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- December 31st
- The eurozone is lighting at least $300 billion on fire annually
- Taylor Swift played Santa to a few lucky fans this year
- Gun owners in Maryland say they're targeted by cops making traffic stops
- ISIS reportedly releases guide to raising an extremist baby
- Burn victim creates booming business tattooing over scars
- Palestine signs up for the International Criminal Court, risking backlash from the U.S. and Israel
- Most cold home remedies probably don't work
- Apple's next big device may be a pen
- The Sony hackers reportedly threatened a U.S. media organization
- U.S. spyware found on thumb drive of Angela Merkel's top aide
- Gruber in 2009: ObamaCare will not be affordable
- Don't panic! Play Doh will replace that toy that resembles a penis
- This is what a burst salt facility looks like
- Italy intercepts ship of immigrants after crew vanishes
- Watch New Zealand ring in 2015
- Tanking oil prices could derail Oklahoma oilman's billion-dollar divorce payout
- 'Prankster' films Ellen 'dance dare' behind NYPD cops, gets literal pushback
- U.S. transfers 5 Guantanamo detainees to Kazakhstan
- U.N. Security Council rejects Palestinian statehood resolution
- December 30th
- A handful of conservative congressmen are reportedly plotting against Boehner as speaker
- Venus may have once had oceans of carbon dioxide
- Security firm says the Sony hack was an inside job
- Study finds children's movies have more murders than movies intended for their parents
- NYPD has sharply curtailed arrests since fatal cop ambush
- Oil prices drop to lowest levels since 2008 financial crisis
- BBC pulls Princess Diana documentary after intervention from royal family
- Surprisingly, 2014 was the safest year for air travel yet
- Archaeologists discover what could be the largest underground city ever built
- Back-to-back Oscar winner Luise Rainer dies at 104
- Police gun deaths rose 56 percent in 2014, after calm 2013, report finds
- The Jerusalem Biblical Zoo's endangered Sumatran tigress has eaten her 2 cubs
- U.S. targets al-Shabab leader in airstrike
- Netflix will let you trick your kids into going to bed early this New Year's Eve
- Putin critic Alexey Navalny convicted of fraud, given suspended sentence
- Shark kills teenage spear fisherman
- Rep. Michael Grimm is resigning from Congress, after guilty plea
- Debris, bodies from AirAsia flight found in Java Sea
- 2014: the sporting year in pictures
- December 29th
- The euro just hit a 2-year low
- Here's why women have more severe allergic reactions than men
- Drunk birds slur their songs — just like you
- China blocks loophole access to Gmail
- Steve Scalise, House majority whip, admits he spoke at a white nationalist summit in 2002
- This wasn't the least productive Congress ever after all
- High-ranking Episcopal bishop involved in fatal hit-and-run
- Watch troubled U.S.-bound Virgin Atlantic flight make emergency landing
- New York Mayor de Blasio booed at NYPD graduation
- Taliban celebrates U.S. 'defeat' in Afghanistan
- Here are the most pirated movies of 2014
- John Oliver wants to save your New Year's Eve by killing it
- Female bullfighter Karla de los Angeles gored by bull, twice
- Obama golf game forces soldiers to change wedding site
- Giuliani: NYPD cops were wrong to turn their backs on de Blasio
- California surfer survives shark attack
- Palestinians prepare to submit statehood resolution to U.N.
- The Interview raked in roughly $15 million from online streaming alone
- Indonesia rescue chief: Missing AirAsia flight likely 'at the bottom of the sea'
- At least 5 dead on burning Greek ferry
- December 28th
- For those who have everything: These staples are made of 14-karat gold
- Connecticut police delivered Christmas toys in a $250,000 armored vehicle
- Ferguson police spokesman suspended for calling Michael Brown memorial 'pile of trash'
- U.S. ceremonially ends combat mission in Afghanistan
- Police turn backs on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at cop's funeral
- 2014: The year in pictures
- December 27th
- New study suggests marijuana use in Colorado is increasing
- The Carolina Panthers' defensive line coach bought Christmas presents for local family that was robbed
- Watch Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris deliver his first promo
- Malaysia evacuates thousands as nation struggles with worst flooding in decades
- Photos: Thousands turn out to pay their respects at NYPD officer's funeral
- For those who have everything: Beer — for your dog
- China plans to publish lists of sanctioned religious venues, to 'root out illegal religious activities'
- New studies suggest humans' skeletons became more fragile with switch to farming
- Ukraine, rebels exchange POWs as Kiev suspends trains, buses to Crimea
- Best properties: homes for the international jet set
- December 26th
- Saudi Arabia to try female drivers in terrorism court
- West Virginia quarterback Clint Trickett retires because of concussions
- Egypt reportedly bans Exodus: Gods and Kings film
- Zookeepers send baby gorilla shunned by her mom to new zoo
- Visa, MasterCard stop servicing Crimea after sanctions
- Jennifer Lawrence is 2014's top-grossing actor
- Take a look back at 2014 on this week's cover of The Week magazine
- U.S. to share North Korea intel with South Korea, Japan
- NSA releases documents confirming a decade of illegal spying on Americans
- Taylor Swift bought Hugh Jackman's shirt for $6,000
- Congress could spend about $1.5 million to swap office space
- Philadelphia police helped a woman deliver a baby on the subway
- The ISIS caliphate is already crumbling
- The Interview was illegally downloaded 750,000 times on Christmas
- Walmart will let you trade in your unwanted gift cards
- Turkish teen arrested for insulting Erdogan
- Hackers claim responsibility for PlayStation and Xbox Christmas slowdown
- Mourners mark 10th anniversary of Indian Ocean tsunami
- Oldest stone tool from Turkey provides clues about human migration
- December 25th
- Watch The Rock karaoke 'Here Comes Santa Claus' in a onesie
- What we know so far about the killing of Antonio Martin
- Uber starts charging a $2 fee for hailing taxis
- Voters ban red light cameras; city councils sue voters to bring them back
- Pope Francis prays for world peace at midnight Mass
- Lab mistake may have exposed CDC worker to Ebola virus
- 2014 is probably the last year to enjoy your Christmas drone (mostly) unregulated
- December 24th
- For those who have everything: The sofa shaped like a giant bird's nest
- Cash spill litters Hong Kong freeway, with predictable results
- Palestinian killed after sniper attack on Israeli troops, breaking calm
- Former President George H.W. Bush hospitalized with shortness of breath
- Sony is opening pay-for-view streaming of The Interview today
- Studies: Legal pot can make communities healthier and safer
- ObamaCare numbers boosted by auto-enrollment — despite Obama administration warnings
- Ohio town threatens to sue resident over zombie nativity scene
- ISIS shoots down Jordanian warplane, captures pilot
- Police officer fatally shoots man near Ferguson, raising tensions
- Rodgers hints that Balotelli is not wanted at Liverpool
- Netflix: Best new shows and movies this June
- Glasgow bin lorry crash: service held to remember six victims
- Obama praises Sony move to release North Korea film
- Arsenal put strikers Dybala and Cavani on Christmas wish list
- The first Entourage trailer is finally here
- December 23rd
- Florida just passed New York to become the third most populous state
- For those who have everything: Luxurious fox fur mittens
- Sen. Rand Paul celebrates Festivus with an online Airing of Grievances
- France is killing its 75 percent 'super tax'
- 'Half-panda, half-dog hybrids': Italian circus owner charged with abuse, fraud after passing off dogs as pandas
- This gorgeous timelapse video shows the Earth from space
- Report: Sony to authorize screenings of The Interview
- Study: For better sleep, ditch the e-reader
- Only in America: Call the cops, get a $584 bill
- ObamaCare enrollments hit 6.4 million in one month
- Huge majorities of Americans support closer ties to Cuba
- Want to ride a bike more safely? Permanent running lights may be better than helmets.
