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- September 30th
- Report: Secret Service official wanted to leak 'embarrassing' information about congressman
- Oklahoma governor temporarily stays execution of death row inmate Richard Glossip
- Watch an Edward Snowden supporter troll an HLN interviewer in the most bizarre way possible
- Worst app ever will let you rate everyone you know on a 5-star scale
- Russian airstrike appears to have targeted anti-Assad rebels — not ISIS
- WHO: Millions more should receive HIV treatment
- John Boehner secretly encouraged Tea Party-backed Trey Gowdy to run for House majority leader
- Oregonians can legally buy marijuana starting tomorrow
- Indian mob lynches Muslim man 'for eating beef'
- Ralph Lauren: celebrity fans and fashions – in pictures
- U.S. troops join Afghan forces in battle to retake captured provincial capital from Taliban
- Britain to build prison in Jamaica amid calls for slavery reparations
- The Daily Show mocks 2016 presidential hopefuls for comically inept pandering to millennials
- Russian lawmakers approve Putin's request to deploy troops in Syria
- Cathriona White: Jim Carrey 'shocked' by death of ex-girlfriend
- First womb transplants approved in the UK
- Stephen Colbert tackles the strange case of the congressman who stole Pope Francis' water glass
- Technical glitch results in convicted killer's accidental release from Louisiana prison
- Arab leaders reject Putin's anti-ISIS coalition, suggest ousting Syria's Assad by force
- Michelle Obama tells girls that education is 'the key to your future'
- Kim Davis' attorney claims she met with Pope Francis during his U.S. visit
- Pope Francis accuses Rome's mayor of being a 'pretend' Catholic
- Father of Washington high school shooter found guilty of gun charges
- Tom Brady won't say if he's voting for Donald Trump, admits 'I don't even know what the issues are'
- September 29th
- Study: Children disproportionally killed by Syria bombs, airstrikes
- Nicki Minaj is getting her very own sitcom — on ABC family
- Donald Trump's tax plan would increase the deficit by $10 trillion
- RIP Twitter?
- Edward Snowden makes a grand entrance on Twitter
- Iowa and New Hampshire's coveted status as the earliest presidential voters may be in jeopardy
- Most billionaires lie about their net worth. Donald Trump just happens to lie more than most.
- Millennials are increasingly doubting that college was worth the cost
- Hypnotist jailed for sexually assaulting woman in trance
- Hillary Clinton goes through her 'Instagram-worthy' college photos with Lena Dunham
- Archaeologists discover possible ruins of ancient Sodom in the Holy Land
- London turns down chance to host 2017 Tour de France start
- Donald Trump might have a big problem — sleep deprivation
- 'I'm Ronnie Pickering': five of the best road rage memes
- Saudi coup: prince calls for regime change in Riyadh
- ISIS reportedly claims murder of Italian aid worker in Bangladesh
- Stem cell trial: have scientists discovered a cure for blindness?
- Hazard and Oscar face Chelsea axe after Mourinho outburst
- Why does Facebook keep crashing?
- This year's MacArthur 'genius' awardees include Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda
- British Islamic State jihadists hit with UN sanctions
- Michelle Obama's post-White House plans include opening her damn window
- Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel try to work out their feud in couples therapy, fail
- American Girl dolls, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and puppets vying for a spot in the Toy Hall of Fame
- Trevor Noah kicks off his Daily Show run vowing to continue Jon Stewart's 'war on bulls--t'
- Watch Jimmy Fallon play a cringe-inducing round of 'Password' with Rob Lowe
- Paul Walker's daughter files wrongful-death lawsuit against Porsche
- John Oliver tops his lecture to Europe (and Fox News) on how to treat migrants with a brilliant surprise ending
- New Zealand to create enormous ocean sanctuary
- Study: New York City could see major flooding every 25 years
- Tinder wants billboard in LA removed that links dating apps to STDs
- September 28th
- Iran's president says he holds the U.S. responsible for the spread of terror in the Middle East
- Thai police say Bangkok shrine bombing has been solved, give themselves cash reward money
- For a mere $250, you can adopt a Marco Rubio staffer for the day
- These Florida legislators are living on $17 per day to make a point about minimum wage
- 193 U.N. delegations are in New York City for the General Assembly — but where do they all stay?
- Finding life on Mars now has better odds than the Yankees have of winning the 2015 World Series
- Matt Damon thinks gay actors should stay in the closet
- The science behind Volkswagen's emissions cheat
- Asians will be the largest U.S. immigrant group by 2055
- Whole Foods wants to lower prices — so it's laying off 1,500 people
- Trump's tax plan for low-income earners features a one-page IRS form that says, 'I win'
- Jeb Bush plans to release his ObamaCare alternative soon
- Liberal feminists are both excited and horrified by Carly Fiorina
- It's been 2 years since ObamaCare launched — yet 33 million people still don't have insurance
- KILL It's been 2 years since ObamaCare launched and 33 million people still don't have insurance
- Nike gives an inspirational shout-out to all the last-place marathoners out there
- Pope Francis appears to side with Kim Davis
- Apple could face three month ban in Russia over gay emojis
- Philly residents charge that police hid homeless people from the pope
- Over half of Americans think Congress is corrupt
- CNN's Democratic debate criteria leave the door wide open for Joe Biden
- Apple just sold a record 13 million new iPhones in one weekend
- Banksy's Dismaland theme park to help refugees in Calais
- Banksy's 'Dismaland' amusement park is getting the perfect second life
- 10-year-old discovers rare coin of King David in Israel
- Catalonia: pro-independence parties claim victory in regional vote
- Nasa discovery boosts hopes of life on Mars
- NASA's 'major science finding' about Mars probably has to do with water
- Pope Francis returns to Rome after charming, gently chiding America
- Shoreditch Cereal Killer Cafe attacked by anti-gentrification protesters
- Watch Sunday night's blood-red supermoon lunar eclipse
- This lion cub's attempt to ferociously roar is beyond adorable
- If you missed seeing Pope Francis, Stephen Colbert has the next best thing
- Pope tells family that drove from Argentina to see him in Philadelphia they're 'crazy'
- Nationalists win majority in Catalonia parliament, vowing separation from Spain
- Israeli troops, Palestinians clash at al-Aqsa mosque
- Junipero Serra's burial site hit by vandals days after he was made a saint
- Russia's new anti-ISIS coalition surprised U.S. officials
- There could be a 'Pope bump' in U.S. Fiat sales
- French airstrikes destroy ISIS training camp in Syria
- Stage backdrop collapses during Carly Fiorina campaign event in Texas
- Chinese president's record criticized as he touts women's rights at U.N.
