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- October 31st
- Local weatherman totally wins Halloween with green-screen skeleton costume
- Maine judge rejects quarantine orders for nurse who treated Ebola patients
- Candy corn was once called 'chicken feed,' and 25 other Halloween facts
- Obama: In 10 years, Republicans won't call it 'ObamaCare' anymore
- Innovation of the week: A real hoverboard
- The identity behind the internet's favorite dancing pumpkin is finally revealed
- Satanists made a coloring book for schoolchildren
- The latest Halloween scare: Fake priests hanging out in cemeteries
- Watch a leaked scene from Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Construction crew drills too far, scrapes side of subway train
- Watch George R.R. Martin judge a Game of Thrones costume contest
- Americans' biggest fears explained by ideology, education — and TV habits
- EPA threatens to fine man $75k per day for homemade pond
- Archaeologists discover 'vampire' skeletons buried in gruesome Medieval ritual
- Here's what happens when a strip mall cafe impersonates a fancy hipster restaurant for Halloween
- Archaeologists perplexed by huge stone circles in Middle East
- Why North Korea is so freaked out about Ebola
- J.K. Rowling wrote a new Halloween-themed Harry Potter story, and you can read it right now
- If Bill Gates spent $1 million a day, he would blow his fortune in 218 years
- Starbucks will roll out a delivery service next year
- The Washington Redskins are now suing Native Americans
- Lawsuit seeks $500 million over Ebola gowns
- Parents prank son, tell him he has Ebola
- French village declares 'absolute' ban on Halloween clowns
- Israel reopens holy site as tensions rise
- Archaeologists discover 'unusual' sacrifices of children and llamas
- Crash dummies fatten up to reflect obese Americans
- Stephen Colbert and George Takei scheme to get you to care about the looming midterms
- Future crimes: Scotland Yard tests 'violence prediction' software
- The spookiest Halloween pets - in pictures
- EU to vote on calorie content labels for alcohol bottles
- Two people missing in firework factory fire – video
- Mattia Destro opens the door to Arsenal and Chelsea
- Report: Medicare bought AIDS drugs for recently dead beneficiaries
- Jon Stewart has a message for optimistic Democrats in Texas: 'You poor bastards'
- UN report: An 'unprecedented' number of fighters headed to Iraq and Syria
- Burkina Faso is burning, on the cusp of regime change
- The last episode of The Colbert Report will air in December
- More than 5,000 jack o'lanterns light up this pumpkin extravaganza
- Watch animated alpacas Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, and Sarah Silverman explain income inequality
- Dog assists police officers with arresting his owner
- Scott Brown gets tripped up on local New Hampshire geography
- Turkey's gigantic, controversial new presidential palace overshadows all others
- Starbucks is offering this green monstrosity just for Halloween
- More and more salamanders are dying from a skin-eating fungus
- October 30th
- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen boosts lead over Scott Brown in New Hampshire
- Conservative radio host at Florida GOP rally: 'Culture of rape' idea is 'nonsense'
- Here's what the Sistine Chapel looks like with LED lighting
- Jon Stewart explains why he didn't end up hosting Meet the Press
- Ancient Egyptian temple discovered by allegedly illegal excavation
- College students vulgarly protest gender-exclusive bathrooms with 'sh-t-in'
- Google ordered to pay woman for displaying her cleavage in Street View
- Poll finds Democrat Kay Hagan leading in $100 million Senate race
- Former Marine protests daughter's Islam homework assignment, is banned from school
- Mitch McConnell open to repealing ObamaCare via backdoor tactic he once called 'arrogant'
- Study: 30 percent of U.S. shrimp is mislabeled
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- Buzz Aldrin says the moon has a 'velvet-like sheen' up close
- Longtime Boston Mayor Tom Menino dead at 71
- Nurse Kaci Hickox defies Ebola quarantine, goes for a bike ride
- Ancient Teotihuacan tunnel in Mexico yields thousands of relics
- Teenagers suspended over homecoming photo with airsoft guns
- This is what it looks like when a voting machine changes your vote
- Fox News host on catcalling video: 'Damn, baby, you're a piece of woman'
- Workplace wellness programs: do they work?
- 'Operation' inventor turns to crowdfunding for his surgery
- Nate Silver thinks the Royals should have blown Game 7
- T-Pain sheds the Auto-Tune and reveals his beautiful, soulful voice
- Sen. Lindsey Graham: 'White men who are in all-male clubs are going to do great in my presidency'
- Archaeologists unearth carving of Roman fertility god
- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell dies at 87
- Palestinian suspected in assassination attempt killed by Israeli police
- Why Apple boss Tim Cook revealed that he is gay
- Paul Reubens tells Jimmy Fallon there's a new Pee-wee movie in the works
- Child sexual exploitation the new 'social norm', finds report
- Jimmy Kimmel parades adorable shelter dogs dolled up for Halloween
- Malala Yousafzai donates $50,000 prize to Gaza schools
- Survey: People trust the NSA over Google with their private information
- Jon Stewart welcomes the Koch Brothers, The Daily Show's newest sponsor
- 'Drunk' Flybe pilot arrested before take off
- No link between tough laws and drug use, says 'historic' study
- Arsenal after Scrabble-friendly Polish hard man Krychowia
- Russian fighter planes are buzzing Europe in suspicious numbers
- Giants ace Madison Bumgarner is the No. 3 all-time best World Series pitcher, says The New York Times
- Marijuana legalization is threatened by a GOP midterm wave, too
- Giants win World Series, beating Royals in close Game 7
- Canadian public donates to families of soldiers killed in last week's terrorist attacks
- October 29th
- No, the EPA is not banning argon
- Maine Sen. Angus King switches gubernatorial endorsement to Democrat Mike Michaud
- Netflix is rebooting Richie Rich as the inventor of a 'cool new green technology'
- Obama on Ebola: Health care workers going to Africa are 'American heroes'
- This ancient Greek wine cup may have the earliest Greek depiction of constellations
- Study: ObamaCare increases health premiums by as much as 78 percent
- Super Mario painting replaces pro-annexation mural in Moscow
- Watch five decades of World Series champions joyously celebrate after winning it all
- Scientists successfully test 'breakthrough' vaccine for koala chlamydia
- Missing Broncos fan 'had his fill of football' and went for a walk
- Researchers identify wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane
- Get your first look at the mind-bending new Terminator reboot
- 80 percent of Americans support Ebola quarantines for everyone returning from West Africa
- Ferguson police stock up on $172k of riot gear ahead of grand jury decision
- Scientists infect plants with ancient virus from caribou poop
- Independent Eliot Cutler refuses to abandon Maine gubernatorial bid
- North Korea detains another US citizen
- Feds cut off internet, dress up as technicians to conduct warrantless search
- Watch the trailer for Netflix's new Game of Thrones competitor, Marco Polo
- Samaritans Radar: app scans Twitter for suicidal thoughts
- Why Barcelona and Man Utd have Europe's best academies
- Fox News contributor calls for 'American jihad'
- Nurse says she won't be 'bullied,' won't obey Ebola quarantine
- John Boehner to stump for House candidates in surprisingly close races
- Watch an extended trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Investigator in Secret Service prostitution scandal resigns — after being caught with prostitute
- Argentina: 'UK should remove troops from Falkland Islands'
- Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers arrive in Turkey
- GCHQ admits that it views data without a warrant
- Referee Clattenburg banned over Ed Sheeran concert dash
- Which country is the best place to do business?
- Stephen Colbert credibly blames the NRA for legal dog and cat eating in Pennsylvania
- Military covenant 'failing to protect injured veterans'
- Zambia's president dies in London hospital
- Arsenal and Man Utd battle over Laporte, exit for Januzaj?
- Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters are on their way to help defend Kobani from ISIS
- On the Galapagos Islands, giant tortoises make a huge comeback
- Hawaii will let homeowners watch lava slowly destroy their own houses
- There are how many Norman Bates and Freddy Kruegers living in the U.S.?