- Sony threatens to sue Twitter unless users stop posting hacked emails
- Gun control PSA urges kids to steal parents' guns and give them to teachers
- Pharrell's rep threatens YouTube with $1 billion lawsuit
- Arsenal crocks return to fitness as stats highlight injury crisis
- North Korea's internet is back on
- Tim Burton: Beetlejuice sequel is 'closer than ever'
- Japanese agency offers 'solo weddings' for single women
- Chelsea line up Khedira, but Arsenal could turn to Sissoko
- Glasgow bin lorry crash: three of six victims from same family
- Federal judge approves Oklahoma's 3-drug lethal injections
- December 22nd
- A federal appeals court just ruled a North Carolina abortion law unconstitutional
- Here's why champagne bubbles might affect the future of energy
- Study: Fast food linked to lower test scores
- For those who have everything: The data-holding desk sculpture
- Al Sharpton plays audio of death threats he has received
- FAA launches drone safety program
- Monkey hailed as a hero after saving another monkey's life
- North Korea has gone completely offline
- NY Times: Prosecute Cheney for torture
- Blues singer Joe Cocker dies at 70
- NASA scientists want to send a crew to the clouds of Venus
- Watch George Clooney make a visit to Downton Abbey
- This may be the oldest living Christmas tree in the U.K.
- Cleveland police union defends misbehaving officer by listing other cops who did worse things
- This helmet smartly warns both bikers and drivers of potential collisions
- NYPD makes its own safety a top priority
- Sony: The Interview 'will be distributed'
- Here are some CIA travel tips for the holidays, courtesy of WikiLeaks
- Icelandic hotel is really sorry for selling 'Apartheid' cocktail
- Sir Elton John marries David Furnish in Windsor – pictures
- Gunman who killed two NYPD officers sent 'chilling' warning
- Arsenal 'the only club' for Fekir as also Gunners eye Busquets
- December 21st
- For those who have everything: Your very own, very slow, electric skiff
- Serial investigates the mystery of Santa Claus in delightful Saturday Night Live parody
- John McCain: Sony hack a 'new kind of warfare'
- Dr. Evil hijacks SNL to diss North Korea and Sony
- New York police turn backs on Mayor de Blasio to protest cop killings
- Gunman kills two NYC cops in ambush shooting
- Week in pictures: 14 – 21 December
- December 20th
- Putin hits back at new sanctions: 'No one will succeed in intimidating us'
- Miss World pageant nixes swimsuit round from competition
- Russian tax collectors are seizing cats as collateral
- Archaeologists discover entryway to King Herod's palace
- Innovation of the week: A smartphone driver's license
- Uber wants to patent its 'surge pricing' system
- Read JFK's 1961 letter to a little girl promising that the Soviets won't stop Santa Claus
- Scientists suggest Antarctica tourism could be making penguins sick
- Florida to begin recognizing same-sex marriages following Supreme Court stay denial
- Watch: A Memphis Grizzlies intern's car was stolen, so the players bought him a new one
- Only in America: Bribing students to buy healthy lunches
- Watch this delightful supercut of all the times Stephen Colbert broke character on The Colbert Report
- Internal FBI report finds agents often mishandle, lose evidence
- Best properties: exceptional town houses
- December 19th
- This beer claims to enhance your creativity
- The Clintons' midterm travel expenses topped $1.5 million
- Study: There could be life deep beneath the Earth's crust
- Neil deGrasse Tyson: Aliens probably aren't fat
- Rand Paul just picked a Twitter fight with Marco Rubio over Cuba
- The Austin Police Department has a sexism problem
- Children of elderly couple sue Bob Evans, claim meatloaf killed their parents
- Parents of Aurora shooter beg for son's life
- Marco Rubio, Rand Paul clash over Cuba
- FIFA votes to keep Russia, Qatar as 2018, 2022 World Cup hosts
- Ibuprofen 'could extend your life by 12 years'
- This 'misunderstood genius' debunked the theory that bile and phlegm cause all your health problems
- Stephen Collins says he's not attracted to children
- Psychic birds could predict storms in advance
- The FBI is reportedly investigating Gamergate
- Major League Dreidel is a real thing, and 15 other facts about holiday traditions
- Reports: Carly Fiorina is hiring staff members for a presidential campaign
- Researchers say Dr. Oz's medical advice is usually wrong
- Outstanding properties of the year 2014
- Alex Trebek joins Stephen Colbert for his last-ever Colbert Report sign-off
- Garden bridge for Thames gets go-ahead from Mayor's office
- Raging Roy Keane haunts Villa with Christmas visit to Cleverly
- Cairns stabbing: eight children found dead
- This dazzling Star Wars-themed display features 100,000 lights
- Arsenal target keeper Trapp and close in on Brazilian Silva
- Hollywood ignored George Clooney's attempt to condemn the Sony hackers
- Report: U.S. knew about attempts between an attorney and clerics to free ISIS hostage
- Revlon to remove parabens, other chemicals from products
- 8 children killed inside of home in Australia
- Study finds link between autism and exposure to air pollution during pregnancy
- NASA's Kepler finds massive alien planet 180 light years away
- FCC rules 'Redskins' is not profane
- December 18th
- Sierra Leone's leading doctor just died of Ebola
- U.S. kills 3 ISIS leaders in Iraq airstrikes
- Oklahoma, Nebraska sue Colorado over marijuana
- A machine-gun theme park is opening in Florida
- These insects have sex in your coffee before you drink it
- Why it's very unlikely that cell phones cause cancer
- India just launched its biggest rocket ever
- Paramount blocks screenings of Team America: World Police
- Endeavoring fish use oyster shells as speakers
- These airlines are the most likely to lose your luggage
- Kobe Bryant is the least valuable player in the NBA, per this one metric
- Kim Jong-un covers this week's issue of The Week magazine
- U.S. executions fell to a 20-year low in 2014
