in the world
 - Innovation of the week: The counterfeit catcher
 - Elizabeth Warren in 2013: Government shutdown is 'anarchy.' Elizabeth Warren in 2014: Shut down the government!
 - Congress just quietly enshrined the NSA’s warrantless collection of all our communications
 - Mikhail Gorbachev blames U.S. for 'new Cold War'
 - Mexican government passes bill to ban circus animals
 - Toad skins were once used as hallucinogenic drugs
 - Facebook might add a 'dislike' button
 - Hollywood bigwigs joke that Barack Obama probably likes Django Unchained, 12 Years a Slave, Kevin Hart
 - Brazilian congressman tells female colleague she's 'not worthy' of sexual assault
 - Drug-resistant infections could kill 10 million people by 2050
 - CIA torture report redacted at request of British spies
 - Joey Barton reveals French death threat
 - British news channel outs ISIS social media guru as Indian marketing executive
 - The Daily Show laughs over the lazy millennials who've 'Trojan horsed' ISIS
 - Bomber targets performance of play condemning suicide attacks
 - Arsenal join Chelsea and Man City in race to sign Pogba
 - Water bills to fall by 5% says regulator
 - Outed undercover officer draws gun, points it at demonstrators during Oakland protest
 - Study finds that most U.S. teens are sleep deprived
 - Greenpeace in hot water after Nazca Lines escapade
 - Pope Francis suggests that dogs and cats go to heaven
 - In Newtown, long-term mental health services continue to help residents
 - Time capsule buried by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams unearthed in Boston
 
- December 11th
 - Congressional staffers protest Brown, Garner cases
 - Model Beverly Johnson says Bill Cosby drugged her
 - Web inventor: Internet is a 'basic human right'
 - Study finds that volcanoes may have played role in dinosaur extinction
 - New York is planning a 'pro-cop rally'
 - Poll: Record percentage of Americans would repeal ObamaCare
 - CIA Director John Brennan defends torture program while admitting he doesn't know if it worked
 - Republican approval ratings hit 5-year high
 - Pastor will attempt to convince prostitutes to quit in new reality show
 - Justice Department: Native Americans can grow marijuana, even in states where it's illegal
 - Could Elizabeth Warren join Ted Cruz to shut down the government?
 - Uber announces 'full audit' of its driver screenings after rape accusation
 - Report claims that school discipline varies based on race
 - Watch Shaquille O'Neal make holiday treats with an Easy-Bake Oven
 - This Kickstarter project combines the nostalgia of typewriters with cloud storage
 - Red Sox trade All-Star Yoenis Cespedes to Tigers in megadeal
 - Here's what police planned to say if Darren Wilson was indicted
 - This bird's gorgeous eggs are naturally iridescent
 - New York will require insurers to cover gender reassignment surgery
 - Chris Hayes on illegal CIA torture: 'Michael Vick did more time for what he did to dogs'
 - Former CIA head complains about lack of due process — for the CIA
 - Police let off easy for drunk driving as 'professional courtesy'
 - Shipwreck that killed 128 people discovered near Golden Gate Bridge
 - Scientists discover oldest horned North American dinosaur species in Montana
 - Police brutality covers this week's issue of The Week magazine
 - Dodgers trade star outfielder Matt Kemp to Padres in blockbuster deal
 - Former DJ Ray Teret gets 25 years for string of sex attacks
 - These are your 2015 Golden Globe nominees
 - Rick Perry: Running for president is 'not an IQ test'
 - Study suggests long radiation treatment for breast cancer may be 'unnecessary'
 - China awards Confucius peace prize to Cuba’s Fidel Castro
 - Bay Area schools shut down ahead of biggest storm in 5 years
 - Cheney says CIA torture report is 'full of crap'
 - Sierra Leone has seen more than 1,000 new Ebola cases in the last 21 days
 - UK pupils do more homework than many European countries
 - CIA says Bush administration ordered and approved torture
 - New law targets paedophiles who 'fish' for explicit photos
 - Jon Stewart tries to untangle Fox News' twisted reaction to CIA torture
 - Report: U.S. secretly infiltrated Cuba's hip-hop scene
 - Could Edison Cavani cure Arsenal's winter blues?