- September 27th
- Pope Francis meets with, apologizes to sex abuse survivors
- Ben Carson would consider supporting Kanye West for president
- Chris Brown is probably banned from visiting Australia over the Rihanna assault
- Planned Parenthood supporters threw condoms at Carly Fiorina in Iowa
- Freddie Gray reportedly asked for medical care in police van
- September 26th
- Trevor Noah wants more music on The Daily Show
- Pope Francis encourages laity to step up during Mass in Philly
- Vince Carter said he could never replicate his incredible dunk over a 7-foot-2 opponent
- Caitlyn Jenner is now legally a woman
- The EPA is bolstering diesel car testing after the Volkswagen emissions scandal
- September 25th
- Only in America: Wesleyan students call for defunding of school paper after it published offensive opinion piece
- What it's like to live next door to Scott Walker
- For those who have everything: Legos for adults
- Only in America: Rainbow snacks sold to support LGBT youth incite backlash
- Despite bad blood, Harry Reid gives John Boehner a heartfelt goodbye
- Pope Francis is dropping a prog-rock album
- Marco Rubio is leading the cheers for Boehner's resignation — and that's probably a smart move
- Pope Francis addresses the environment, poverty in sweeping U.N. speech
- Watch John Boehner's greatest, most fiery congressional speech
- Macy's decked out the pope's Philadelphia digs with $250,000 worth of stuff
- Listen to Sam Smith's new James Bond theme, 'Writing's on the Wall'
- The right is already celebrating Boehner's resignation
- Cannabis 'forest' discovered in London suburb
- Best properties: Italian boltholes
- Has the real Mona Lisa been found?
- Australian government links 'alternative music' to terrorism
- Poll: 6 in 10 Americans want a viable third party
- Just what you never wanted: CNN will let viewers watch the Democratic debate in virtual reality
- Who benefits from Scott Walker's early demise? Marco Rubio.
- Indian restaurant sparks outrage by marking 'white ppl' on order of mild curry
- Ice-T's message 'to people who think black people voted for Obama because he was black': He does not like Ben Carson
- Jeb Bush says he'll win the black vote with 'aspiration,' not 'free stuff'
- Milan Fashion Week September 2015 – in pictures
- Week in pictures: 20-26 September
- Watch Anne Hathaway, Seth Meyers perfectly recreate the last scene of a romantic comedy
- CVS to sell overdose-antidote in 12 more states without a prescription
- Listen to Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the Ragtime Gals perform Rihanna — with a twist
- Sorry, Jeb Bush: Pope Francis actually is a scientist
- Pope Francis thanks the women of the Catholic Church, says: 'I love you very much'
- September 24th
- Israel approves harsher punishment for those who throw 'murderous objects'
- Kanye West apparently wasn't joking about running for president in 2020
- During the Cultural Revolution, Xi Jinping's own mother denounced him
- Hey Dude! Nickelodeon now has an entire channel for '90s TV shows
- Rare supermoon eclipse on Sunday closes 'blood moon' tetrad
- Bernie Sanders loved that Pope Francis mentioned Dorothy Day in his speech
- Pope Francis demands an end to the arms trade
- John Boehner had a tough time keeping it together during Pope Francis' address to Congress
- The DEA spends $60 per pot plant it destroys in Oregon
- Trump claims he has 'thick skin,' starts war with National Review anyway
- Almost 10,000 Syrians have registered citizenship with a tiny libertarian country in Europe that may or may not exist
- New York City commuters can avoid pope-induced traffic by taking a $95 helicopter ride
- Scientists identify unique 'smell of human death'
- The 10 most anxiety ridden places to live in the UK
- Archaeologists find evidence of 9,000-year-old rituals on 'witchcraft' island
- Pope Francis in the US and Cuba – five highlights
- Pearl Jam and Stephen Colbert rock an amazing cover of Neil Young's 'Rockin' In the Free World'
- Why Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra have been exhumed
- Pope Francis has Washington guessing before historic speech to Congress
- Mecca stampede: safety review ordered after 717 die
- Afghan president promises to crack down on widespread rape of boys
- This is how Elizabeth Warren tries to convince Stephen Colbert she shouldn't run for president
- Stephen Colbert welcomes Pope Francis to America with some choice Catholic humor
- Trump wants the FCC to fine Fox News pundit who spoke about his anatomy
- Kenan and Kel reunited for a spot-on 'Good Burger' sketch
- This is what happens when Conan O'Brien, Lil Wayne, and Tony Hawk play a video game together
- Russia exhumes remains of executed Tsar Nicholas II, wife Alexandra
- September 23rd
- Pope Francis leads his first mass in the U.S.
- Archaeologists discover dozens of skeletons under Westminster Abbey toilet
- Michael B. Jordan accidentally got drunk during his GQ interview
- You don't need a standing desk — as long as you're a fidgeter
- Police report: The Yale conservative who committed a stabbing-suicide was also involved in a threesome
- Next time on Serial: Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who disappeared from his post in Afghanistan?
