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April 2014
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- April 30th
- Pharrell: 'Happy' was originally recorded by Cee Lo Green
- After 2 years apart, Iraq War vet and his military dog reunite
- Half of Illinois wants to get the heck out of Illinois
- Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams questioned in connection with 1972 murder
- Potentially explosive whale carcass threatens Canada
- Mad Magazine editor Al Feldstein dead at 88
- Scientific American editor: Fox News wouldn't let me talk about climate change
- The rise of the filibuster, in one maddening chart
- Photos: When a world championship is on the line, table tennis gets pretty intense
- Study: Calling girls 'fat' increases their risk for obesity
- You can soon access apps on Facebook without handing over any personal information
- HBO is bringing back Project Greenlight
- Sharknado 3 is already happening
- U.N. tries to convince India gay is OK with Bollywood music video
- Los Angeles has America's worst air
- Colorado is reconsidering how much THC can go into foodstuffs
- Cops arrest soccer fan accused of racist banana-throwing
- Frankie Muniz wants to buy the L.A. Clippers
- Venomous snake 'bites people while they sleep'
- Star Wars: Episode VII is still casting for 'at least one major female role'
- The Colorado Symphony Orchestra is producing a weed-friendly concert series
- Clippers fans give team heartwarming standing ovation after racist owner banned for life
- U.S. economy grew slowly in first quarter
- Bob Hoskins dead at 71
- Tim Pawlenty: GOP should support 'reasonable' minimum wage increases
- Turkish journalist goes to prison for tweeting the letter 'K'
- Prince Harry and Cressida Bonas split after two years
- Massive storm is drenching Florida with life-threatening rain
- The Supreme Court just helped Obama tackle climate change
- Seth Meyers tackles the niche genre of dog-shaming
- China to overtake U.S. as world's largest economy this year
- The Daily Show finds the ObamaCare of the trigger-happy
- Jon Stewart sorrowfully mocks Sarah Palin and the 'paranoid' NRA
- Secret filming in care home exposes taunts and abuse
- Arsenal fight Bayern for Remy, as Wenger goes after Bender
- Study: Diabetes might cause the brain to shrink
- An American in Paris wants tourists to stop placing love locks on bridges
- Wall Street's first post–housing crash criminal charges will have nothing to do with shady mortgages
- Daniel Craig, Steve Carell, and Benicio Del Toro have a message about sexual assault
- Davenport graduate face-plants on stage after attempting a backflip
- Taco Bell shares what the 'other' ingredients are in its beef
- Gwen Stefani is joining The Voice as a coach next season
- Oklahoma inmate dies from heart attack after botched execution
- April 29th
- Fox News viewer: ObamaCare saved my life
- Car crashes killed one pedestrian every two hours in 2012
- How Donald Sterling can own the Clippers despite his lifetime ban
- Sorry, steak lovers: Chipotle's price hike is going to hurt you the most
- 3 women arrested in Oregon for 'twerking,' possessing drugs
- Star Wars: Episode VII cast officially announced
- Brace yourself for this 33-hour sea otter live stream
- Country legend Willie Nelson is now a 5th-degree black belt
- Millennials trust the media less than Congress and Wall Street
- Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler mock the romantic comedy genre in They Came Together
- Texas is suffering from Texas-size growing pains
- Man is only the second deadliest animal
- British man gets music equipment confiscated for listening to Celine Dion
- IOC official: Rio's Olympics preparations are 'the worst I have experienced'
- Yankees fans boo Robinson Cano's headshot. Then the real Cano shows up.
- Is it finally safe for conservatives to criticize Sarah Palin?
- Meet the zonkey, an adorable donkey-zebra hybrid
- Only one-third of Americans want to repeal ObamaCare
- A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder tops 2014's Tony Award nominees
- At least 6 people shot at FedEx facility in Georgia
- This woman found her dog alive after tornadoes destroyed her home
- Americans' financial anxieties are easing
- Plane safely lands after its engine catches fire mid-flight
- A mouse's fear of men casts doubt on scientific research
- Brazil's drought might make your coffee habit a lot more expensive
- Luis Suarez joins anti-racism banana campaign on Twitter
- Jon Stewart gleefully piles on Donald Sterling
- 83-year-old jewel thief pleads guilty to stealing $22,500 diamond ring
- Girl convinces mall to do something about slow walkers
- Arsenal could lose Giroud if Diego Costa goes to Chelsea
- The best restaurant in the world is Copenhagen's Noma
- See the 'ring of fire' eclipse from the comfort of your own home
- Study: Firstborn children often outshine their siblings
- Jimmy Fallon challenges Emma Stone to a joyfully eclectic lip-sync duel
- The Big Bang Theory, other programs disappear online in China
- It looks like Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher really are in the new Star Wars
- Craig Ferguson to leave the Late Late Show in December
- April 28th
- Hello Kitty surprises Singapore
- Meet the waffogato, Dominique Ansel's answer to the wonut
- Study: One in 25 sentenced to death actually innocent
- Paula Deen announces a 20-city live cooking tour
- Damon Lindelof's new show The Leftovers looks as creepy as Lost
- Joe Biden: I've met 'literally every' world leader
- Get excited for Fox's live-musical version of Grease
- Watch the whole first episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight
- Is it time to retire the 'tea party' label?
- Possible food poisoning sickens 100 attending food-safety meeting
- Heineken's tequila-flavored beer comes to America
- How I Met Your Mother cut the mother's funeral from its finale
- Companies flee the L.A. Clippers amid fallout from racist rant
- Rep. Michael Grimm indicted on 20 counts, pleads not guilty
- Sarah Palin and Paul Ryan: Contrasting symbols of the GOP's future?
