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- October 31st
- European airlines are avoiding the Sinai Peninsula after the Russian plane crash
- In 1955, a 67-year-old grandmother became the first woman to hike the Appalachian Trail
- Alicia Keys wants you to talk to your kids about AIDS
- Facebook is making changes to its 'real names' policy
- Romania declares national mourning after deadly nightclub fire
- October 30th
- Only in America: DMV computer can't tell twin sisters apart
- Jeb Bush's struggling campaign loses its chief operating officer
- Only in America: California school district will give passing grades to failing students
- Marco Rubio is hopelessly confused about his own tax plan
- Transgender woman sent to male prison loses appeal
- Official: U.S. to deploy special operations forces to Syria to fight ISIS
- Pfizer and Allergan drop $330bn 'tax inversion' after Obama clampdown
- 6,000 low-level drug offenders will be released from prison starting today
- David Cameron attempts to woo back Saudi Arabia
- Benedict Cumberbatch gave a profanity-laced encore to his own Hamlet performance: 'F--- the politicians'
- A breast cancer group explains the big problem with the 'pink' campaign
- Anonymous 'to release IDs of up to 1,000 KKK members'
- #Treesfortrees campaign launches to plant 10,000 trees in a day
- Jeb Bush has only 1,260 confirmed supporters in Iowa
- Police unions urge boycott of Quentin Tarantino films because he protested police homicides
- Shaker Aamer: last Brit in Guantanamo Bay released
- Passengers injured after plane catches fire in Florida airport
- Best properties: candy-coloured houses
- Harrison Ford, dressed as hot dog, (mostly) stonewalls Jimmy Kimmel about Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Stephen Colbert recaps Wednesday's Republican debate, finds only one winner
- Celebrate Halloween with this spooky Golden Girls parody, The Golden Ghouls
- After 45 years of collecting, man cashes in more than 500,000 pennies
- How filthy is Will Forte's beard? Jimmy Fallon found out, with help from Jon Hamm and Rachel Dratch
- Iranian-American businessman arrested and imprisoned in Tehran
- Video released showing deadly Texas biker shootout
- Iberia Airlines denies pilot welcomed passengers to 'Palestine' when landing in Tel Aviv
- France is apparently mad at Jeb Bush for his dig at their work week
- October 29th
- Saudi blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes awarded EU's top human rights prize
- Amateur archaeologist discovers Viking treasure buried in the sand
- Chris Christie proudly tweeted that he doesn't read The New York Times. Then he got trolled.
- Watch a terrifying video of a plane catching fire on the Fort Lauderdale airport tarmac
- Speaker Paul Ryan stresses bipartisanship in first speech: 'We're all in the same boat'
- Why China finally scrapped its controversial one-child policy
- RIP Tillman the skateboarding bulldog
- The Week to launch children's magazine: The Week Junior
- Watch John Boehner's touching explanation of why he chose to resign from Congress
- This is the law that justified that violent South Carolina arrest
- Here's how America's super-rich made their money
- Turkey elections: why the nation voted for Erdogan
- Sam Raimi admits he 'messed up' Spider-Man 3, would 'love' another chance
- Last night's biggest winners? Analysts overwhelmingly say Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
- IS planning 'mass casualty' attacks in UK, says MI5
- Aberdeen school stabbing: teenager charged over death of schoolboy
- Google saved Trevor Noah from being deported to Mexico
- Drunk History soberly reminds us that Los Angeles has always had water problems
- Nintendo reveals 'Miitomo,' its first game for smartphones
- Photobombing dog makes one couple's engagement photos infinitely better
- John Kasich, Roger Stone argue over whether anti-pot Kasich sold Reagan staffers weed in 1976
- RNC Chairman Reince Priebus calls CNBC debate moderators 'improper' and 'unprofessional'
- October 28th
- George Pataki wants the Republican Party to stop questioning 'science that everyone accepts'
- Sen. Lindsey Graham at GOP debate: 'Make me commander-in-chief and this crap stops'
- House approves two-year budget deal
- Scientists discover oxygen — on a comet
- Army blimp makes a break for freedom
- This is how the United States got around a bunch of laws in order to 'legally' kill Osama bin Laden
- Environmentalists to troll Republican debate with 6-figure TV ad
- Jeb Bush's freefall, in 1 GIF
- Average UK income passes pre-crash peak
- This little-known federal agency can't explain why it needs a fleet of 1,100 flashy SUVs
- Tea and consent: police video uses tea as metaphor for sex
- Why is the Pentagon being so secretive about American casualties in Iraq?
- Lindsey Graham went to a bar and played 'date, marry, or disappear forever'
- Major Florida newspaper accuses Marco Rubio of defrauding voters, demands he resign
- Rand Paul is not pleased with the size of his greenroom
- Ben Carson is spectacularly inconsistent
- U.S. test scores languish, and federal and state experts cite Common Core shift
- China 'not frightened to fight a war with the U.S.' over South China Sea
- Halloween heatwave: temperatures could reach 20C
- Sen. Rand Paul pledges to filibuster bipartisan budget deal
- Royals beat Mets in Game 1 of World Series after 5 hours, 14 strange innings
- Stephen Colbert finds an unlikely loophole in the WHO's red meat-cancer warning
- Hillary Clinton and Stephen Colbert discuss binge-watching TV, bank reform, and Trump vs. Carson
- A dog named Trigger pulled the trigger on owner, shooting her in the foot
- Stephen Colbert bids a happy Hunger Games adieu to Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee
- Teens volunteer as pallbearers for homeless veterans
- Spa where employee froze to death in cryotherapy chamber shut down
- House votes to revive U.S. Export-Import Bank, dealing defeat to GOP hardliners
- Prisoners freed from Islamic State prison share the horrors they witnessed
- South Carolina sheriff says third video shows student hitting school resource officer
- October 27th
- Benjamin Netanyahu mulling revoking residency status for Palestinians in East Jerusalem
- Walgreens to buy Rite Aid in $9.41 billion deal
- Facebook launches '2G Tuesdays' so employees can empathize with people who have slow internet
- Amazon and Walmart are selling an Israeli soldier costume for kids this Halloween
- A Michigan police officer allegedly killed a pedestrian while speeding. He was charged with a misdemeanor.
