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- November 30th
 - Paul Ryan is apparently the first House speaker to sport a beard since 1931
 - IMF names Chinese yuan elite world currency
 - Robert Dear charged with first-degree murder in Planned Parenthood shooting
 - Here's one reporter's behind-the-scenes dispatch from U.N. climate change talks
 - This is what it's like to work at Planned Parenthood
 - British lawmakers are pushing for a 20 percent tax on soft drinks
 - Japan is about to resume whaling in the Antarctic
 - Illinois is suing newly released prisoners for the cost of their room and board
 - Archaeologists find Shakespeare's kitchen
 - Ted Cruz called the Planned Parenthood shooter a 'transgendered leftist activist'
 - Jeb Bush's allies reportedly planned to smear Marco Rubio with an unsubstantiated sex scandal rumor
 - Dating apps blamed for rise of HIV in Asia
 - A high court just called Northern Ireland's abortion ban 'incompatible with human rights'
 - Scientists hope to turn ancient grape DNA into wines drunk by King David, Jesus
 - Pope Francis visits mosque in violence-torn Central African Republic
 - Tyson Fury stripped of his IBF title
 - More than 150 world leaders kick off Paris climate summit
 - Watch the Denver Broncos end the Patriots' perfect season with final overtime drive
 - Anonymous threatens Sam Pepper over 'best friend murder prank'
 - How did U.S. drug laws go so awry? Retro Report examines 40 years of heroin in America.
 - Which country is the worst carbon polluter? It's complicated. The Economist breaks it down.
 - Dozens of college students hurt when bus overturns in Virginia
 - After woman's brush with death, doctor warns about the danger of glittery hair ties
 - Apparent burglar dies in chimney after homeowner lights fire
 - EU and Turkey reach deal on stemming Europe-bound migration for cash, EU membership talks
 - U.S. official: ISIS defections on the rise
 - Families identify victims killed during Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting
 - University of Chicago cancels Monday classes after online threat
 - More shoppers made their purchases online than in stores over Black Friday weekend
 - Kobe Bryant to retire at end of NBA season
 
- November 29th
 - Chris Christie just landed a major endorsement from a New Hampshire newspaper
 - This town demolished a Navy veteran's house while he was away recovering from surgery
 - These new photos of Princess Charlotte are ridiculously adorable
 - Police detain 100 demonstrators in Paris, break up environmental protest with tear gas
 - Cleveland prosecutor releases enhanced images chronicling police shooting of Tamir Rice
 - After meeting Syrian refugees, Ben Carson still doesn't want the U.S. to take them in
 - Planned Parenthood is vowing to reopen its Colorado Springs clinic soon
 
- November 28th
 - Researchers are now 90 percent sure King Tut's tomb has a hidden chamber
 - Suspected Planned Parenthood gunman Robert Dear was reportedly known to South Carolina authorities
 - The NSA is set to stop collecting phone records in bulk Sunday
 - The officer killed in the Planned Parenthood shooting was a champion figure skater
 
- November 27th
 - Only in America: Columbia student claims to be traumatized from the university's white-centric curriculum
 - Ben Carson hopes Jordan visit will repair damaged foreign policy credentials
 - For those who have everything: Robotic pets for seniors
 - This is how Black Friday got its name
 - Only in America: Arabic-speaking men forced by fellow plane passengers to display contents of carry-on
 - Chicago police-shooting protests move to retail district to disrupt Black Friday shopping
 - Some major party presidential candidates may not get on the ballot in all 50 states
 - 1 in 3 new prison admissions are drug offenders, study finds
 - Turkey violated Greek airspace more than 2,000 times last year
 - Roborace: First design for driverless racing car revealed
 - US spacecraft debris washes up on Cornwall beach
 - Why 2015 has been a blockbuster year for cinema
 - Russia prepares to sever economic ties with Turkey, agrees to join the West's fight in Syria
 - Best properties: houses with fishing rights
 - Czech software pirate sentenced to make anti-piracy film
 - Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2015 UK: the best Apple deals and tech discounts
 
- November 26th
 - Here's what's on the Thanksgiving menu at the White House
 - The 89th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, in photos
 - The national Thanksgiving turkeys stay in a hotel suite worth more than $350 per night
 - China plans world's biggest 'animal cloning factory'
 - The Washington Redskins sent out a perfectly oblivious Thanksgiving tweet
 - Gmail mistakenly flags Bernie Sanders' health care and college plan as a potential phishing scam
 - Mercedes A45 AMG: special edition celebrates F1 championship
 - US army cadets at West Point banned from pillow fights
 - Top albums of 2015: seven essentials for the music lover
 - Chicago braced for more protests over Laquan McDonald video
 - Syria 'planning a new chemical attack', US claims
 