- Why France is obliterating everyone at healthcare
- Donald Sterling has a history of sexism, too
- British man who allegedly registered his dog to vote faces possible prison time
- Max Clifford guilty of eight charges of indecent assault
- Wall Street would 'love' Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush in 2016
- New York Post: Chelsea Handler close to signing with Netflix
- This soccer player responded perfectly to a racist fan throwing a banana at him
- John Oliver and Lisa Loeb eviscerate Oregon over its monumental ObamaCare fail
- Drone footage captures damage left by last night's deadly tornado in Arkansas
- Jamie Foxx croons, tries to make 'eucalyptus' and other awkward words sexy
- The U.S. housing market has finally turned a corner
- Meet George Clooney's fiancée, Amal Alamuddin
- The U.S. is a global manufacturing 'rising star,' for pretty depressing reasons
- Man stops traffic to find the false teeth he lost after sneezing
- Arsenal want Seamus Coleman as the man to replace Sagna
- Colorful house based on Up looks like 'a clown,' angry neighbor says
- MERS continues to spread in Saudi Arabia, more than 100 now dead from virus
- NASA discovers the sun has an icy neighbor
- 8 dead in Arkansas, 1 in Oklahoma after devastating tornadoes
- Rubik's Cube turns the big 4-0
- April 27th
- Clippers wear warmup clothes inside-out to protest owner's racist remarks
- Sarah Palin: Waterboarding is how I'd 'baptize terrorists' as president
- Confused uninsured people thought ObamaCare meant getting microchip implants
- Steven Spielberg to direct Roald Dahl's The Big Friendly Giant
- Pope Francis made history twice in one day with dual canonization
- NAACP yanks Donald Sterling's lifetime achievement award after racist rant
- LeBron James dunked right in Michael Jordan's glum face
- Maltese bird hunters complain to police over Chris Packham 'defamation'
- Week in pictures 20-26 April
- April 26th
- Pilgrims descend on the Vatican ahead of Sunday's double canonization
- For those who have everything: The $1,000 fanny pack
- The World Cup teams have some pretty weird requests on their riders
- Behold: Beverly Hills' 100th birthday cake
- Last known letter written on the Titanic sells at auction
- Scandal's Columbus Short will not return for fourth season
- Only in America: A $525 fine for an 89-cent mistake
- April 25th
- Paper money is teeming with 3,000 types of bacteria
- Buy one of these gorgeous Everest prints to benefit the Sherpas
- Teen accused of high school stabbings left chilling note: 'Their precious lives are going to be taken'
- The entire state of California is now experiencing drought conditions
- Innovation of the week: A high-tech cast
- Women more likely to take selfies than men, survey confirms
- Duke University campaigns against hate speech
- Nike's new World Cup ad features basically every soccer star ever
- How to drink all night without getting drunk
- Best Properties: Colourful houses
- Watch this adorable man find out he's going to be a granddad
- PSDS
- Four Seasons launches flying hotel for the super-rich
- Osborne vetoes RBS plan to pay CEO double his salary as bonus
- World's nicest couple leaves $1,000 tip to help ailing dog
- British polar scientists to get new £200m icebreaker ship
- Accused Kansas City hate-crime killer allegedly solicited sex from a black male prostitute
- Drunk passenger sparks hijacking scare on Virgin Australia flight
- Watch The Daily Show lure John Oliver back with Royal Baby talk
- Ukip election ad star suspended after racist tweets
- Jon Stewart takes a victory lap around Cliven Bundy's 'negro studies' debacle
- A giant crucifix dedicated to soon-to-be St. John Paul II fatally crushed a man
- Angry turkeys take their rage out on Minnesota motorists
- Arsenal face Ozil Barcelona battle as Sagna talks stall
- Jem and the Holograms cast announced
- Joan Rivers won't apologize for her joke about the Cleveland kidnapping victims
- Gigantic iceberg breaks off from Antarctic glacier
- April 24th
- Ronald McDonald gets a hip new makeover
- Ex-Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: Let's legalize pot
- Oregon is preparing to scrap its terrible ObamaCare exchange
- Gay veteran denied request to be buried with her wife's ashes
- The Cubs chucked their humongous 100th birthday cake in the trash
- Putin calls the internet a 'CIA project'
- Florida school stops giving kids Mountain Dew before standardized tests
- Andy Warhol's lost artwork found on 1980s floppy disks
- Taco Bell is launching an 'American-inspired' upscale taco restaurant
- The Toronto Blue Jays get no respect
- Meg Ryan will voice the mother in How I Met Your Dad
- Watch kittens frolic in America's first cat cafe
- New Zealand students rewarded with beer for killing rats
- The last Hobbit movie will be called The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- Apple announces stock split
- Michael Pineda's pine tar cheating exposed a dumb unwritten rule of baseball
- President Obama finds Japan's soccer-kicking robots 'a little scary'
- Ryan Grim and Alexis Goldstein interview Thomas Piketty
- Cliven Bundy wonders if blacks were 'better off as slaves'
- Watch a group of drones play music in this terrifying video
- Man Utd starlet Januzaj opts for Belgium before World Cup
- Net neutrality isn't totally dead, yet
- RAF fighter jets scrambled to intercept Russian warplanes
- Watch Stephen Colbert bid farewell to The Daily Show, as only Colbert can
- Police urge Muslim women to stop men going to Syria
- Jon Stewart deftly shows Sean Hannity why you don't pick a fight with Jon Stewart
- $1,000 ice cream sundae comes with champagne sorbet, gold brownies, and a side of bling
- Man Utd after Fabregas and Cavani, as Arsenal eye Welbeck
- David Alan Grier wants to help white people tell black actors apart
- Bradley Manning now legally Chelsea Manning
- Ship that sank 126 years ago discovered near Golden Gate Bridge
- Vapers, take note: The FDA wants to clamp down on e-cigarettes
- IRS employees who owed back taxes received bonuses
- April 23rd
- Meet the waffle donut, aka wonut
- Nike CEO: When it comes to factory conditions, 'ignorance is not bliss'
- Bear gets head stuck in jar, walks down street in Canada
- Jeopardy! contestants fail to remember Herman Cain
- Mafia boss is sad mobsters may have to get 'real jobs'
- Jodie Foster marries Alexandra Hedison