- Conservatives bash the budget deal: 'The president got whatever he wanted'
- Donald Trump lashes out at media 'scum': '50 percent are the worst people I've ever met'
- Concerns grow over China's 'nightmarish' social credit score system
- 10,000-year-old extinct lion cubs discovered in near-perfect condition in Siberian permafrost
- Ben Carson takes national lead in new poll
- Tension as US warship sails by China's disputed islands
- Indiana woman shot by dog named Trigger
- Experts hopeful polio could be wiped out in 2016
- Wanting shoppers to spend time outside instead, REI won't open any stores on Black Friday
- Jon Stewart to open an animal sanctuary in New Jersey
- Persian Gulf could experience 'intolerable' heat by end of the century
- Video shows student being flipped over, dragged by school resource officer
- October 26th
- Saudi royal detained in Beirut after 2 tons of drugs found on private jet
- Walmart wants to start testing drones for deliveries
- Nintendo worried its classic game GoldenEye was too violent
- Ricky Gervais is returning to host the Golden Globes
- New York City will offer the SAT to high school students for free
- Aziz Ansari on racism in Hollywood: 'There would never be 2 Indian people in 1 show'
- This sixth grader will sell you strong passwords for $2 a pop
- When Lego refused to let Ai Weiwei order bricks en masse, his supporters rallied around him with donations
- One New Jersey town is hoping to solve its drunk driving problem with free Ubers
- Bacon, sausages and ham do cause cancer, WHO confirms
- Whale boat: 'phenomenal' rescue prevented bigger tragedy
- Ole Miss just took down the state flag amid backlash over its Confederate symbol
- Poland election: what Law and Justice win means for Europe
- Russian spy ships are 'aggressively operating' near critical undersea internet cables. America is worried.
- Donald Trump said his career hasn't been 'easy' because he needed a 'small loan' to get started. It was $1 million from his father.
- This one photo shows just how massive Europe's migrant crisis is
- Pediatricians want tobacco, e-cigs banned for people under 21
- Here's all the evidence that Walking Dead character isn't really dead
- Ben Carson is crushing his 2016 rivals with phone calls
- Sugar-addict ponies 'resorting to violence'
- Ai Weiwei supporters offer to donate Lego after ban
- Hot dogs, bacon, and red meat are giving people cancer
- Afghan earthquake: death toll soars as rescue efforts continue
- Archaeologists discover 'meticulously constructed' ancient fort atop Pakistani mountain
- Tea Party support dwindles to lowest level yet
- Professor says women 'don't understand' the science behind fracking
- The oldest polar bear in the United States dies at 34
- 43 years later, woman burned in famous napalm attack hopeful treatment will make her scars fade
- In Syria, harsh conditions are making Russian planes break down
- At least five dead after whale watching boat sinks off British Columbia coast
- October 25th
- An artist transformed a Vladimir Lenin statue into Darth Vader
- Pediatrics association condemns improper tackling in youth football
- Ben Carson compares abortion to slavery, would 'love to see' Roe v. Wade overturned
- Donald Trump won't apologize to Ben Carson over religion comments
- Tony Blair just apologized for Britain's role in the Iraq war
- Pope Francis calls for more merciful Catholic Church
- Patricia remnants cause flooding in Texas
- October 24th
- Car crash into Oklahoma State homecoming parade kills 3
- John Kasich slammed the 76ers before shooting hoops on the campaign trail
- India's air force will allow female fighter pilots by 2017
- The FBI director thinks homicides are up due to widespread police scrutiny
- Hurricane Patricia weakens to Category 1 storm over Mexico
- October 23rd
- Only in America: Black pedestrians have to wait longer to cross the street
- For those who have everything: Mobility scooter that masquerades as a motorcycle
- Meet the woman who can diagnose Parkinson's disease by smell
- Only in America: Texas high schoolers suspended for giving rival school's band a 'racist' fruit basket
- The real reason Adele uses a flip phone in her new video
- There are 1,657 TV series whose entire run was shorter than the Hillary Clinton Benghazi hearing
- Jeb Bush's struggling campaign slashes payroll by 40 percent, downsizes Miami headquarters
- Megyn Kelly hammers Jeb Bush on low poll numbers: 'What would it take to make you get out?'
- Not ready to let go of #Benghazi? Take comfort in these adult-sized footed 'Remember Benghazi' pajamas.