 - CIA pushes back on Senate torture report: Like doing Tuesday's crossword 'with Wednesday's answer's key'
 - Hong Kong pro-democracy protest site cleared out after 10 weeks
 - A Chinese city is powered by burning money, not coal
 - Son of Che Guevara to start motorcycle tours of Cuba
 - Watch the U.S. Navy field-test its fully operational laser cannon, take out a drone
 - Man rescued after nearly 2 weeks missing at sea
 - Steve Carell joins Jimmy Fallon for a barbershop rendition of 'Sexual Healing'
 - U.S. shuts down last detention center in Afghanistan
 - Palestinian minister dies after skirmish with Israeli police
 - Study estimates trillions of pieces of plastic in oceans
 
- December 10th
 - UVA students dispute Rolling Stone's account of Jackie's assault
 - Instagram just passed Twitter in active monthly users
 - Public support for gun rights is growing
 - Rosetta data suggests Earth's water didn't come from comets after all
 - Wisconsin police chief: Gun violence is 'as serious as the Ebola virus'
 - Almost half of Americans think flu shots can make you sick
 - Delight in the first full trailer for Pixar's Inside Out
 - Scientists find link between nail polish additive and lower IQ
 - Scott Walker agreed to display a menorah, signed letter 'Thank you and Molotov'
 - Drug smuggler sues U.S. after being mauled by Border Patrol dog
 - Sen. Mark Udall on torture report: 'The CIA is lying'
 - Watch jaw-dropping footage of a skier racing down an insanely narrow mountain chute
 - The Montana legislature's new dress code warns women to 'be sensitive to skirt lengths and necklines'
 - MoMA has acquired the first 3D 'Kinematics Dress'
 - Congress' new spending bill would allow wealthy donors to give 10 times more money to political parties
 - A majority of Americans think torture is OK
 - Obama quotes nonexistent Bible verse in immigration speech
 - Atheists in UK face 'systematic discrimination', says report
 - Ebola fighters named Time's 2014 Person of the Year
 - Archaeologists discover lost village — underwater
 - Researchers say party drug ketamine could be used to treat depression
 - The only person in jail over CIA torture is a whistleblower
 - North Korea wants to punish America for its 'inhuman' torture program
 - CIA contractors were allegedly paid $1,800 for waterboarding
 - Fox News host on CIA torture report: 'America is awesome'
 - Howard Dean endorses Hillary Clinton for president: 'We need a mature, seasoned' leader
 - Ex-CIA directors blast torture report as 'flat-out wrong'
 - Google Plus takes a cue from its competitors, adds custom gender option
 - Former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley dies at 75
 - Freed hostage returns to France
 - Gas prices are set to tumble even further
 - Second Indian city bans Uber
 - The Daily Show hilariously mocks a noted atheist for threatening to sue Southern diner
 - Sony World Photography 2015: eight 'spectacular' submissions
 - South African prosecutors can appeal Oscar Pistorius manslaughter conviction
 - Ebola: outbreak in West Africa still out of control, warns WHO
 - Marco Reus snubs England, but Arsenal line up another 'starlet'
 - Christmas trains: which rail lines will be closed?