- Woman seeks $275k after suffering an attack from an 'abnormally dangerous' duck
- The cost of attending a wedding is up 75 percent
- Guy Fieri's 'awesome' new menu is full of ridiculous food
- $119,000 will buy you a seat on Four Seasons' private plane
- Wrigley Field turns 100
- This terrifying game will show you what drowning feels like
- MLB player chooses songs from Frozen as his walk-out music
- Chris Christie isn't going to miss David Letterman
- Justin Bieber is really sorry for visiting a controversial Japanese war shrine
- Mitch Hurwitz signs multi-year deal with Netflix
- You can now time-travel on Google Maps (sort of)
- Drake took a lint roller to his pants during a Raptors playoff game
- FBI allegedly used no-fly list to pressure Muslims into becoming informants
- Who wants to cut spending the most? The rich
- Amazon signs exclusive deal to stream HBO shows
- Rio slum violence breaks out ahead of Brazil World Cup
- Let's watch Prince William and Kate awkwardly learn how to DJ
- Watch Albert Pujols join the 500 home run club with this bomb
- Lupita Nyong'o named People's Most Beautiful Woman
- Watch this driving pro balance a car on two wheels
- Pictures reveal stowaway teen's footprints on plane's wheel well
- Liverpool spend big in bid to dominate England and Europe
- South Sudan is turning into an ethnic bloodbath
- Chuck Hagel meets-and-greets with 6-foot-tall, 330-pound Terminator-like robot
- Ukraine: calls for new offensive as politician 'tortured to death'
- Man Utd: £30m deal for Shaw could be Moyes's parting gift
- To bring attention to a vanishing animal, rock band Portugal. The Man releases a disappearing record
- Watch Stephen Colbert's first Letterman Top 10 list
- NASA and the world observe Earth Day with #GlobalSelfie
- Retailers are bickering over how to help Bangladeshi garment factory workers
- Watch 'Puttin' on the Ritz' as a psychedelic, Mad Men–era fever dream
- Police say a patient sold heroin from her Pennsylvania hospital room
- New telescope poised to warn of asteroids years in advance
- Stephen Colbert tells David Letterman he's 'thrilled' to be the next host of the Late Show
- April 22nd
- NYPD's Twitter outreach campaign goes terribly awry
- Potato-wielding Providence man tries, fails to rob stores
- Avril Lavigne's new video is just the latest cultural-appropriation atrocity
- Colombians, tired of being called 'Columbians,' launch social media campaign to educate violators
- The Bible won't be Louisiana's official state book after all
- Poll: For the first time ever, plurality of Texans support same-sex marriage
- Posh prep school grads busted for allegedly running elaborate drug and weapons ring
- Sorry, but this map doesn't show your state's 'favorite' athlete
- Report: Teen who hid in plane wanted to go to Africa to reunite with his biological mother
- Mayor who 'kind of agreed' with alleged white supremacist shooter resigns
- Watch Amy Poehler and Billy Eichner scare strangers by revealing she's not Pitbull
- China purges web porn - but is it an attack on free speech?
- Doomed South Korea ferry's first distress call came from a young boy
- GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis sign $25 billion worth of drug deals
- Can Katy Perry beat a Katy Perry super-fan in a Katy Perry quiz show?
- Jon Stewart calls B.S. on Vladimir Putin's Ukraine protestations
- The Daily Show quizzically mocks Sean Hannity for siding with cattle scofflaw Cliven Bundy
- Jack White recorded and released a new record in under 4 hours. You can watch.
- Arsenal plot Man Utd Smalling raid; Pogba future still unclear
- Pomegranate juice and the Supreme Court could produce tougher truth-in-advertising rules
- There could soon be fewer than 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan
- Brian Williams channels his inner Snoop Dogg with 'Gin and Juice' rap
- Boy Scouts revoke charter after troop leader comes out as gay
- The Lyrid meteors are falling tonight. Watch the shower online.
- Woman suspected of workers' comp fraud caught on The Price is Right
- Nevada's U.S. senators can't agree on whether Bundy protesters are 'patriots' or 'domestic terrorists'
- April 21st
- White House finds 'indications' Syria used chemical weapons again
- Netflix is raising its prices for new users
- Majority of Americans not 'confident' the Big Bang really happened
- Michelle Obama's parenting secret
- Ethanol from corn waste may be worse for the environment than gasoline
- HBO renews comedies Veep and Silicon Valley
- Obama plans to help non-violent drug offenders get out of jail sooner
- Americans still love saving and hate spending
- NBC denies David Gregory 'psychological consultant' claim
- Is craft mead the new craft beer?
- Claim: Oscar Pistorius took acting lessons to help him appear more sympathetic at trial
- You can stream Joss Whedon's new movie right now
- Kraft recalls 96,000 pounds of weiners because they may contain cheese
- The solar window is here
- Edward Snowden: I wasn't trying to look like a Putin patsy
- Bryant University to students: Don't take graduation selfies
- Jeb Bush has an ObamaCare problem
- Discovery cancels Everest Jump Live after avalanche deaths
- Air Canada fires two employees for carelessly throwing passengers' bags
- The evidence on marijuana and health
- Can anything good come of powdered alcohol?
- South Korean president lashes out at ferry captain's 'murderous behavior'
- 'Exceptionally lucky' teenager survives flight to Hawaii in airplane wheel well
- Watch Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen charmingly bomb at The Newlywed Game
- Lindsay Lohan says she suffered a miscarriage while filming docu-series
- Sherpas discuss striking after devastating avalanche
- Saudi Arabia is set to construct the world's tallest tower
- Airline cabins could get even more cramped
- April 20th
- Only in America: A public vending machine for pot
- TNT's NBA analysts honored Craig Sager by donning ugly, mismatched suits
- Watch a tiny puppy squirm in Curtis Granderson's baseball mitt
- CNN asks if the KKK can 'rebrand'
- Justice Scalia: 'Perhaps you should revolt' if taxes get too high
- Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, boxer wrongly convicted of murder, dead at 76
- Pope Francis celebrates Easter with a tweet and a thumbs up
- Your Healthcare.gov password has been reset. Blame the Heartbleed bug.
