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August 2015
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- August 31st
- Vice News journalists detained in Turkey, charged with 'aiding a terrorist organization'
- VMA ratings down 5 percent from last year
- August was the Dow's worst month in 5 years
- The Auschwitz museum installed showers resembling gas chambers to keep visitors cool
- Scientists have figured out a way to keep ice cream from melting too quickly
- Iranians are erasing 'Death to America' graffiti across Tehran
- SpongeBob SquarePants will make his Broadway debut with help from John Legend and David Bowie
- Here's that infamous courtroom sketch artist's second attempt at drawing a less-melty Tom Brady
- Hulk Hogan is still insisting he's not a racist
- NFL, Tom Brady can't reach Deflategate settlement
- People are camping out overnight to watch Jimmy Carter teach Sunday school
- Obama reveals his bagel loyalties
- Obama is about to receive 'a crash course in survival techniques' from Bear Grylls
- Ohio police officer pulls African-American driver over for making 'direct eye contact'
- Watch The Daily Show explain why Mount McKinley had to be renamed
- Michael Jordan's Space Jam uniform could soon be yours — for $10,000
- Ashley Madison swears it's doing just fine after that massive hack
- Watch Wes Craven talk about what he wants on his gravestone
- What you missed at the 2015 VMAs, in 8 spectacular Vines
- American voters are distrustful, angry
- Watch Russia's Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev work out, eat steak, drink tea together
- 31st senator, 75 former lawmakers, endorse Iran nuclear deal
- Start the week off with a beautiful new Hubble image of a 'butterfly' nebula
- There's a roughly 20 percent chance you are 'skinny fat' or 'healthy obese'
- Elton John now has a crustacean named after him
- Europe's migration crisis, smartly explained in 3 minutes
- Pediatricians recommend talking to kids about alcohol at age 9
- Thai police say they found bomb materials in 2 Bangkok apartments
- Activists say ancient temple in Palmyra damaged by ISIS
- Kanye West says he's running for president in 2020
- John Oliver has fun lying to you about history, honestly
- Brazilian mayor accused of living 170 miles away and running town through WhatsApp
- Sequins, sass, and skin on display at the MTV VMAs
- Iconic horror director Wes Craven dies at 76
- Father of slain reporter vows to fight for 'sensible' gun control
- Alaska's Mount McKinley is now officially named Denali
- August 30th
- Kyle Jean-Baptiste, Broadway's first black Jean Valjean, dies at 21
- Scott Walker said he'd consider building a wall on the U.S.-Canadian border
- This man will trade you his limited-edition Kanye sneakers for a working kidney
- D.C.'s surging homicide count already matches 2014's
- NASA is preparing for a Mars mission by locking people inside a cramped dome
- A sheriff blamed his deputy's death on the Black Lives Matter movement
- Renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks dies at 82
- August 29th
- New Orleans commemorates 10-year Katrina anniversary
- Archaeologists discover Neanderthal cave with heated water, bedroom
- Uber just hired the 2 guys who hacked a moving Jeep
- The women's U.S. Open final sold out before the men's because Serena Williams is on fire
- 3 Al Jazeera journalists sentenced to prison in Egypt
- August 28th
- George W. Bush visits New Orleans, praises post-Katrina recovery
- Fun facts about The Donald: Trump's all-male high school voted him 'Ladies Man,' and more
- Only in America: Praying the potholes away
- Sarah Palin to defend Donald Trump from lamestream media in interview tonight
- The Clinton State Department never had a permanent inspector general
- Indian sisters to be raped as punishment for brother's crime
- Ten years ago today, this meteorologist predicted the impact of Hurricane Katrina with devastating accuracy
- For those who have everything: A remote-controlled mini-drone for air and sea
- Carol Vorderman injured in naked treadmill accident
- Best properties: striking townhouses
- Week in pictures: 23-29 August
- Ben Carson: 'There is no war on women in this country'
- Tesla's new Model S sedan gets 103 out of 100 points, breaking Consumer Reports record
- Thousands of people have died after being found 'fit for work'
- Only in America: Blaming a school's Wi-Fi for a child's headaches
- Archaeologists discover mysterious burial ground full of headless bodies
- How you can use the new Consumer Ombudsman
- ISIS car bombs kill 2 Iraqi generals outside Ramadi
- 3 arrested as number of dead migrants in Austria truck climbs to 71
- Goths 'at greater risk of depression'
- Ex-Vatican diplomat, facing landmark trial for sex abuse, found dead in Vatican City
- Migrant crisis: more than 70 people found dead in Austria lorry
- Kimmel spices up the 2016 campaign with some creative censorship
- Watch Jimmy Kimmel's hilariously plausible Donald Trump campaign ad
- Instagram now allows you to post non-square photos
- What caused the Cambrian explosion, 'biology's Big Bang'? The Economist explores.
- Is your name Destiny? If so, Idaho police would like to speak with you.
- Drone strike kills British ISIS hacker, top social media recruiter
- 2 men in critical condition after jumping into canal on the Las Vegas Strip
- Frank Petersen, first black Marine Corps aviator and general, dies at 83
- California residents cut water use 31.3 percent in July, surpassing goal
- U.S. asks Uzbekistan to join coalition against ISIS
- Buzz Aldrin says he will come up with a 'master plan' to get people on Mars by 2039
- Parole recommended for Manson Family member Bruce Davis
- August 27th
- Labor board ruling could affect how businesses deal with temporary, franchise workers
- NBA legend Darryl Dawkins dead at 58
- Hillary Clinton compares Republican presidential candidates to 'terrorist groups'
- The new Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser hints at an epic lightsaber battle
- Want a huge salary straight out of college? Go to military school.
- Planned Parenthood: Those undercover videos were so heavily edited that they're totally unreliable
- Stephen Colbert: 'Nobody has any belief that I can do anything'
- European Commission accused of TTIP 'cover-up'
- This poll asked voters what words they associate with the presidential candidates and the results are great
- Man with metal detector stumbles upon buried Viking treasure
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III Xbox issues spell trouble for Microsoft
- China's stocks soar 5.3 percent, following U.S. in global rally
- Taliban strikes deep into Helmand province
- Blood test 'detects breast cancer relapse early'
- Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 10 years ago. Time captures the devastation, aftermath in 2.5 minutes.