- November 25th
 - Report: 2015 already the hottest year on record
 - U.S. airstrike on Doctors Without Borders hospital blamed on 'human error'
 - How to make the White House's favorite pies
 - Everyone is going to Florida for Thanksgiving this year
 - Captain America 'not Captain America anymore’: What next?
 - Autumn Statement 2015: McDonnell offers advice to 'comrade Osborne'
 - John Kasich's campaign is using old yearbooks to identify potential social influencers
 - This is what happens when a balloon goes out of control at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
 - The best movies to watch this Thanksgiving weekend
 - The United Arab Emirates hired hundreds of Colombian mercenaries to fight in Yemen
 - Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards 2015 - the winners
 - Golden State Warriors set NBA record with 16-0 regular season start
 - Heroes of 2015
 - Russia says second pilot from downed plane 'alive and well' at Russian base
 - 'Geordie Angels' thanked for defending Muslim sisters
 - Stephen Colbert questions the predictive powers of 'NostraDonald' Trump
 - Krysten Ritter's mom binge-watched Jessica Jones last weekend
 - Things get pretty dicey for the Avengers in first trailer for Captain America: Civil War
 - The U.S. bombs ISIS nonstop, but not nearly as often as it bombed the Nazis, BBC News demonstrates
 - Outgoing Kentucky governor grants voting rights to 140,000 felons
 - Donald Trump says he can 'predict' terrorism
 - Adele sings 'Hello' with Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, a toy phone, and classroom instruments
 - Veteran soap star David Canary dies at 77
 - Newborn baby discovered in New York church nativity scene
 - Video released showing officer-involved shooting of black teen in Chicago
 
- November 24th
 - Costco chicken salad linked to E. coli infections in 7 states
 - State of emergency declared in Tunisia following deadly explosion on bus
 - Police arrest 2 suspects in shooting near Black Lives Matter protest
 - The Civil War monument on Donald Trump's Lowes Island golf course commemorates a battle that's likely fictional
 - How Americans think about Muslims mostly comes from the headlines they read
 - President Obama calls for unity in fight against ISIS
 - Liberia just had its first Ebola death since July
 - Thanksgiving travelers can expect bomb-sniffing dogs at TSA checkpoints
 - Bernie Sanders has the highest approval rating of any U.S. senator
 - It took people four days to report a truck full of explosives in Homeland Security test
 - How Russia could quietly retaliate against Turkey
 - Tesla recalls 90,000 cars following seatbelt fault
 - Ted Koppel says we're worried about the wrong ISIS threat
 - Tatler Tory scandal: Bullying report branded a 'whitewash'
 - Canada is taking in 25,000 Syrian refugees before 2016, and all 10 provinces are on board
 - Turkey shoots down Russian fighter jet near border with Syria
 - Seven in eight child sex abuse cases undetected, claims study
 - Jimmy Kimmel gets Han Solo and a suicidal Chewbacca to bury the fictional hatchet
 - James Taylor shows off his French, respects for Paris victims, in performance of 'La Marseillaise'
 - After 5 protesters shot, Jamar Clark's family urges end to Minneapolis Black Lives Matter sit-in
 - Watch Adele try her best to deceive Jimmy Fallon during 'Box of Lies'
 - Sarah Palin and Seth Meyers show America how to have a polite, rational argument over Syrian refugees
 - Drama surrounds the crowning of Zimbabwe's Mister Ugly
 - Watch Adele perform new song 'Water Under the Bridge' on The Tonight Show
 - Scientists create malaria-resistant mosquitoes
 - Thousands of migrants in limbo as Macedonia turns them away
 - U.S. State Department issues worldwide travel alert for all Americans abroad
 