- Marine Le Pen accuses Farage of slander
- Six schools in 'Islamist takeover plot' face special measures
- Islamic extremism’s ‘deadly threat’ to UK charities
- Cost of living: is Labour becoming a one-trick pony?
- Week in pictures: 13 - 19 April
- April 19th
- Syria on track to ship out chemical weapons materials by deadline
- For those who have everything: The flying fire-breathing dragon
- Watch Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal narrowly avoid a train during a railway safety press conference
- A real-life 'The Notebook' story: Ohio couple dies 15 hours apart after 70-year marriage
- Polish defense minister says U.S. troops deploying to Poland in 're-pivot' to Europe
- Ukraine halts 'anti-terrorist' operations for Easter weekend
- Only in America: Making the bible an 'official state book'
- Behold: The MLB's new protective pitcher caps
- Archbishop of Canterbury: blessing gay marriage would split Church
- Plans to sell taxpayer data labelled ‘borderline insane’
- State schools ‘isolating’ non-Muslim pupils
- April 18th
- Scientists found the world's first female 'penises' on cave-dwelling bugs
- Innovation of the week: The pocket-size printer
- Got an extra $250,000 lying around? You could buy Mark Pavelich's 'Miracle on Ice' medal
- Surgeons remove 12 gold bars from Indian man's stomach
- Farewell texts from passengers on South Korean ferry apparently fake
- Watch the first trailer for Warner Bros' Jersey Boys
- Michaels confirms security breach
- The #AskEmmert Twitter Q&A did not go as planned
- Prop 8 lawyer says his views on gay marriage are 'evolving'
- Texas property owned by polygamist group FLDS seized by state
- Best Properties: Homes with striking interiors
- You could own the world's most haunted island
- 6 Nepalese guides dead, 9 missing after Mount Everest avalanche
- 'Party Monster' Michael Alig to be released from prison
- April 17th
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez dead at 87
- NASA discovers Earth-sized planet in habitable zone
- Cuddly comfort dogs are coming to the Boston Marathon this weekend
- Beau Biden to run for Delaware governor in 2016
- Americans willing to give driverless cars a chance, but wary of brain implants and lab grown meat
- Chris Christie welcomed Joe Biden to Instagram with this vintage photo
- The Mrs. Doubtfire sequel you never asked for is coming
- Watch the new trailer for season 2 of Orange Is the New Black
- Portland will dump 38 million gallons of water from reservoir that teen peed in
- Texas 'Boats 'N Hoes' PAC disbands
- Watch Edward Snowden ask Vladimir Putin a question about his surveillance methods on Russian TV
- Vladimir Putin: I hope I don't have to send troops to 'new Russia'
- The Human Potential Trust
- Flight instructor featured prominently in CNN's coverage fired for 'shaming Canadians'
- South Korean ferry captain is 'really sorry' and 'deeply ashamed'
- 'Liking' Cheerios could crimp your legal rights
- Argentina wants to turn cow flatulence into a clean energy source
- Iranian killer spared by victim's family moments before execution
- Lamb takeaway? 40% of curries and kebabs contain other meat
- Ukraine troops kill 3 pro-Russia gunman, repel attack on base
- Best games of 2014 – reviews
- Arsenal face battle for Origi, but can they keep Koscielny?
- Watch 3 adorable, rare white Bengal tigers make their public debut
- New video shows unusually large gathering of al Qaeda militants in Yemen
- Boy becomes ultimate prize after he crawls inside of a toy claw machine
- Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba planning U.S. IPO
- Researchers: Exercise could make your skin look younger
- Missouri mayor says he 'kind of' agrees with beliefs of alleged Kansas shooter
- April 16th
- British dog calls police
- African-American players are disappearing from baseball
- Norway's big new reality show has celebrities plan their own funerals
- Lorde finally met the man who inspired 'Royals'
- Joe Biden's first Instagram post is better than yours
- David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson toy with X-Files fans on Twitter
- Samsung approved its snarky anti-Apple ads two days after Steve Jobs' death
- Watch John Hamm show his frustrated face on Sesame Street
- Surprise: ObamaCare working best in states that embraced it
- All-you-can-drink coffee subscription launches in New York
- Florida State, local cops completely bungled the Jameis Winston rape investigation
- Study: Babies cry at night to stop their parents from having sex
- Can liberals 'Palinize' Susana Martinez?
- Sorry, scruffies: Researchers fear we've reached 'peak beard'
- NCAA votes to keep student athletes from going hungry
- Watch the final trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Thomas Piketty talks about Capital in the 21st Century
- Cell phone makers agree to add a 'kill switch' to deter theft
- Boko Haram schoolgirl kidnap: rescue 'extremely difficult'
- Jay Z and Beyonce to launch summer tour, claims New York Post
- Poll: Americans don't like ObamaCare, but really don't trust the GOP on health care
- Sport salaries: even QPR weekly wage tops UK annual average
- Michael Bloomberg pledges $50 million to curb gun violence, take on the N.R.A.
- India's Supreme Court enshrines 'the right of every human being to choose their gender'
- Tesco under pressure after profits slump 6% to £3.3bn
- Out with the old, in with the new SAT
- South Korea ferry verdict: Sewol captain escapes death penalty
- Church calls for action on national food poverty 'crisis'
- Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly thinks the pay gap helps women find husbands
- Man Utd 'agree Carvalho deal', Song next instead of Kroos?
- 2 dead, hundreds missing after South Korean ferry sinks
- Male cop becomes Amish woman to catch a criminal
- Brain scans might predict recovery potential for vegetative patients
- What is the likelihood you will get audited by the IRS?