 - Panda mom and her triplets are reunited in China
 - Astronomers say a supermassive star could be born soon
 - Jon Stewart slams Bush, the CIA, and their 'deluge of depravity' and torture
 - High schooler charged after sharing a pot brownie with his teacher
 - Listen to 92-year-old Christopher Lee's new metal Christmas carol
 - WWII interrogators say there was no need for torture
 - Following a flood of donations, food aid restarted for 1.7 million Syrian refugees
 - Psychologists behind CIA interrogation techniques made $81 million
 - Lawmakers reach $1.1 trillion government spending deal
 
- December 9th
 - Study: Patients are using narcotic painkillers for longer, on higher doses
 - Yale librarian names 'I can't breathe' quote of the year
 - Harvard Business professor incites legal battle over $4 of Chinese takeout
 - High school football team appeals to judge over blown call in playoff game
 - Coming soon: Cheerios with quinoa
 - Report: Some nonprofits make millions, hardly donate to charity
 - Netflix wants to make 20 new shows or TV seasons a year
 - Study finds reindeer populations are rapidly decreasing
 - Obama: CIA report reveals methods 'inconsistent with our values as a nation'
 - This is what a CIA 'dungeon' is like
 - New Amazon feature allows customers to haggle over price
 - Report: New York City is the best home for people under 35
 - Republicans divided on response to CIA torture report
 - The Bush administration hid CIA abuses from Colin Powell for fear he 'would blow his stack'
 - CIA torture report: American officers cried over treatment of Abu Zubaydah
 - CIA chief on scathing torture report: 'We made mistakes'
 - Senate report on the CIA introduces horrible new term to the torture lexicon: rectal feeding
 - CIA torture report: Interrogation tactics were 'brutal and far worse' than agency claimed
 - World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner dated a girl named Madison Bumgarner
 - Jonathan Gruber testifies before Congress: 'I was not the architect of ObamaCare'
 - Bob Dylan announces entire album of Frank Sinatra covers
 - The Albuquerque Police Department is the most violent in the country
 - Poll: Majority says Republicans care more about needling Obama than enacting a real agenda
 - Lena Dunham's book to be altered after investigation into her campus rape story
 - Bird X-rays could be the secret to understanding dinosaur tracks
 - Syfy is developing a TV show set on Superman's home planet
 - Security alert over threat to kill police officer
 - Elizabeth Warren has a million-dollar booster begging her to run for president
 - Archaeologists unearth 150-foot-long Viking feasting hall in Sweden
 - Minnesota man defends himself against 525-pound bear with 5-inch knife
 - Israeli lawmakers vote to dissolve parliament
 - Floyd Mayweather reportedly witnessed murder-suicide of VH1 star Stephanie Moseley and rapper Earl Hayes
 - Remaining Hong Kong protest sites will be cleared
 - LeBron James, Brooklyn Nets players warm up in 'I Can't Breathe' protest shirts
 - Malaria deaths halved but progress threatened by Ebola
 - Obama takes over The Colbert Report, cracks ObamaCare jokes
 - Arsenal transfer hopes fade as Lacazette and Silva slip away
 - Deutsche Bank charged with tax fraud
 - CIA torture report: US braces for international backlash
 - Jon Stewart gives Congress two cheers for bravely depriving Nazis of Social Security benefits
 - An argument over nuts delays Korean Air flight
 - Huge strides are being made in the fight against malaria
 - NGOs urge wealthy countries to welcome Syrian refugees
 - On Monday, Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski learned what a 'furry' is on live TV
 - Veteran finds dog years after she was given away during deployment
 - Curators get an up close look at 2,500-year-old mummy
 - Ken Weatherwax, Pugsley on The Addams Family, dies at 59
 - NYC Council considers ban on horse-drawn carriages
 - Portland sues Uber after 4 days in service
 - Hackers sent Sony extortion email before security breach
 
- December 8th
 - Elevate, Hyperlapse top Apple's best apps of 2014
 - Tamir Rice's mom calls for officer conviction in Cleveland shooting
 - Former FBI interrogator Ali Soufan calls Bush-era torture a 'disaster'
 - Sierra Leone doctors strike over Ebola treatment
 - Report: Morale in the military is low and falling fast
 - Curiosity Rover finds that Mars crater used to be a lake
 - Federal officials lectured people in Ferguson about 'white privilege'
 - World War II 'ghost ship' found off Hawaiian shore
 - Police don't pay damages in civil rights cases — taxpayers do
 - Half of the senators who voted for ObamaCare will be gone in 2015
 - NYC police have killed 179 people since 1999. None of them served jail time.