- Daniel Radcliffe raps Blackalicious' 'Alphabet Aerobics' on Fallon, and it's actually pretty impressive
- Kansas City Royals win Game 6 of World Series, setting up tie-breaking finale
- Federal buildings across the U.S. to have tighter security 'given world events'
- McConnell: A GOP Senate won't be able to get rid of ObamaCare
- Here's the official emblem for World Cup 2018 in Russia
- Unmanned rocket with cargo bound for the International Space Station explodes after liftoff
- Poll: GOP struggling in key Kansas races
- October 28th
- Watch this dog fetch his owner beer from the fridge
- Chris Christie on possible Ebola lawsuit: 'Whatever, get in line'
- Study finds that earlier sex means earlier death for reptiles
- This is what it's like to walk down the street alone as a woman
- Obama dings Chris Christie on Ebola response: 'We don't just react based on our fears'
- Study explains why we like listening to sad songs
- Critics say asking college applicants for their criminal records is racist
- Released Ebola nurse Amber Vinson: 'I am so thankful'
- Happy National Chocolate Day!
- Democrat Bruce Braley pulls ahead by a hair in new Iowa Senate poll
- Secret menus: the 10 best and worst fast food hacks
- Bicycle fatalities spiked 16 percent in two years after declining for decades
- Cadbury calls time on Christmas chocolate coins
- Tea Party Patriots back Sen. Pat Roberts after spending $75,000 trying to defeat him
- World Bank chief asks for 5,000 medical workers to travel to Africa to fight Ebola
- R.L. Stine will release a new story tonight
- Man ordered to pay child support for child that isn't his
- Proof apathetic Democrats could blow the midterms for their party
- Watch this socioeconomic and linguistic analysis of Gamergate
- Rooney injury could hand Mata one last chance at Man Utd
- Ben Affleck hints at Deathstroke clash in new Batman movie
- Co-founder of The Weather Channel is a climate change denier
- Dunkin' Donuts is finally getting into the hybrid pastry game
- Slow-flowing lava threatens Hawaiian village
- Students unearth mammoth skull and tusks in Idaho
- BFG: Disney releases teaser trailer for 'Harry Potter-esque' film
- Wendy Davis: Texas is 'really on its way' to flipping Democratic
- Ballon d'Or: Ronaldo a shoo-in as Suarez and Ribery left out
- Feds forego mandatory quarantines in new Ebola rules, but states get final say
- Mental health spending 'unacceptably low', charity says
- Zidane hit with three month Real Madrid coaching ban
- Blackout fears as UK power capacity falls
- Seattle-area high school shooter texted victims to meet him for fatal lunch
- Liverpool to offload Balotelli to Napoli as Arsenal eye Higuain
- Listen to one man sing 'Thriller' 20 different ways
- UK and Argentina agree to identify Falklands war dead
- 'Keep Ebola Weird!' The Daily Show visits Austin, mocks Texas on Ebola
- Texas man shows how difficult it can be to get proper ID under new voting law
- Group of UC Berkeley students leading fight against Bill Maher speaking on campus
- Watch a tiny Wisconsin town justify using an armored vehicle to collect $86k from an old man
- This photo of a puppy in a bulletproof vest is the cutest thing on the internet
- The creator of Operation now needs help paying for his surgery
- Russian agency says selfies are behind the spread of lice
- Scientists discover oily 'bathtub ring' the size of Rhode Island while studying BP oil spill
- John Tory wins Toronto mayor's race, ending the 'Ford Nation' era
- October 27th
- Democratic Senate candidate claims own party sabotaged his campaign
- Poll: Georgia's big Senate race is tied
- NASA: International Space Station is 'dodging junk from old satellite'
- Nonpartisan report finds no legal basis for GOP lawsuit against Obama
- The future of air travel may be windowless — but with even better views
- Green Berets: The Afghan National Army is completely incompetent
- Anti-vaccine parents use Halloween candy as propaganda outlet
- Benedict Cumberbatch will star in Doctor Strange
- Chris Christie on quarantined Ebola nurse: 'My job is not to represent her'
- Anti-burqa protesters don KKK hoods, biker helmets at Australian Parliament
- Boston Globe endorses GOP gubernatorial candidate for first time in 20 years
- IBM is donating software to help stop the spread of Ebola
- No, Judd Nelson is not dead
- Taylor Swift will headline New Year's Eve in Times Square
- IRS seizes woman's entire savings because she deposits less than $10,000 at a time
- Range Rovers 'uninsurable' in London after theft spree
- The Hobbit trilogy will end with a 45-minute battle scene
- Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy: 'There won't be a Republican president in 2016' unless we change course
- South Africa football captain Senzo Meyiwa shot dead
- South Korean ferry captain may get death penalty
- World War II pilot found buried in his cockpit
- Welcome Back, Kotter actress Marcia Strassman dies
- Amateur paleontologist accidentally digs up 500,000-year-old fossil in his backyard
- Ukraine voters deliver a solid victory to pro-West parties
- Jane Goodall teaches John Oliver how to fight, eat bananas like a chimpanzee
- Michael Fallon 'rows back' claims of towns 'swamped' by migrants
- Gas prices have dropped to their lowest level since 2010
- Qatar denies funding Islamic State
- Arsenal get Barcelona Pedro boost and line up deal for Reid
- ISIS apparently has advanced surface-to-air missile launchers
- Listen to LeVar Burton as he reads Go the F— to Sleep
- Study: Yes, a compound found in chocolate can reverse memory loss
- John Oliver celebrates Halloween by taking down Big Sugar
- With all eyes on Ebola, efforts to control malaria could fail
- Second victim dies from Washington State school shooting
- Need Halloween ideas? Check out this toddler's impressive array of costumes
- KFC Korea is now serving a sandwich that's basically a mountain of meat
- This home test could become a tool in the fight against colon cancer
- Giants win Game 5 of the World Series, lead Royals 3-2
- Giants fan Robin Williams honored during World Series
- New York governor announces relaxed Ebola quarantine rules
- October 26th
- Arnold Schwarzenegger commemorates 30th anniversary of The Terminator
- Only in America: Jailed for an unsightly lawn
- Chris Christie defends mandatory Ebola quarantines: The CDC 'will come around'
- Kentucky women to Mitch McConnell: 'Shame on you'
- Jeb Bush 'more than likely' to run for president in 2016
- SNL, Jeff Daniels reprise Jim Carrey's iconic roles in fake family reunion
- SNL's Obama: Botched Ebola response nothing compared to ObamaCare screwups
- Quarantined Ebola nurse blasts 'frenzy of disorganization' in domestic Ebola response
- European banks need $12.5 billion to protect against a financial collapse
- Week in pictures: 19 - 25 October
- October 25th
- For those who have everything: The $175,000 punching bag
- Archaeologists discover Peruvian stone that could rival famous 12-Angle Stone
- British musician Jack Bruce, bassist in band Cream, dead at 71
- Cliven Bundy stumps for third-party candidate in new political ad
- World War II airmen fly again in last operational B-29 bomber
- Amazon's Fire Phone flops — to the tune of $170 million
- Only in America: The colonoscopy prank
- WHO raises Ebola death toll to nearly 5,000, reports number of cases has passed 10,000
- Best properties: fantastic London flats
- October 24th
- New York and New Jersey announce Ebola quarantine measures
- 28 percent of American workers played hooky last year — and some of their excuses were terrible
- 2 dead, including gunman, in Seattle-area high school shooting
- GOP Senate candidate David Perdue autographs woman's insulin pump [Updated]
- Worried about Ebola? Get a flu shot.