- April 15th
- New Domino's pizza uses fried chicken as a crust
- NYPD ends secret program that spied on innocent Muslims
- Land of the free? U.S. ranks 46th for press freedom
- Study: Teen girls see sexual violence as normal, unavoidable
- CBS denies it's in talks with Chelsea Handler for a late night spot
- Obama shaved 3.5 years off a drug dealer's prison sentence to fix a typo
- You can buy David Beckham's luxurious (used) convertible for $125,000
- Air Canada passenger angry that crew let a man smoke his e-cig during flight
- Study: Too little weight gain during pregnancy linked to childhood obesity
- Americans think premarital sex is less 'morally acceptable' than divorce
- Watch live: The Boston Marathon bombing memorial
- Here's how Boston's sports teams commemorated the marathon bombing
- Denver is getting its first 'bud and breakfast' hotel soon
- The revised Census just so happens to hide ObamaCare stats
- Will Game of Thrones lose its appeal after shock death?
- Walking Dead creator says Jon Hamm would make a 'perfect' villain
- London barbershop reportedly targeted by North Korean officials over 'disrespectful' Kim Jong-un sign
- Tea Party candidate mocks John Boehner's 'electile dysfunction'
- Ukraine launches 'anti-terrorist' operation to defeat pro-Russian separatists
- NYT: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has garnered fans that donate money, send messages of support
- Refugee saved after plane passengers' seat belt protest
- Man seen walking on a leash was a 'theatrical project,' woman explains
- The gourmet cupcake trend is officially dead
- Google Glass contact lenses? Tech firm patents lens camera
- Search area proves too deep for underwater drone hunting for missing jet
- Nigel Farage 'may sue' after EU expenses allegations
- TurboTax maker is reportedly trying to kill efforts to make online tax filing easy, free
- Get Klopp! Spurs, Man Utd and Barcelona chase German coach
- See the 'blood moon' make its appearance over North America
- Arsenal after Real Madrid starlets Casemiro and Morata
- Social Security will stop garnishing tax refunds to pay off old debts
- The first trailer for Gone Girl features Ben Affleck, eerie cover song
- Pulitzers reward The Washington Post and The Guardian for their Snowden coverage, but not equally
- Vets: More pets are coming in high on pot
- Watch Oprah make Pharrell cry 'Happy' tears
- Obama, Putin talk Ukraine crisis over the phone
- April 14th
- Watch the putt-putt version of the Masters
- Glow-in-the-dark paint made a Dutch road look like something from Tron
- US Airways apologizes for tweeting graphic sexual image
- This photo earned Tyler Hicks a Pulitzer for breaking news photography
- Will a pro-marijuana candidate compete in 2016?
- Google buys start-up drone-maker that Facebook once wanted
- This is what Colorado's first weed vending machine looks like
- ObamaCare just got $100 billion cheaper
- Italian woman accidentally implanted with someone else's embryos
- Watch America's looming age imbalance unfold in 4 seconds
- Watch Conan O'Brien get 50 celebrity cameos for the MTV Movie Awards
- Lawyers for the September 11 terror defendants claim the FBI spied on them
- A British gay couple became the first to be married in a church
- Russia should applaud Ukraine's crackdown on pro-Russia militants
- Pierce Brosnan doesn't think Pierce Brosnan was a good James Bond
- Rick Perry is facing potential legal trouble
- Sorry Jenny McCarthy, there is no 'gray area' on vaccines
- U.S. beef prices are at a 27-year-high
- This teen quickly learned to never tweet a terrorism joke to an airline
- Ohio man ordered to hold 'I am a bully' sign on street corner for 5 hours
- Arsenal to ditch Giroud, could Lukaku or Moreno replace him?
- Squirrel causes $300,000 in damages
- Opioid painkiller prescriptions up dramatically for pregnant women
- UN report urges global cooperation to halt climate change
- Justin Bieber surprises Coachella
- Three killed in shootings at Kansas Jewish centers
- April 13th
- Only in America: The school dress code — for parents
- Relive the early 2000s as Nelly, Snoop Dogg, and Gwen Stefani join Pharrell on stage at Coachella
- Mike Huckabee: North Korea might have more freedom than U.S.
- Kathleen Sebelius defends ObamaCare, says resignation was her idea
- Watch SNL's Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush awkwardly party with hipsters at Coachella
- Pope Francis ditches Popemobile to pose for selfies
- Pro-Russian gunmen kill Ukrainian officer as U.S. warns Moscow to back down
- University of Minnesota fans riot after hockey title loss, mess with reporter
- Climate scientists call for trebling of green energy
- Week in pictures: 6 - 12 April
- April 12th
- Pro-Russia militants expand control in several Ukrainian cities
- KFC rolls out weirdest (but also weirdly greatest) prom corsage, ever
- Here's Outkast's full set from the first reunion performance
- For those who have everything: The perfect Coke glass
- NSA, White House deny prior Heartbleed intelligence
- Watch Texas Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury take on his football players in a dance-off
- Pakistani judge throws out attempted murder charges against baby
- 'Affluenza' teen's parents will not have to pay the full cost of his rehab treatment
- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford drills two soccer shots — against youth goalie
- Only in America: Strippers for grandmas
- Photos: Brazilian police evict 5,000 squatters
- Pro-Russia forces seize Ukrainian police station
- North Korea calls reunification ‘daydream of a psychopath’
- Best Properties: Houses with lovely gardens
- April 11th
- Coming to New York City: Umbrella rentals
- Russian cheese factory closes after workers hop into the milk naked
- Dating app Tinder isn't a $5 billion company
- Conservatives and liberals are hating on Ezra Klein's Vox
- High-tech goggles let doctors 'see' cancer cells
- Sue Townsend, author of the Adrian Mole series, has died
- Chelsea vs Atletico Madrid, as Uefa warn Blues over Courtois
- Innovation of the week: Cloudwash
- Watch Lorde perform Nirvana's 'All Apologies'
- Samantha Power urges U.N. to fight texting while driving
- Watch Stephen Colbert's future late-night rivals welcome him aboard
- Watch 7 smart chimpanzees escape their pen using a tree branch
- Sue Townsend and Adrian Mole: their best quotes
- US Masters: Scott and McIlroy poised to strike after slow start
- The Daily Show mocks violent campaign ads — with help from Reservoir Dogs
- A third of Westminster staff 'sexually harassed at work'
- Watch Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart slyly celebrate Colbert's Late Show promotion
- Co-op Bank 'sorry' for £1.3bn loss and £400m black hole
- Omagh bombing: Seamus Daly charged for mass murder
- Batman fans: DC Comics and animator Bruce Timm have a small 75th birthday gift for you
- Arsenal want Stones as their rock and £20m Remy up front
- Scientists grew nasal cartilage, vaginas, and successfully implanted them in patients
- High school tour bus hit by a truck in California, 9 killed
- Here's what Stephen Colbert is like out of his Colbert Report character
- Health officials concerned that deadly bird flu could soon pass easily between humans
- April 10th
- U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resigns
- Listen to a snippet of Miley Cyrus and the Flaming Lips covering the Beatles
- Watch The Simpsons mock those incomprehensible Mad Men previews
- You can buy Google Glass next week — but only for a day
- Cory and Topanga return in the first Girl Meets World teaser
- MSNBC host Ronan Farrow mixes up NCAA, NAACP
- A smelly California Sriracha factory has been declared a public nuisance
- Brazilian woman talking about crime on live TV is attacked by a would-be thief
- The Ultimate Warrior: A conservative remembered
- Ira Glass wants to know about that time you got high
- Not a golf fan? Enjoy these gorgeous photos from the Masters anyway
- Glenn Greenwald is returning to America for the first time since the Snowden revelations broke
- The Heartbleed bug is a real threat. Here's what you should do.