- The stage sequel to Harry Potter will be about Harry's midlife crisis, son
- Spy files reveal gangster and Tory peer 'hunted young men'
- 'Dairy crack': cheese as addictive as drugs, study shows
- Watch the unsettling trailer for Jessica Jones, Netflix's next big Marvel series
- Watch the heartbreaking video for 'Hello,' the first single from Adele's new album
- Watch U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron take China's President Xi Jinping on a super awkward trip to the local pub
- Archaeologists stunned by discovery of antibiotic resistance in 1,000-year-old mummy
- Everything you need to know about the Benghazi hearings, in two short videos
- 1 shot dead on Tennessee State campus, 3 wounded, after dice-game argument
- Trevor Noah recaps, pans Thursday's Benghazi marathon as if it were a Netflix series
- Joy Behar agreed to rejoin The View so she could skewer Republican presidential candidates
- Secret Service warned about tired, overworked officers
- Lincoln Chafee raises speculation he's quitting presidential race with one tweet
- Domino's adds ovens to special delivery vehicles
- There's now a $1 rival to Turing Pharmaceutical's $750 pill
- 'Potentially catastrophic' Hurricane Patricia is bearing down on Mexico
- New York City's comptroller says 'the rats are taking over'
- Marathon Benghazi hearing ends after 11 hours
- Sesame Street's newest character is Julia, a preschooler with autism
- Nurse quarantined over Ebola concerns sues Gov. Chris Christie
- October 22nd
- Rep. Elijah Cummings says the Benghazi hearing is 'going downhill'
- Hillary's response to the Benghazi hearing, in 1 perfect photo
- Spectators at the marathon Benghazi hearing still haven't eaten, slept, or gone to the bathroom
- How we can repair the labor market, in one chart
- Olympic freeskier Gus Kenworthy comes out in ESPN Magazine cover story
- Nearly 100 Homeland Security workers have been paid to do nothing all year
- Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings rips Benghazi hearings as a partisan witch hunt
- Sweden school attack: police investigate racist motive
- Bernie Sanders timidly steps toward backing legal marijuana
- 2015 is on track to be the warmest year ever recorded
- Paul Ryan would be the most conservative House speaker since at least the 1940s
- Hiker discovers 1,200-year-old Viking sword in Norway
- Did David Cameron really slap minister's bottom at state banquet?
- Theresa May: all-white police chief line-up 'not good enough'
- A group called Stop Hillary PAC keeps trying to give Benghazi panel chair Trey Gowdy money
- Bernie Sanders tells Jimmy Kimmel why he is electable, and about God and greed
- The Daily Show has fun with Paul Ryan's demand-heavy House speakership, Back to the Future Day
- Marty McFly and Doc Brown time-travel to Jimmy Kimmel Live, and don't like what they see
- Expert calls permafrost warming in areas of Alaska 'unbelievable'
- Hillary Clinton testifies before House Benghazi panel Thursday. The Wall Street Journal is ready with this viewer's guide.
- Los Angeles conserved so much water customers will see a rate hike to cover lost revenue
- New York Mets sweep the Cubs, head to the World Series
- Actor and comedian Marty Ingels dies at 79
- For Back to the Future Day, Nike sent Michael J. Fox a pair of self-lacing shoes
- Russian ambassador tweets photo of 'terrorist' that's actually from a Harold & Kumar movie
- Lincoln Chafee donors say he probably won't win, but they're giving him money anyway
- October 21st
- Hungarian journalist fired for kicking Syrian refugees to sue one of them
- iPhone users can now use emoji to roll their eyes, flip the bird
- Would you pay $10 a month for ad-free YouTube?
- The guy who caught the José Bautista bat flip homer wants to give the ball back to Bautista
- South African students celebrate as Zuma bows to their demands
- Chris Rock will host the 2016 Academy Awards
- No, Yelp isn't actually suing South Park
- In Norway, 'Texas' is slang for 'crazy'
- Americans are more afraid of corrupt government officials than terrorist attacks or economic collapse
- 7 hilarious instances of Back to the Future in real world politics
- Adele announces new album, 25
- Archaeologists discover secret tunnel in ancient Hittite castle
- Nearly a third of Londoners are living in poverty, study reveals
- In post-debate poll, big bipartisan majorities say Hillary Clinton the most electable candidate
- Queensland police 'deploy Hoverboard Unit to crash'
- Doc Brown, back in his Delorean, has a sweet message to kick-start your Back to the Future Day
- Vatican calls report of Pope Francis brain tumor 'completely baseless'
- Russia's Putin and Syria's Assad met in Moscow Tuesday to discuss war
- Watch Tracy Morgan take Jimmy Kimmel on a very Tracy Morgan tour of the Bronx Zoo
- Happy 'Back to the Future Day': A quick guide to the day foretold in 1989
- Study: Nail polish chemical that's also a fire retardant could mess with hormones
- A man in India is illegally selling execution drugs to U.S. states, and BuzzFeed tracked him down
- 'Find my iPhone' app leads search party to missing student in Georgia
- Teen clock maker Ahmed Mohamed and family moving to Qatar
- October 20th
- Joe Biden changes his story on the bin Laden raid
- Donald Trump's campaign bus has been turned into a subversive art piece
- The Minnesota Vikings have a secret, 'cult-like' donut club
- Jim Webb dropped out with just $317,000 in the bank. Hillary Clinton has $25.7 million.
- This is your dog's ancestral birthplace
- The 6 most ridiculous quotes from GQ's interview with Jaden Smith, ranked
- Watch Martin O'Malley delight The View with a cover of Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood'
- All-but-forgotten GOP presidential candidate Bobby Jindal might skip the next debate
- Should pension freedoms be reversed?
- Alabama court to poor offenders: Give blood or go to jail
- English countryside 'shagged' by the 'white plague' of sheep
- Justice League: What do we know so far?
- This article was not written by a robot (but some news you read might be)
- This Israeli restaurant is giving 50 percent off to Arabs and Jews eating together
- Are emojis an actual language?
- McDonalds, Starbucks and Nike sign Obama climate pledge
- Russian airstrikes in Syria kill at least 45, including rebel commander
- Teenager claims he hacked CIA director's email account
- New IVF test offers hope for greater pregnancy success rate
- Jacky Sutton 'suicide': calls for 'open' investigation into death
- Diehard Cubs fan Bill Murray isn't sure he wants Chicago to win the World Series, because the Red Sox
- Bill Murray has never watched Netflix, which is running his Christmas special
- Following deadly bus station attack, Israeli lawmaker says 'this is what sliding into an abyss looks like'
- United Airlines names interim CEO after Oscar Munoz hospitalized for heart attack
- 461-year-old Mexican church submerged underwater reappears
- Justin Trudeau to be Canada's next prime minister after Liberal landslide
- Watch the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer
- Gilmore Girls is coming to Netflix as a limited series
- October 19th
- Teen says he hacked into CIA director's email account
- Oscar Pistorius released from South African prison
- The Nightmare Before Christmas director just definitively confirmed it's a Halloween movie
- A plainclothes police officer fatally shot a black man stranded with car trouble
- Planning to buy Star Wars tickets tonight? You might have some competition.