- Miley Cyrus answers an uncomfortable Jimmy Kimmel's questions about her breasts
- Alleged mastermind of 1996 Khobar Towers bombing captured in Beirut
- Pennsylvania man dies of injuries he received 50 years ago
- Chinese authorities detain 11 people in connection with deadly Tianjin explosions
- Homeowners say they can't use their solar panels because they're too powerful
- Colorado court sentences Aurora shooter James Holmes to 12 lifetimes in jail
- Conan mocks Donald Trump's handling of Jorge Ramos, and 'Donald Trump' hits back
- Father of slain WDBJ7 journalist: 'We have to do something about crazy people getting guns'
- NASA data show sea levels are on average 3 inches higher than in 1992
- August 26th
- Civil rights leader Amelia Boynton Robinson dies at 104
- Terrible traffic? Blame the improving economy.
- Just days after birth, one of the National Zoo's baby panda cubs has died
- A disappointed Yellowstone visitor left a comment card asking the park to 'train your bears to be where guests can see them'
- Walmart will no longer sell AR-15s and other assault rifles
- Jeb Bush gets four Pinocchios for saying Planned Parenthood is 'not actually doing women's health'
- FX is developing a Sons of Anarchy spin-off
- Jennifer Lawrence is writing a screenplay with Amy Schumer
- Buy-to-let: booming, or set to bust?
- The State Department violated one of Obama's executive orders when it released Clinton's emails
- Virginia shooting: gunman was 'human powder keg' of anger
- The Dow jumps more than 2 percent at opening
- The public grieving of WDBJ7 reporter Alison Parker's bereaved boyfriend is heartbreaking
- Now's your chance to buy a flamethrower
- South Sudan signs peace deal with rebels - but will it last?
- Indian archaeologists discover 2,500-year-old temple destroyed in epic flood
- Burger King seeks one-day truce with McDonald's
- Saudi Arabia 'executes one person every two days'
- Family break tomb open after hearing girl struggle in coffin
- Tajikistan man arrested and fined for birthday celebration
- Arsenal face Spurs as Capital One Cup throws up local derbies
- WH Smith and Marks & Spencer accused of NHS 'rip-off'
- Banksy's 'Dismaland' now has its own darkly comic commercial
- Pentagon reportedly investigating allegations of overly rosy ISIS battle assessments
- Harvey Proctor accuses police of 'homosexual witch hunt'
- 2 NATO soldiers killed by gunmen in Afghan military uniforms
- The daunting math for opponents of the Iran nuclear deal
- Meet the electronics-sniffing dog who helped bust Jared Fogle
- Jeff Goldblum, Andy Richter debate circumcision while Conan looks on in horror
- Marc Jacobs may have come up with the most outrageous dress code of all time
- Amazon is now delivering booze to your door, if you live in the right city
- Augusta Chiwy, nurse who saved hundreds of lives during the Battle of the Bulge, dies at 94
- Curt Schilling no longer covering Little League World Series after controversial tweet
- August 25th
- Armed West Virginia high school student holds classmates, teacher hostage
- Hungary rushing to finish border fence amid migrant crisis
- Donald Trump may have to decide on that third-party run as soon as Sept. 30
- President Obama: 'Derek Jeter stole money from me'
- Jeb Bush is really good at handling hurricanes
- Lockheed Martin fined for using government money to lobby for more government money
- Scientists discover a new reef that rivals the Great Barrier Reef
- This man lost more than Swaziland's entire annual GDP on Monday
- August bank holiday Monday weather: what to expect
- U.S. stocks rebound at opening bell
- Kid trips in museum, destroys 350-year-old Baroque painting
- On National Waffle Day, The New York Times reminds us that maple syrup has a dark side
- Lovable wombat bachelor turns 30, joins Tinder
- Gender pay gap means female bosses are 'working for free'
- Archaeologists find cave where prehistoric humans once sacrificed giant lions
- Donald Trump is starting to build a serious campaign. The GOP is hitting back.
- Marijuana kills cancer cells, says US government
- Deadline day: Man Utd and City push transfer spend past £1bn
- Israel is making Heinz stop calling its ketchup 'ketchup.' It has nothing to do with John Kerry or Iran.
- Canada plane crash: four Britons confirmed dead in Quebec
- Anti-terror sources claim 800 jihadists ready to strike in Europe
- Not just guns: New study looks at why the U.S. is No. 1 in mass shootings
- Jimmy Kimmel and Bob Odenkirk not-so-subtly mock Jimmy Fallon's celebrity games
- China's citizens aren't panicking over the market crash. The BBC explains why investors are.
- Teen reportedly admits shooting BB at New York City cop guarding the mayor, but says it was accident
- Gay men tell U.N. Security Council what it's like living under ISIS rule
- Cheap oil could wreak havoc in Venezuela, Russia, and Iran — but the U.S. isn't immune
- Starbucks CEO asks employees to be 'sensitive' to customers amid stock market tumult
- Wildfires in Washington are the largest in state history
- IndyCar driver Justin Wilson dies at 37
- Could yawning be the key to figuring out if someone is a psychopath?
- August 24th
- A Ferguson judge just tossed all arrest warrants issued before 2015
- Police say 2 suicides might be linked to the Ashley Madison hack
- Woman finds Donald Trump's face in her tub of butter
- Uber will deliver the latest Madden game right to your door
- Hamburger meat almost always contains poop
- Archaeologists uncover an 'amazingly lifelike' half-human, half-walrus shaman mask in disappearing Alaskan village
- Russia is trying to block Wikipedia
- Twitter just cracked down on sites worldwide that preserved politicians' deleted tweets
- Larry Summers says we could be on the brink of another 2008 financial crisis
- Duke freshmen refuse to read Fun Home, citing Christian beliefs
- Martin Luther King III said his dad would be proud of the Black Lives Matter movement
- RNC chairman praises Trump as a 'net positive' for the Republican Party
- Is this graffiti art a powerful critique of police brutality — or just racist?