- 'Gospel of Jesus's Wife' probably not forged, scientists conclude
- Bible skepticism doubles in three years, survey finds
- Duck Dynasty star advises 'Kissing Congressman'
- Burger King moves into Crimea as McDonald's withdraws
- Former Arsenal star denies he has become a Syrian jihadist
- Police: Teen suspected in high school stabbing spree to be charged as adult
- Greece's Great Depression isn't abating
- Co-op 'chaos' as Myners quits amid opposition to reforms
- Solar Impulse II: Swiss pilots to circle globe in solar plane
- Jon Stewart gleefully deconstructs Sean Hannity's Spring Break exposé
- This New York restaurant takes Facebook stalking to a new level
- Man Utd chief on Kroos hunt, as Arsenal fight for Cuadrado
- Could Russia really have helped thwart the Boston Marathon bombings?
- Bank of America to pay $772 million for deceiving customers
- 'Baby Got Back' could be headed to a symphony near you
- Jimmy Fallon and Stevie Nicks take us back to 1981, Tom Petty wig and all
- Should have checked Wikipedia: Rolling Stone gets a historical fact wrong on its latest cover
- Bill O'Reilly has some choice words for Stephen Colbert
- April 9th
- Greece is still a sucking chest wound in Europe
- Watch Lindsay Lohan and David Letterman call Oprah
- Atlanta Braves set American Flag on fire
- Watch 6 seasons of Don Draper in just 2 minutes
- Toyota has recalled more vehicles than it has sold in the past 5 years
- LAPD officers disabled voice recorders so they couldn't be monitored
- Zach Braff's new movie is basically just Garden State 2
- Sheryl Sandberg has 'no plans' to run for public office or leave Facebook
- Mississippi schools are slut-shaming girls by comparing them to Peppermint Patties
- FXX is planning a 12-day Simpsons marathon
- Iraq finally gets its first Pizza Hut restaurant
- First openly gay college hoops player: 'This is the happiest I have ever been'
- Listen to Michael Jackson's new song 'XSCAPE'
- Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are making another movie together
- Forget 7-inning games: Here's the real way to fix baseball
- Laptops all round for St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Baseball team puts bacon all over their uniforms
- Oscar Pistorius trial: affidavit from bail hearing – in full
- Meet Mini Winnie, Britain's first cloned dog
- Replacing Maria Miller descends into 'Yes Minister' farce
- Jon Hamm explains his embarrassing dating show appearance
- Watch a rookie stuff LeBron James on a buzzer-beating dunk attempt
- F1 noise row: Mercedes would have quit without V6 engines
- Medicare doctors have a top 1 percent and bottom 99 percent of earners, too
- Two more 'pings' detected in search for missing Malaysia Airlines jet
- Oscar Pistorius trial: what is a zombie-stopper? - video
- The number of stay-at-home moms is on the rise, but it's complicated
- Pakistani baby 'in hiding' after attempted murder charge
- The Daily Show gives two cheers for the ObamaCare enrollment success
- Abu Hamza guilty: radical cleric likely to die behind bars
- Jon Stewart mocks conservative Noah haters
- Arsenal and Liverpool fight for Fazio after Barcelona ban
- New breakthrough in spinal cord therapy helps paralyzed patients
- A Pakistani baby charged with attempted murder is now on the run
- The Onion's pitch-perfect marijuana study newscast gets inside your head
- Watch Anne Hathaway, Jimmy Fallon perform Snoop Dogg with a twist
- Amy Poehler teams up with brother for new show
- April 8th
- Match.com and Major League Baseball are helping put an end to Romeo-and-Juliet fandom scenarios
- Burglar 'turns out to be a duck'
- Batkid cruises up in a Ferrari to throw the first pitch at a San Francisco Giants game
- Do women really make '77 cents on the dollar'?