- First-time flier opens plane's emergency exit 'for fresh air'
- Paleontologists discover Triassic reptile in China
- Vladimir Putin: The West wants to turn the Russian bear into a 'stuffed animal'
- School punishes blind child by taking away his walking cane and replacing it with a pool noodle
- Tennessee town bans city employees from making negative comments about it on social media
- Archaeologists discover ancient stamps that could support existence of the Bible's David and Solomon
- Activists plan to fly balloons carrying The Interview DVDs into North Korea
- Three alternatives to pensioner bonds for your savings
- EU court: Obesity 'could be a disability'
- Ozil close to Gunners return: is he the man to inspire Arsenal?
- Mad over Cuba, Colbert calls for a U.S. trade embargo on Vatican City
- Scientists identify 53 drug compounds that could treat Ebola
- The latest Kazakh security device: a personal guard wolf
- Christmas poems: 12 celebrations of the festive season
- Blatter's Fifa party wrecked as ethics investigator Garcia quits
- The Daily Show exacts revenge on Fox News for Jay Z dis
- Study: Inmates could have survived 1962 Alcatraz escape
- Man U Bale move under threat from new Chelsea Hazard deal
- AMC Theatres testing movie-a-day pass
- Texas movie theater has found a pretty splashy replacement for Sony's The Interview
- Dog with 3D-printed prosthetics can now run free
- Libby Lane named Church of England's first female bishop
- Life expectancy up in almost every region of the world
- Report: Steve Carell film set in North Korea canceled
- Teen exonerated 70 years after execution
- Stolen art worth millions found after 6 years
- December 17th
- Judd Apatow: The Interview cancellation is 'disgraceful'
- The oldest U.S. black college may shut down amid financial troubles
- Alan Gross speaks out: It's a 'blessing' to be an American
- Indiana policeman sparks outrage with 'Breathe easy' shirts
- This nonprofit group wants to compost dead bodies
- Former Walmart employee files complaint over discrimination against pregnant workers
- Pope Francis celebrates his birthday with tango dancing
- These are the jobs with the highest and lowest obesity rates
- Top FIFA ethics investigator resigns, claims FIFA is hopelessly corrupt
- Americans can now bring back $100 worth of Cuban cigars
- Pope Francis helped broker Cuba deal between President Obama and Raul Castro
- Guantanamo Bay personnel 'shocked' by Cuba news
- GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold accused of creating 'hostile' sexually charged workplace
- This is what your Christmas lights look like from space
- Virginia state legislator keeps making law while spending nights in jail for sex with a minor
- Thierry Henry Sky deal makes him best-paid pundit on TV
- Police have apps to scan your social media and give you a 'threat rating'
- Police officer took 4 pounds of marijuana home. He won't face charges.
- 57 percent of Americans think U.S. race relations are 'bad'
- Sierra Leone begins searching for Ebola victims door-to-door
- Stephen Colbert makes analyzing the pros and cons of cheap gas surprisingly entertaining
- Apple ends online sales in Russia as ruble falls
- Skylon: how the Mach 5 space plane will work
- Even Afghanistan's Taliban condemns Pakistan school massacre
- American Apparel officially fires founder Dov Charney
- Church of England names Rev Libby Lane first women bishop
- The Daily Show has a predictably good laugh at South Dakota's 'Don't Jerk and Drive' campaign
- The Interview: premiere cancelled as hackers threaten '9/11 attack'
- Oops: By mistake, Johns Hopkins sends acceptance emails to rejected applicants
- Man United get De Gea boost as Bayern target Sterling
- New York premiere of The Interview canceled
- Watch Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon travel back to 1997 on The Tonight Show
- Macadamia nuts are having a moment thanks to Korean Air tantrum
- Los Angeles to buy 7,000 body cameras for police officers
- FDA warns against unnecessary ultrasounds
- NASA: California needs 11 trillion gallons of water to get over the drought
- Clifford the Big Red Dog creator Norman Bridwell dies at 86
- December 16th
- Nativity baby Jesuses are now armed with GPS trackers
- Los Angeles prosecutors won't charge Bill Cosby
- When you get your period could predict your risk of heart disease
- Methane gas on Mars could mean signs of life
- Rick Perry explains how Hanukkah is a lot like the Boston Tea Party
- Poll: Most people are fine with religious holiday displays on public property
- Arizona county proposes placing a hiring ban on smokers
- Teens are smoking, drinking, and getting high way less than last year
- Rio's Olympic waters are home to a drug-resistant 'super bacteria'
- NASA built a $349 million tower only to shut it down before it was ever used
- The Walking Dead spin-off will be set in Los Angeles
- North Korea calls for U.N. probe into U.S. 'torture crimes'
- SCOTUS: Police can stop you for violating nonexistent laws they think are real
- 'Oh God, it's Mom': Pundit's mother calls into C-SPAN to nag sons about family time
- IRS returns woman's life's savings — but says they can take it back whenever they want
- Google's 'Year in Search' reveals 2014's trending searches
- Russia's currency crisis: Vladimir Putin's shenanigans have finally caught up with him
- Jeb Bush says he's 'actively exploring' 2016 presidential run in typo-ridden Facebook post
- Vladimir Putin named Russia's 'Man of the Year' for 15th-straight time
- Vermont dubbed 'Peace Corps heaven,' with most per capita volunteers this year
- Lou Reed, Green Day, Joan Jett inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- French soccer sensation Thierry Henry retires
- Study: Productivity — and monetary earnings — decrease on hotter days
- Study: Men who like spicy food have more testosterone
- Stephen Colbert literally debates himself over American torture
- English votes for English laws: how will the proposals work?