- iPhone users, rejoice: Future batteries might last an entire week
- Stephen Colbert's first week on Late Show will include some less than conventional guests
- Cris Carter regrets telling NFL rookies to have a 'fall guy' to go to jail for their crimes
- The New York Stock Exchange just invoked an arcane rule last used after the Great Recession
- SOS in sand saves Briton lost in Australian outback
- Pokemon players arrested with gun stash on way to world contest
- These two tiny towns in New Hampshire are locked in an epic struggle over the famous 'midnight vote'
- Chipotle plans to hire 4,000 workers in a single day
- Quentin Tarantino raves about President Obama's 'take no prisoners' attitude
- Wiz Khalifa tackled, arrested at LAX for refusing to get off his 'hover board'
- French train attack: gunman 'claimed he found AK-47 in park'
- Sickness benefit overhaul: what the radical reforms will mean
- Sen. Harry Reid forcefully backs Iran deal, greatly increasing its odds of survival
- Pilot errors caused Shoreham air show disaster
- Watch Jon Stewart use a folding chair to help Seth Rollins beat John Cena at WWE SummerSlam
- France awards its top honor to 3 Americans, Briton who stopped train attack
- Israel's Netanyahu planned to attack Iran 3 times since 2010, Israeli media reports
- Police: Son arrested after Oklahoma Labor Commissioner stabbed to death
- John Oliver explains why LGBT rights trump trumped-up religious freedoms, with examples
- IndyCar driver Justin Wilson in a coma after crash
- Oil just hit a 6-year low. Here's why gas prices haven't followed suit.
- These are the steps being taken to ensure the National Zoo's new panda twins survive
- China's benchmark stock index plummets 8 percent, spooking global markets
- Jason Schwartzman and Jimmy Fallon have a catchy new back-to-school song (for nostalgic parents)
- Lawyer: Suspect in French train shooting says he's not a terrorist, just wanted to rob people
- 2 injured after helicopter crashes in Texas while filming reality TV show
- Hundreds flock to Jimmy Carter's Baptist church for his Sunday School lesson
- ISIS destroys ancient Baalshamin temple in Palmyra
- August 23rd
- 2 men arrested after allegedly threatening Pokemon World Championship
- Cops are reportedly buying cheaper cell phone trackers to avoid getting search warrants
- This professor is dedicating an entire course to discussing selfies
- Watch Usain Bolt prove he's still the world's fastest man in this insane photo finish
- The EPA reportedly knew they risked a massive river wastewater spill
- Giant panda Mei Xiang just gave birth to twin cubs at the National Zoo
- August 22nd
- Thousands nationwide protest Planned Parenthood
- Here's how 2 U.S. servicemen took down the train gunman
- Cory Booker thinks violent criminals are 'worthy of redemption'
- This is what Seinfeld looks like as a Lifetime movie
- Major League Baseball just adopted a new policy on domestic violence
- Jimmy Fallon chipped his tooth trying to open medicine for his injured finger
- North, South Korean officials meet at border after shooting
- Obama approves federal emergency aid for Washington wildfires
- August 21st
- Only in America: Alabama sorority forced to remove controversial recruitment video
- Ellen Page grilled Ted Cruz on LGBT rights at the Iowa State Fair
- Scott Walker refuses to take a position on birthright citizenship
- For those who have everything: Diamond-encrusted stilettos
- Publishers of the newest Dragon Tattoo novel took some borderline paranoid precautions to guard the book from hackers
- A supercut of every time a character on Bones says 'bones' would last roughly 22 minutes
- Kristen Griest, on becoming an Army Ranger: 'We can handle things physically and mentally on the same level as men'
- Best properties: houses with amazing views
- Soon it will be legal to dance to the national anthem in Michigan
- Activists launch 'Campaign Zero,' a plan to stop police violence
- Record-breaking reign of Queen Elizabeth - in pictures
- You're not the only one who wants Jon Stewart to moderate a presidential debate
- Plane struck by lightning while waiting to take off – video
- Morrissey: Barack Obama is white on the inside
- Prophet Mohammed cartoon exhibition cancelled in London
- Archaeologists discover the ancient tomb of an armed-to-the-teeth knight
- Britain and Iran re-open embassies in London and Tehran
- China's market-rattling currency devaluation, explained through bacon
- Marco Rubio mistakenly said the Wright Brothers were from North Carolina. Ohioans are furious.
- Rachel Maddow thinks Donald Trump doesn't really want to be president
- Jimmy Carter, 90, isn't quitting his job to fight cancer
- Obama is trying to reassure congressional Democrats on the Iran nuclear deal
- Five reasons the FTSE is in 'correction'
- Dementia 'not the epidemic it was predicted to be'
- Millennials of all races apparently get their news from Facebook
- Michelle Obama and Jimmy Kimmel flirt with the F-word in PSA
- Dozens of whales are washing up dead on Alaska's shores, confounding scientists
- After searching for years, veteran is reunited with his bomb-sniffing dog
- U.S. Army and foreign crews called in to assist with western wildfires
- The 'worst art restoration in history' is getting its very own opera
- France's far-right National Front party ousts founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen
- Study: Working more than 40 hours a week can increase risk of stroke, heart attack
- After 'horrifying' personal attacks, Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King reaffirms he is biracial
- CDC survey shows most contact wearers are reckless with their lenses
- August 20th
- Louisiana GOP director says he used Ashley Madison for 'research' purposes only
- Banksy's next exhibit is a huge dystopian theme park called 'Dismaland'
- Adderall-like 'smart' drug ruled safe for healthy people
- Jeb Bush channels his brother: 'A president is a decider'
- Oldest known message in a bottle washes ashore in Germany
- Members of Congress put off mandatory financial disclosures for months without major consequences
- Inside the right-wing attack machine Twitchy
- London 'sky pool' suspended between flats billed as 'world first'
- Straight Outta Compton originally included Dr. Dre's assault of Dee Barnes
- Donald Trump says he'd use ISIS to 'scare the pope' into supporting capitalism
- Here's the real reason why everyone lied about their birthday on Ashley Madison
- Usain Bolt 'happy' ahead of good vs evil clash with Gatlin
- U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran verification deal 'meets the IAEA requirements'
- Treasure hunters say they've found legendary Nazi train loaded with gold
- South Korea on highest alert after exchange of artillery with North Korea
- Hamas 'captures Israeli spy dolphin'
- Has the mystery Nazi gold train been found in Poland?