 - Here's SNL's uncomfortable unaired Ferguson sketch
 - UVA rape victim's roommate: Jackie's story is 'not a hoax'
 - Study finds that left-handed people earn less money
 - How to stop nuisance calls: new laws will help consumers
 - Thieves discover unusual relic in Israel's 'Cave of Skulls'
 - The Newsroom's campus rape subplot offended pretty much everybody
 - Grumpy Cat reportedly raked in nearly $100 million for her owner in 2 years
 - Dallas doctor speaks out about treating Thomas Eric Duncan
 - Majority of Americans say race relations have gotten worse under Obama
 - UK snow: wintry weather to bring more ice and gales
 - Typhoon Hagupit weakens as death toll climbs
 - CIA torture report sparks controversy
 - New Delhi bans Uber
 - Man 'eaten alive' by anaconda on wildlife show
 - Huge fire in downtown Los Angeles shuts down two freeways
 - U.S. says it didn't know slain Yemen hostage was about to be freed before failed raid
 - Arsenal civil war erupts over Wenger's fate
 - Marco Reus: Chelsea join Arsenal in race for midfielder
 - Police: Demonstrators threw explosives during Oakland protest
 - The Afghanistan war is officially over (kind of)
 - Famous two-faced cat Frank and Louie dies at 15
 - The Simpsons' Christmas opening credits include 'obligatory Frozen' gag
 - Syrian military says Israeli airstrikes 'supporting terrorism'
 - U.S. gas prices are at a 4-year low
 - Dozens of Ethiopians drown in shipwreck off Yemen coast
 - NAACP, Jesse Jackson oppose Obama's net neutrality push
 - Pearl Harbor survivors gather 73 years later
 - Prince William and Duchess Kate welcomed by hundreds in New York City
 - Video game pioneer Ralph H. Baer dies at 92
 - A possible chemical attack makes 19 sick at furry convention
 
- December 7th
 - Only in America: Wooing worshippers with Big Macs
 - John Boehner has a race horse named after him: 'Weeper of the House'
 - Metal legends Slayer saved a tiny homeless kitten
 - The Big 12 screwed itself out of the inaugural college football playoff
 - SNL reimagines the new Star Wars trailer with an old, tech-illiterate cast
 - NYC mayor explains why he's concerned about his son and cops: 'It's different for a white child'
 - SNL mocks Al Sharpton following the Eric Garner chokehold case
 - NASA's New Horizons probe awakens on approach to Pluto
 - Sen. Mary Landrieu loses runoff re-election bid
 - Best properties: houses with significant price reductions
 - Week in pictures: 30 November - 6 December
 
- December 6th
 - New racial profiling guidelines will exempt TSA, border agents
 - U.S. women draw 'Group of Death' for 2015 World Cup
 - French President Hollande makes unexpected visit to Vladimir Putin in Russia
 - Re-watch one of the first viral videos as 'Numa Numa' turns 10
 - New study finds boys may be meaner than girls
 - Picasso piece valued at $85K stolen from Art Miami fair
 - Innovation of the week: A high-tech carry-on
 - Hackers send Sony employees threatening new email
 - Only in America: Cops shoot, then sue
 - Defense Secretary Hagel confirms plan to delay U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
 
- December 5th
 - J.K. Rowling to publish new Harry Potter stories in time for Christmas
 - Electric eels remotely control their prey
 - Family of boy shot by Cleveland officer files wrongful death suit
 - Landrieu heading for defeat in Louisiana runoff
 - Navy to investigate secret filming of female officers on submarine
 - Congressional Black Caucus wants Brown and Garner families invited to State of the Union
 - Brooklyn grand jury will look into police shooting of unarmed black man
 - New York City's bugs eat more than 2,100 pounds of dropped food every year
 - Arizona police department postpones 'Run From The Cops 5K'
 - Beyoncé is now the most Grammy-nominated woman of all time
 - Coming soon: a movie based on Barack and Michelle Obama's first date
 - Rolling Stone apologizes for UVA rape story, says there are 'discrepancies'
 - Australia has Medicare for everyone, and it works great
 - Austin police: Report gun enthusiasts with extreme views so we can 'vet' them
 - An estimated 70 percent of Americans have committed a jail-worthy crime
 - Study finds obesity can decrease your life expectancy by 8 years
 - Obama officially nominates Ashton Carter for defense secretary
 - Archaeologists discover giant water basin from ancient Rome
 - The U.S. hasn't seen job growth like this since the 1990s
 - Miller Lite will now deliver beer to your doorstep
 - The Daily Show's new South Africa correspondent schools America over race, poverty
 - Fatal shooting of unarmed black man by Phoenix officer sparks protest
 - Legislators reportedly find no clear evidence against Christie in Bridgegate
 - NASA launches next-generation Orion spacecraft, which will one day fly to Mars
 - Elgin Marbles leave British Museum for first time
 - Watch Obama light the White House Christmas tree, with help from Tom Hanks, musical guests
 - Rail fares rise: what can you buy for the price of a return train ticket?