- Google Year in Search: Malaysia Airlines and Suarez top 2014 stories
- Australia identifies, praises two slain hostages from Sydney cafe siege
- Pakistan: Taliban has killed at least 84 students at military-run school
- Rouble rebounds as Russia sells foreign exchange
- Rooney issues Man United title warning as Christmas looms
- 'Psychopath': Jon Stewart is as impressed with Dick Cheney's torture views as you'd expect
- Bitcoin has fared even worse this year than the Russian ruble
- Arsenal plot double swoop on Serie A for Hamsik and Destro
- Navajo Nation spends thousands to buy back sacred artifacts at French auction
- Roman Polanski's new legal team wants his case closed
- Jimmy Fallon and Oprah imagine starring in a long-lost soap opera
- This is the first robot to buy a ticket, fly on a commercial airplane
- Judy Blume is back with a new adult novel based on events from her youth
- Carbon monoxide makes 81 people sick at hockey game
- You can't tattoo your pet in New York
- December 15th
- Bill Cosby's wife cites Rolling Stone UVA rape story in defense of husband
- NASA discovers Mercury is 'under steady siege' from meteor showers
- This 17-year-old says he made millions trading stocks between classes
- Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old tomb of Pharaonic queen
- Colorado gun group: Let marijuana users have concealed carry permits
- Driving app causes traffic jam in California neighborhoods
- Players Association sues NFL over Adrian Peterson suspension
- Police storm Sydney cafe, ending hostage situation
- U.N. report: More than 1,300 people killed in Ukraine after cease-fire
- Sydney hostage taker identified as Man Haron Monis, an Iranian-born cleric and alleged sex offender
- Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'culture'
- The NYPD is sued an average of 10 times a day
- Cleveland police union demands apology for Browns' Tamir Rice protest
- Islamic State militants publish rules for sex slaves in Iraq
- Part of downtown Sydney will remain closed amid hostage standoff
- Russian military jet in 'near miss' with passenger plane
- Uber briefly quadruples prices for rides out of hostage-crisis Sydney
- Kobe Bryant passes Michael Jordan in all-time NBA points scored
- Amazon 1p 'sale': software glitch causes stampede
- Arsenal offer Sanogo as bait to land Brazil enforcer Romulo
- Sydney siege update: victims named as details of gunman emerge
- David Koch says he's a 'social liberal,' not responsible for social conservatives he bankrolls
- PetSmart sells itself to investors for $8.7 billion
- Colbert interviews 'fiscal conservative' Smaug, who blames 'liberal Hollywood bias' for bad-guy casting
- Gunman takes people hostage in Sydney cafe, shows black flag
- December 14th
- Only in America: Fall into a coma, lose your benefits
- Watch Johnny Manziel get sacked and taunted with his trademark money celebration
- Texan sneaks into North Korea, claims the U.S. is a 'Mafia enterprise'
- John McCain blasts CIA torture hypocrites for 'rewriting history'
- Pope Francis didn't really say all dogs go to heaven
- Martin Freeman's Bilbo Baggins joins The Office in delightful SNL parody
- Week in pictures: 7 - 14 December
- December 13th
- Buckingham Palace officials discover mushrooms with 'hallucinogenic properties' in gardens
- Photos: Thousands march in Washington, D.C. to protest police brutality
- South Dakota shutters 'Don't Jerk and Drive' campaign because of double entendre
- Angelina Jolie has to miss her Unbroken premiere because she has chicken pox
- Wily Texas dog literally eats his owner's homework
- Indonesian mudslide kills at least 17 people, leaves dozens more missing
- Brett Lawrie takes young Blue Jays fan who cried when he was traded out for pizza
- NFL upholds Adrian Peterson's suspension, denies appeal
- Best properties: houses in the centre of villages
- December 12th
- As reindeer populations decline, this restaurant wants Rudolph to be your holiday dinner
- NYC Mayor de Blasio erects 'privacy fence' around Gracie Mansion
- France wants to keep its terminally ill sedated until death
- Employment rate for law school grads is at 6-year low
- The U.S. military buys more Jack Daniel's Single Barrel whiskey than any other purchaser in the world
- Innovation of the week: The counterfeit catcher
- Congress just quietly enshrined the NSA’s warrantless collection of all our communications
- Mikhail Gorbachev blames U.S. for 'new Cold War'
- Toad skins were once used as hallucinogenic drugs
- Facebook might add a 'dislike' button
- Hollywood bigwigs joke that Barack Obama probably likes Django Unchained, 12 Years a Slave, Kevin Hart
- Brazilian congressman tells female colleague she's 'not worthy' of sexual assault
- Drug-resistant infections could kill 10 million people by 2050
- CIA torture report redacted at request of British spies
- Joey Barton reveals French death threat
- British news channel outs ISIS social media guru as Indian marketing executive
- The Daily Show laughs over the lazy millennials who've 'Trojan horsed' ISIS
- Bomber targets performance of play condemning suicide attacks
- Arsenal join Chelsea and Man City in race to sign Pogba
- Water bills to fall by 5% says regulator
- Outed undercover officer draws gun, points it at demonstrators during Oakland protest
- Study finds that most U.S. teens are sleep deprived
- Greenpeace in hot water after Nazca Lines escapade
- Pope Francis suggests that dogs and cats go to heaven
- In Newtown, long-term mental health services continue to help residents