- Sir Cliff Richard to sing at Cilla Black's funeral
- Protests buffet St. Louis after police kill young black man they say was armed
- John McEnroe thinks he could still beat Serena Williams in tennis
- 6 policemen injured in Cairo bomb blast
- Listen to Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Meyers share their 'best' flirting techniques
- Betrayal or 'Christmas in September'? Dueling experts assess Ashley Madison hack.
- Chris Christie says teachers' unions deserve a 'political punch to the face'
- Report: Josh Duggar allegedly had two Ashley Madison profiles
- August 19th
- In Florida, massive new hole opens at site of fatal sinkhole
- New Jersey brewery will welcome Pope Francis to America with an 'unholy amount of hops'
- This club drug could alleviate severe depression in as little as 2 hours
- North Korea just celebrated liberation day with a terrifying concert of Sound of Music covers
- Here's the crucial disagreement that's splitting the Federal Reserve
- How Scott Walker's health care plan would pummel the poor, in 2 sad charts
- The NYPD is going undercover to spy on #BlackLivesMatter protesters
- Why you should look beyond Neil Woodford
- Hamas arrests dolphin accused of being an Israeli spy
- Glencore still faces questions after £1.6bn capital raising
- Idaho officials concoct master plan to keep stoners from stealing mile marker 420
- Doctors discover 40-year-old twin growing inside woman's body
- Director Edward Burns' band opened for Coldplay because he's a celebrity and you're not
- Five best and five worst cities to live in the world
- New York's mayor isn't happy about all the topless women in Times Square
- Credit card misselling: are you eligible for a £270 refund?
- Murder of transgender people hits record high in the US
- People won't really vote for Donald Trump, Seth Meyers argues: 'That's just the liquor talking'
- Kelly Clarkson performs real Tinder profiles, beautifully, for Jimmy Kimmel
- Chelsea Manning found guilty of breaking prison rules, not sent to solitary confinement
- Yvonne Craig, TV's Batgirl, is dead at 78. Watch her best Batgirl moments.
- Watch Sir Patrick Stewart and James Corden ably botch a famous magic trick
- Thai police say Bangkok bomber did not act alone
- Watch a grown man with a baby nonchalantly key a $160,000 Aston Martin
- Earth's first flowering plants might have bloomed underwater, not on land
- You can't watch Straight Outta Compton in Compton
- Hackers post purported stolen Ashley Madison data
- Elderly antiquities scholar killed by ISIS in ancient city of Palmyra
- FDA approves flibanserin, the first pill to increase female libido
- August 18th
- Report: Ex-Subway spokesman Jared Fogle to plead guilty to child pornography charges
- Bobby Jindal wants to stop the removal of Confederate statues from New Orleans
- That infamous Tom Brady courtroom sketch could end up in a museum
- Marco Rubio threw a football and it ended in a child's tears
- Saudi women can now vote for the first time ever
- Throwing rocks at things actually helped humans evolve
- Carillion wins latest multi-million government deal
- Time to freak out, parents: Scientists say head lice are mutating
- New York prison inmate allegedly beaten to death by guards
- 'Space elevator' could take astronauts 20km into the sky
- Rail fares to rise 1% next year after prices far outstrip wage rises
- Want to raise successful kids? Teach them optimism, set them up to fail, says expert.
- Second explosion rattles Bangkok, but no injuries reported
- Electronic 'car-hacking' used to steal thousands of vehicles
- Jimmy Kimmel imagines Donald Trump as Batman, and it almost works
- Josh Groban sings Donald Trump's greatest tweets for Jimmy Kimmel
- Care to guess what Trainwreck's Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, and Judd Apatow did in Amsterdam?
- This video by the Philadelphia Police Department just might be the most peculiar anti-drug PSA ever
- Study finds that coffee could prevent colon cancer from returning
- Thai official says Bangkok bombing aimed to 'destroy' tourism industry
- In Spain, 10 people have been gored to death by bulls this summer
- August 17th
- America's oldest known veteran, Emma Didlake, dies at 110
- Scott Walker wants you to know his bald spot isn't a sign of age
- The State Department just found thousands of Clinton-era emails it claimed it didn't have
- U.S. approves Shell oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska for first time in more than 20 years
- Starbucks decides to put actual pumpkin in its pumpkin spice lattes
- Our very own real-life Batman just died in a car accident
- Stephen Colbert says hosting a late-night show is basically like competing on Chopped
- Guy sneaks a jury duty photo of Donald Trump in the best possible use for Snapchat
- 16 months after traffic collision, Tracy Morgan will return to host Saturday Night Live
- College football players won't be allowed to unionize
- Selma director Ava DuVernay tweeted the only Straight Outta Compton review you need to read
- Are you being ripped off for car or home insurance?
- Teens think calling people on the phone is 'awkward' and 'weird'
- You need surprisingly little exercise to get its huge health benefits
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea is now a backyard beekeeper
- Star Wars theme parks: Harrison Ford 'reluctantly' unveils expansion plans
- This historian is trying to prove chastity belts were never a real thing
- Bangkok bomb inquiry branded 'chaotic' as two men cleared
- Study: Republicans are more likely to be happily married
- Jeff Bezos says that scathing New York Times report 'doesn't describe the Amazon I know'
- Ancient 'whistling language' uses the entire brain to communicate
- This Chinese movie inexplicably places Mao Zedong in key World War II conference he didn't actually attend
- Obsessive phone-checkers face 'cognitive failures', says study
- Archaeologists discover treasure trove at ancient 'Amazon' warrior's tomb
- The TSA's $160 million airport security system can't even detect metal
- Iraqi ex-leader Maliki faces prosecution for losing Mosul to ISIS
- How big is HMRC's tax refund bill?