- Liberals are more emotional on Twitter; conservatives are more religious
- This startup wants to be the TurboTax of divorcing
- Pope Francis discusses climate change, immigration at the White House
- Scott Walker's campaign manager is being brutally honest about what killed his boss' campaign
- The Dalai Lama wants his female successor to be 'very, very attractive' — otherwise she's 'not much use'
- Trevor Noah admits The Daily Show under Jon Stewart had a racial 'blind spot'
- China's going crazy over this Chinese Obama impersonator. His Obama's pretty good, but his English is terrible.
- Archaeologists discover the world's oldest throne room in Turkey
- TSA says it treated transgender air passenger in line with its 'strict guidelines'
- Woman given a ticket 'for having HIV' wins $40,000 settlement
- WH Smith to take on more Post Office branches
- Days before Xi's U.S. state visit, Chinese jets recklessly intercepted a U.S. spy plane
- Charities that bully donors could face fundraising ban
- Stephen Colbert gives a Hunger Games tribute sendoff to Scott Walker
- 'Ginger Extremist' guilty in plot to make Prince Harry king
- Jimmy Kimmel plausibly imagines Pope Francis having trouble at U.S. Customs
- On Colbert's Late Show, Donald Trump still won't admit that Obama was born in the U.S.
- Donald Trump sometimes can't tell his quotes from those of Stephen Colbert's Colbert Report character
- Yogi Berra, quotable baseball great, is dead at 90
- Pope Francis says he's not a liberal, challenges conservative critics to read the Catholic Creed
- In Seattle, Chinese President Xi Jinping says he will fight cyberattacks
- Watch Jimmy Fallon spoof Empire, with help from Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard
- Judge rules the 'Happy Birthday' song is not under copyright protection
- Sharon Osborne on Donald Trump: 'He's a narcissist... he knows that'
- Police: 78-year-old man punched in the face at Costco over Nutella samples
- Hillary Clinton reveals plan to stop 'price gouging' by pharmaceutical companies
- 91-year-old woman charged in 260,000 deaths at Auschwitz
- September 22nd
- Following outrage over bumping up the price of a drug 5,000 percent, CEO says he'll lower the cost
- Los Angeles to declare 'state of emergency' on homelessness
- Rob Lowe reveals his secrets to reinventing yourself
- Pope Francis arrives in America
- Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch spent the off season teaching women in Turkey to play American football
- Study: The poor don't eat more fast food than everyone else
- Here's proof that National Geographic won't bend to Rupert Murdoch's climate change denial
- Introducing 'Hillmoji,' the Hillary Clinton-themed emoji keyboard you can download right now
- Paleontologists discover a whale fossil on top of a mountain
- Scott Walker didn't even call the meeting that ended his campaign. His wife did.
- Roger Federer fan wakes from 11-year coma to find Federer still at the top of the tennis world
- You have your own personal cloud of microbes — and it follows you everywhere
- JCB job cuts are 'first ripple' of global slowdown hitting UK
- This 100-year-old man makes breaking world records look easy
- China's Xi Jinping is arriving in Seattle to start tense U.S. visit
- Men haven't gotten a real raise since the 1970s
- Major accounting firm to offer student loan allowance as new perk
- New report says Earth is to blame for the moon's shrinkage
- U2 frontman Bono has an audacious plan to save Africa
- Thai printers refuse to publish Tuesday's edition of the International New York Times
- Watch Carly Fiorina sing a song for her dog Snickers on The Tonight Show
- Arctic doomsday seed vault used for the first time ever due to the Syrian war
- Washington is nervously rolling out the red carpet for Pope Francis
- Top 10 British TV adverts: from Guinness to Smash
- Andy Murray may only have one shot at Davis Cup glory
- Stephen Colbert mocks Jeb! Bush, but still throws in a Donald Trump joke
- Kermit and Miss Piggy awkwardly discuss their breakup on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Arsenal and Chelsea still at war as FA charges Costa and Gabriel
- Bill O'Reilly explains the good and the bad of Donald Trump to Jimmy Kimmel
- Stephen Colbert politely grills Ted Cruz on Reagan, gay marriage, and compromising with 'the devil'
- Daniel Thompson, automated bagel and ping pong pioneer, is dead at 94
- Your new Facebook privacy is really bumming out presidential campaigns
- Fred Armisen says meeting Steve Jobs 'was like meeting the pope'
- The world's oldest male panda turns the big 3-0
- CEO defends raising price of drug from $13.50 a pill to $750: 'We have to turn a profit'
- Kim Davis says it doesn't hurt when people call her 'Hitler,' just when they say 'God doesn't love you'
- Former peanut company head sentenced to 28 years for salmonella outbreak
- September 21st
- U.S. officials: Russia is conducting drone surveillance missions over Syria
- AFL-CIO president calls Scott Walker a 'disgrace' as he exits the presidential race
- A former aide to Scott Walker just went on an epic Twitter rant about him
- Scott Walker's presidential campaign was shorter than Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries
- Federal report: University of Virginia mishandled sexual violence cases
- In his 2011 book, Ben Carson was a much better friend to Muslims
- The 2015 Emmys were the least-watched on record
- This massive survey of American universities reveals just how common sexual assault is
- People filed hilarious FCC complaints after Miley Cyrus unintentionally showed her nipple at the VMAs
- Prosecutor: Mother's boyfriend said 'Baby Doe' was a demon
- You can dress up as 'sexy Donald Trump' this Halloween for just $69.95
- Bobby Jindal says he'd support a Muslim president who takes his oath of office on the Bible
- London Fashion Week 2015 – in pictures
- The man who inspired 4chan is now its owner
- Obama will pick up Pope Francis at the airport
- U.S. soldiers who speak up about the sexual abuse of children in Afghanistan risk losing their careers
- Archaeologists unearth a surprising tomb in Pompeii
- Experts: WHO blunders led to 'thousands and thousands' of African Ebola deaths
- David Cameron's office isn't commenting on the claim he put a 'private part' in a dead pig
- Man arrested after police find female genitalia in his freezer
- U.N. nuclear watchdog says samples taken from Iran's Parchin military site
- Invisibility cloak is 'about to become a reality', scientists say
- ISIS doesn't want Syrian migrants to flock to Europe, either
- UK weather: Warnings issued after heavy rains hit England
- David Cameron laughs off piggate with 'little prick' joke
- Congress faces some unusual choices for this week's unusual address by Pope Francis
- White House might not vote against annual U.N. Cuba embargo censure, AP reports
- This Mad Men spoof quickly turns into an anti-impaling safety campaign
- Bernie Sanders tells Stephen Colbert why he thinks a 'socialist' can win in 2016
- Jon Hamm won the first — and only — Emmy for acting on Mad Men
- Some Emmy viewers were really, really upset over this spoiler-filled series finale montage
- Game of Thrones, Veep, and Olive Kitteridge: HBO scores big at the 67th annual Emmy Awards
- Watch Tracy Morgan make an emotional surprise appearance at the Emmys
- Viola Davis makes history with her Emmy win
- Game of Thrones just smashed a 15-year-old record for most Emmy wins in a single year
- That HBO Now login Andy Samberg gave away at the Emmys actually worked
- This is why so many celebrities wore green ribbons to the Emmy Awards
- Jeffrey Tambor dedicates Emmy to the transgender community: 'Thank you for your patience. Thank you for your courage.'