- Watch a teenager narrowly escape injury from an exploding e-cigarette
- Fox & Friends host congratulates the 'NAACP champs'
- Do you like whistling, club music, and Bud Light? Then you'll love Pitbull and J. Lo's World Cup anthem
- These terrible new Veet ads shame women into removing their body hair
- HBO announces two more seasons of Game of Thrones
- Relax, Archie isn't actually getting killed off
- Survey: Fox News' climate change coverage is 28 percent accurate
- Female members of Congress by party identification, in one telling chart
- Decorated Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe fighting infection, likely won't swim competitively again
- Watch Joy Behar roast Chris Christie
- Behind 'Heartbleed,' a terrifying new internet security problem
- Science discovers 15 new emotions
- Liz Cheney: 'Pelosi's problem is that her spine doesn't seem to reach her brain'
- Massive flooding forces cancellation of Noah screening
- Christina Hendricks would be 'thrilled' to appear on Game of Thrones
- UConn's Shabazz Napier rips the NCAA for failing student athletes
- Oscar Pistorius breaks down on the stand, forces trial to adjourn for the day
- This is what the first Instagram taken in space looks like
- Search for missing Malaysia jet is the 'most expensive' in aviation history
- Irish president Michael D Higgins begins historic UK visit
- Watch The Daily Show catch up with Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, post-CIA torture report
- Guantanamo: demands for last British inmate to be freed
- Arsenal face fight for Azmoun, but Belhanda is keen
- Watch this spectacular NASA video of a 'graceful' solar flare
- Everyone has something to say about the young family rescued at sea
- The Senate passed its bipartisan unemployment benefits bill, sending it to a wary House
- The first of 4 'blood moons' will be visible April 14-15
- Married Louisiana congressman admits he kissed a staffer, apologizes
- UConn beats Kentucky to claim the NCAA men's title
- April 7th
- Man lets bees sting his genitals for science
- Are you a fan of Veep and salty language? You should check out The Thick of It.
- Peaches Geldof 'had been a heroin addict', inquest hears
- New Mexico woman finds a metal bolt in her Applebee's burger
- This powerful PSA reminds you not to text and drive
- Is Twitter really killing your relationship?
- University of Calgary students get tested for STDs in an attempt to break world record
- Felix Dennis (our boss) is helping to donate a laptop to every kid in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Captain America 3 and Batman vs. Superman are scheduled to come out on the same day
- Bryan Cranston gets Breaking Bad book deal
- Scott Brown forgot to check a party affiliation on his FEC paperwork
- The continuing rise of U.S. wind power
- Watch the Silicon Valley premiere right now for free
- Comic Neue: a makeover for much-maligned Comic Sans
- The judge from the Casey Anthony trial isn't getting his own television show
- More proof ObamaCare is working
- Honey Maid turns hate mail into art
- Watch NYC cops and firefighters pummel each other at a charity hockey game
- Vandals are flipping over Smart Cars in San Francisco
- Nate Silver: March Madness final a total toss-up
- Barbara Walters' last day on The View is May 16
- Coffee probably doesn't dehydrate you, after all
- Tearful Oscar Pistorius takes stand: 'I'm scared to sleep'
- SNL gives a spoiler-free shout-out to Game of Thrones fans
- Man City plot summer bid for Liverpool superstar Luis Suarez
- The resurgence of measles in America, and the human costs of foregoing vaccination
- Here's a Russian historical analogy Vladimir Putin won't embrace
- A massive Santa Barbara party turned into a nightmare, ending with 100 revelers arrested
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier breaks April box office record for opening weekend
- Legendary actor Mickey Rooney dies at 93
- Watch The Simpsons pay tribute to David Letterman
- April 6th
- Only in America: When Walmart is more exclusive than Harvard
- Star Wars Episode VII is already filming with top secret actors
- Canadian Mounties hitched a ride on a snowmobile to chase a stolen tractor
- Watch a 29-story Tetris game played on a Philadelphia skyscraper
- Former CIA chief: Female senator too 'emotional' to objectively review interrogation program
- SNL's Fox and Friends interviews an 'ObamaCare survivor'
- Searchers are racing to determine if faint underwater noises they detected came from Flight 370's black box
- All but 0.016 percent of March Madness brackets have now been busted
- Runners go rogue as water shortage stops Sheffield half-marathon
- Week in pictures: 30 March - 5 April
- April 5th
- Cult classic The Goonies may finally be getting its sequel
- For those who have everything: DIY moonshine
- Photos: Revelers celebrate 'International Pillow Fight Day'
- Atlanta archbishop plans to sell mansion
- U.S. lawmakers are up in arms over Iran's U.N. ambassador pick
- Keeping the How I Met Your Mother highs and lows going, the show’s DVD set will reportedly include an alternative ending
- Only in America: The last place you'd think to hide a watch
- Facing violence and threats from the Taliban, Afghan voters still turn out
- Melky Cabrera welcomed new Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka with a home run
- British oil worker shot dead in Brazil carjacking
- Adolf Hitler’s wife Eva Braun ‘had Jewish ancestry’
- Did Maria Miller’s adviser threaten journalist?
- Best Properties: Castles, Turrets and crenellations
- April 4th
- Famous Cronut bakery Dominique Ansel just got shut down due to a severe mouse infestation
- Berlin opens world's first lesbian-only cemetery
- ATM accidentally dispenses $40,000 to homeless man
- Jennifer Lopez beats out Diddy to acquire Fuse, but won't merge it with her TV channel
- Mozilla's CEO sacking will have a chilling effect on political discourse
- Polish priest says Lego will destroy kids' souls
- The Theodora Children's Trust
- White Castle will now sell waffle breakfast sandwiches
- Somebody allegedly stole a $2,500 bra from a Madonna photo shoot for Italian Vogue
- This goat-sheep abomination is actually pretty cute
- Innovation of the week: The Prep Pad
- Storm-damaged railway line through Dawlish re-opens
- Watch a young Jon Hamm get rejected on a dating show
- Crimeans will no longer be able to get a Big Mac as McDonald's shutters on the peninsula
- This is George W. Bush's painting of Vladimir Putin
- Google is finding it difficult to trademark the word 'glass'
- March's jobs report shows moderate growth
- Paula Deen shuts down Uncle Bubba's restaurant without telling employees
- Marijuana prices have plummeted since December
- US government created 'Cuban Twitter' to undermine regime
- Watch The Daily Show rip apart the Supreme Court's money-equals-speech logic
- Sunderland fined over Ji Dong-Won - should they lose points?
- South Sudan is at high risk for the worst famine in Africa since the 1980s
- Chelsea striker clear out: even Lukaku will go as Costa arrives
- Scotland Yard policing its own officers with 'culture of fear'
- Stephen Colbert jokes his way through a very serious case against the death penalty
- NASA finds new evidence of an ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus
- Hello Kitty's newest friend is... an egg?