- Tories plan 'boot camp' for unemployed young people
- Jason Day holds nerve to win US PGA with record score
- Obama is planning his post-presidency with help from stars, tech moguls, martinis
- Trigana Air crash: search teams find all 54 bodies in wreckage
- Morgan Freeman's granddaughter stabbed to death near Harlem
- Straight Outta Compton dominated the weekend box office, setting new August record
- Diabetes set to 'bankrupt NHS' with 60% rise in sufferers
- John Oliver starts a church to preach against televangelists and their shady 'prosperity gospel'
- Two private jets collide midair outside San Diego, killing 5
- Army parachutist dies after accident at Chicago air show
- New White House initiative will try to combat heroin deaths
- Patrick Stewart plays a drunk, egomaniacal TV pundit in Blunt Talk series premiere
- August 16th
- This NFL player is confiscating his kids' participation trophies to prove a point
- Morgan Freeman and a ton of other Mississippi stars are calling for a new state flag
- A minor leaguer just became the first openly gay affiliated baseball player
- Villagers reportedly saw the missing Indonesian plane crash into a mountain
- Disney is adding Star Wars areas to its U.S. theme parks
- Civil rights leader Julian Bond dies at 75
- August 15th
- AT&T reportedly helped the NSA spy on internet traffic
- Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany refuses to wax her mustache just for Hollywood
- More than a dozen U.S. counties still aren't marrying same-sex couples
- Former Amazon employees just explained how terrible working there can be in painstaking detail
- Jeb Bush actually didn't meet with Black Lives Matter activists before they broke up his campaign event
- Arkansas, Utah move to defund Planned Parenthood
- Michael Sam is stepping away from football for mental health reasons
- August 14th
- For those who have everything: A blazer that's also a cover-up
- Professional golfer John Daly threw his club into a lake because sports are hard
- Only in America: Judge issues man ultimatum demanding he marry his girlfriend or go to jail
- Man in bear costume harasses actual bears
- Jeb Bush's fastball clocks in at 43 mph
- Scientists say mankind, not climate, killed off the woolly mammoth, the saber-toothed tiger, and the giant armadillo
- On the road to the flag-raising, Cuban diplomats taunted Washington with cigars and rum
- Economy and government worry Americans most, terrorism least
- Is right-to-buy just another boon for landlords?
- Jeb Bush is up for torturing some folks
- North Korea says America just declared war
- Hillary Clinton reportedly splurged $100,000 on a rental house in the Hamptons
- Ukraine says Donald Trump is a 'Kremlin agent'
- Electric cars: UK trial for roads that recharge cars on the go
- Al Gore tries to put the kibosh on 2016 rumors
- This year's record El Niño may drench drought-stricken California, but at high cost
- Islamic State 'used mustard gas found in Assad stockpile'
- 'Stop trying to drag Hillary into this!' Larry Wilmore tackles Jeb Bush's 'revisionist history' on Iraq
- Best Properties: pretty mill houses
- Greek parliament approves $95 billion bailout deal
- Why all the hubbub over Uber? Time explains.
- Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen live-overdub Late Night interviews, on Late Night
- With a million new ObamaCare enrollees, U.S. uninsured rate drops to 9.2 percent
- ISIS likely used mustard gas on Iraqi Kurds, U.S. says
- August 13th
- Nobody in France drinks wine anymore
- Here are some of the 3,153 strange domain names owned by Donald Trump's organization
- Archaeologists discover ancient Greek town under the Aegean Sea
- California has taken a big step toward removing secrecy in police killings
- HBO's latest brilliant maneuver: Acquiring the rights to air Sesame Street
- School for disobedience set to open in Finland
- Two inept CIA impersonators tried to pin the MH17 bombing on America — and Russian media lapped it up
- First 'cyber-flashing' case probed by transport police
- New Jersey to Chris Christie: Resign!
- How ISIS uses the Koran to justify its rampant sex slavery syndicate
- Week in pictures: 9-15 August
- Russia bans Reddit over magic mushroom post
- Harvard student allegedly stripped of Facebook internship for pointing out company's problems with privacy
- Archaeologists discover rare jewelry at ancient Roman fort
- Who is joining Ed Balls on Strictly Come Dancing?
- Justice Department says that punishing homeless for sleeping outside is 'cruel and unusual'
- Humanity has already used up Earth's natural resources budget for the year
- Greenwich's 'wandering' meridian now 335 feet to the east
- At least 76 killed in huge Baghdad truck bomb claimed by ISIS
- Tianjin: race to clear chemicals amid fears of toxic gas clouds
- There's now a Wheaties beer (kind of), and you probably can't try it
- The Perseid meteor showers explained in 60 seconds, with stunning photos
- Stone Soup author Ann McGovern dies at 85
- Lawyer: Chelsea Manning could get solitary confinement for having Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair issue
- 'San Quentin Six' member killed during prison riot
- Enormous explosions in Chinese city of Tianjin kill at least 44, injure 400
- August 12th
- Navajo Nation to sue EPA over toxic wastewater spill
- Hillary Clinton thinks students' debt struggles can be explained in '3 emojis or less'
- These architects promise to build a life-size replica of a city from Lord of the Rings — if you fork over $2.8 billion
- Study: The key to 'sustained happiness' is religion
- Watch the first trailer for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight
- Watch this West Point professor sternly explain why the Civil War was about slavery
- What Tinder's Twitter meltdown over a Vanity Fair article got right
- The last remaining U.S. ban on adoptions by same-sex couples could soon be overturned
- Mother 'steals baby baboon from zoo as gift for daughter'
- Uggie in photos: Remembering our favorite canine scene-stealer from The Artist
- Who's the highest-paid female athlete? It isn't Serena Williams.