- Time capsule buried by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams unearthed in Boston
- December 11th
- Model Beverly Johnson says Bill Cosby drugged her
- Web inventor: Internet is a 'basic human right'
- Study finds that volcanoes may have played role in dinosaur extinction
- New York is planning a 'pro-cop rally'
- Poll: Record percentage of Americans would repeal ObamaCare
- CIA Director John Brennan defends torture program while admitting he doesn't know if it worked
- Pastor will attempt to convince prostitutes to quit in new reality show
- Justice Department: Native Americans can grow marijuana, even in states where it's illegal
- Uber announces 'full audit' of its driver screenings after rape accusation
- Report claims that school discipline varies based on race
- Watch Shaquille O'Neal make holiday treats with an Easy-Bake Oven
- This Kickstarter project combines the nostalgia of typewriters with cloud storage
- Red Sox trade All-Star Yoenis Cespedes to Tigers in megadeal
- Here's what police planned to say if Darren Wilson was indicted
- This bird's gorgeous eggs are naturally iridescent
- New York will require insurers to cover gender reassignment surgery
- Chris Hayes on illegal CIA torture: 'Michael Vick did more time for what he did to dogs'
- Former CIA head complains about lack of due process — for the CIA
- Police let off easy for drunk driving as 'professional courtesy'
- Shipwreck that killed 128 people discovered near Golden Gate Bridge
- Scientists discover oldest horned North American dinosaur species in Montana
- Police brutality covers this week's issue of The Week magazine
- Dodgers trade star outfielder Matt Kemp to Padres in blockbuster deal
- Former DJ Ray Teret gets 25 years for string of sex attacks
- These are your 2015 Golden Globe nominees
- Rick Perry: Running for president is 'not an IQ test'
- Study suggests long radiation treatment for breast cancer may be 'unnecessary'
- China awards Confucius peace prize to Cuba’s Fidel Castro
- Bay Area schools shut down ahead of biggest storm in 5 years
- Cheney says CIA torture report is 'full of crap'
- Sierra Leone has seen more than 1,000 new Ebola cases in the last 21 days
- UK pupils do more homework than many European countries
- CIA says Bush administration ordered and approved torture
- New law targets paedophiles who 'fish' for explicit photos
- Jon Stewart tries to untangle Fox News' twisted reaction to CIA torture
- Report: U.S. secretly infiltrated Cuba's hip-hop scene
- Could Edison Cavani cure Arsenal's winter blues?
- CIA pushes back on Senate torture report: Like doing Tuesday's crossword 'with Wednesday's answer's key'
- Hong Kong pro-democracy protest site cleared out after 10 weeks
- A Chinese city is powered by burning money, not coal
- Son of Che Guevara to start motorcycle tours of Cuba
- Watch the U.S. Navy field-test its fully operational laser cannon, take out a drone
- Man rescued after nearly 2 weeks missing at sea
- Steve Carell joins Jimmy Fallon for a barbershop rendition of 'Sexual Healing'
- U.S. shuts down last detention center in Afghanistan
- Palestinian minister dies after skirmish with Israeli police
- Study estimates trillions of pieces of plastic in oceans
- December 10th
- UVA students dispute Rolling Stone's account of Jackie's assault
- Instagram just passed Twitter in active monthly users
- Public support for gun rights is growing
- Rosetta data suggests Earth's water didn't come from comets after all
- Wisconsin police chief: Gun violence is 'as serious as the Ebola virus'
- Almost half of Americans think flu shots can make you sick
- Delight in the first full trailer for Pixar's Inside Out
- Scientists find link between nail polish additive and lower IQ
- Scott Walker agreed to display a menorah, signed letter 'Thank you and Molotov'
- Drug smuggler sues U.S. after being mauled by Border Patrol dog
- Sen. Mark Udall on torture report: 'The CIA is lying'
- Watch jaw-dropping footage of a skier racing down an insanely narrow mountain chute
- The Montana legislature's new dress code warns women to 'be sensitive to skirt lengths and necklines'
- MoMA has acquired the first 3D 'Kinematics Dress'
- Congress' new spending bill would allow wealthy donors to give 10 times more money to political parties
- A majority of Americans think torture is OK
- Atheists in UK face 'systematic discrimination', says report
- Ebola fighters named Time's 2014 Person of the Year
- Archaeologists discover lost village — underwater
- Researchers say party drug ketamine could be used to treat depression
- The only person in jail over CIA torture is a whistleblower
- North Korea wants to punish America for its 'inhuman' torture program
- CIA contractors were allegedly paid $1,800 for waterboarding
- Fox News host on CIA torture report: 'America is awesome'
- Ex-CIA directors blast torture report as 'flat-out wrong'
- Google Plus takes a cue from its competitors, adds custom gender option
- Former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley dies at 75
- Freed hostage returns to France
- Gas prices are set to tumble even further
- Second Indian city bans Uber
- The Daily Show hilariously mocks a noted atheist for threatening to sue Southern diner
- Sony World Photography 2015: eight 'spectacular' submissions
- South African prosecutors can appeal Oscar Pistorius manslaughter conviction
- Ebola: outbreak in West Africa still out of control, warns WHO
- Marco Reus snubs England, but Arsenal line up another 'starlet'
- Christmas trains: which rail lines will be closed?