 - 'Bare' hilarity as barrister translates teen slang texts
 - Apple deleted rivals' songs from iPods, court told
 - England issue wristbands to stars as part of 'DNA' project
 - Chimps do not have human rights after all, court rules
 - Backstreet Boys return with a big screen documentary
 - Man Utd target Clyne, Godin, Hummels and more in new spree
 - 93-year-old honored by France for her incredible work as a WWII spy
 - Fast food restaurant bucks the trend and pays workers $15 an hour
 - Jon Stewart revisits the Eric Garner case, clinically rebuts GOP cop apologists
 - Kids needing to talk to Santa decide to call 911
 - 15 lose their eyesight after undergoing 'unhygienic' surgery in India
 - Starbucks is taking on Blue Bottle, Stumptown with a new Willy Wonka–inspired coffee chain
 - Mark Wahlberg seeking pardon for 1988 assault conviction
 - Amsterdam to start selling drug testing kits after 'white heroin' kills tourists
 - U.S. Postal Service to honor Wilt Chamberlain with a special, taller stamp
 - One of the largest homeless camps in the U.S. is being dismantled
 
- December 4th
 - You can wear this solar-powered jacket to charge your phone
 - Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz dominate 2016 social media mentions
 - Vatican discovers millions of dollars 'tucked away' on balance sheets
 - Andrew Cuomo pledges changes to New York police training
 - Only 2 of 15 original cabinet secretaries of the Obama administration remain
 - Here's the Hillary Clinton country music video we've all been waiting for
 - Watch the action-packed first trailer for Terminator: Genisys
 - Disneyland was the most-Instagrammed place in 2014
 - Watch an adorable puppy grow up in 23 seconds
 - John Boehner on Eric Garner: 'The American people deserve more answers'
 - The uninsured rate has fallen by 30 percent since ObamaCare's debut last year
 - Amazon quietly jumps into the food delivery game
 - NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has changed his tune about Eric Garner since summer
 - Police officers' shocking responses to the Eric Garner decision
 - St. Louis police under fire for tone-deaf post about 12-year-old killed by cops: 'Kids will be kids'
 - Pakistani 'disco mullah' faces prosecution for blasphemy
 - NASA delays test launch of Orion spacecraft
 - A Japanese man trekked more than 4,000 miles to spell out 'Marry Me' via GPS drawing
 - World leaders drown in oil on this week's cover of The Week magazine
 - Rand Paul: Taxes and politicians killed Eric Garner
 - Can new drug help paralysed to walk again?
 - Oxford Dictionaries adds 'duck face,' 'chile con queso'
 - Jameis Winston: False rape accusations are 'the only thing as vicious as rape'
 - The next James Bond movie has a new title and cast
 - Eric Garner's widow rejects cop's apology
 - Terrorists threaten to kill American hostage in Yemen
 - Rudy Giuliani: 'There was no racism in this case'
 - American teacher murdered in Abu Dhabi shopping mall
 - Former RNC chair: 'A black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich'
 - U.S. spending on health care last year rose the smallest amount since 1960
 - #CrimingWhileWhite: why white tweeters are confessing crimes
 - Reign of F1 ringleader Bernie Ecclestone could be over
 - Islamic State militants set up training camps in Libya
 - A German company plans to overthrow the boring old up-and-down elevator
 - Eric Garner: civil rights probe launched into chokehold killing
 - Body of woman found in search for missing mother and baby
 - Jon Stewart mutes the comedy after the Eric Garner verdict: 'I honestly don't know what to say'
 - China to stop donating organs of executed prisoners
 - Man Utd Di Maria boost as PSG target Eriksen of Spurs
 - 98-year-old woman hopes to be exonerated from 1950s atomic conspiracy conviction
 - The year's most common flu strain evades the vaccine
 - Iran is now bombing ISIS, too
 - Giraffes in jeopardy due to poaching, loss of habitat
 - Officer who shot Tamir Rice found unfit by previous department
 - Rep. Peter King: Eric Garner died because he was 'so obese'
 - NYPD's Eric Garner tweet completely backfires
 - 17 states sue the federal government, agencies over Obama's immigration plan