- Watch David Letterman announce his retirement on The Late Show
- Woman prematurely declared dead dies while trying to escape morgue freezer
- Golden retriever found in the debris of the Washington mudslide (Update)
- April 3rd
- A new rabbit-hole xkcd, only this time you can participate
- Chicago Cubs player wears wrong uniform, defines Cubs' expected season
- CBS host David Letterman to retire in 2015
- Photos: A German zoo just gave its animals a pretty great day
- Are we really facing an e-cigarette epidemic?
- The health benefit all fad diets have in common
- Yes, older dudes are going on spring break to pick up college girls
- Brazil is 'not ready' for the World Cup in June, admits FIFA official
- Nik Wallenda is going to tightrope walk between two Chicago skyscrapers on live TV
- George W. Bush's daughter to interview George W. Bush about George W. Bush
- NYT op-ed: Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder is an 'Indian giver'
- Watch a Chicago reporter fend off an anti-Obama protester on live TV
- Feast your eyes on 3 incredibly detailed sand sculptures you'd never be able to make
- Maria Miller apologises to MPs after expense claim probe
- 20th Century Fox pulled that fan-made How I Met Your Mother ending everybody liked
- Fox News' investigative report on spring break is exactly what you'd expect
- Confused Rob Ford voted against honoring Olympians, Nelson Mandela
- Should MLB players take paternity leave?
- Amazon Fire TV will take on Google and Apple
- Daily Show 'deranged millionaire' John Hodgman has fun with offshore banking
- Fort Hood: four dead as soldier opens fire on US army base
- These glossy Taliban passport photos will make you do a double take
- The Daily Show slams GM greed, but spares new CEO Mary Barra
- NASA severs almost all ties with Russia's space program, citing Crimea
- Man Utd fight Barcelona for 'new Messi' Halilovic
- Watch a Chicago man stop an oncoming train in the nick of time
- SeaWorld attendance is down. Is Blackfish to blame?
- The real Sarah Palin and fake Vladimir Putin chat (and jam) on The Tonight Show
- A Texas couple is convinced they've captured a real-life chupacabra
- Officials: Fort Hood shooter killed 3, then himself, had mental health problems
- April 2nd
- Every single demographic thinks alcohol is worse than weed for society
- That Paul Blart sequel you didn't ask for hits theaters in 2015
- Study: Emotional abuse puts kids at risk for schizophrenia
- Richard Sherman obliterates the NFL's double standard on race and crime
- Car bomber injures himself because he forgot to account for Daylight Savings
- Leland Yee isn't a household name: But why not?
- Snake on a train forces evacuation of a Swiss rail line
- Watch the first trailer for Scarlett Johansson's new action flick Lucy
- Is a Nirvana musical coming to Broadway?
- Big Papi's presidential selfie was a big marketing gimmick
- Amazon finally unveils Fire TV, its streaming device to rival Roku, Chromecast
- The problem with MLB's new replay system
- U2's Bono: Compassionate conservative savior?
- GM didn't fix its ignition defect because it would have cost $1
- Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's private plane is searching for Malaysian jet
- Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen make New York fun again with joyous photos, then leave
- Man 'lucky' to survive a chainsaw slicing through his neck and shoulder
- Chelsea, Vitesse Arnhem links probed by Dutch FA
- No U.S. troops died in Iraq or Afghanistan in March, the first fatality-free month since 2003
- How long-range weather forecasts can boost the economy
- The Daily Show finally figures out CNN's absurd obsession with missing flight MH370
- Charles Keating, disgraced financier and savings-and-loan collapse villain, is dead at age 90
- Arsenal renew Benzema chase as Real Madrid eye Suarez
- South Carolina woman makes up a school shooting for April Fools' Day, cops not amused
- Samuel L. Jackson magically turns a synopsis of Boy Meets World into slam poetry
- Chile counts at least five deaths from Tuesday night's massive earthquake
- Muriel Bowser will likely be Washington D.C.'s next mayor
- Health officials: The Ebola outbreak in Guinea is unprecedented
- National Zoo panda cub Bao Bao explores the great outdoors for the first time
- A tsunami hits Chile following a powerful magnitude 8.2 earthquake
- April 1st
- Obama celebrates ObamaCare's success: 'Armageddon has not arrived'
- 60 Minutes admits to adding fake engine noise to its Tesla report
- Long Island student is accepted to all 8 Ivy League schools
- Mark Zuckerberg's salary last year was just $1
- Boy Scouts kick out openly gay leader because they didn't realize he was gay
- Ready for a third President Bush? Short answer: No
- Photos: Archiving the mementos from last year's Boston Marathon memorial
- Islington robbery suspect may have shot himself in the back
- Don't worry, somebody already fixed the How I Met Your Mother ending
- 'Douche king of North Carolina'? Jon Stewart checks in on Democratic corruption
- The NCAA took a reporter's cherished cat mug
- Watch a $500,000 Lamborghini collide into two cars on a posh London street
- No joke: ObamaCare may have reached its enrollment goal after all
- OkCupid blocks Firefox users over CEO's anti-gay marriage donation
- What exactly would the U.S. get in return for giving Israel spy Jonathan Pollard?
- Stephen Colbert takes his #CancelColbert victory lap
- The Daily Show is sad to learn that Chris Christie isn't too proud to beg
- Why seven fruit and veg a day is better than five
- Psychologists are finally taking a long, hard look at spite
- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces 2014 induction presenters and performers
- Arsenal's £100m: will they lure Gundogan, Draxler... or Kalou?
- The Drew Carey/Craig Ferguson switch: CBS doesn't understand April Fools' Day
- Ford takes a nice shot at Cadillac with a new ad selling the value of good work
- If demography is destiny, Russia is in big trouble
- Senate report: CIA interrogations were more brutal, less effective than claimed
- Pharrell Williams gets lucky, joins The Voice as a coach
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