- Watch Allison Janney sing her Emmy acceptance speech
- September 20th
- Pope Francis holds Mass before 300,000 in Havana
- Volkswagen CEO is 'deeply sorry' about alleged car emission violations
- Sarah Palin refuses to believe Ahmed Mohamed really did just build a clock
- U.S. to increase refugee admission to 100,000 in 2017
- Best-selling novelist Jackie Collins dies at 77
- Pope Francis encourages the U.S. and Cuba to keep improving relations
- September 19th
- Jon Hamm pulled 2 groin muscles in Mad Men's iconic yoga shot
- Edward Snowden said aliens could be trying to communicate with us right now
- Waka Flocka Flame won't back down from his comment that Caitlyn Jenner is 'rebuking God'
- Black Lives Matter won't endorse a presidential candidate
- Research shows 96 percent of ex-NFL players tested had brain disease
- Croatia is forcing Hungary to take in more migrants
- September 18th
- Only in America: Eighth-grader arrested on assault charges after kissing female classmate
- Pretty much everyone on Earth says 'Huh?'
- For those who have everything: The Side Car Bicycle
- EPA catches Volkswagen blatantly cheating on smog tests
- New test of deceased NFL players reveals 96 percent suffered from brain disease
- That time Stephen Colbert trashed the Emmys — at the Emmys
- Police in Ferguson won't be allowed to sic dogs on protesters anymore
- Batman investigates the death of black teenager at the hands of white cops in new comic
- Week in pictures: 13-19 September
- Video shows 9 cops tackling crying, unarmed teen for jaywalking
- Aides to Marco Rubio and Rand Paul reportedly get in 'barroom brawl' in Michigan
- Glazer family to sell Man Utd? Not after £15m a year dividend
- Jessica Jones: Ritter hints at 'endless possibilities' for season two
- Watch out Uber and Google: Apple makes big push into the autonomous car game
- Pope Francis was 'kind of a jerk' when he was a young priest
- Animal Photography 2015: ZSL's prizewinner unveiled
- Best properties: homes with spectacular treehouses
- The latest threat to Syrian refugees crossing Europe? 60,000 land mines.
- Donald Trump has begun to fade from the media spotlight, data shows
- Qatari prince flees U.S. after his Ferrari was filmed drag-racing through Beverly Hills
- Super-gonorrhoea has spread across England, doctors warn
- 'Pee duration' study wins tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel prize
- Rewatch the best moments of the long GOP debate with short late-night annotated recaps
- Stephen Colbert tries to entice Pope Francis on Late Show with his own 'pope chair'
- Jimmy Kimmel pokes fun at Ben Carson's chill demeanor with a Bill Cosby joke, fake ad
- Stephen Colbert uses alcohol to get U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon to dish about 'crazy' world leaders
- Daily Show host Trevor Noah recreates the entire GOP debate in 30 seconds
- 13 Taliban militants dead after attack on air base in Pakistan
- Sea otter with asthma learns how to use an inhaler
- Following influx of migrants, Croatia closes border crossings with Serbia
- Caught on the Atlanta Braves kiss-cam: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
- Caught on the Atlanta Braves kiss-cam: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
- CDC officials think this year's flu shot will work better than last year's
- Appeals court reinstates Insane Clown Posse's lawsuit against the FBI
- After decades of work, Mozambique declares itself free of landmines
- September 17th
- Scott Walker's donors are reportedly panicking as his campaign flounders
- FIFA just suspended its secretary general over alleged black market ticket sales
- Giants' Jason Pierre-Paul joked he doesn't need an index finger to play football
- The high school that arrested Ahmed Mohamed over a homemade clock now wants him back
- Watch Donald Trump give a strangely moving analysis of his favorite film, Citizen Kane
- Doritos launches limited edition rainbow chips in support of LGBT youth
- American Airlines grounds flights at 3 major hubs due to massive 'computer issue'
- The Fed: Interest rates to stay at zero a while longer
- British people are not thrilled with Jeb Bush's idea to put Margaret Thatcher on the $10 bill
- A Jeopardy! contestant expertly trolled Alex Trebek with a classic SNL joke
- Saudi diplomat flees India after being accused of serially raping his maids
- Archaeologists finally crack the code on medieval mystery grave
- Zombie life insurer could buy rival for £1bn
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says fans prefer Magic Johnson because he 'made white people feel comfortable'
- Brawl breaks out in Japanese Parliament during debate over pacifism
- Nestle loses KitKat trademark battle
- Where should you put your cash after latest interest rate cuts?