 - Eric Garner decision sparks protests across New York City
 
- December 3rd
 - New York senators call for Justice Department to investigate Garner's death
 - Obama on Eric Garner case: 'This is an American problem'
 - Eric Garner and the limits of police body cameras
 - 'Marsala' is Pantone's 2015 color of the year
 - Kim Jong Un banned his own name
 - Michael Brown's stepdad apologizes for his response to Ferguson verdict
 - If Medicare didn't cover penis pumps, U.S. taxpayers would save $44 million a year
 - This new frog species coughs instead of croaks
 - UN: 2014 could be the hottest year on record
 - Obama rewrote ObamaCare again on Thanksgiving eve
 - 100 missing brains found in Texas
 - Listen to 2014's top 25 songs in one mashup
 - A brand-new Frozen story is just a few months away
 - Archaeologists discover 'largest stone ever carved by human hands'
 - Japanese zoo welcomes twin giant panda cubs
 - Brave 5-year-old battles cancer by dressing as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
 - Restaurant fined $5,000 for 'sexist' ad seeking a 'hostess'
 - Texas Governor-elect Greg Abbott will sue Barack Obama this week, then meet him at the White House on Friday
 - Grand jury decision coming today in Eric Garner case
 - Iran to execute blogger over 'blasphemous' Facebook post
 - An animated world history of carbon emissions
 - 'Gangnam Style' broke YouTube with its 2 billion-plus play count
 - Here it is, America: The grilled cheese cronut
 - Mary Landrieu: Democrats 'walked away' from helping me in runoff Senate race
 - Arsenal can win the league before 2017, claims Wenger
 - Jared Leto has been cast as the Joker
 - Kathleen Sebelius compares ObamaCare website to an old fax machine
 - Report: Hundreds of police killings go uncounted
 - Richard III DNA tests reveal a possible royal sex scandal
 - Watch a model show off a century of hair and makeup styles in 1 minute
 - Russia heads for recession as oil prices plummet
 - Israeli cabinet collapse triggers early election
 - Physicists invent new pasta shape
 - Nebraska professor accidentally found a lost Walt Whitman poem
 - Ukraine had a nuclear plant accident, prime minister says
 - Giraffes could become extinct as poaching increases
 - Medieval palace discovered underground in Wiltshire
 - 2014 on track to be UK's warmest year ever
 - With its new digital menu, Pizza Hut is trying to read your mind
 - Jon Stewart mocks the St. Louis police union's response to the Rams' hands-up gesture
 - Study: Eating a Mediterranean diet could slow down aging
 - Arsenal hatch 'Plan B' to lure Kramer if Khedira deal fails
 - Obama's 3D-printed presidential bust makes history
 - These are the most and least corrupt countries in the world
 - Boston has a suspected Ebola case
 - Jimmy Fallon and Brian Williams slow-jam immigration reform
 - California sees its first 'revenge porn' conviction
 - Woman sues Bill Cosby, saying he sexually assaulted her when she was 15
 - Rolling Stones saxophonist Bobby Keys dies at 70
 - DNA analysis of Richard III brings up questions about royal legitimacy
 
- December 2nd
 - Top NFL exec breaks down during Senate domestic violence hearing
 - Tony Blair's Christmas card is terrifying
 - Minnesota mulls allowing trans students to choose sports teams based on gender identity
 - Doctors Without Borders calls global Ebola response slow, uneven
 - The U.S. saved 50,000 lives from 2011 to 2013, thanks to reduction in hospital mistakes
 - Congress wants to stop Nazis from getting Social Security payments
 - More than 100 jars of human brains are missing from the University of Texas
 - Umpire Dale Scott becomes first openly gay male referee in pro sports
 - Ferguson police investigating Michael Brown's stepdad for inciting a riot
 - Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu calls for new elections
 - John Boehner unveils plan to avoid government shutdown but still fight Obama on immigration
 - 8 states consider requiring high school seniors to pass a citizenship test to graduate
 - Philae may have scraped a crater during its landing
 - Black lawmakers strike 'Hands up, don't shoot' pose on House floor
 - Giving Tuesday: what is it and who has the best ideas?