- Big Hero 6 has a few top-secret Marvel cameos
- Dolce & Gabbana aren't guilty of tax evasion after all
- Uncle Sam is reportedly using expired gear and drugs to battle Ebola
- Poll: Most Americans believe they'll achieve the American Dream — but the next generation is screwed
- Anthony Weiner just can't help himself on Twitter
- Russian TV station sees CIA conspiracy behind CEO's plane crash
- Here's what it looks like if you print out a million digits of pi on a single line
- For just $1,200, you can become a cop — complete with a gun and badge
- Australian surgeons successfully transplant 'dead' hearts into living patients
- Innovation of the week: A more resilient umbrella
- Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola is now Ebola-free
- Strudels were inspired by baklava, and 28 other delicious dessert facts
- Giant python has species' first ever 'virgin birth'
- This is Queen Elizabeth's first tweet
- Homer Simpson to blame for obesity epidemic, says expert
- The cuter the robot, the bigger the security risk?
- J.K. Rowling to publish new Harry Potter story for Halloween
- The largest sunspot in decades is pointed right at Earth
- Don't count on those 'enhanced' airport security screenings for Ebola
- Acid oceans: the risk from carbon emissions
- Iraq says ISIS used chemical weapon against police
- Archaeologists crack the code on a 4,000-year-old clay disk
- Gov. Scott Walker's bald spot has become a campaign issue
- NYPD cops fatally shoot ax-wielding attacker
- Authorities searching for rogue artist vandalizing national parks
- New York quarantines 3 people in contact with Ebola-carrying doctor
- I won't pay, says Cameron, after £1.7bn EU 'ambush'
- Arsenal and Man City face £15m Berahino snub
- Mexico-U.S. border-crossing deaths are at a 15-year low
- Should this new book be called 50 Shades of One Direction?
- Breaking Bad co-star responds to Toys R Us: No to our toys — but yes to Barbie?
- In Mali, 2-year-old girl is the country's first Ebola patient
- Secret Service dogs who nabbed White House fence jumper back in action
- There is a correct order to show your children the Star Wars movies
- Fight between superheroes in Hollywood caught on tape
- October 23rd
- Conan O'Brien and Madeleine Albright had an amazing Twitter showdown
- Here's how you can watch today's solar eclipse online
- Here's what a comet's 'perfume' would smell like
- Woman allegedly steals Rolex, hides it in her vagina
- Only 43 percent of Americans know which party controls the House and Senate
- ISIS reportedly rakes in $1 million a day in black market oil money
- Canadian Parliament gives standing ovation to Sergeant-at-Arms after stopping terror attack
- Democrat Gary Peters is pulling way ahead in Michigan's vital Senate race
- Belgian chocolate company ISIS is changing its name
- Nebraska school board OKs guns in student portraits as long as they're 'tasteful'
- ISIS would need thousands of eunuchs to be a successful caliphate
- Ancient skulls reveal history of human lactose tolerance
- Homeland Security raids lingerie shop over sports-themed panties
- Support for EU membership reaches record high in UK
- NASA's stellar SoundCloud lets you hear the hypnotic beats and beeps of space exploration
- Christian Bale will star in Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs movie
- Dem. Senator Mark Begich: 'The president's not relevant'
- Watch Zach Galifianakis skewer Brad Pitt on 'Between Two Ferns'
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- The FBI has files on 1 in 3 Americans
- Al Qaeda is suddenly very interested in China
- Poll finds Americans are skeptical that U.S. hospitals can handle Ebola
- British military leaders admit 'flaws' in Afghanistan strategy
- Man arrested for selling heroin named 'Ebola'
- Man United close to Alves deal, Liverpool eye Lavezzi
- Almost 600 killed in Syria after a month of U.S.-led airstrikes
- A massive gold nugget is up for sale in California
- The maker of Camel cigarettes to ban smoking in offices, elevators
- Korean scientists have created a humanoid robot pilot, because drones aren't everything
- TV remake of Hitch in development
- Fox News' Shep Smith: 'Don't freak out' after Canada-style 'lone wolf' attack
- Is this the Most Epic Safety Video Ever Made?
- Royals beat Giants in Game 2, evening out World Series
- Green coffee bean extract isn't a weight loss 'miracle' after all
- Iraqi Kurds approve peshmerga deployment to Kobani, Syria
- Surprise! Here's the first look at Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Stephen Harper delivers address on terrorist attacks: 'Canada will never be intimidated'
- Family of nurse Amber Vinson says she is free of Ebola virus
- Suspected Canadian Parliament shooter identified
- October 22nd
- Goodfellas actor files $250 million lawsuit against The Simpsons for allegedly stealing his likeness
- Scientists figure out why this dinosaur was so ugly
- Chinese woman gets dumped by her boyfriend, spends an entire week moping at a KFC restaurant
- 3,100 University of North Carolina students implicated in 'shadow curriculum' scandal
- Man fakes coma for 2 years to avoid going to court
- Pentagon blames wind, 'margin of error' for ISIS intercepting weapons drop
- Twitter is 'the source of all evil,' says Saudi Arabia's top Muslim cleric
- Forget the Pumpkin Spice Latte: Starbucks is rolling out a Chestnut Praline Latte next month
- Chris Christie just subtweeted Rand Paul on Ebola
- CDC to monitor all West African travelers for 21 days
- Neil Patrick Harris was the fourth choice to host the Oscars
- Watch crazy, chaotic footage of shots being fired inside Canadian Parliament
- Scientists closer to understanding mysterious markings on the world's oldest wooden statue
- Martha Coakley is on the verge of blowing another huge race for Massachusetts Democrats
- Taylor Swift tops Canadian iTunes charts — with 8 seconds of static
- Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014 – in pictures
- Man proposes to girlfriend from the back of a police car
- Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer will premiere during next week's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- 'Soccer-mad' Pope Francis is thrilled to meet the Bayern Munich team
- Social Security benefits will increase by 1.7 percent next year
- Red Cross official: Ebola outbreak could be contained within 6 months
- Released North Korean prisoner Jeffrey Fowle returns to Ohio
- Back to the Future hoverboard finally on sale – video
- NBC News cameraman officially Ebola-free
- Rochdale taxi firm offers white drivers on request
- US 'drops weapons into hands of Islamic State'
- Wind outstrips nuclear power thanks to Hurricane Gonzalo
- LDS Church releases video to educate, dispel myths about sacred clothing
- Renée Zellweger responds to critics: Talking about my looks is 'silly'
- Arsenal could sell Ozil to Man City for £30m to buy Higuain
- Court: You really shouldn't tell him you're pregnant in a Facebook message
- Rwanda is now screening U.S. visitors for Ebola
- NASA releases first image of comet speeding past Mars
- Giants beat Royals to take Game 1 of the World Series
- Researchers find the wreckage of two vessels lost during WWII's Battle of the Atlantic
- Yes, Italy's 'Singing Nun' covered Madonna's 'Like a Virgin'
- ISIS video claims to show cache of weapons from U.S. airdrop
- Ben Bradlee, legendary Washington Post editor who led Watergate coverage, dies at 93
- October 21st
- Toys R Us pulls Breaking Bad toys from its shelves
- Top Republican official: Wisconsin voters aren't 'sharp'
- Archaeologists discover 6,000-year-old temple in Ukraine
- FX cancels The Bridge
- Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor called desegregation an 'unwilling invasion'
- The hoverboard is real — and you can ride it
- WHO: Ebola vaccine trials could begin in January
- Anthony Weiner: 'My political career is probably over'
- Democratic Sen. Mark Udall on whether Common Core is good or bad: 'Yes'
- Archaeologists discover ancient Roman inscription that could explain mystery of Jewish revolt
- Democrats won't say 'ObamaCare' on the campaign trail
- Hoping for a Guinness Record, intrepid Greek bakers build giant ring of bread around medieval White Tower
- Fossilized amber provides clues about dinosaur ecology
- Google pledges to fight music piracy – for a price
- GOP House candidate: Gay couples are 'creatures that are so destructive'
- Americans are more concerned about Ebola than poverty, terrorism, or crime
- This log cabin promises to protect you from zombies
- Michele Bachmann receives beefed up security after ISIS threat
- ISIS launches simultaneous attacks in northern Iraq