- A lot of people are disillusioned with Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- You can now fly in a custom-painted Frozen-themed plane
- Turkey to E.U.: We can't be a 'concentration camp' for migrants
- Richard Branson says the U.N. is about to come out against the war on drugs
- Michigan's punter is getting death threats after he blew Saturday's game
- It's not just emails: State Department cybersecurity deteriorated every year under Clinton
- ITV buys Northern Ireland's UTV for £100m
- Amazon asked The New York Times to correct its unflattering exposé of their workplace. They didn't, so Amazon just published it themselves.
- More than half of Americans want stricter gun sales laws
- Stephen Port: suspected London serial killer appears in court
- Egypt elections: turnout low as voters go to the polls
- Watch Eddie Murphy tell his first public joke in 28 years — and rip Bill Cosby
- Paul Ryan is reportedly now open to becoming House speaker
- Archaeologists find evidence of 'magic' once used at the Tower of London
- Turkey says downed drone is Russian-made, but Russia disavows it 'in a friendly manner'
- New Delhi: anger grows over spate of child rapes
- U.S. and Europe start process of easing Iran sanctions as part of nuclear deal
- Zombicon suspect still at large after 'nightmare' shooting
- Extremists to be barred from working with children
- Big Ben needs $61.7 million worth of repairs
- John Oliver chides Americans for being unaware of Canada's 'historic' election, then chides Canada
- After Israeli soldier is killed, innocent bystander beaten to death by angry mob
- Canceled wedding leads to feast for the homeless in Sacramento
- Amazon sues 1,114 sellers of 'inauthentic' reviews
- 1 dead after shooting at Florida zombie festival
- Man on flight to Dublin dies after allegedly trying to bite a fellow passenger
- Minnesota sheriff's deputy killed by hospitalized suspect he was guarding
- Airstrike in Syria kills al-Qaeda leader
- October 18th
- Closed Hungarian border prompts migrant bottleneck in the Balkans
- Charleston church sees community grow, diversify after shooting
- Larry David hilariously impersonated Bernie Sanders on SNL
- Tracy Morgan reunited the 30 Rock cast in his triumphant SNL return
- 'El Chapo' flown to mountains after prison escape, official says
- October 17th
- 'Female Viagra' is now officially for sale
- Lindsay Lohan is teasing a potential 2020 presidential run
- Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert like each other too much to be rivals
- Workers uncover hidden chemistry lab designed by Thomas Jefferson
- Army vet who confronted Oregon gunman recounts mass shooting
- At least 1 in 8 of us is carrying around the cells of a twin we consumed in utero
- Fugitive drug lord 'El Chapo' injured in narrow escape from capture
- The U.S. will reportedly unveil a plan to regulate drones more closely
- October 16th
- For those who have everything: Beer bong for champagne
- Marines are warned not to read leaked 'drone files'
- Hungary to close its border with Croatia
- This one chart shows how badly the job market is still struggling
- Elderly veteran fought off a knife attack with his bare hands to save 16 children
- Donations show Bush and Clinton are still Wall Street's favorite candidates
- Lincoln Chafee didn't even raise enough money to buy Consumer Reports' worst-rated car of the year
- Lindsey Graham is really concerned about the Massachusetts state flag
- Largest African elephant killed in 30 years for £39,000
- Best properties: houses with renovation potential
- Archaeologists discover ancient Californians beheaded in strange burial ritual
- The GOP is 'cooked as a party' if it doesn't win in 2016, RNC chair says
- The Daily Show brawls over online fantasy sports versus the evils of Wall Street
- US Airways is flying its final flight today
- Justin Theroux discusses his bachelor party with Jimmy Kimmel, who made him have one
- Oprah and Stephen Colbert swap favorite Bible verses
- Mudslides, flash floods wreak havoc in Southern California
- Fox News guest terrorism analyst arrested, charged with lying about CIA service
- The official quietest place on earth is a chamber on the Microsoft campus
- Tom Hanks and Jimmy Fallon perform Bridge of Spies scenes written by precocious grade-schoolers
- For the first time, U.S. charges suspect with hacking and terrorism
- Mets beat Dodgers, advance to face Cubs in NL Championship Series
- Ken Taylor, ambassador who hid Americans during Iran hostage crisis, dies at 81
- Dreams come true: Lucky Charms is releasing a marshmallow only box — with a catch
- El Faro's sister ship issued no-sail order by Coast Guard months before shipwreck
- October 15th
- Target shoppers stunned when porn audio plays over the PA system
- Jeb Bush raves about moon colonies at New Hampshire campaign stop
- Taylor Swift watched Behind the Music to learn how to become the perfect pop star
- Study: This is the best way to win a political argument
- Americans overwhelmingly oppose mandatory minimum sentencing
- Tesla's lane changer: a glimpse into the autonomous future
- Inside the shady, multi-billion-dollar daily fantasy sports industry
- Treasury says debt limit will hit sooner than expected
- Arabic graffiti in Homeland says 'Homeland is Racist'
- Jim Webb wrote the screenplay for a Samuel L. Jackson movie
- City Link and Sports Direct cases highlight legal tension
- Sri Lanka advertises hangman gig as 'light administrative work'
- Could brain zapping be the 'cure' for religious extremism?