- Expert: MH370 likely 'floated for awhile' before sinking 'in one piece'
- Here's how one Indianapolis brewery sneakily trolled Tom Brady
- Secretary of State John Kerry says it's 'very likely' Russia and China read his emails
- For the first time in MLB history, all 15 home teams won on the same day
- Greek police accused of abusing refugees on island of Kos
- Archaeologists uncover bones of ancient 'warrior princess' in Kazakhstan
- Julian Assange sex claims set to expire: what happens next?
- Can Donald Trump win? John Oliver vs. Anderson Cooper
- Russia and the West 'actively preparing for war'
- Time to ditch your laptop for a desktop? The Wall Street Journal makes the case.
- Seth Meyers is on Trump's 'enemies list.' Anderson Cooper? Not yet.
- Washington State is letting new parents bring their babies to work whenever they want
- Head of group fighting Iran nuclear deal quits because he supports the deal
- Conan O'Brien made Ice Cube the best Christmas card ever
- Listen to a newly discovered first version of MLK's iconic 'I Have a Dream' speech
- Kristen Stewart and Jimmy Fallon play a delightfully awkward Rorschach-inspired game
- Jeb Bush talks ISIS, Syria, and Clinton in foreign policy speech
- Kim Kardashian is in trouble with the FDA
- Officer in Texas who fatally shot unarmed burglary suspect fired
- August 11th
- Archaeologist believes he's found Nefertiti's secret burial place
- Authorities release video showing moments before shooting on Michael Brown anniversary
- Megyn Kelly is apparently receiving death threats from Donald Trump supporters
- Watch as Phoenix is consumed by a giant cloud of dust
- Jets quarterback Geno Smith out 6 to 10 weeks after teammate's 'sucker-punch' breaks his jaw
- Mary-Kate and Ashley and the case of the unhappy, unpaid interns
- Columbia Pictures accidentally deleted its own movie trailer in failed anti-piracy move
- Look at this ingeniously simple way Los Angeles officials are combating California's drought
- Taylor Swift bought matching nightgowns for her massive friend group
- Marco Rubio's new pro-life message rests on the argument that a human 'won't become a donkey or a cat'
- Report: Fox is 'definitely planning' to make Fantastic Four 2
- Astronomers find that the universe is 'slowly dying'
- Archaeologists discover fearsome Bronze Age fortress in Turkey
- An Alabama state senator set up a GoFundMe account for the state's budget deficit
- Massive World War II bomb found under the floorboards of London apartment
- The Pentagon's biggest challenge: teaching computers jazz
- Lawrence Lessig launches Democratic 'protest bid' for president
- The LAPD used gang enforcement officers to police Straight Outta Compton's premiere
- Sen. Chuck Schumer's Iran deal dissent is being applauded with a two-story video billboard in Times Square
- This unpaid intern at the United Nations has been forced to live in a tent
- Archaeologists find 4,000-year-old remains of a mother embracing her child at China's 'Pompeii of the East'
- Jeb Bush maneuvers to pin Iraq War blame on Hillary Clinton — and keep his brother out of the picture
- Russia can't handle the truth about a legendary group of World War II heroes
- Toxic mine waste turns US river yellow
- Young Britons could lose benefits so immigrants can be blocked
- China devalues currency to counter economic slowdown, rankling U.S.
- Greece says creditors have agreed to bailout deal
- Jimmy Fallon's 'Donald Trump' defends Megyn Kelly 'blood' comment, fictional double entendres
- Stephen Colbert reveals his first Late Show guest, fervent nightly prayer for Donald Trump
- Jimmy Kimmel officiated at Jennifer Aniston's secret wedding to Justin Theroux
- After teens make fun of elderly man's home, community rallies to fix it up
- Winona Ryder says there really is going to be a Beetlejuice sequel (probably)
- If convicted, 91-year-old Australian accused of smuggling cocaine could get life in prison
- Frightened patrons injured after pranksters enter movie theater with leaf blower
- Conan gets in on the Donald Trump-Megyn Kelly tiff with a 'Trump Ovulation Test Kit'
- Megyn Kelly says she won't 'apologize for doing good journalism'
- Actress Melissa Gilbert running for Congress in Michigan
- August 10th
- North Korea attempting to woo foreign investors for new 'business and tourism hub'
- There's finally a way to make sure you get a seat at the coffee shop
- Magic Johnson won't watch the Patriots unless Tom Brady plays
- St. Louis County declares state of emergency amid Ferguson unrest
- Professional Donald Trump impersonators agree that Trump's politics are bad for business
- Simple math explains why women seem less consistent than men in tennis
- This space-grown lettuce could be the key to a future trip to Mars
- A Facebook study proves 'lol' is dying out online
- Congress fraudulently registered as a small business, watchdog says
- A state legislator tried to smear himself by falsely claiming he had sex with a male prostitute
- Huge hailstones shatter windscreen of passenger jet
- The EPA accidentally dumped 3 million gallons of wastewater into a river and turned it orange
- Australia: Vegemite is 'gateway to misery' – but will not be banned
- Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old labyrinth in India
- Bangladesh: six Bengal tiger poachers shot dead by police
- Benedict Cumberbatch begs fans not to film his Hamlet
- Paris beach party under fire for 'indecent' Tel Aviv theme
- Researchers suggest they have proof Shakespeare smoked weed
- South Korea vows 'harsh price' for North Korean land mines in southern DMZ
- Government to target employers of illegal migrants
- Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Watch The Economist tackle your questions.