- New Yorkers protest The Death of Klinghoffer opera
- Australia mourns former PM Gough Whitlam
- The CDC has updated its guidelines for protective Ebola gear
- CEO of Total, Christophe de Margerie, dies in plane crash
- Arsenal keeper crisis: Martinez in goal and teenager on bench
- Oscar Pistorius sentenced to 5 years in jail for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
- Chinese state media has a guide for picking the perfect English name — and it's not Satan
- Podolski slaps down Spurs as Man Utd prepare huge Khedira deal
- Paralysed man walks again after 'historic' cell transplant
- Actor Gerard Parkes, 'Doc' on Fraggle Rock, dies at 90
- Drugs used to treat Parkinson's can cause uncontrollable urges, addictions in patients
- Sheldon Adelson is no longer the top super PAC donor
- Leslie Jones is Saturday Night Live's newest featured player
- Head of French oil giant Total dies in Moscow plane crash
- What you need to know about former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, 1916-2014
- Analysts say Pakistan fined and suspended TV network due to criticism of the government
- Legendary fashion designer Oscar de la Renta dies at 82
- The Orionid meteor shower to cause a dazzling display in the sky
- October 20th
- A convicted murderer is suing the state of Connecticut for his 'constitutional right' to pornography
- Ministers could face jail time for refusing to officiate gay wedding
- HBO expressly prohibits nude actresses from wearing pasties
- U.N. worker dies of Ebola in Sierra Leone
- Scientists reveal that King Tut had 'feminine hips' and an overbite, thanks to inbreeding
- Colorado might ban pot brownies
- American Horror Story's Ryan Murphy claims to 'create' comedy-horror, a genre that has existed for almost 100 years
- Iconic Magnum photographer René Burri who captured Che Guevara dies at the age of 81
- The EU wants $1.27 billion in Ebola aid
- Florida Chili's cook fired for posting shirtless photos labeled 'Sexy Cooks of Chili's'
- This Sharknado campaign spot is the most perplexing ad of the 2014 midterms
- New Jersey school forces kids from Africa to stay at home over mindless Ebola scare
- Kate Middleton and Prince William are expecting their second child in April
- Here's every president's favorite drink
- Scientists discover the origins of sex — thanks to 'square-dancing fish'
- San Francisco radio stations ban Lorde's 'Royals' throughout World Series
- Here are the best cities for liberals and conservatives
- China is giving $6 million for emergency food aid to Ebola-stricken countries
- Keene Pumpkin Festival organizer tries to hijack local news broadcast amid mayhem
- Monica Lewinsky has joined Twitter
- Anthropologists shed light on gladiators' diet
- How to take off an Ebola hazmat suit
- Watch the first trailer for the comeback of HBO's The Comeback
- Drinking lots of soda may make you age faster
- NASA findings suggest the Sun is more explosive than previously thought
- Sweden hunts for Russian sub in its waters
- Australia drops plan to isolate burqa wearers in Parliament
- WHO declares Nigeria Ebola-free
- America has paid alleged Nazi war criminals millions in Social Security to go away
- John Oliver shines a hard light on Iraq and Afghanistan's stranded U.S. military translators
- Sunderland players 'should repay fans' after 8-0 thrashing
- Watch footage from the 1976 discovery of the Ebola virus
- World's first 'space detectives' inundated with cases
- UK would have 'zero influence' if it left the EU, warns Barroso
- Watch Peyton Manning's record 509th touchdown pass
- Major fire at Didcot B power station investigated
- Extremely rare white lion cubs make their debut at the Belgrade Zoo
- Arsenal back in for Schneiderlin as Liverpool get Sterling boost
- John Oliver finds a brilliant solution to the Supreme Court's frustrating camera ban: Dogs
- Lufthansa strike will likely cause cancelation of 1,450 flights
- Daughter of slave receives Confederate send-off
- Woman arrested for DUI in parking lot at county jail, thought it was a bar
- Pope Francis starts Pope Paul VI on path to sainthood
- Woman arrested after trying to break into a home and getting stuck in the chimney
- Spanish nurse, dozens in Dallas case appear to be Ebola-free
- Robotic exoskeleton allows paralyzed man to walk down the aisle at his wedding
- Watch the Ohio State Marching Band's terrific tribute to classic rock
- Toni Morrison's papers going to Princeton
- October 19th
- Only in America: Punishing a kindergartner for pretending a crayon is a weapon
- Runners 'give up' on Beijing marathon due to intense smog
- Ted Cruz blasts Obama's Ebola czar as a 'political operative'
- Football player lands underwear endorsement deal after shoplifting undies
- Texas hospital 'deeply sorry' for botching Ebola diagnosis
- Riot police quell bedlam at New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival
- Week in pictures: 12 - 18 October
- October 18th
- For those who have everything: 'Bury' your pet in space
- Catholic bishops vote against lines welcoming gays in final synod report
- Study finds quality of words used with children is more important than quantity when it comes to developing language skills
- Canada to supply experimental Ebola vaccine to World Health Organization
- Check out the new trailer for Angelina Jolie's Oscar-seeking Unbroken
- Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson reportedly says he feared for his life before shooting
- The U.S. Air Force's top-secret X-37B space plane lands on California coast
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Netflix team up on endangered gorilla documentary
- Watch Texas Tech coach Tubby Smith fall off a motorcycle while dressed as Shaft
- Only in America: Smash your car, sue the city
- Best properties: quirky conversions
- October 17th
- NBC is developing a Marley and Me TV show
- Study finds exercising three times per week could lower risk of depression by 19 percent
- Extra who leaked Batman v. Superman spoilers could be fined $5 million
- Bermuda braces for direct hit from 'dangerous and life-threatening' Hurricane Gonzalo
- Pope Francis is renting out the Sistine Chapel for a corporate event
- Doctor who discovered Ebola says the WHO's Africa office is 'really not competent'
- Florida mom wants Toys 'R' Us to stop selling Breaking Bad toys
- Innovation of the week: The air conditioner bracelet
- Here's a drone's-eye view of killer whales
- Would you step into the boxing ring with Justin Bieber?
- CDC gave $25 million in bonuses while supposedly suffering from budget cuts
- Teal pumpkins will signal a safe Halloween stop for kids with food allergies
- Watch Conan mock CNN's 'insane' Ebola coverage
- How liberal or conservative is your name? Take the test!
- Hurricane Gonzalo: storm causes travel disruption
- Obama names Ron Klain 'Ebola czar'
- Sugary drinks linked to ageing cells in new study
- Experts agree: Ebola travel ban is a dumb idea
- Poetry professor suspended over racist emails
- The real reason Bono always wears sunglasses
- American artist slapped in the face after erecting giant sex-toy sculpture in the middle of Paris
- Everything that's wrong with the global economy, in one sentence
- 'I love you guys': Ebola-stricken nurse thanks doctors on video
- Israel is building vertical cemeteries
- Pro-democracy protest camp dismantled in Hong Kong
- Hawaii braces for Tropical Storm Ana's winds and rain
- Fear of starvation is adding a new wrinkle to the Ebola fight
- Nuclear fusion: has Lockheed Martin solved our energy problems?
- NASA discovers one of the farthest galaxies ever
- The Daily Show digs into the anti-GOP backlash in solidly red Kansas
- Rand Paul wants you to believe that Ebola is 'incredibly contagious'
- Counter-terror chief reveals scale of extremist threat to UK
- Mars will have a very close encounter with a comet on Sunday
- Jon Stewart has a ball with Florida's Crist-Scott 'fangate' controversy
- Because of one rule, The Container Store employees make double the national average
- Man United eye Pogba, as Juventus up the price for Vidal
- Americans still prefer a male boss — especially women
- This luxury timepiece is going for a cool $2.6 million
- American WWII POWs return to Japan after 70 years
- Obama may appoint an 'Ebola czar'
- Sting scats ringtones, sings someone's voicemail message for Fallon's Tonight Show
- Meet Adam, the dog allergic to people
- San Francisco Giants advance to the World Series
- Student tells teacher she was exposed to Ebola so she wouldn't get in trouble for missing class
- Researchers attempt to solve the mystery of what's inside Mimas, one of Saturn's moons
- October 16th
- CNN to Charlie Crist: No fan allowed at our Florida debate!