- UK high street occupancy rate at 16-month low
- Obama reportedly halting Afghanistan withdrawal, keeping 5,500 troops through 2017
- Jimmy Kimmel was underwhelmed by the Democratic debate, but loved CNN's 'very Las Vegas' intro
- NHS watchdog: three in four hospitals are failing
- Stephen Colbert recaps the Democratic debate, debuts a hilarious Bernie Sanders impersonation
- Activists calling for greater transparency in police department occupy Baltimore City Hall
- The Tonight Show gives a glimpse into a Trump/Carson Democratic debate viewing party
- 'Bern Your Enthusiasm': Reimagining Tuesday's debate with Bernie Sanders as Larry David
- Study: People with Type 2 diabetes could benefit from a glass of red wine a day
- Former NBA star Lamar Odom reportedly had drugs in his system, suffered brain damage
- In Asia, thousands of refugees expected to set sail due to better weather
- October 14th
- Official: Hundreds of Iranian troops are gathered near Aleppo, Syria
- Bernie as Bánh mi: MSNBC compares presidential candidates to sandwiches
- After 22 seasons, America's Next Top Model is ending
- Why this famous NYC restaurateur is banning tipping
- Walmart just lost $20 billion in stock value — in less than 20 minutes
- Roger Ebert's widow describes his final moments: 'He was joyous'
- 43 toddlers accidentally hurt or killed someone with a gun in 2015
- Is the state pension 'triple lock' sustainable?
- Hog roasts a favourite for Stonehenge locals in 25th century BC
- Five things you didn't know about Maisie Williams
- Marco Rubio thinks the Democratic debate was all about 'who was going to give away the most free stuff'
- Steven Spielberg: 'I never had a cup of coffee in my life'
- Mike Huckabee doesn't see the problem with this racist joke he tweeted
- Electric Jukebox: Britain's answer to Spotify?
- New Cards Against Humanity pack backs female scientists
- Water companies get £800m windfall from price cap
- Israel deploys troops to cities to help quell Palestinian attacks
- Warren Buffet disagrees with Donald Trump: 'America's great now — it's never been greater'
- Seven things you didn’t know about the Battle of Hastings
- Cyber-attack warning after £20m stolen in the UK
- PM's withdrawal from Saudi prisons deal 'widens Cabinet rift'
- Jimmy Kimmel gets people to critique Hillary Clinton's debate performance a day before it happened
- Stephen Colbert mocks insta-punditry with hilariously plausible 'hot takes'
- Study shows why listeria flourishes on some caramel apples
- Lamar Odom found unconscious at Nevada brothel
- Clinton uses Obama to dodge criticism of 2002 Iraq War vote
- Watch Hillary Clinton hit Bernie Sanders hard on gun control
- October 13th
- Gun store found liable for negligence in shooting, ordered to pay cops more than $5 million
- Marlon James wins the Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Florida woman live streams herself drunk driving
- CNN, the 'most trusted name in news,' asked Katy Perry and Ashton Kutcher for help with its debate questions
- The GOP fails to see the irony in panning Hillary Clinton for voting to authorize Iraq War
- These vintage G-rated Playboy covers are surprisingly endearing
- Donald Trump will host Saturday Night Live in November
- Connecticut boy sued for being too excited at his 8th birthday party
- For the first time, more American women than men hold bachelor's degrees
- Army secretary: Women might soon have to register for the draft
- Hillary Clinton's advisers reportedly wanted her to immediately apologize for the email scandal. She refused.
- Donald Trump will be live-tweeting the Democratic debate tonight
- Iran's parliament easily approves nuclear deal
- Bearded men's club mistaken for Islamic State militants
- Syrian rebels shell Russian embassy in Damascus
- Seth Meyers takes a critical look at the 158 families bankrolling the 2016 presidential race
- Kirsten Dunst said she had no problem putting on weight for Fargo
- Tube status: rush hour chaos after signal failure at King's Cross
- British grandfather to be flogged in Saudi Arabia for having wine
- Stephen Colbert mocks CNN for its bizarre 'fan fiction' about Joe Biden showing up at Tuesday's debate
- World's two largest beer companies, AB InBev and SABMiller, agree to merge
- Report: U.S. investigating Anheuser-Busch over alleged plot to strangle craft breweries
- Because they're 'passé,' Playboy will stop publishing nude photos
- Man working on HGTV Dream Home dies after being electrocuted
- Ready for his close-up, Rand Paul will live stream his entire day Tuesday
- October 12th
- Study: Teens who can't stop texting are a lot like compulsive gamblers
- U.S. drops 50 tons of ammunition to Syrian Arab groups fighting ISIS
- USC fires football coach Steve Sarkisian after he reportedly showed up to practice intoxicated
- Want a photo with Hillary Clinton? That'll cost $2,700.
- Donald Trump's bluster did not impress moderates at a bipartisan conference
- Hillary Clinton gets 10 times more support than Martin O'Malley does in his home state
- London ends 24-hour watch on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
- Chase Utley gets to play tonight after appealing the suspension over his controversial slide
- CNN is ready with an extra lectern in case Joe Biden suddenly joins the debate
- Paul Ryan made a huge decision over the weekend: his Halloween costume
- 'Mortgage prisoners': are borrowers being unfairly held on expensive loans?
- Texas police tase young, black councilman while he kneels peacefully
- CNN doesn't expect many people to watch the Democratic debate
- Cities are opting to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day
- Archaeologists discover 600-year-old wreck of Henry V's 'Holy Ghost' warship
- Turkey says ISIS the primary suspect in Saturday's deadly suicide bombings
- 'Fast and furious' groom misses wedding after arrest
- Turkey bombs Kurdish rebels as nation continues to mourn
- Dell announces $67 billion EMC purchase in largest tech merger ever
- John Oliver looks at North Dakota's deadly oil boom, asks polite residents to get angry
- Tanzanian teen whose limbs were cut off because she is albino finds hope in the U.S.