- November 23rd
 - Officials investigating explosive belt found in Paris suburb
 - Maine wants to stop people from buying candy and soda with food stamps
 - Ahmed Mohamed's family is asking Texas officials for $15 million and an apology for clock arrest
 - Scientists are predicting Mars might someday get a ring around it
 - Anti-Muslim hate crimes rise 300 percent in Britain after the Paris attacks
 - Planned Parenthood is suing Texas over Medicaid funding cuts
 - Belgium charges 1 detained in anti-terror sweep, releases 15 others
 - Since the terrorist attacks, Parisians have been buying up Ernest Hemingway's memoir about the city
 - The drinking habits of American women and men are converging, study shows
 - Why Belgians have been flooding Twitter with cat pictures during the Brussels lockdown
 - Did HBO just reveal the fate of Game of Thrones' Jon Snow?
 - Carson mis-cites Thomas Jefferson as an author of the Constitution
 - More Washington, D.C. residents support statehood than ever before
 - The next Coldplay album samples President Obama
 - Ebola crisis: WHO response criticised in damning report
 - Ben Carson's ex-colleagues aren't entirely sold on a Carson presidency
 - Health experts call out WHO's 'delayed' response to Ebola epidemic
 - Crimea plunged into darkness after electricity towers blown up
 - This is Marco Rubio's first TV ad: 'What happened in Paris could happen here'
 - One Direction, Taylor Swift win big at 2015 American Music Awards
 - Prince Charles: climate change 'major reason' for war in Syria
 - The San Diego Zoo had to euthanize one of the world's last four Northern White Rhinos
 - Britiain's David Cameron is asking Parliament to approve anti-ISIS airstrikes in Syria
 - Did Freemasons 'whitewash' Titanic inquiry?
 - John Oliver makes the complete, unvarnished case for accepting Syrian refugees
 - John Oliver makes a pretty persuasive case for killing the penny
 - Watch Celine Dion honor Paris, bring AMA audience to tears, with Edith Piaf song
 - Belgium arrests 16, but not fugitive Paris suspect, in anti-terrorism sweep
 - Conservative defeats Kirchner Peronists in Argentina presidential race
 
- November 22nd
 - Liberia is trying to control a new Ebola outbreak
 - Marco Rubio supports the House's fight to limit U.S. Syrian refugee intake
 - This SNL sketch proves Adele has the power to save your family's awkward Thanksgiving dinner
 - Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian reportedly sentenced to prison in Iran
 - Demonstrators are camped outside a Minneapolis police station to protest the shooting of Jamar Clark
 
- November 21st
 - Adele went undercover to stun a group of her impersonators
 - Freddie Gray's youth football coach remembers him as a 'little comedian'
 - Former South Korean President Kim Young-sam dies at 87
 - 2 Duggars from 19 Kids and Counting are returning to TLC
 - SpaceX will get to transport astronauts to the space station
 - Here's how Donald Trump and Ben Carson are trying to clarify their Syrian refugee stances
 - U.N. unanimously resolves to fight ISIS
 - Brussels closes public spaces, mass transit under high alert for terrorist attack
 
- November 20th
 - Only in America: Homeowners association orders man to remove Christmas decorations from front lawn
 - Men's tactic for impressing the ladies: Eating 93 percent more pizza in their presence
 - For those who have everything: Whiskey Advent calendar
 - These 681,713 dots put the real magnitude of the Syrian refugee crisis in perspective
 - Only in America: 'Pastafarian' woman wins right to don spaghetti colander on head in license photo
 - George Lucas says Disney tossed his ideas for Star Wars: The Force Awakens: It was like 'breaking up with somebody'
 - Bobby Jindal didn't get to the White House, but he's probably going to get his kids a dog anyway
 - Pope Francis: Christmas extravagance is a 'charade' in the face of war
 - ObamaCare hasn't made Americans any happier with their health care, poll shows
 - Cold Feet returns: What has changed since 2003?
 - Calls for reform after trans woman found dead in male prison
 - Adele attributes her huge success to Sarah Palin
 - Ted Cruz's campaign now has a 'prayer team'
 - What will Sky Sports ruling mean for you?
 - CNN correspondent suspended for voicing support for Syrian refugees
 - Aziz Ansari reprises his Bobby Jindal act to tell Jimmy Fallon why he quit presidential race
 - French police find third body in apartment where Paris attack ringleader died
 - Facebook: how will 'break-up' tool for jilted lovers work?
 - Israel announces, welcomes Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard's release from U.S. prison
 - Mali attack: troops storm hotel after up to 27 deaths
 - One Direction says they might travel on their yearlong break, but not in disguise
 - Stephen Colbert cleverly points out the obvious Christian flaws in the GOP's opposition to Syrian refugees
 - France tracked down Paris attack ringleader through carelessly discarded cellphone
 - Jennifer Lawrence is on a cheerful spill-your-mortifying-secrets tour
 - Convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard will be released from prison Friday
 