- Panda mom and her triplets are reunited in China
- Astronomers say a supermassive star could be born soon
- Jon Stewart slams Bush, the CIA, and their 'deluge of depravity' and torture
- Listen to 92-year-old Christopher Lee's new metal Christmas carol
- WWII interrogators say there was no need for torture
- Following a flood of donations, food aid restarted for 1.7 million Syrian refugees
- Psychologists behind CIA interrogation techniques made $81 million
- Lawmakers reach $1.1 trillion government spending deal
- December 9th
- Study: Patients are using narcotic painkillers for longer, on higher doses
- Yale librarian names 'I can't breathe' quote of the year
- Harvard Business professor incites legal battle over $4 of Chinese takeout
- High school football team appeals to judge over blown call in playoff game
- Coming soon: Cheerios with quinoa
- Report: Some nonprofits make millions, hardly donate to charity
- Netflix wants to make 20 new shows or TV seasons a year
- Study finds reindeer populations are rapidly decreasing
- This is what a CIA 'dungeon' is like
- New Amazon feature allows customers to haggle over price
- Report: New York City is the best home for people under 35
- The Bush administration hid CIA abuses from Colin Powell for fear he 'would blow his stack'
- CIA torture report: American officers cried over treatment of Abu Zubaydah
- CIA chief on scathing torture report: 'We made mistakes'
- Senate report on the CIA introduces horrible new term to the torture lexicon: rectal feeding
- CIA torture report: Interrogation tactics were 'brutal and far worse' than agency claimed
- World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner dated a girl named Madison Bumgarner
- Jonathan Gruber testifies before Congress: 'I was not the architect of ObamaCare'
- Bob Dylan announces entire album of Frank Sinatra covers
- The Albuquerque Police Department is the most violent in the country
- Lena Dunham's book to be altered after investigation into her campus rape story
- Bird X-rays could be the secret to understanding dinosaur tracks
- Syfy is developing a TV show set on Superman's home planet
- Security alert over threat to kill police officer
- Elizabeth Warren has a million-dollar booster begging her to run for president
- Archaeologists unearth 150-foot-long Viking feasting hall in Sweden
- Minnesota man defends himself against 525-pound bear with 5-inch knife
- Israeli lawmakers vote to dissolve parliament
- Floyd Mayweather reportedly witnessed murder-suicide of VH1 star Stephanie Moseley and rapper Earl Hayes
- Remaining Hong Kong protest sites will be cleared
- LeBron James, Brooklyn Nets players warm up in 'I Can't Breathe' protest shirts
- Malaria deaths halved but progress threatened by Ebola
- Obama takes over The Colbert Report, cracks ObamaCare jokes
- Arsenal transfer hopes fade as Lacazette and Silva slip away
- Deutsche Bank charged with tax fraud
- CIA torture report: US braces for international backlash
- Jon Stewart gives Congress two cheers for bravely depriving Nazis of Social Security benefits
- An argument over nuts delays Korean Air flight
- Huge strides are being made in the fight against malaria
- NGOs urge wealthy countries to welcome Syrian refugees
- On Monday, Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski learned what a 'furry' is on live TV
- Veteran finds dog years after she was given away during deployment
- Curators get an up close look at 2,500-year-old mummy
- Ken Weatherwax, Pugsley on The Addams Family, dies at 59
- NYC Council considers ban on horse-drawn carriages
- Portland sues Uber after 4 days in service
- Hackers sent Sony extortion email before security breach
- December 8th
- Elevate, Hyperlapse top Apple's best apps of 2014
- Tamir Rice's mom calls for officer conviction in Cleveland shooting
- Former FBI interrogator Ali Soufan calls Bush-era torture a 'disaster'
- Sierra Leone doctors strike over Ebola treatment
- Report: Morale in the military is low and falling fast
- Curiosity Rover finds that Mars crater used to be a lake
- Federal officials lectured people in Ferguson about 'white privilege'
- World War II 'ghost ship' found off Hawaiian shore
- Police don't pay damages in civil rights cases — taxpayers do
- Half of the senators who voted for ObamaCare will be gone in 2015
- NYC police have killed 179 people since 1999. None of them served jail time.
- Here's SNL's uncomfortable unaired Ferguson sketch
- UVA rape victim's roommate: Jackie's story is 'not a hoax'
- Study finds that left-handed people earn less money
- How to stop nuisance calls: new laws will help consumers
- Thieves discover unusual relic in Israel's 'Cave of Skulls'
- The Newsroom's campus rape subplot offended pretty much everybody
- Grumpy Cat reportedly raked in nearly $100 million for her owner in 2 years
- Dallas doctor speaks out about treating Thomas Eric Duncan
- UK snow: wintry weather to bring more ice and gales
- Typhoon Hagupit weakens as death toll climbs
- CIA torture report sparks controversy
- New Delhi bans Uber
- Man 'eaten alive' by anaconda on wildlife show
- Huge fire in downtown Los Angeles shuts down two freeways
- U.S. says it didn't know slain Yemen hostage was about to be freed before failed raid
- Arsenal civil war erupts over Wenger's fate
- Marco Reus: Chelsea join Arsenal in race for midfielder
- The Afghanistan war is officially over (kind of)
- Famous two-faced cat Frank and Louie dies at 15
- The Simpsons' Christmas opening credits include 'obligatory Frozen' gag
- Syrian military says Israeli airstrikes 'supporting terrorism'
- U.S. gas prices are at a 4-year low
- Dozens of Ethiopians drown in shipwreck off Yemen coast
- Pearl Harbor survivors gather 73 years later
- Prince William and Duchess Kate welcomed by hundreds in New York City
- Video game pioneer Ralph H. Baer dies at 92
- A possible chemical attack makes 19 sick at furry convention
- December 7th
- Only in America: Wooing worshippers with Big Macs
- John Boehner has a race horse named after him: 'Weeper of the House'
- Metal legends Slayer saved a tiny homeless kitten
- The Big 12 screwed itself out of the inaugural college football playoff
- SNL reimagines the new Star Wars trailer with an old, tech-illiterate cast
- NYC mayor explains why he's concerned about his son and cops: 'It's different for a white child'
- SNL mocks Al Sharpton following the Eric Garner chokehold case
- NASA's New Horizons probe awakens on approach to Pluto
- Best properties: houses with significant price reductions
- Week in pictures: 30 November - 6 December
- December 6th
- New racial profiling guidelines will exempt TSA, border agents
- U.S. women draw 'Group of Death' for 2015 World Cup
- French President Hollande makes unexpected visit to Vladimir Putin in Russia
- Re-watch one of the first viral videos as 'Numa Numa' turns 10
- New study finds boys may be meaner than girls
- Picasso piece valued at $85K stolen from Art Miami fair
- Innovation of the week: A high-tech carry-on
- Hackers send Sony employees threatening new email
- Only in America: Cops shoot, then sue
- Defense Secretary Hagel confirms plan to delay U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
- December 5th
- J.K. Rowling to publish new Harry Potter stories in time for Christmas
- Electric eels remotely control their prey
- Family of boy shot by Cleveland officer files wrongful death suit
- Navy to investigate secret filming of female officers on submarine
- Brooklyn grand jury will look into police shooting of unarmed black man
- New York City's bugs eat more than 2,100 pounds of dropped food every year
- Arizona police department postpones 'Run From The Cops 5K'
- Beyoncé is now the most Grammy-nominated woman of all time
- Rolling Stone apologizes for UVA rape story, says there are 'discrepancies'
- Australia has Medicare for everyone, and it works great
- Austin police: Report gun enthusiasts with extreme views so we can 'vet' them
- An estimated 70 percent of Americans have committed a jail-worthy crime
- Study finds obesity can decrease your life expectancy by 8 years
- Obama officially nominates Ashton Carter for defense secretary
- Archaeologists discover giant water basin from ancient Rome
- The U.S. hasn't seen job growth like this since the 1990s
- Miller Lite will now deliver beer to your doorstep
- The Daily Show's new South Africa correspondent schools America over race, poverty
- Fatal shooting of unarmed black man by Phoenix officer sparks protest
- Legislators reportedly find no clear evidence against Christie in Bridgegate
- NASA launches next-generation Orion spacecraft, which will one day fly to Mars
- Elgin Marbles leave British Museum for first time
- Watch Obama light the White House Christmas tree, with help from Tom Hanks, musical guests
- Rail fares rise: what can you buy for the price of a return train ticket?