- Justin Welby orders crisis talks to prevent split in church
- Elton John 'pranked' with hoax Vladimir Putin call
- Europe's Altice is buying Cablevision for $17.7 billion
- Chile declares emergency as earthquake recovery begins
- Kevin Spacey nearly brings Carol Burnett to tears on Colbert's Late Show
- Ted Cruz's confusing Reagan-aping scorpion ad prompts Stephen Colbert to make his own
- 5 dead, 1 million evacuated from the coast after 8.3 magnitude earthquake hits Chile
- Report: GM, federal prosecutors close to criminal settlement over flawed ignition switch
- Aide to New York governor dies one week after being shot before parade
- Jimmy Fallon's Donald Trump coaches Hillary Clinton on how to win
- Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump fight over who was a worse CEO
- September 16th
- UEFA Champions League: Watch this Italian soccer star score a wonder goal from midfield
- Coming soon: An artificially intelligent Barbie that will talk to kids about bullying, jealousy, and God
- Court halts execution of Oklahoma man who maintains innocence
- Archaeologists discover ancient tomb of mysterious 'serpent jaguar' priests in Peru
- The University of California is about to ban all offensive statements and acts
- This new pro-Hillary ad uses Reagan's famous 'Morning in America' pitch against the 2016 GOP candidates
- Richard Glossip to be executed despite doubts over his guilt
- #IStandWithAhmed: schoolboy arrested over homemade clock
- Half of the world's marine life was wiped out between 1970 and 2010
- The League's Steve Rannazzisi claimed for years that he survived the World Trade Center on 9/11. He lied.
- New York Fashion Week, September 2015 - in pictures
- Mugabe urged to stand down after reading wrong speech
- Beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev is finally trying to buy rival beer giant SAB Miller
- The Tonight Show turns the GOP debate into a dating game show hosted by Obama
- Stephen Colbert previews the GOP debate with a spot-on Hunger Games tribute
- Jimmy Kimmel and CNN's Jake Tapper agree: Viewers want blood, Trump at the GOP debate
- Apple CEO Tim Cook tells Stephen Colbert why he came out as gay
- GE is moving 500 jobs overseas, citing lapse of U.S. Export-Import Bank
- This satirical — yet totally necessary — video reminds Californians how to drive in the rain
- NASA: Arctic sea ice hit its fourth lowest level on record
- Jimmy Fallon challenges Ariana Grande to a duel of musical impersonations, arguably wins
- Texas high school student arrested, suspended after bringing homemade clock to school
- Jim Gaffigan tells Conan how he learned he's doing a stand-up show for Pope Francis
- Residents of Douma, Syria, describe the brutal conditions they live under
- 3 dead, 4 missing after flash floods in Zion National Park
- September 15th
- Police: 37 frat members expected to be charged in hazing death of Baruch College student
- HP to cut as many as 30,000 jobs
- Battle fat cats and mudslingers in this vintage Bernie Sanders video game
- Facebook is finally getting a dislike button
- CNN will purposely turn the GOP debate into a brawl
- Marco Rubio will make you swoon in his latest football-themed campaign ad
- Hastings Direct plans £1.5bn London listing
- Pope Francis is expected to discuss criminal justice reform with Congress
- Turkish magazine raided over presidential 'selfie'
- British historian uncovers the oldest written use of the f-word
- David Allan Coe, of 'Take This Job and Shove It' fame, owes the IRS $466,000
- Sunday roast burger: diners defeated by 5,000-calorie meal
- Gun tragedy in UK 'highly likely' without firearms licence reform
- Hungary starts arresting migrants as hard new laws take effect
- Stephen Colbert gets Justice Stephen Breyer to lighten up. Breyer gets Colbert to act serious.
- Stephen Colbert starts off his nightly Trump mockery with a pretty good Trump joke
- Emily Blunt and Stephen Colbert re-enact Gone With the Wind, with fake vomiting
- North Korea says it has restarted its nuclear weapons fuel plants
- 30 years ago, The Golden Girls made its television debut
- Maybe Jeb Bush isn't really the smarter Bush brother, Bush experts tell The New York Times
- Martin O'Malley presents his plan for ending gun violence in the U.S.
- Conan suggests some 'You're fired!' alternatives for Arnold Schwarzenegger's Celebrity Apprentice
- SkyWest flight attendant accused of fabricating story about suspicious bag on airplane
- Study: Sierra Nevada snowpack at lowest level in 500 years
- Samantha Bee has the best response to Vanity Fair's all-male late-night cover
- September 14th
- Air India to ground more than 100 crew members for being overweight
- Black motorists in Missouri are 75 percent more likely to be pulled over
- Arnold Schwarzenegger is replacing Donald Trump as host of The Celebrity Apprentice
- America is less economically free than Jordan, Mauritius, and the United Arab Emirates
- ObamaCare must double enrollment in only 4 months to stay on target
- Air India cabin crew told they are 'too fat to fly'
- All Black Ali Williams a 'bitter Welshman' after England jibe
- Kentucky clerk Kim Davis returns to work, refuses to authorize marriage licenses
- Archaeologists unearth teenage murder victim from the 11th century
- Ban Ki-moon holds talks in Jerusalem amid ongoing violence
- Has Top Gear returned to its former glory?