- Russian billboard featuring bare breasts causes 500 accidents in one day
- German archaeologists have found the 'largest pottery workshop of Greek antiquity'
- Baltimore Marathon organizers list out specific 'cheer words' spectators should use
- Students say they were threatened with arrest for handing out free copies of the Constitution
- The most awkward part of last night's Kansas Senate debate
- Charles Dickens dictated the fashion at his funeral, and 29 other strange will requests
- Apple reveals the iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 3, and 27" iMac
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- Watch the Packers' Aaron Rodgers hilariously meet his British Doppelganger
- Firemen save marijuana crop from burning home
- Texas nurse says she can 'no longer defend' hospital's Ebola mishandling
- GOP critics: Obama is using archaic law to control too much government land
- Watch Chris Hemsworth battle whales, madness, and the elements in Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea trailer
- Warner Bros. confirms a Harry Potter-spinoff trilogy is in the works
- Behold, a literal bird's-eye view of Paris
- Archaeologists discover mural depicting Hades' abduction of Persephone
- CBS announces standalone digital subscription service
- 3,300-year-old cultist complex discovered in Israel — likely for 'storm god' worship
- Hong Kong official shares fake photo of beaten-up cop
- Storm in the Himalayas kills at least 20 people
- Jennifer Lawrence is on her way to becoming the Mockingjay in the new Hunger Games trailer
- Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly nearly come to blows debating 'white privilege'
- Man United stars sleep in oxygen tents at training
- Pep Guardiola 'would like to manage Manchester United'
- Vladimir Putin says he won't be rattled by America's 'attempts to blackmail Russia' over Ukraine
- Jon Stewart mocks the bipartisan fear and self-loathing in the 2014 midterm debates
- 5 years later, the Balloon Boy family is still trying to get into the spotlight
- Arsenal set to lose Khedira to Chelsea, but could get Hummels
- Jeremy Hunt: hospital mistakes cost NHS up to £2.5bn a year
- Author John Grisham says not everyone who looks at child porn is a pedophile
- Student with cold 'traumatized' after being accused of having Ebola
- Paul Rudd is so excited about the KC Royals win, he invited everyone to a kegger at his mom's house
- Afroman returns with a pro-marijuana legalization version of 'Because I Got High'
- Bill Murray isn't sure about Betty White for Ghostbusters 3
- Actress Elizabeth Pena dies at 55
- Obama: The U.S. needs to monitor Ebola in a 'much more aggressive way'
- Florida governor's debate gets held up in quarrel over an electric fan
- FCC commissioner: Butt-dialing is resulting in millions of accidental 911 calls
- October 15th
- The Kansas City Royals advance to the World Series
- Voter-ID law struck down in Arkansas
- Neil Patrick Harris will host the Academy Awards
- Fox News' Shep Smith: Do not listen to 'hysterical voices' on Ebola
- Middle school kids in Hawaii get gift cards for participating in sex-ed program
- Apple may have accidentally just previewed its new iPads
- Greece thinks Amal Alamuddin Clooney could solve the West's longest-running cultural spat
- Watch a robot make a mediocre cup of coffee
- Warner Bros. announces ambitious slate of 10 superhero movies, including Wonder Woman and Justice League
- CDC: Latest U.S. Ebola patient flew on plane from Ohio to Dallas day before diagnosis
- Every episode of Friends will soon be available on Netflix
- 68 percent of the nation's top retailers warn stagnant wages will hurt their bottom line
- Progressive orgs go on offensive in KY Senate race — against the Democrat Grimes
- Clowns to Hollywood: Stop making us look like twisted murderers
- Giant weapons manufacturer claims it has made a big breakthrough in nuclear fusion
- HBO Go will soon be available as a standalone service
- NASA's MAVEN gives first look at Mars' atmosphere
- ISIS may have gotten its hands on Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons
- Red panda heartbreakingly clings to dead sister after Chinese earthquake
- How many of 2014's National Book Award finalists have you read?
- Price of football survey: cost of tickets keeps on rising
- China and India have had the world's dominant economies for most of the past two millennia
- Health Secretary: Dallas hospital needed 'much better oversight' in Ebola treatment
- Archaeologists unearth Ten Commandments set in California desert
- Tennessee woman gets jail time for not maintaining yard
- Nicola Sturgeon to become Scotland's first minister
- Alabama church sues pastor who slept with parishioners after contracting HIV
- Hurricane Gonzalo strengthens as it heads for Bermuda
- Hong Kong police allegedly caught on video beating prominent activist
- U.S. Marines and the South Korean Army engaged in a friendly drum battle
- Serbia v Albania ends in riot after drone flag stunt – video
- Second Texas health-care worker tests positive for Ebola
- Watch Neil Young and Stephen Colbert's amusing point-counterpoint duet about saving the Earth
- Jon Stewart warns of a 'sanity resistant' Ebola-fear outbreak in cable news and Congress
- Macy's will open stores at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving
- Arsenal set for Brozovic talks as Man Utd line up Vlaar move
- In preliminary tests, embryonic stem cells helped restore vision
- Federal appeals court reinstates Texas voter ID law
- A Rainbow Brite reboot is on its way
- Family's $680,000 dream home is on the wrong lot
- Majority of Americans think the U.S. is prepared for an Ebola outbreak
- Speech by feminist blogger canceled after anonymous threat
- David Greenglass, brother who testified against Ethel Rosenberg, dies at 92
- Doctors report first case of Google Glass addiction
- At Jimmy John's, all employees must sign a strict, 'oppressive' non-compete agreement
- October 14th
- Richard Flanagan wins the Man Booker Prize
- Former Republican senator stars in new ad for Democratic senator
- Get ready for Ebola-themed Halloween costumes
- Serbia is preparing its first military parade in 30 years — to honor Putin
- ObamaCare websites won't reveal next year's insurance costs until after midterms
- Kesha is suing producer Dr. Luke for alleged sexual assault, battery
- 114-year-old woman lies about age to join Facebook
- Hitler was reportedly addicted to meth
- Stephen Collins plays a pedophile in a new indie movie
- Shia LaBeouf tells the drunken, debauched story behind his Cabaret arrest
- Mark Zuckerberg donates $25 million to help fight Ebola
- Ann Romney waves off campaign rumors: 'Mitt and I are done... Done. Done. Done.'