- Hillary Clinton to unveil $350 billion plan to make higher education affordable
- John Oliver laments the state of U.S. sex ed, creates his own star-packed sex-ed film
- Dallas mayor becomes a hero after saving choking woman's life
- Coke is bankrolling health researchers who play down sugar's role in obesity
- At least 2 people shot after protest in Ferguson turns violent
- Stunt performer Steve-O asks fans to bail him out of jail after illegally climbing up crane
- Concerned Australian official calls Vegemite a 'precursor to misery'
- In Ferguson, Michael Brown anniversary marked with marches, minutes of silence
- 6 suspected Bengal tiger poachers killed during gunfight in Bangladesh
- Ranger finds 'partially consumed' body of hiker in Yellowstone National Park
- NFL legend Frank Gifford dies at 84
- August 9th
- A nursing center patient found a live snake in his underwear and wanted to keep it as a pet
- Miley Cyrus calls out Taylor Swift for violence in 'Bad Blood' video
- Prince just compared record deals to slavery
- This is the heartbreaking speech Junior Seau's daughter couldn't give at his Hall of Fame induction
- August 8th
- Trump campaign, top political adviser part ways
- Louis C.K. released a new comedy special and you can pay what you want for it
- A U.S. swimmer just swept World Championships races in epic fashion
- Michael Brown Sr. hasn't shaved his beard in the year since his son was shot
- Tabasco is opening an all-hot-sauce restaurant in Louisiana
- Lawsuit alleges Bobbi Kristina Brown's boyfriend was responsible for fatal injuries
- Experts say Ebola survivors are facing chronic medical conditions
- August 7th
- Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes sentenced to life in prison
- Only in America: Student insists she received diploma only so her school could improve its graduation rate
- Jon Stewart's Daily Show set will be displayed at the Newseum
- For those who have everything: Floating trampoline volleyball court
- Staten Island lawyer and Game of Thrones fan requests trial by combat
- Only in America: Teacher exiles 7-year-old student over 'offensive' religious comment
- Ben Carson had a so-so debate night on Fox. But he had a great night on Twitter.
- Archaeologists discover 'Neolithic bling' at gigantic stone circle
- Chinese book fans set out on mountain trek in search of fictional door
- Fantastic Four director Josh Trank disowns his movie on the day of its release
- Federal officials might be one step closer to cracking the biggest art heist in history
- The U.S. economy created 215,000 jobs in July
- The U.S. economy added 215,000 jobs in July
- Where was Hillary Clinton on debate night? Keeping up with the Kardashians.
- Week in pictures: 2-8 August
- North Korea creates its own time zone
- High street suffers summer sales slump
- Best properties: houses by notable architects
- Watch Jon Stewart's final, glorious Daily Show homily: 'Bullshit is everywhere'
- Jon Stewart's final 'Moment of Zen' is a heartfelt au revoir and a Bruce Springsteen dance party
- Jon Stewart's friends, enemies, and frenemies all showed up for his final Daily Show
- Watch Stephen Colbert bring Jon Stewart to tears with unscheduled thank you
- GOP debate: Donald Trump refuses to rule out third-party run
- Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer will reportedly oppose Obama's Iran nuclear deal
- Ghost town revealed as Lake Mead's water level drops
- August 6th
- In first debate, GOP candidates talk Trump, ISIS, and immigration
- Fox News beats up on 'kids' table' candidates in first GOP debate
- Watch the first trailer for Vinyl, Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger's HBO music drama
- Watch a nice family get nuked in this anti-Rand Paul ad that takes fearmongering to a whole new level
- 8 ways Ted Cruz could be the scariest debater on the Republican stage
- Dr. Dre is using the royalties from his new album Compton to help fund an arts center
- Vladimir Putin ordered Russian officials to literally steamroll tons of contraband Western cheese
- Fox News might keep debate candidates in line using the Cleveland Cavaliers' shot-clock buzzer
- Legendary stolen Stradivarius violin found after 35 years
- While you weren't paying attention, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux got married
- Watch Jon Stewart's first episode of The Daily Show
- Milk price: Tesco throws down gauntlet to rivals
- Tony Abbott bombarded with gay wedding invitations
- Listen to this rare recording of Chris Farley voicing Shrek
- Fans send Jon Stewart an emotional farewell — by hacking Donald Trump's website
- Psych firm that evaluates Baltimore Police under investigation for negligence
- Five things you didn't know about Minder star George Cole
- Britons love smartphones and selfies, new study shows
- Which are the ten happiest cities in Britain?
- Pfizer slapped with record £84m fine for 'overcharging' NHS
- Construction workers discover ancient Chinese tomb under school
- Armed bounty hunters mistakenly raid home of Phoenix police chief
- U.S. carries out first airstrike on ISIS from Turkish military base
- Tube strike: how much will it cost London businesses?
- 70 years after the A-bomb destroyed Hiroshima, the BBC looks at what survived
- Louis C.K. thanks Jon Stewart for The Daily Show, on behalf of 'all comedy'
- The Daily Show airs one last highlight reel of Jon Stewart's impersonations, comically awkward chyrons
- This hotel in Belfast serves a $40 bottle of water that tastes like, well, water
- New Orleans has created an Uber-like police force for the French Quarter
- These adorable mountain lion kittens are L.A.'s newest stars
- Arby's thanks Jon Stewart for his years of grotesque abuse, using Golden Girls song
- Listen to Ice Cube explain what N.W.A. does not stand for
- Jon Stewart eviscerates himself, overexcited Daily Show recappers, in penultimate show
- LDS Church reveals the stone they say Joseph Smith used to translate the Book of Mormon
- Canceling 19 Kids and Counting cost TLC $1 million a Duggar
- Pope Francis would like Oprah's help conquering Hollywood
- Bloom of toxic algae stretching from Alaska to California worse than scientists thought
- August 5th
- Federal appellate court says Texas ID law violates Voting Rights Act
- Even former President George W. Bush has to show up for jury duty
- Horses can make 17 different facial expressions — and many of them are a lot like ours
- 7 depressing facts about Hollywood's atrocious diversity stats
- The NFL's latest dividing issue? Game of Thrones.
- Police ignore burglary reports at homes with odd numbers
- This is Doodlebug, an orphaned kangaroo who just wants a hug
- Jeb Bush makes an ill-advised play for the Latino vote with a $75 'Guaca Bowle'
- Anjem Choudary: Cleric's conviction 'could boost his profile'
- The secret to a long life is... spicy food?