- 'Bare' hilarity as barrister translates teen slang texts
- Apple deleted rivals' songs from iPods, court told
- England issue wristbands to stars as part of 'DNA' project
- Chimps do not have human rights after all, court rules
- Backstreet Boys return with a big screen documentary
- Man Utd target Clyne, Godin, Hummels and more in new spree
- 93-year-old honored by France for her incredible work as a WWII spy
- Fast food restaurant bucks the trend and pays workers $15 an hour
- Jon Stewart revisits the Eric Garner case, clinically rebuts GOP cop apologists
- Kids needing to talk to Santa decide to call 911
- 15 lose their eyesight after undergoing 'unhygienic' surgery in India
- Starbucks is taking on Blue Bottle, Stumptown with a new Willy Wonka–inspired coffee chain
- Mark Wahlberg seeking pardon for 1988 assault conviction
- Amsterdam to start selling drug testing kits after 'white heroin' kills tourists
- U.S. Postal Service to honor Wilt Chamberlain with a special, taller stamp
- One of the largest homeless camps in the U.S. is being dismantled
- December 4th
- You can wear this solar-powered jacket to charge your phone
- Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz dominate 2016 social media mentions
- Vatican discovers millions of dollars 'tucked away' on balance sheets
- Andrew Cuomo pledges changes to New York police training
- Here's the Hillary Clinton country music video we've all been waiting for
- Watch the action-packed first trailer for Terminator: Genisys
- Disneyland was the most-Instagrammed place in 2014
- Watch an adorable puppy grow up in 23 seconds
- John Boehner on Eric Garner: 'The American people deserve more answers'
- The uninsured rate has fallen by 30 percent since ObamaCare's debut last year
- Amazon quietly jumps into the food delivery game
- NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has changed his tune about Eric Garner since summer
- Police officers' shocking responses to the Eric Garner decision
- St. Louis police under fire for tone-deaf post about 12-year-old killed by cops: 'Kids will be kids'
- Pakistani 'disco mullah' faces prosecution for blasphemy
- NASA delays test launch of Orion spacecraft
- A Japanese man trekked more than 4,000 miles to spell out 'Marry Me' via GPS drawing
- World leaders drown in oil on this week's cover of The Week magazine
- Rand Paul: Taxes and politicians killed Eric Garner
- Can new drug help paralysed to walk again?
- Oxford Dictionaries adds 'duck face,' 'chile con queso'
- Jameis Winston: False rape accusations are 'the only thing as vicious as rape'
- The next James Bond movie has a new title and cast
- Eric Garner's widow rejects cop's apology
- Terrorists threaten to kill American hostage in Yemen
- Rudy Giuliani: 'There was no racism in this case'
- American teacher murdered in Abu Dhabi shopping mall
- Former RNC chair: 'A black man's life is not worth a ham sandwich'
- U.S. spending on health care last year rose the smallest amount since 1960
- Reign of F1 ringleader Bernie Ecclestone could be over
- Islamic State militants set up training camps in Libya
- A German company plans to overthrow the boring old up-and-down elevator
- Eric Garner: civil rights probe launched into chokehold killing
- Body of woman found in search for missing mother and baby
- Jon Stewart mutes the comedy after the Eric Garner verdict: 'I honestly don't know what to say'
- China to stop donating organs of executed prisoners
- Man Utd Di Maria boost as PSG target Eriksen of Spurs
- 98-year-old woman hopes to be exonerated from 1950s atomic conspiracy conviction
- The year's most common flu strain evades the vaccine
- Iran is now bombing ISIS, too
- Giraffes in jeopardy due to poaching, loss of habitat
- Officer who shot Tamir Rice found unfit by previous department
- Rep. Peter King: Eric Garner died because he was 'so obese'
- NYPD's Eric Garner tweet completely backfires
- December 3rd
- New York senators call for Justice Department to investigate Garner's death
- Eric Garner and the limits of police body cameras
- 'Marsala' is Pantone's 2015 color of the year
- Michael Brown's stepdad apologizes for his response to Ferguson verdict
- If Medicare didn't cover penis pumps, U.S. taxpayers would save $44 million a year
- This new frog species coughs instead of croaks
- UN: 2014 could be the hottest year on record
- Obama rewrote ObamaCare again on Thanksgiving eve
- 100 missing brains found in Texas
- Listen to 2014's top 25 songs in one mashup
- A brand-new Frozen story is just a few months away
- Archaeologists discover 'largest stone ever carved by human hands'
- Japanese zoo welcomes twin giant panda cubs
- Brave 5-year-old battles cancer by dressing as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
- Restaurant fined $5,000 for 'sexist' ad seeking a 'hostess'
- Grand jury decision coming today in Eric Garner case
- Iran to execute blogger over 'blasphemous' Facebook post
- An animated world history of carbon emissions
- 'Gangnam Style' broke YouTube with its 2 billion-plus play count
- Here it is, America: The grilled cheese cronut
- Arsenal can win the league before 2017, claims Wenger
- Jared Leto has been cast as the Joker
- Kathleen Sebelius compares ObamaCare website to an old fax machine
- Report: Hundreds of police killings go uncounted
- Richard III DNA tests reveal a possible royal sex scandal
- Watch a model show off a century of hair and makeup styles in 1 minute
- Russia heads for recession as oil prices plummet
- Israeli cabinet collapse triggers early election