- WHO: We could see 10,000 new Ebola cases each week
- A chemical found in broccoli could be the key to treating autism
- Facebook and Apple will pay for female employees to freeze their eggs
- Marvel's superhero movies are building up to a 'Civil War'
- Terror suspect 'planned to assassinate Tony Blair'
- Denver police warns that Halloween candy could be laced with marijuana
- Kentucky sheriff candidates make headlines for being nice to each other
- Students discover remains from 'extremely rare' Iron Age chariot
- Listen to Taylor Swift's striking new breakup anthem 'Out of the Woods'
- This snail species is named in honor of marriage equality
- Hong Kong police dismantle protester barricades
- Catalan leaders scrap independence referendum plan
- U.N. worker dies from Ebola in Germany
- As Kurdish fighters hang on in Kobani, Turkey bombs Kurdish targets
- Italian nurse 'killed patients she found annoying'
- The U.S. military says climate change 'poses immediate risks to U.S. national security'
- Catholic Church: 'Gay-friendly' shift prompts claims of 'betrayal'
- Jimmy Fallon gets real NBC news anchors to read fake good news
- The Daily Show discovers exorcism-by-Skype
- Military leaders to hammer out new plan to fight Islamic State
- Jon Stewart is really sick of Democrats' fundraising emails
- Study: Your skin can smell, too
- Ozil pledges loyalty as Arsenal eye Celtic defender Van Dijk
- Confederate soldier's deciphered Civil War diary full of surprises
- Iran's president: 'A nuclear settlement is certain'
- One dead after 7.3 magnitude earthquake shakes El Salvador
- British parrot comes back from 4-year journey speaking Spanish
- Britain's Parliament votes to recognize state of Palestine
- Woman lives with 3-inch leech inside her nose for a month
- John Oliver's Last Week Tonight brutally deconstructs Columbus Day, wants to replace it with Frank Sinatra Day
- Shooting of Mexican radio host heard live on the air
- Pumpkin weighing 2,058 pounds sets North American record
- McConnell: Repeal ObamaCare, but Kentucky can keep its 'Kynect' program
- Poll: Democratic senator down in tight Colorado race
- NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman apologizes for breaking Ebola quarantine
- October 13th
- Rogue clowns are taking over this California town
- Why you should get a flu shot
- Poll: Tight Senate race in Kansas
- Scientists build a battery that charges 70 percent in two minutes and lasts for 20 years
- 'Flying Coffin' wreck from World War II found in Italy
- Greg Abbott responds to Wendy Davis' infamous attack ad
- J.C. Penney's new CEO is the first minority to ever fill the role
- NASA finds recent evidence of volcanism on moon
- Heroic Americans petition to make Halloween a federal holiday
- Vatican: Gay people have 'gifts' to offer the Church
- 'Mystery tomb' in Greece reveals mosaic of Greek god Hermes
- John McCain calls for an 'Ebola Czar' — but the Senate refuses to confirm nominee for Surgeon General
- Better Call Saul will rewrite the events of Breaking Bad
- ISIS is ruining the spirit of Halloween
- Watch the big surprise ending from last night's Walking Dead premiere
- WHO: Ebola is 'the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times'
- Watch Taylor Swift and Monty Python's John Cleese fight about their cats
- Putin orders troops to return from Ukraine's border
- Turkey to let anti-ISIS coalition use its bases
- The U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B space drone is landing this week, after two years in orbit
- 'The Snappening': nude Snapchat pictures leaked
- Italy's army is going to start growing marijuana for medical consumers
- Turkey lets US strike Islamic State from its bases
- Bolivian President Evo Morales wins third term
- NHS workers in first national strike for more than 30 years
- Arsenal to drop 'unhappy' Ozil for Draxler and Hummels
- CDC's 'protocol breach' explanation for new Texas Ebola case smacks of scapegoating, critics say
- Give NASA your name to be part of space history
- Mayor: Dog belonging to Texas Ebola patient will not be euthanized
- The Mortal Instruments is coming to television
- U.S.: Equatorial Guinea official must sell Malibu mansion, Michael Jackson memorabilia
- John Oliver waxes poetic in his takedown of all things 'pumpkin spice'
- Police: Hospital patient hijacked ambulance to drive himself home
- Federal judge strikes down gay marriage ban in Alaska
- Study: Frozen poop pills could safely combat bad bacteria
- October 12th
- Only in America: A police grilling on your religious beliefs?
- Check out Netflix's first official photos from upcoming Marvel's Daredevil series
- Liberian nurses threaten to strike over low Ebola hazard pay
- Hong Kong leader warns protesters to vacate tent city
- Study: Babies that weigh more at birth grow into higher-achieving children
- Officials in China frantically trying to track down Vladimir Putin's tiger
- St. Louis police arrest Ferguson October protesters at gas station sit-in
- Watch Bill Hader's triumphant return as beloved character 'Stefon' on Saturday Night Live
- Week in pictures: 5 – 11 October
- October 11th
- For those who have everything: The smartest speaker
- First U.S. airport begins enhanced Ebola entry screenings
- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker defends voter ID law
- Anthropologists confirm discovery of Alexander the Great's father's remains
- Photos: The first night of 'Ferguson October' protests
- Brett Favre delivers a delightful poetry reading for Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s birthday
- Officials in Sierra Leone lament 'defeat' by Ebola
- Watch Landon Donovan's emotional farewell at his final U.S. national team game
- Only in America: The swing set ban
- Kmart stores become latest victims of data breach
- Best properties: striking modern residences
- October 10th
- Brave Wells Fargo employee asks CEO for a raise — in an open letter to hundreds of thousands of employees
- Taco Bell just made it possible to drink liquid Starburst
- Taxpayers are subsidizing pumpkin patches and festivals this fall
- Original Ghostbusters star Ernie Hudson bashes reboot starring women: 'If they're not funny at least hopefully it'll be sexy'
- Rand Paul visits Ferguson 'to find out what we could do to make the situation better'
- Department of Defense sold nearly $486 million of airplanes for $32,000 as scrap metal
- Nielsen has been screwing up its network TV ratings since March
- War on ISIS estimated to add $40 billion per year to military spending
- Germany is being sucked into the austerity vortex it created
- Tesla's Model S sedan's autopilot mode has to be seen to be believed
- Innovation of the week: The tire that can't go flat
- Archaeologists uncover 'vampire grave' in Bulgaria
- The new 007 movie has reportedly cast its Bond girl
- The disappointing results of pay-for-performance medicine
- Microsoft CEO: I was 'completely wrong' to say women shouldn't ask for raises
- Study finds that cancer drugs might work better during sleep
- Vigilantes cut off alleged rapist's penis
- Roy Keane: Mourinho lucky not to get punched over handshake
- Ira Glass tries to explain his 'Shakespeare sucks' comment
- Anonymous threatens China over Hong Kong protests
- Katy Perry will perform at next year's Super Bowl
- Mexico captures Juarez drug cartel chief after traffic stop
- Nigel Farage says UK should ban HIV-positive migrants
- Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel peace prize
- Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai and India's Kailash Satyarthi awarded joint Nobel Peace Prize
- The Daily Show explores the GOP's (probably fleeting) embrace of gay marriage
- Darwin letter, vintage Apple computer among rare items on the auction block
- Jon Stewart explains why Hank Greenberg suing the U.S. over AIG is comically despicable
- Arsenal could bag Huntelaar to replace unhappy Podolski
- The U.S. Southwest's Four Corners area is a methane hotspot
- Passenger's joke about Ebola causes panic on airplane
- Radio station switches format, now plays Beyoncé 24/7
- John Oliver's Last Week Tonight mocks Ayn Rand: 'How is she still a thing?'