- Women are more likely to talk politics with their families — but less likely to enjoy it
- Watch the extremely NSFW trailer for Deadpool
- Kids Company: youth charity 'mishandled' sex assault claims
- Hackers exploit 'serious flaw' in architecture of internet
- Israeli archaeologists discover mysterious writing on ancient ritual bath
- Obama will argue that opposition to Iran nuclear deal is being led by Iraq War pushers
- At least 29 dead, hundreds rescued in Indian double train derailment
- Jon Stewart revisits Joe Biden's presidential viability in 'post-Trump' America
- Zimbabwean cheers Cecil the lion's death, mocks 'absurdist circus' of U.S. grief, in NY Times op-ed
- The Daily Show revisits some crazy-sounding interview subjects, mines new comedy gold
- Michael Howard to meet SFO over Somalia oil deal
- Larry Wilmore tries to wrap his head around anti-Planned Parenthood 'pap smear campaign'
- This house in Connecticut keeps bankrupting celebrities
- 2 arrested after police find pieces of meth lab inside Taco Bell
- Craig Robinson sings a song about 'Chocolate Muffins,' insists it isn't sexy
- Watch Don Rickles deftly insult Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show
- This eye-opening app shows users what it would be like if their town was hit by the Hiroshima bomb
- Several Uber drivers ticketed at LAX have serious criminal records
- Rick Santorum is not happy about being left out of the Fox News prime-time debate
- Netflix to let new parents take 'unlimited' maternity and paternity leave
- August 4th
- Jeb Bush says he 'misspoke' after questioning need to spend $500 million on women's health
- Moviegoers want metal detectors, armed guards in theaters — but not if it costs them more
- A 110-year-old woman's secret to a long life: Miller High Life
- Everyone is already trying to make money off of Cecil the lion
- What it's like to lose your sense of smell
- The Federal Reserve has failed to control inflation for three straight years
- German MP invites Eritrean asylum seekers to live with his family
- Archaeologists discover giant prehistoric monolith at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea
- Watch Chris Christie tell a restaurant full of people about his birth control methods
- Bill Clinton got millions from a for-profit college with ties to the Clinton State Department
- Man Utd transfers: how new signings will fit in - pictures
- Maths exam 'more demanding than intended' says exam board
- Russia just claimed 460,000 square miles of the North Pole
- Michigan bookstore offers refunds for Go Set a Watchman
- Donald Trump makes a point of saying he lost Marco Rubio's and Scott Walker's gifts
- Jon Stewart gives an explosive 'adios' to Fox News
- Doping scandal: why have athletes not been named?
- Selfridges' Christmas shop opens 143 days before the big day
- Ted Heath: five police forces now investigating sex abuse allegations
- 'Rain Man' trader Tom Hayes fails to overturn conviction
- Cantona swims the Channel: Frenchman follows the trawler
- Textbook prices have gone up a whopping 1,041 percent since 1977
- Buzz Aldrin claimed $33.31 in travel expenses after trip to the moon
- Gwen Stefani files for divorce from Gavin Rossdale
- Gov. Chris Christie tells voters: 'The war on drugs has been a failure'
- August 3rd
- Sen. Lindsey Graham says his foreign policy is 'a clenched fist and an open hand'
- Bobby Jindal just cut Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood in Louisiana
- Picky eating is linked to anxiety and depression, study shows
- Jury leaves death penalty option on the table for Aurora shooter James Holmes
- Archaeologists discover humongous gate in Goliath's hometown
- Gawker publishes Donald Trump's phone number
- This new camera might be able to see through your clothes
- Archaeologists discover 'astounding' termite cities that are over 2,000 years old
- Behind Facebook's dodgy video operation
- Jim Harbaugh met the Supreme Court justices in the most Jim Harbaugh way possible
- Is your office freezing? Blame men.
- Amy Schumer and Sen. Chuck Schumer are calling for tougher gun laws
- Apple might do away with traditional voicemail forever
- Leaked data shows 'extraordinary' amount of doping in sports
- Mafia boss used bizarre 'sheep code' to communicate with his henchmen
- 60,000 New Jerseyans mercilessly booed Chris Christie at a racetrack
- The officer who killed Michael Brown thinks police racism is a thing of the past
- 7 in 10 inmates who die in jail have not been convicted of a crime
- Ultimate Frisbee is now eligible as an Olympic sport
- The apocalyptic beauty of Northern California's Rocky Fire, in 5 photos
- Ted Cruz says climate change researchers are 'cooking the books'
- Why financial advice might be about to get cheaper
- Greek stock market plunges 22 percent after reopening
- Week in pictures: 26 July - 1 august
- Obama to announce historic climate change plan
- Saudi king leaves France 'without paying €3.7m medical bills'
- John Oliver wants to see Washington, D.C. become the 51st state
- Experts: Walt Disney was a lot of things, but he wasn't an anti-Semite
- In first TV ads of 2016, Hillary Clinton focuses on families
- Officials in Zimbabwe say another American illegally killed a lion during hunt
- FBI looking into explosions that rocked 2 New Mexico churches
- August 2nd
- One Russian senator wants to ban gay-friendly emoji
- The U.S. and Egypt held strategic talks for the first time in 6 years
- Zimbabwe conservationist group apologizes for false report of Jericho the Lion's death
- Obama to release new regulations on power plants
- Dr. Dre just announced his first new album in 15 years
- Puerto Rico defaults on debt payment
- New debris found on French island reportedly not linked to Malaysian Flight 370
- August 1st
- Angela Merkel will reportedly seek a 4th term as German chancellor
- The NAACP just kicked off a 40-day march through the South to highlight racial injustice
- Scientists discover first new canine species in Africa in 150 years
- World Health Organization calls for tests on Rio's Olympic waters
- Doctors might be able to send blood samples to labs using drones
- These stores decided Cosmo covers are too racy for kids to see
- Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations stall
- Hundreds flee California wildfires
- New Taliban leader calls for unity among insurgents
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