- MLB suspends Dodgers' Utley for 2 playoff games, citing 'illegal slide'
- Iraqi air force says it bombed ISIS meeting, ISIS leader's convoy
- 3 Palestinians dead, 4 Israelis injured during latest wave of violence
- House Benghazi panel's GOP staffers allegedly have gun club, wine glasses that say 'Glacial Pace'
- Revlon suspends Kiss Cam in Times Square because of gropers
- After delays on Sunday, Southwest asks Monday passengers to plan ahead
- Millions in the Pacific could be left without food, clean water due to El Niño
- October 11th
- Metta World Peace thinks NBA players are a 'bunch of babies'
- Fed interest rate hike is 'an expectation, not a commitment,' vice chair says
- Amy Schumer totally skewered gun enthusiasts in an SNL spoof
- Freedom Caucus would 'look favorably' on Paul Ryan as speaker
- Obama playfully ribbed Kanye West about running for president in 2020
- Outside experts called the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice justified
- Watch the controversial Chase Utley slide that put the Dodgers over the Mets
- October 10th
- Jimmy Fallon pushes back against criticism that he's too easy on guests
- Activists commemorate 20th anniversary of Million Man March
- Malcolm-Jamal Warner said The Cosby Show is 'tarnished' by assault allegations
- 86 killed by bombs at Turkish peace rally
- Jerry Parr, Secret Service agent who saved Ronald Reagan, dies at 85
- Obama meets with families after Oregon school shooting
- Paul Ryan is reportedly considering a run for House speaker
- October 9th
- Only in America: Tennessee officials ask God to spare them 'His coming wrath' over same-sex marriage
- How a cell phone signal in the middle of the ocean saved this boat of Syrian refugees
- USA Today tests out Facebook's new emoji on its front page — with questionable results
- For those who have everything: Hot tub hammock
- Only in America: Publisher refers to African slaves as 'workers' in geography textbook
- Ben Carson quadruples down on his bizarre Nazi gun control argument
- Families of teenagers who died after hypnosis receive payout
- The VA spent $6.3 million on fountains and statues
- Democratic congressman trolls GOP with Craigslist job ad for House speaker: 'Babysitting experience STRONGLY PREFERRED'
- VW isn't the only carmaker with a pollution problem
- Google buys alphabet domain: Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com
- The TSA has been hounding this woman over apple butter since 2013
- Smoking will kill 1 in 3 young men in China
- Week in pictures: 4-10 October
- Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey in hospital for third time
- Best properties: contemporary properties
- Joe Biden asks super PAC to yank heart-wrenching ad
- Senior Iranian general killed in Syria as ISIS captures rebel towns outside Aleppo
- Tunisian national dialogue group wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Sir Bruce Forsyth taken to hospital after fall
- UK commits to long-term troop deployment in Baltic states
- Lena Dunham believes in psychics. Jimmy Kimmel? Not so much.
- The hottest restaurant in New York City is inside a Columbia student's dorm room
- Study links Fukushima nuclear disaster to thyroid cancer in children
- Explosion at Washington state dam injures 6
- Family of Walter Scott reaches $6.5 million settlement with North Charleston
- Trump taking credit for McCarthy dropping out of House speaker's race
- October 8th
- Oklahoma state records show wrong drug was used in January execution
- Famed Louisiana chef Paul Prudhomme dies at 75
- Kevin McCarthy on House Republicans: 'They're going to eat you and chew you up'
- Watch Emma Stone eat money, lick a sailor's face in an entertaining new music video
- Some Republicans were caught actually sobbing after Kevin McCarthy dropped out of the House speaker race
- The fundamental problem with the Federal Reserve, in one telling quote
- Conservatives are buzzing that Kevin McCarthy dropped his speakership bid because he was allegedly having an affair
- Rep. Charlie Dent: We might have to 'assemble a bipartisan coalition' to elect a speaker of the House
- Paul Ryan is not interested in being the next speaker
- For the low price of $19.99, this company wants to sell you three authentic fall leaves sourced from New England
- ‘Macho’ Vladimir Putin: the Russian president in pictures
- 'Republicans for Bernie Sanders'? The socialist senator says they exist.
- Amazon throws down the gauntlet with Etsy, begins selling handcrafted goods
- Rupert Murdoch thinks Ben Carson would be the 'real black president'
- As House GOP prepares to select new speaker, John Oliver makes the case against Jason Chaffetz
- U.S. pointedly rules out cooperating with Russia in Syria conflict
- Becky Watts murder trial: attack 'was sexually motivated'
- Sustainable Development Goals: are they too ambitious?
- Stephen Colbert finds a politician more verbally maladroit than Jeb Bush
- Ben Bernanke smiles about the economy on Colbert's Late Show
- Seth Meyers looks at the GOP presidential candidates' Syria War critiques, finds a quagmire
- Under new law, thousands who failed high school exit exam in California will be awarded diplomas
- Ex-Reuters journalist Matthew Keys convicted of scheming with Anonymous to hack LA Times website
- Hungarian fashion photographer says there's nothing wrong with his 'migrant chic' photo shoot
- While endorsing Kevin McCarthy, Dick Cheney takes opportunity to bash Obama, too
- Conan spoofs Steve Jobs with nihilistic farce Michael Dell
- Glass skyway 3,500 feet in the air cracks after someone drops a mug
- Sen. Harry Reid sues makers of exercise band over eye injury
- Coast Guard suspends search for El Faro survivors
- Planned execution in Saudi Arabia of juvenile offender stirring up international outrage
- October 7th
- Over Syria, U.S. diverts F-16s to avoid Russian jet
- Mass shooters study the 'blueprints' of previous tragedies
- Daniel Craig: I'd rather 'slash my wrists' than play James Bond again
- Pigs find evidence of 12,000-year-old civilization on remote Scottish island
- Donald Trump's 25-year quest to prove that his fingers aren't short
- Nicki Minaj shuts down New York Times interview over a sexist question
- Doctors Without Borders pushes for independent investigation of hospital bombing
- People publishes all 535 Congressional phone numbers, asks readers to push anti-gun agenda
- Biden super PAC uses heart wrenching ad to implore, 'Joe, run'
- The White House wants you to donate to the Syrian refugees on Kickstarter
- The Daily Show pits robots against journalists, and reporters should be very worried
- Cameron changes planning laws to get 200,000 starter homes built
- 2015 Chemistry Nobel awarded to 3 scientists who discovered how cells repair DNA
- This is the military equipment Russia has moved into Syria
- Microsoft takes aim at Apple with first-ever laptop, new smartphones and tablet
- Man who accused Leon Brittan of abuse says it 'started as a joke'
- 'Russian gangs' attempting to sell nuclear material to Islamic State
- Stephen Colbert panders to China, hard and humorously
- Texas executes inmate for deadly $8 robbery when he was a teen
- Prison debate team victorious over Harvard champs
- Study: Freezing ovaries could preserve a cancer patient's fertility
- Report: In Moldova, smugglers tried to sell nuclear materials to terrorists
- Jay Leno jovially crashes Jimmy Fallon's monologue, tells some political jokes
- Peet's Coffee is buying Stumptown, in a West Coast coffee mixed marriage
- Family and friends hold out hope that El Faro survivors will be found
- Watch Robert F. Kennedy discuss gun control 47 years ago in Roseburg, Oregon
- NATO rejects Russian explanation on jets in Turkish air space
- Chanel recreated an entire airport in Paris for lavish fashion show
- October 6th
- U.S. officials investigating how so many Toyotas wind up in the hands of ISIS
- The White House wants standing desks for its workers. That will cost $700,000.