- Children orphaned by Ebola find themselves shunned by family, friends
- Federal judge rules Texas voter ID law unconstitutional
- Supreme Court blocks Wisconsin from implementing voter ID law
- Pastor who admits to having AIDS and sleeping with parishioners won't step down
- October 9th
- Americans' real wages haven't budged in 50 years
- One of baseball's worst umpires will lead officiating for the ALCS
- Swiss zoo admits it sold park animals at its restaurant
- Watch the mysterious Tomorrowland trailer
- Archaeologists suggest the Bronze Age ended 100 years earlier than previously thought
- Obama criticizes GOP as 'party of billionaires' — at a billionaire's house
- CDC director: Ebola at risk of becoming 'the world's next AIDS'
- The Supreme Court temporarily blocked gay marriage in Nevada due to clerical error
- John Rocker voted off Survivor, threatens to punch out woman's teeth
- Oregon's ObamaCare exchange enrolls U.S. senator in Medicaid
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- Watch a Japanese holographic pop star's perplexing Letterman performance
- ACLU accuses Boston Police Department of racial bias
- Green Day, Lou Reed nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Thames Deckway: London plans floating cycle path
- Body from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 found wearing an oxygen mask
- Van Gaal doing 'brilliant' job at Man United says Ferguson
- The Daily Show has Kristen Schaal explain the GOP's 'winning the lady vote' ad campaign
- Jon Stewart knocks Obama for letting Syria's Kobani fall to ISIS
- Here's why Turkey isn't helping save Syria's Kobani from ISIS
- Watch Wednesday's rare 'blood moon' eclipse in time-lapse splendor
- ATM hack lets criminals take 'wads of cash'
- Forgotten time capsule from 1914 unsealed in New York City
- Air strikes alone will not save Kobane, say UK and US
- Arsenal prepare £60m swoop for Khedira, Draxler and Talisca
- A village and artifacts more than 1,000 years old discovered in Arizona's Petrified Forest
- Black man fatally shot by white off-duty cop in St. Louis
- Palestine's West Bank has its own Oktoberfest
- Toxic liquor kills 21 people in Karachi, Pakistan
- After man is killed by a swarm, authorities discover hive with 800,000 bees
- The world's richest man says you should just work 3 days a week
- Ghostbusters 3 is really happening, starring 'hilarious women'
- Report: Jay Leno is coming back to TV with a car-themed show
- Study on near-death experiences finds evidence of awareness after brain shuts down
- October 8th
- Report: NBC News courted Jon Stewart for Meet the Press
- Poll: GOP Sen. Pat Roberts edges ahead in Kansas
- WHO: More than 8,000 people have been infected in current Ebola outbreak
- New Jersey teacher captures incredible, terrifying photo of great white shark
- AT&T to refund $80 million in bogus charges for 'love tips' and 'fun facts'
- Red Bull will pay $13 million to consumers because it didn't actually give them wings
- Your love of coffee could be genetic
- Police pepper spray black teen in his own living room after he's mistaken for a burglar
- Dog miraculously survives 200-foot fall while hiking with her owner
- Map: America's shrinking coalition support in Iraq
- China overtakes the U.S. as the world's largest economy in terms of purchasing power
- Study: Most of the moon's water comes from the sun, not comets
- U.N.: More than 300 people have been killed during Ukraine ceasefire
- Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly is donating blood to help NBC News journalist
- Islamic State hostages: was it wrong to impose a media blackout?
- Babies born in 2012 will have a longer lifespan than you
- Even Jimmy Carter thinks Obama 'waited too long' to act against ISIS
- The Royals are favored to win the World Series
- Man exercising open carry right is robbed of his own firearm at gunpoint
- Study: Smoking could raise HPV risk
- 'Plant blood' the key to replicating the taste of meat, says scientist
- Kenyatta becomes first sitting president to appear at International Criminal Court
- Harry Potter comeback rumour sparked by JK Rowling tweet
- Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded for 'groundbreaking' microscope advances
- Nick Clegg puts mental health 'at the heart' of manifesto
- Studies giving fat the all clear 'are misleading', say scientists
- Truck sporting the motto 'We Fit' got stuck under a bridge
- Jules Bianchi crash details: what is diffuse axonal injury?
- With a Maserati and trip to the Oscars, the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book is more opulent than ever
- Arsenal and Liverpool chase Lazio teen, Khedira battle hots up
- Pilot dies while trying to fight wildfire in Yosemite National Park
- The key to the perfect veggie burger may be synthetic blood
- Terminally ill woman planning to end her life fights for 'death with dignity' rights
- Somalia's first ever ATM is installed in Mogadishu
- Wednesday morning's lunar eclipse is a 'phenomenon that's barely possible'
- Super Typhoon Vongfong is the strongest cyclone of 2014
- Singer Morrissey reveals he underwent cancer treatment: 'If I die, I die'
- Watch Democratic Senate candidate Rick Weiland's new country music video for his campaign. (Really!)
- October 7th
- Georgia GOP Senate candidate David Perdue defends business outsourcing: 'I'm proud of it'
- Poll: GOP Sen. Pat Roberts down by 5 points in Kansas
- Two kangaroos duke it out on a suburban street in Australia
- Study finds link between BPA and asthma
- Chanel's next runway show will be at the Sound of Music castle
- Catholic couple lectures Pope Francis on the joys of sex
- Walmart is ending health insurance coverage for approximately 30,000 part-time employees
- ISIS graffiti is showing up in Washington, D.C.
- Army warns it could become 'hollow' force if budget cuts go through
- Facebook reportedly close to launching a standalone app for anonymous users
- FX's American Crime Story will dramatize the O.J. Simpson trial
- WHO: More Ebola cases in Europe 'unavoidable'
- The bottom 90 percent of people got utterly hosed in the Great Recession
- Detroit man will trade you his fixer-upper home for an iPhone 6
- U.S., NASA will give $17 million to explore marine biodiversity
- NBC ordered a depressing Say Anything TV sequel, and John Cusack is furious about it
- Men's Health yanks condescending article on how to talk to women about sports
- Journey frontman leads Giants fans in 'Don't Stop Believing' sing-along, complete with air guitar
- 18 years after Fresh Prince, Alfonso Ribeiro finally performs 'The Carlton' again
- Coffee beans are at their highest price in 2.5 years
- GOP Rep.: The Obama-Clay Aiken economy is 'killing us'
- Vladimir Putin's 62nd birthday is honored in the most Putin-esque way
- Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper: It was 'reckless' to legalize marijuana
- Archaeologists unearth skeleton of girl thought to be a witch
- The doughnut burger: is this a new low in unhealthy eating?
- 3 scientists awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for helping invent LED lighting
- Airstrikes hit ISIS targets as ISIS advances on Kurdish Syria-Turkey border town
- UK immigration rules too strict, says Nobel prize winner
- Islamic State: battle for Kobane continues despite US air strikes
- Police: Girl, 4, brought more than 200 bags of heroin to day care
- Man United could lose Rooney to Monaco after bagging Falcao
- Ebola: Obama will increase airport screenings, won't ban West Africa flights
- Woman identified on television as being an online troll found dead
- Deputies in Georgia confuse okra bush with pot plant, raid retiree's home
- Geoffrey Holder, Bond villain and 7-Up spokesman, is dead at 84
- Jimmy Fallon, will.i.am debut the video for their teen anthem 'Ew!'