- Autumn Statement 2014: live updates from the Commons
- Physicists invent new pasta shape
- Nebraska professor accidentally found a lost Walt Whitman poem
- Ukraine had a nuclear plant accident, prime minister says
- Giraffes could become extinct as poaching increases
- Medieval palace discovered underground in Wiltshire
- 2014 on track to be UK's warmest year ever
- With its new digital menu, Pizza Hut is trying to read your mind
- Jon Stewart mocks the St. Louis police union's response to the Rams' hands-up gesture
- Study: Eating a Mediterranean diet could slow down aging
- Arsenal hatch 'Plan B' to lure Kramer if Khedira deal fails
- Obama's 3D-printed presidential bust makes history
- These are the most and least corrupt countries in the world
- Boston has a suspected Ebola case
- California sees its first 'revenge porn' conviction
- Woman sues Bill Cosby, saying he sexually assaulted her when she was 15
- Rolling Stones saxophonist Bobby Keys dies at 70
- DNA analysis of Richard III brings up questions about royal legitimacy
- December 2nd
- Top NFL exec breaks down during Senate domestic violence hearing
- Tony Blair's Christmas card is terrifying
- Minnesota mulls allowing trans students to choose sports teams based on gender identity
- Doctors Without Borders calls global Ebola response slow, uneven
- The U.S. saved 50,000 lives from 2011 to 2013, thanks to reduction in hospital mistakes
- Congress wants to stop Nazis from getting Social Security payments
- More than 100 jars of human brains are missing from the University of Texas
- Umpire Dale Scott becomes first openly gay male referee in pro sports
- Ferguson police investigating Michael Brown's stepdad for inciting a riot
- Philae may have scraped a crater during its landing
- Black lawmakers strike 'Hands up, don't shoot' pose on House floor
- Giving Tuesday: what is it and who has the best ideas?
- Report: U.S. drones kill 28 'unknowns' for every one terror target
- EU court bans 'gay tests' for asylum seekers
- Ray Rice: 'Horrendous mistake' to not apologize for hitting my wife
- Idina Menzel: Actually, I have no idea if Frozen 2 is happening
- Poll finds Americans evenly divided on Ferguson decision
- Kim Jong Un bans foreign cigarettes
- Hong Kong protest leaders will surrender to police
- This supermarket chain has made millionaires of hundreds of its regular employees
- Ukraine government, pro-Russian separatists agree to new cease-fire
- Police blast St. Louis Rams' Ferguson demonstration: 'Tasteless, offensive, and inflammatory'
- Judge Andrew Napolitano to Jon Stewart: Fear makes people 'surrender their liberties for safety'
- Criticizing presidential children has a long, rocky history
- Flood defences: £2.3bn fund will protect 300,000 homes
- Arsenal eye Man Utd reject as Campbell and Podolski depart
- Family gives homeless, dying dog the best days of his life
- Study: Human ancestors able to consume alcohol 10 million years ago
- Watch Springsteen, Chris Martin stand in for U2's Bono at New York AIDS concert
- Diverse coalition opposes execution of mentally ill convict in Texas
- December 1st
- HIV causes AIDS more slowly over time, study shows
- Space missions could one day be powered by poop
- A DNA co-discoverer is auctioning his Nobel Prize medal
- Lack of funds forces World Food Program to stop aid for 1.7 million Syrian refugees
- Hong Kong's protest leaders are going on a hunger strike
- Feds tell troops to scrub military ties on social media over ISIS concerns
- Study finds BPA-free plastics could still be dangerous
- Rolling Stone crowns U2's detested Songs of Innocence album of the year
- Scientists are testing a promising breast cancer vaccine
- More states are pushing for a convention to rewrite the constitution
- Six days of darkness: Nasa intervenes, but no sign of blackout
- The strange economic effects of twins
- Conservationist Martin Litton, who kept dams out of the Grand Canyon, has died at 97
- Russia accused of bribing FIFA official with Picasso painting to secure 2018 World Cup
- Investigation reveals Iraqi army's payroll had 50,000 ghost troops
- Man reveals he is Spider-Man in witty obituary
- 2015 General Election: could students tip the balance of power?
- Are Man City back in the title race after Chelsea stumble?
- Amazon will ship your holiday gifts with the help of a robot army
- Russia suspected of funding anti-fracking movement
- Muhammad is the most popular baby boys' name in the U.K.
- Secret British team helped defend Lebanese village from IS
- Here's a Lego version of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer
- Michael Musto missed the obvious point about the celebrity flip phone 'retro-chic phenomenon'
- South Korean boat sinks, killing 1 with dozens missing
- Chicago air travelers faced a mile-long TSA line on Sunday
- Fury, Annie, and other Sony movies leak online after massive cyberattack
- Government reveals details of £15bn 'roads revolution' plans
- Thanks to selfies, business is booming for plastic surgeons, makeup artists
- Arsenal lead Benzema chase, and eye Sissoko and McCarthy
- Study finds that more than 50 percent of infants sleep with unsafe bedding
- Black Friday sales were surprisingly bleak for retailers
- Rejoice: You can now buy Girl Scout cookies online
- Retro Report looks at America's persistent panic over power lines and cancer
- 'Unrepentant' Nazi war criminal died in Syria, source says
- Mayor: Ferguson to seek more minorities for its police force
- Police: Body of missing OSU football player discovered
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