- Watch the potentially huge moment Obama publicly humiliated Donald Trump in 2011
- Taliban storms Afghan jail, freeing hundreds of prisoners
- Chelsea crisis: bookies slash Mourinho odds as Arsenal wait
- Out-of-control California wildfire kills 1, destroys 400 homes, prompts state of emergency
- John Oliver explains why you may no longer have the right to an attorney, using cop shows
- Novak Djokovic wins U.S. Open, beating Roger Federer
- Miss America pageant crowns Miss Georgia, apologizes to 1984 winner Vanessa Williams
- Egyptian troops mistakenly shoot at Mexican tourist group, killing 12
- September 13th
- September 12th
- George Clooney thinks Hollywood can overcome sexism by casting women in roles written for men
- James Blake said the officer who body-slammed him doesn't deserve a badge and gun
- Jewel speaks out about facing sexual harassment since age 8
- Subway said they had no signs ex-spokesman Jared Fogle was paying for sex with minors
- A new White House search tool shows how students on financial aid fare after graduation
- Britain's Labour Party just elected a leader who draws comparisons to Bernie Sanders
- The NFL says the New England Patriots didn't cheat in their season opener
- September 11th
- Heartfelt tributes to the victims of 9/11, in 6 moving photos
- Only in America: Evangelical group calls for mass exodus from public schools
- For those who have everything: Custom vinyl records
- 'Lifesaving' blood pressure study recommends even lower benchmarks
- Only in America: Collegiate audience explicitly taunts actors during a play intended to stop sexual harassment
- Proof the New York Times style section has been trolling us all along
- George W. Bush's most terrifying moment in office wasn't during 9/11
- Week in pictures: 6-12 September
- New York's biggest public university system now gives students 7 options when choosing gender
- Americans know nothing about money because they're too busy Googling puppies
- The TSA's master luggage key can now be 3D printed from the internet
- Andrew Garfield says Donald Trump is 'a lost soul wandering this Earth'
- Nationwide adds fuel to low-deposit mortgages boom
- Archaeologists are hunting for fossils in Kenya's Turkana Basin — and you can help
- The Patriots have played only 1 game this season, and they've already been accused of cheating
- America and Israel foiled as U.N. votes to fly Palestine's flag outside its New York headquarters
- Scott Walker used to be in 1st place in Iowa. Now he's in 10th.
- Hillary Clinton wants to be more fun. Seth Meyers helps out with this new ad.
- Stephen Colbert wants every 2016 candidate to wear Donald Trump–style hats
- Stephen Colbert's searing interview with Joe Biden might make you hug your child, call your parents
- What is consciousness? Watch as The Economist asks philosophers and brain scientists.
- Watch how New York creates the annual 9/11 'Tribute in Light'
- Listen to NFL stars read their own surprisingly accurate superlatives
- Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is already over his Iran nuclear deal loss
- Campbell's and Keurig introduce a new way to make soup
- Forecasters say the El Nino could be one of the strongest on record
- 1 Marine dead, 18 injured after accident during training
- September 10th
- San Francisco jails to house transgender inmates with preferred gender
- Malala Yousafzai calls the world's response to Syrian refugees 'pitiful'
- Donald Trump is going to be a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- Massachusetts middle school renames itself after Tom Brady
- Judge: Cops accused of killing Freddie Gray will be tried in Baltimore
- Archaeologists are baffled by the dark death of this Neolithic woman
- The pro-Fiorina super PAC 'CARLY' is all but indistinguishable from Fiorina's actual campaign
- This indicted Democratic congressman wants you to pay to fight his corruption charges
- This haunting website tracks all the Americans set to be executed
- Kentucky owes $2.1 million for its fight against same-sex marriage
- R.E.M. has some choice words about the Stop the Iran Deal Rally using their song
- Stephen Colbert has some enticing merchandise for people fed up with the presidential race
- New species of ancient human found in cave, claim scientists
- Ringo Starr's lost Beatles photographs go on show
- MPs 'named and shamed' over expense claims
- Scientists unveil a new species of early human, Homo naledi, found in African cave
- GOP infighting may keep Iran nuclear deal from getting a vote in Congress
- Stephen Colbert tries to get Elon Musk to admit he's a supervillain
- Stephen Colbert gets Scarlett Johansson on a blanket under the stars, then asks about death, Oprah
- In Phoenix, officials trying to determine who is behind 10 freeway shootings in 12 days
- Despite big fumbles, NFL sponsorship revenue will rise 15 percent this year
- In Hawaii, a battle is brewing over a telescope
- Watch this magnificent lip sync battle for the ages between Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Fallon
- Justin Timberlake is the voice of reason in Jimmy Fallon's new 'History of Hip Hop'
- Justice Department to focus more on individuals in white collar crime cases
- Researchers say protein linked to Alzheimer's could be spread via surgical tools
- September 9th
- Retired tennis star James Blake tackled by police in case of mistaken identity
- She's back: The Apollo Theater is developing a Billie Holiday hologram
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert crushed its competitors on Tuesday night
- Apple unveils iPhone 6S, iPad Pro
- It's not just techies: Thieves are also excited about the new iPhone
- Jon Stewart is the executive producer for Colbert's Late Show
- The U.S. military has been secretly providing aid to foreign security forces cited for human rights abuses
- Chinese officials launch 'witch hunt' amid financial market paranoia
- Barbershop fined for cutting only men's hair
- A Mexican TV channel is using Donald Trump to fire up soccer fans for the U.S. vs. Mexico match
- Why Osborne might give ground on bank tax
- Mike Huckabee gets ripped for using the Bible to defend Kim Davis
- These Middle Easterners are pretty unfazed by a massive sandstorm
- Replace Tube trains with travelators, say architects
- Even Donald Trump thinks the U.S. should take in more Syrian refugees
- Rolls-Royce Dawn: will new convertible appeal to women?