- It took 11 months for an anti-abortion group to edit the secretly recorded Planned Parenthood videos
- Ben Carson's campaign manager really wants him to stop referencing Hitler
- 6,000 prisoners will go free in largest ever one-time release
- Rihanna calls Rachel Dolezal 'a hero': 'Is it such a horrible thing that she pretended to be black?'
- Hillary Clinton turns McCarthy's Benghazi gaffe into campaign gold
- Study: Democrats are much better at grammar than Republicans
- Lindsey Graham voted against federal aid for Hurricane Sandy victims — but wants it for South Carolina flooding
- Stephenie Meyer releases gender-swapped rewrite of the original Twilight
- Russian blogger crowdfunds lunar probe to investigate if Apollo moon landing actually happened
- The Daily Show tackles the Oregon tragedy with a cleverly cynical bit on the sad predictability of U.S. mass shootings
- Owners of The Conjuring house sue Warner Bros. over legions of trespassing superfans
- Humans 'worse for nature than world's worst nuclear accident'
- Yo-Yo Ma and Colbert's band perform a beautiful, jazzed-up version of 'The Swan' by Saint-Saëns
- Russia is flying fighter jets over Turkey, setting up possible NATO confrontation
- 2015 Nobel Physics Prize awarded to two scientists who unveiled the mysteries of neutrinos
- Air France bosses in torn shirts forced to flee angry workers
- Stephen Colbert mocks 'cage-free' Whole Foods for getting caught using prison labor
- Why the UK is the best place in the world to die
- Julianne Moore, John Stamos, and James Corden perform a soap opera using only Taylor Swift lyrics
- John McCain still sounds bitter about 2008, humorously, on Colbert's Late Show
- Titanic's final lunch menu fetches an astounding $88,000 at auction
- With people removed, wildlife thriving in Chernobyl
- Jimmy Fallon shoves a bunch of celebrities in phone booths with Hugh Jackman and Shaq because trivia
- Nancy Drew could be coming back to television — only grown-up and an NYPD detective
- Cheerios recalls 1.8 million boxes of cereal labeled gluten-free that may contain wheat
- Brady Campaign wants Oregon sheriff with 'extremist' views to resign
- Prominent civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs dies at 100
- October 5th
- Police: 11-year-old charged with shooting and killing neighbor, 8, over puppy
- South Carolina officials expect storm damage to be in the billions
- Edward Snowden says he's repeatedly volunteered to go to prison
- California becomes 5th state to approve right-to-die bill
- Conservative pundit Erick Erickson is stepping down as RedState editor
- U.S. reaches record $20.8 billion settlement with BP over oil spill
- Yanks' CC Sabathia enters rehab: 'I am not too big of a man to ask for help'
- LinkedIn might actually owe you money for all those annoying emails
- The average ATM fee is a record-high $4.52
- There are going to be at least 4 more Transformers movies
- SCOTUS justices — especially Republican nominees — get more liberal as they age
- Cheers: A new bill could make beer cheaper and more inventive
- Hillary Clinton says she's the most transparent emailer in American history
- Jack Dorsey will serve as CEO of Square and Twitter
- America's nuclear power plants use passwords like '1234'
- The next big biofuel could be made from whisky waste
- 'Prehistoric beaver' find explains how mammals took over world
- The organization that runs Carly Fiorina's 'foundation' has given half a million dollars to Planned Parenthood since 2011
- iPhone 6S price frozen despite cost of new features
- Teenager who killed PC David Phillips guilty of manslaughter
- Carly Fiorina was very late in paying off the debts from her 2010 campaign
- French Riviera floods: at least 17 killed after violent storms
- Chinese villager discovers strange turtle-shaped tomb
- Nobel committee awards medicine prize to 3 scientists who tackled parasitic diseases
- New liberal ad ties presumptive future House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to 'red scare' icon Joseph McCarthy
- U.S., Asia-Pacific allies near final Trans-Pacific Partnership deal
- FBI, ATF warn Philadelphia universities of 'unspecified' threat of violence
- John Oliver sets the record straight on mental health and mass shootings
- Widow, friends of Steve Jobs reportedly not happy about new movie based on his life
- World Bank: Global extreme poverty to hit new low in 2015
- Banning or charging for plastic shopping bags is a minor pain. This video explains why it's a major plus.
