You're reading a news-oriented website, so we don't have to tell you that a lot of the news today is of the bad variety. Jimmy Fallon, the sunny host of The Tonight Show, can't make the news better, but he tried to do the next best thing on Monday night's show: He had real NBC news anchors from around the country read headlines he wished were true. So if you want to take a short break from Ebola and ISIS for news about "a dog in sunglasses riding a skateboard" who's hoping to hang out with you, watch below. --Peter Weber
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