- Five-year-olds tunnel out of nursery to buy sports car
- EU is asking Europe to take in 160,000 refugees, with binding quotas
- Moscow admits that Russian military personnel are in Syria, shrugs
- Blood moon: rare lunar eclipse and supermoon in pictures
- China cancels Bon Jovi concerts, probably because of the Dalai Lama
- BA plane fire: investigators find multiple breaches in engine casing
- Emily Blunt passed the U.S. citizenship test, but flunks Kimmel's version
- In Late Show 'bonus' clip, Colbert grills Jeb Bush on guns, Donald Trump
- Queen Elizabeth II to become the UK's longest-reigning monarch
- Watch Stephen Colbert's competitors and late-night peers offer their not-quite-best advice
- Tennessee mother wants to ban 'pornographic' book about Henrietta Lacks
- Stephen Colbert almost gets Jeb Bush to say something nice about Obama
- Stephen Colbert kicks off Late Show with Colbert, Trump jokes
- Serena Williams beats Venus Williams, advances to semifinals of U.S. Open
- The band Survivor is not pleased that 'Eye of the Tiger' was played at Kim Davis rally
- The Kim Davis rally did not go the way Ted Cruz planned
- September 8th
- State Department to shift more workers to team handling Hillary Clinton's emails
- A filmmaker just made the twee supercut to end all Wes Anderson supercuts
- Mike Huckabee said he's willing to go to jail for Kentucky clerk Kim Davis
- Vicki Gardner, wounded in the WDBJ shooting on live TV, is home from the hospital
- Heineken gets hip to craft beer, invests in Lagunitas Brewing Company
- Sperm whales have their own dialects — and cultures
- Angelina Jolie is asking British lawmakers to help stop ISIS from raping women
- Tom Brady is impressed with all that his 'good friend' Donald Trump has accomplished
- New England Patriots accused of cheating in about every way imaginable in massive ESPN story
- Police are investigating 2 high school football players for tackling a ref
- A bear didn't eat all of its salmon — so Obama, the president of the United States, finished it
- Hillary's plan to revive her campaign: Be more human
- The Rock valiantly dove into his pool fully clothed to save his drowning dog. Then he took an adorable photo.
- John Boehner might not run for another term as speaker, insiders say
- Baltimore reaches $6.4 million settlement with Freddie Gray's family
- A white man couldn't get his poem published, so he made up a Chinese pen name — and it worked
- If you're driving on this Oklahoma highway, don't carry cash
- The world has lost 2 Texases worth of forest over the last 25 years
- Watch Serena and Venus Williams' dad predict the outcome of his daughters' great tennis rivalry in this 1992 clip
- Trump was not in the military, but 'always felt' he was
- 4 heartening ways Germans are helping out refugees
- People might be laughing at your jokes because you're attractive — not because you're funny
- Canada's Conservatives dump candidate after this video of him urinating in customer's mug
- Sam Smith wrote the new James Bond theme song in 20 minutes
- Frank and Rhonda: Met Office reveals storm names
- Aylesbury child sex abuse: 'bad parenting made girls vulnerable'
- Don't worry, GOP: The Democrats ran 17 candidates in 1976, and America elected Jimmy Carter
- 'Swapped baby' reunited with family in El Salvador
- GOP is trying to sink Obama's global climate pact by assuring world the U.S. won't do its part
- Here's why the 'arrow of time' points only toward the future, probably
- Pope Francis is evidently facing a mounting conservative rebellion at the Vatican
- Report: Germany has evidence ISIS used mustard gas in Iraq
- California attorney general: Police killings database shows 'clear racial disparities'
- September 7th
- Family says squatter moved into their house then sold their belongings online
- John Oliver tries to prepare students with this super helpful back to school message
- Cheetah briefly escapes from enclosure at Indianapolis Zoo
- By 2020, the U.K. will accept 20,000 Syrian refugees
- Study: American primary education is trending back toward segregation
- Dick Cheney has no real comeback about increased Iranian nuclear activity on his watch
- North and South Korea launch talks on family reunions
- Archaeologists discover huge ritual site near Stonehenge
- Kentucky clerk's lawyers appeal contempt ruling
- Germany promises $6.6 billion to care for migrants
- Islamophobic attacks soar in London
- 'Archaeology on steroids': Huge stones found buried next to Stonehenge
- Donald Trump surges ahead of Hillary Clinton in latest poll
- September 6th
- A couple was reunited with their dog 42 days after losing her in a car wreck
- Robin Williams' daughter has a heartbreakingly beautiful message for everyone struggling with depression
- Sarah Palin wants immigrants to 'speak American'
- Kansas State's band apologized for its hilariously phallic halftime show formation
- Witnesses say an armed security guard at Whole Foods violently assaulted a black customer
- DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz just made a 'gut-wrenching' decision to endorse the Iran deal
- Newest Democratic candidate Larry Lessig would resign as president after making 1 law
- 300 people rallied to support jailed clerk Kim Davis
- Pope Francis calls on Europe to take in refugees
- September 5th
- Tim Tebow is out of yet another NFL quarterbacking job
- Archaeologists discover buried treasure in middle of Bulgarian capital
- Hillary Clinton reportedly paid a State Department staffer out of pocket to maintain her private email server
- Comedian Damon Wayans defended Bill Cosby and mocked his accusers in a cringe-worthy interview
- Amsterdam is refunding Holocaust survivors forced to pay late rent fees
- A West Point pillow fight turned violent, injuring 30 cadets
- Rafael Nadal suffered a brutal loss in the third round of the U.S. Open
- Austria opened its border to thousands of migrants
- September 4th
- Only in America: University professors threaten to give bad grades to students who use 'offensive' language, like 'male' and 'female'
- For those who have everything: Technicolor jellyfish aquarium
- Only in America: Georgia school district investigates mass baptism of high school football team
- Donald Trump slams 'gotcha' journalism after he bombed a simple question about terrorism
- These TSA agents plotted to grope good-looking passengers. Then they got caught on camera.