- American Apparel files for bankruptcy
- 4 California teens arrested in 'very detailed' high school shooting plot
- Watch Stephen Colbert wrestle with covering mass shootings like Oregon's on late-night comedy
- Kate Winslet tells Lancôme not to blur her wrinkles out in their ads
- An unlimited annual pass for Disneyland is now more than $1,000
- Islamic State destroys Palmyra's Arch of Triumph
- Bashar al-Assad says he must 'destroy terrorism' before agreeing to a peace settlement
- Torrential rainfall causes flooding, at least 5 deaths in South Carolina
- October 4th
- Israel bars most Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City
- SNL has a hilarious post-apocalyptic take on Taylor Swift's world domination
- Joe Biden says transgender people should be able to openly serve in the military
- Jason Chaffetz is officially running for House speaker
- Hillary Clinton totally nailed a Donald Trump impression on SNL
- Doctors Without Borders closes Afghan hospital after airstrikes
- October 3rd
- Hillary Clinton wants LGBT vets kicked out of military to get honorable discharge
- If you just can't handle photos of cute puppies, there's a name for that
- A Florida museum now boasts the world's largest collection of fossilized poop
- NCAA investigating claim that Louisville used strippers and prostitutes to recruit basketball players
- Divers discover 'Flying Fortress' under the Mediterranean Sea
- Vatican fires openly gay priest before global LGBT outreach meeting
- You can now see every high-res photo Apollo astronauts shot on the moon
- U.S forces may have mistakenly struck a Doctors Without Borders hospital, killing at least 9
- The Oregon shooting victims range in age from 18 to 67
- Best properties: village houses
- October 2nd
- Only in America: High schooler defends blind classmate from bully, gets suspended
- Feel like you've seen everything on Netflix? Here are 100 under-appreciated movies and TV shows you can stream right now.
- 82 percent of people mentioned in the media are men
- For those who have everything: Candy-scented rings
- A man named Santa Claus is running for North Pole's city council
- Only in America: This city in Missouri just officially banned 'sideboob' and 'underboob'
- Farmer discovers 'butchered' woolly mammoth under soy field
- The NFL just went an entire month without any players getting arrested — for the first time since 2009
- Jennifer Lawrence has a theory about Donald Trump's candidacy: It was 'Hillary's brilliant idea'
- Watch Trevor Noah list all the ways Donald Trump is like a bunch of African dictators
- Florida man encourages sorcery, maybe dismembers goat in ritual sacrifice, runs for U.S. Senate
- Oregon shooter was a 'good kid' or 'not a friendly type of guy' — depending on whom you ask
- Paris Fashion Week: from 'human backpacks' to Terminal Chanel
- Week in pictures: 27 September - 3 October
- Taller people more likely to develop cancer, say researchers
- The Army vet who heroically charged the Oregon gunman is expected to recover
- Vatican says Pope Francis didn't meet privately with Kim Davis — or endorse her
- Treasury Secretary reports that the government will run out of cash a month earlier than expected
- The Pope Francis–Kim Davis dustup has entered the conspiracy phase
- The U.S. economy added 142,000 jobs in September
- Oregon shooter reportedly singled out Christians in attack
- 'Mad cow' disease confirmed on farm in Wales
- Ebullient bipartisan group of senators unveil plan for more humane prison sentencing
- Peeple: is controversial human rating app actually a hoax?
- Tony Blair urged Colonel Gaddafi to flee to 'safe place'
- Oregon shooting: nine dead in attack on community college
- Jimmy Kimmel impanels a focus group of adorable kids to discuss the 2016 presidential race
- Is your GP being paid to stop you going to hospital?
- Stephen Colbert mocks Marco Rubio's adopt-a-staffer gambit with a darkly comic PSA
- The real suffragettes: who were Emmeline Pankhurst, Emily Davison and Edith New?
- Watch Obama's increasingly angry responses to 6 years of U.S. mass shootings, in 4 minutes
- Obama asked for a comparison of U.S. gun versus terrorism deaths. The internet delivered.
- Virginia executes convicted murderer who claimed to be mentally impaired
- Miley Cyrus is very convincingly fake-hostile in Jimmy Fallon 'emotional interview'
- At least 11 dead, including 6 U.S. troops, in Afghanistan plane crash
- Police reluctantly identify Oregon shooter who killed about 10 at community college
- October 1st
- Only the New York Jets would pack 350 rolls of toilet paper for a single weekend abroad
- Bill Simmons is taking swings at ESPN in his new podcast
- Watch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stare down the U.N. for an incredibly uncomfortable 45 seconds
- Mike Huckabee inexplicably compares Washington to a strip club
- The NYPD just illustrated what we're all thinking about Hurricane Joaquin
- Your prescription painkillers could have a tiny GPS tracker hidden inside
- It's not just Hillary: John Kerry has also used a private email for official State business
- Plastic bags to cost 5p: the 'baffling' new rules explained
- Is this the secret of eternal life?
- Serena Williams withdraws from final two tournaments of the season
- Referendum boost as Brussels pledges red tape review
- The New York Times explains why iPhone ad blockers are great
- Everybody needs to calm down about Pope Francis and Kim Davis
- Seth Meyers explains the Planned Parenthood fight that Republicans just lost
- John Oliver tells Stephen Colbert there's only one interesting thing about Donald Trump
- Afghan government says it has retaken Kunduz from the Taliban
- Woman who created #ShoutYourAbortion in hiding due to death threats
- Mountain lion spooked by screaming children runs up 35-foot-high power pole
- Art Garfunkel gamely joins Black Simon & Garfunkel for a delightful cover of 'Can't Feel My Face'
- Donald Trump wants to know why refugees aren't 'fighting to save Syria'
- Afghan forces say they have taken back parts of Kunduz from the Taliban
- Jeb Bush and Ben Carson have two very different strategies for handling Hurricane Joaquin
- Hillary Clinton calls Kevin McCarthy's Benghazi comments 'deeply distressing'
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