 - Report: U.S. drones kill 28 'unknowns' for every one terror target
 - EU court bans 'gay tests' for asylum seekers
 - Ray Rice: 'Horrendous mistake' to not apologize for hitting my wife
 - Idina Menzel: Actually, I have no idea if Frozen 2 is happening
 - Poll finds Americans evenly divided on Ferguson decision
 - Kim Jong Un bans foreign cigarettes
 - Rand Paul announces 2016 campaign for Senate
 - Hong Kong protest leaders will surrender to police
 - This supermarket chain has made millionaires of hundreds of its regular employees
 - Ukraine government, pro-Russian separatists agree to new cease-fire
 - Police blast St. Louis Rams' Ferguson demonstration: 'Tasteless, offensive, and inflammatory'
 - Judge Andrew Napolitano to Jon Stewart: Fear makes people 'surrender their liberties for safety'
 - Criticizing presidential children has a long, rocky history
 - Ohio Sen. Rob Portman won't run for president in 2016
 - Arsenal eye Man Utd reject as Campbell and Podolski depart
 - Family gives homeless, dying dog the best days of his life
 - Jon Stewart sees a good bit of projection in Fox News' coverage of the Ferguson protests
 - Study: Human ancestors able to consume alcohol 10 million years ago
 - Watch Springsteen, Chris Martin stand in for U2's Bono at New York AIDS concert
 - Diverse coalition opposes execution of mentally ill convict in Texas
 - Putin says Russia will drop Europe-bound South Stream pipeline
 
- December 1st
 - HIV causes AIDS more slowly over time, study shows
 - Space missions could one day be powered by poop
 - A DNA co-discoverer is auctioning his Nobel Prize medal
 - Obama requests $263 million from Congress for police training, body cameras
 - Lack of funds forces World Food Program to stop aid for 1.7 million Syrian refugees
 - New York Times columnist wants Oprah to lead government commission on race
 - Hong Kong's protest leaders are going on a hunger strike
 - Feds tell troops to scrub military ties on social media over ISIS concerns
 - Study finds BPA-free plastics could still be dangerous
 - Rolling Stone crowns U2's detested Songs of Innocence album of the year
 - Scientists are testing a promising breast cancer vaccine
 - More states are pushing for a convention to rewrite the constitution
 - Six days of darkness: Nasa intervenes, but no sign of blackout
 - The strange economic effects of twins
 - GOP staffer quits after backlash to her criticism of Obama daughters
 - Conservationist Martin Litton, who kept dams out of the Grand Canyon, has died at 97
 - Russia accused of bribing FIFA official with Picasso painting to secure 2018 World Cup
 - Investigation reveals Iraqi army's payroll had 50,000 ghost troops
 - Man reveals he is Spider-Man in witty obituary
 - Are Man City back in the title race after Chelsea stumble?
 - Amazon will ship your holiday gifts with the help of a robot army
 - Russia suspected of funding anti-fracking movement
 - Muhammad is the most popular baby boys' name in the U.K.
 - Secret British team helped defend Lebanese village from IS
 - Obama gathers leaders in White House to address Ferguson
 - Here's a Lego version of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer
 - Michael Musto missed the obvious point about the celebrity flip phone 'retro-chic phenomenon'
 - South Korean boat sinks, killing 1 with dozens missing
 - Chicago air travelers faced a mile-long TSA line on Sunday
 - Fury, Annie, and other Sony movies leak online after massive cyberattack
 - Uruguay ex-president Tabaré Vazquez wins a second term, saving state-run marijuana
 - Government reveals details of £15bn 'roads revolution' plans
 - Thanks to selfies, business is booming for plastic surgeons, makeup artists
 - Arsenal lead Benzema chase, and eye Sissoko and McCarthy
 - Study finds that more than 50 percent of infants sleep with unsafe bedding
 - Black Friday sales were surprisingly bleak for retailers
 - Rejoice: You can now buy Girl Scout cookies online
 - Retro Report looks at America's persistent panic over power lines and cancer
 - Demonstrators, police clash in Hong Kong
 - 'Unrepentant' Nazi war criminal died in Syria, source says
 - Mayor: Ferguson to seek more minorities for its police force
 - Police: Body of missing OSU football player discovered
 
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