- Survey finds that drive-thru wait times keep growing
- Eiffel Tower's new glass floor gives visitors a different view of Paris
- NYC's landmark Waldorf Astoria hotel to sell for almost $2 billion
- NASA exploring ways to put astronauts to sleep for a voyage to Mars
- October 6th
- Kansas independent candidate Orman: I could switch my party vote in the Senate
- Ted Cruz on Supreme Court's gay marriage non-ruling: 'Judicial activism at its worst'
- The official cronut recipe is here
- You could soon test out a lab-grown penis
- Saturday Night Live accused of stealing comedy sketch
- Chicago man arrested for trying to join ISIS
- Rick Perry calls for Ebola checkpoints at border
- A genius campaign ad idea from 1956: Let women speak for themselves
- NASA discovers that Earth's deep ocean hasn't warmed since 2005
- Royals celebrate ALDS victory by treating fans to an hour of free booze
- Local candidate in California holds hobo-themed fundraiser
- Jacksonville Jaguars apologize for taunting opponent with Ebola joke
- Make room in your smart jewelry box for the new smart ring
- Twin Peaks revival coming to Showtime in 2016
- Rob Ford's brother: We're not anti-Semites — just ask our Jewish doctor, dentist, lawyer, and accountant
- Seattle might rename Columbus Day 'Indigenous People's Day'
- New York City could be on its way to tracking your every move
- Archaeologists discover one of the earliest-known images of Jesus — and he's beardless
- Watch a peppy new music video setting up Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul
- Dem Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration watered down key fracking study
- Mayang Prasetyo: mother does not believe Volke was killer
- NBA to announce massive $24 billion TV deal
- Fifth Ebola patient flies home to the U.S. from Africa for treatment
- Parents release letter from U.S. hostage threatened by ISIS
- Colombian woman hospitalised after using potato as contraceptive
- 3 scientists win Nobel Prize for discovering brain's 'inner GPS'
- Ray Cole: British man, 70, jailed in Morocco for being gay
- The U.S. has been inadvertently arming ISIS, report confirms
- Paul Revere, of rock's Paul Revere and the Raiders, is dead at 76
- London beats New York as most appealing city to work
- Using new map of the ocean floor, scientists discover underwater mountains and volcanoes
- Arsenal add Alba to wishlist with Draxler, Khedira and Reus
- Police: Woman caught breaking into cars says she was really hunting ISIS fighters
- John Oliver will make you care (and laugh) about police civil forfeiture
- Harvard students, affiliates receive bizarre death threats via email
- Swings are branded too dangerous for Washington State school district
- Resilient dog survives being hit by a car and euthanasia attempt
- Researchers discover new genes that determine height
- Los Angeles could have a football team again in 12-24 months
- Report: Hewlett-Packard plans to break into two companies
- October 5th
- For those who have everything: The bug-murdering suitcase
- Top House Republican: U.S. ground troops 'probably' needed to fight ISIS
- Coast Guard rescues man who tried to 'run' to Bermuda in giant inflatable bubble
- CDC 'confident' U.S. won't experience Ebola outbreak
- Watch protesters crash the St. Louis Symphony to sing 'Justice for Mike Brown'
- SNL's Joan Rivers roasts dead celebs in heaven
- Joe Biden apologizes for suggesting Turkey helped ISIS
- The Giants stole victory from the Nationals in historic fashion
- Week in pictures: 28 September - 4 October
- October 4th
- California firefighters help man who collapsed while mowing lawn — then finish his yard work
- Watch this centenarian celebrate her birthday with a loop-the-loop plane stunt
- Report: Besides JPMorgan, hackers attacked at least nine other financial firms
- Kansas City police jokingly credit Royals' playoff run with decreased crime
- Il Divo and Lea Salonga delightfully recreate 'A Whole New World'
- Only in America: A ban on cheering youth soccer
- Best properties: listed houses under £650,000
- October 3rd
- The Newsroom's final season will tackle the Boston Marathon bombing
- Sweden will recognize Palestinian statehood
- David Lynch and Mark Frost tease fans with cryptic tweets hinting at possible Twin Peaks revival
- Man allegedly downs neighbor's drone with a shotgun
- Republican senators go after Obama comment in new ad: 'These policies are on the ballot'
- D.C. hospital admits patient with 'Ebola-like symptoms'
- The Fibonacci numbers are terrible
- Democratic spending on the ground far outpaces GOP in five key Senate races
- Study: U.S. heroin deaths doubled in 2 years
- Three high school football players have died this week alone
- 2014 is the second safest year to be a police officer since 1959
- Archaeologists discover mummified fetus under Italian church
- Innovation of the week: The perfect light for cyclists
- Watch the gripping first trailer for Clint Eastwood's American Sniper
- Sen. Lindsey Graham: 'I may just jump in' and run for president in 2016
- ISIS is paying its fighters with sex slaves
- With 248,000 jobs added in September, U.S. unemployment rate falls to 5.9 percent
- The Saturday morning cartoon is officially dead
- Men, The Daily Show would like to talk to you about catcalls
- Thanks to ObamaCare, you can now see how much money your doctor gets from drugmakers
- Police 'struggling to cope' with child abuse cases
- Why Arsenal could be punished for Galatasaray fan trouble
- Supreme Court to decide if Abercrombie committed religious discrimination
- Man United join Khedira hunt, agree permanent Falcao deal
- Jon Stewart accuses the GOP of only trying to save Americans from foreign threats
- Poll shows Uruguay residents concerned about Guantanamo Bay prisoner resettlement
- Before being cremated, man thought to have died from Ebola wakes up
- New Subway ad reminds women the importance of being able to fit into sexy costumes
- Thai police say Burmese workers confessed to killing 2 British tourists
- After appeals court ruling, most abortion clinics in Texas to close
- Bob Dole stars in TV ad for Pat Roberts in Kansas Senate race
- Freelance cameraman for NBC News diagnosed with Ebola
- Celebrities threaten to sue Google for $100 million over stolen nude photos
- October 2nd
- Federal Reserve ex-chairman Ben Bernanke: I got turned down for mortgage refinancing
- Ralph Nader objects to 'politically bigoted' term of 'spoiler' candidates
- Study: Anxiety, jealousy could put women at higher risk for Alzheimer's
- This is what it's like to get shot, as told by a Marine veteran
- Disney Weddings now feature 'wedding cake projection mapping' technology
- The U.S. is increasing production of ZMapp, but it might not be enough
- Ben Affleck refused to wear a Yankees hat while filming Gone Girl
- Liberian authorities want to prosecute man who brought Ebola to America
- Arkansas shooting range brands itself 'Muslim free zone'
- An anti-abortion law in Alabama would appoint an attorney for the fetus
- Pixar calls back your favorite animated movies in the heartwarming first trailer for Inside Out
- Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old wine cellar in northern Israel
- Ferguson grand jury under investigation for misconduct
- 26,000 civilians have been killed or wounded in Iraq this year
- Woman jailed for a month when police confuse SpaghettiOs with meth
- Check out a sneak peek of this week's cover of The Week magazine
- George W. Bush to Fox News: 'I'm not gonna second guess our president'
- Here's what it's really like to be in the Secret Service
- The 'man in the moon' may have been created by a massive volcano
- Rand Paul warns of Ebola crossing the border and infecting U.S. troops
- Apple iPad Air 2: New 'soft sim' could drive down mobile costs
- Ex-Secret Service director wanted agency to 'be more like Disney World'
- 92 percent of medical marijuana patients say the drug relieved their symptoms
- Moazzam Begg: what led to his mysterious release?
- Mexico arrests leading drug kingpin
- Facebook apologizes for suspending drag queens' profiles
- Jon Stewart chides the news media for trying to stir up Ebola panic
- McCann family 'troll' found dead after Sky interview
- 4 deaths linked to non-Ebola respiratory virus that has spread to 40 states
- Virgin Money flotation: Branson aims to raise £150m
- 500 GP surgeries 'could close due to ageing staff'
- Nude selfie celebs 'dumb', says new EU digital chief
- Tiote and Cavani Arsenal link, Liverpool lead Higuain chase
- The Daily Show piles on the Secret Service, with Home Alone and Ebola jokes
- Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher welcome a daughter
- Adam Sandler, Netflix partnering for 4 original movies
- A road in New Mexico will play a song if drivers go the speed limit
- Geraldine 'Jerrie' Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world, is dead at 88
- Study: A smell test could predict a person's lifespan
- Massachusetts Democrats asked to help Martha Coakley with campaign money in race for governor
- White woman sues sperm bank after getting black man's donation by mistake
- There's a giant face on Washington's National Mall
- Not able to find sea ice, almost 35,000 walrus take over an Alaskan beach
- October 1st
- Amazon warns viewers that Tom and Jerry cartoons are racist
- Google is tripling its Chrome bug reward maximum to $15,000
- Diver captures great white sharks fighting on camera
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- Boston Herald sorry for 'inadvertently' offending anyone with racist Obama cartoon
- Federal employees rewarded for making questionable purchases
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- New EU rules could mean the end of free banking
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- NASA satellite captures red dwarf 'superflare' 60 light years away
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- Ukraine's cease-fire decays as separatist attacks continue
- Hong Kong protesters block streets on China's National Day
- The cost of the U.S. campaign against ISIS has passed $1 billion, experts say
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- Jon Stewart explains today's 'childish and cynical' Congress by cynically abusing a child's cartoon
- Vegetarian festival takes body piercings to the extreme
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- Team thinks that by vaccinating 70 percent of the world's dogs, rabies in humans will disappear
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- Bird's sight restored in first-ever falcon cataract surgery
- Thailand considering restricting beach parties, having tourists wear wristbands
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