- Best properties: properties for water lovers
- Star Wars: Disney awakens the Force Friday sales potential
- US and Russia spar over vetoed Syria sanctions
- The New Yorker predicts an epic presidential battle in 2020
- Russia forms 'wedding police' unit to ensure guests behave
- The U.S. economy created 173,000 jobs in August
- Scenes from a European migrant crisis in Budapest
- Archaeologists discover strange 'hydromancy' temple in ancient Athens cemetery
- Iranian blockbuster causes outrage in Saudi Arabia
- Week in pictures: 30 August - 5 September
- Ed Miliband 'won't return to frontline politics'
- A lucidly drunk Jenny Slate gleefully recounts the history of discovering the Big Bang
- Millennials hate millennials, Pew finds
- Walcott, Rosicky, Diaby, but not Wilshere, make all-time injured XI
- Watch Kimmel dirty up the news, VMAs, kids cartoons, and Trump speeches with well-placed bleeps
- Iran's legislature might still sink the Iran nuclear deal
- Guatemala swears in new president as ex-president jailed on corruption charges
- September 3rd
- A short history of things Donald Trump and Kanye West have said about each other
- The class of 2015's SAT scores are the lowest in a decade
- Britain to close all coal-fired power stations
- This daily pill is the most promising preventer of HIV yet
- Tennessee judge denies couple's divorce, because gay marriage
- Watch Sesame Street ruthlessly mock 'Donald Grump'
- Hundreds help solve autistic son's Tube question on Facebook
- Man Utd transfers: 'galactico' policy after squad is rebuilt
- World's first Cat Street View Map created in Japan
- China WWII parade - in pictures
- Sweden is thinking of joining NATO — and Russia is threatening a military response
- Novak Djokovic dances Gangnam Style yet again – video
- Watch President Obama get groovy with young Alaskan natives
- Archaeologists unearth massive new sections of Roman Emperor Nero's lavish pleasure palace
- Polio in Ukraine: what the outbreak means
- Photo of drowned toddler galvanizes world amid European migrant crisis
- Hunt: new plans for patients to access their GP records via smartphone
- Game of Thrones superfan Amanda Peet threatens divorce over Jon Snow's death
- Help Jimmy Kimmel guess if random pedestrians think President Obama is a Muslim
- Clerks and Recreation uses Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman to mock Kentucky clerk refusing gay marriage
- Justin Bieber tells Jimmy Fallon he cried at the VMAs because he is becoming a man
- China is cutting 300,000 troops from its People's Liberation Army
- Stephen Colbert was ticked about Jeb Bush fund-raising off Late Show premiere, so he started a feud
- September 2nd
- These are the worst subway stations in New York, by borough
- Golden boy quarterback Andrew Luck isn't afraid of fans hating him one day: 'You have to have skin like an armadillo'
- Donald Trump wants to play a game of golf with Jeb Bush 'for the presidency'
- The Earth's first mass extinction was reportedly caused by animals, not a meteorite
- This office makes you pay 'physical rent' with squats or pull-ups every half hour
- Hulu's new 'ad-free' subscription option will still have ads
- 4 sobering moments from Europe's migrant crisis, in photos
- As Freddie Gray hearings begin, Baltimore protesters show up to demand justice
- Will Smith has a big new movie about football's concussion problem — but Sony softened the script to avoid angering the NFL
- Most Americans think prostitution is immoral, but are split on the question of legality
- In a Snapchat first, John Kasich introduces a time-sensitive bacon geofilter
- Archaeologists are uncovering Britain's Atlantis, a whole country submerged under the North Sea
- Gaza could soon become 'uninhabitable', UN warns
- London's 'Walkie Talkie' wins UK's ugliest building award
- Redknapp slams Liverpool: 'hysteria is louder than nuance'
- This fire-resistant tree could be the key to stopping wildfires
- Mitch McConnell says the GOP won't defund Planned Parenthood
- Illinois town on lockdown during manhunt for suspects in killing of officer
- One of Stephen Colbert's first Late Show guests: Joe Biden
- Ministers to consider risk of robots taking over UK jobs
- Arsenal transfer troubles: even the fans' protest falls through
- Actual gridlock in Washington costs D.C. commuters 82 hours, nearly $2,000 a year
- Trevor Noah reassures viewers, correspondents, that The Daily Show isn't changing too much
- Uber is now facing a potentially huge class action lawsuit over its employment model
- Jimmy Fallon suggests to the American hero from the French train attack that he and his heroic friends were stoned
- Obama is just one vote away from securing Iran nuclear deal
- September 1st
- China's massive economic importance, in one simple chart
- College students would rather smoke pot than cigarettes
- Google's driverless cars follow all the traffic rules perfectly. That's actually a big problem.
- Google's new logo actually has a functional purpose
- Watch NFL star Marshawn Lynch hawk Skittles on a TV shopping network
- Are contactless payments going to kill cash?
- Video appears to show Texas cops killing man with hands raised
- Iceland said it could only accept 50 Syrian refugees. Then 10,000 big-hearted Icelanders offered up their homes.
- Murder rates spike in at least 35 cities across the country
- James Bond author says Idris Elba is 'too street' to play 007
- Vice journalists charged with 'terrorism offences' in Turkey
- Archaeologists discover trade secrets between Romans and barbarians in ancient shipwreck
- Which movies is Netflix dropping after Epix film cull?
- Jeb Bush's latest counterpunch: Donald Trump is soft on crime, Nancy Pelosi
- NHS budget spent on a summer house, holidays and a pedalo ride
- Charities investigated after 87-year-old loses £35,000
- Jimmy Kimmel explains Sunday's VMAs, Nicki Minaj-Miley Cyrus feud, using emojis
- Jimmy Kimmel has the inevitable Kanye-Trump presidential launch mashup, and it's pretty good
- Missouri man serving life sentence for pot conviction to be released Tuesday
- Lottery winners in Illinois are receiving IOUs from the state
- Study finds the human eye's blind spot can shrink through training
- Chris Christie tells Jimmy Fallon he'll pull a Donald Trump, 'go nuclear' at next GOP debate
- Supreme Court says Kentucky county clerk must issue marriage licenses to gay couples
- Obama says heads of state not willing to fight climate change are 'not fit to lead'
- That didn't take long: There's now a 'Ready for Kanye' PAC
- Taliban kept death of leader a secret for years to keep morale high
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