- November 19th
 - Facebook will now offer to hide you from your ex
 - Adele's newest album won't be on Apple Music, Spotify, or any other streaming services
 - Humans may have rescued pumpkins from extinction
 - The country's biggest insurer might bail on ObamaCare
 - For the first time ever, the FDA has approved eating a genetically modified animal: A fast-growing salmon
 - Nearly every U.S. state is riddled with corruption
 - Why is International Men's Day so controversial?
 - Best properties: properties that have been reduced in price
 - Watch America's top general assess ISIS's strengths and weaknesses
 - Yvonne Fletcher: man arrested over PC's murder 31 years on
 - Farmer discovers massive hoard of Roman coins in his cherry orchard
 - Belgian police conduct 7 raids tied to Paris attacker, arrest 1 person
 - Which are the world's best and worst countries for girls?
 - GCHQ to recruit 'hipster spies' via graffiti campaign
 - French prime minister warns of ISIS chemical weapons as parliament debates emergency powers
 - Northern Ireland: Peter Robinson to stand down as First Minister
 - Only part of Carly Simon's 'You're So Vain' is about Warren Beatty
 - Jimmy Kimmel gets adorable kids to say what they're grateful for this Thanksgiving
 - Kayleigh Haywood 'died from head and facial injuries'
 - James Taylor and Stephen Colbert sing 'Fire and Rain,' plus everything Taylor has seen since 1970
 - Stephen Colbert bids a chipper Hunger Games farewell to Bobby Jindal
 - Change to Census questionnaire could make 'white' Americans a minority faster
 - Hello Kitty is opening up her very own pop-up cafe in Southern California
 - French prosecutor: It will take 'longer than expected' to determine who died in St. Denis raid
 - Virginia mayor holds up WWII Japanese interment camps as rationale to shut out Syrian refugees
 - An Egyptian billionaire wants to buy Greek islands to house refugees
 - Tributes pour in for Diesel, the French police dog killed in St. Denis
 - Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adam Johnson win National Book Awards
 - Syrian refugee family settles in Connecticut after being denied entry in Indiana
 - Experts say the ISIS soda can bomb wouldn't be too hard to make
 - The attacks in Paris likely cost under $10,000
 - NYPD says there is no 'current or specific' terrorist threat to the city
 
- November 18th
 - Yellowstone National Park proposes killing 1,000 bison this winter
 - Boko Haram killed more people than ISIS did last year
 - Lindsey Graham shuts down John Kasich's plan to promote 'Judeo-Christian values' in the Middle East: 'I think that was the Crusades'
 - Tinder CEO says he likes smart girls — but proves he doesn't know what 'sodomy' means in cringeworthy interview
 - Ben Carson's campaign made a map of America. 5 states are in the wrong place.
 - West Virginia's female incarceration rate is 55 times greater than Ireland's
 - Bobby Jindal's campaign staff blame the 'bizarre race' for their candidate's failure
 - Pope Francis says the Catholic church 'must not surrender' to terrorism, will keep churches unlocked
 - Bernie Sanders is really into 'disco music,' ABBA, and Celine Dion
 - Bad Sex in Fiction Awards: who are the contenders?
 - Read the first ever Calvin and Hobbes comic, published 30 years ago today
 - How NFL quarterbacks learn dozens of new plays every single week
 - 10 healthiest places in England – and the 10 unhealthiest
 - Charlie Hebdo releases its first issue since the Paris attacks: 'They have weapons. Screw them, we have champagne!'
 - Reckless drunks 'share genetic mutation'
 - French President François Hollande says France will accept 30,000 refugees, not tolerate racism
 - Islamic State: Anonymous declares 'Troll Isis Day'
 - French anti-terrorism raid north of Paris ends with at least 2 dead, 7 arrests
 - Two Air France flights diverted after bomb threats
 - Harry Connick Jr. met Frank Sinatra, and Sinatra won
 - Stephen Colbert has advice for the panicking GOP establishment: Embrace President Trump
 - Police: 2 suspects in Paris attacks killed during raid
 - Report: Paris attacks mastermind target of St. Denis raid
 - Seth Meyers hosts his own Late Night GOP debate, starring real candidates, clever editing
 - Daniel Craig is the deadliest, least-sexed James Bond in franchise history
 - Police officers injured during operation in Paris suburb
 - Air France planes land safely in Salt Lake City, Halifax after bomb threats
 - Hollande says France will give historical artifacts 'asylum' from ISIS
 - Bomb blast kills at least 32 people in Nigerian market
 
- November 17th
 - Watch the star-studded trailer for Bill Murray's Netflix Christmas special
 - Ben Carson just got slammed by his own adviser on foreign policy
 - Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are teaming up to host SNL in December
 - CNN anchors demand that the Muslim community not 'shirk' responsibility for Paris attacks
 - Staff at the Eiffel Tower demand better security, walk out in protest
 - Trump and Huckabee cite the cold Minnesota winters as a reason Syrian refugees shouldn't come to the U.S.
 - Donald Trump posts sensationalist ad slamming Syrian refugees
 - Police have already killed 1,000 Americans this year
 - David Vitter invokes Paris terrorist attacks in brutal anti-refugee campaign ad
 - Nigerian mathematician claims to have solved 156-year-old riddle
 - The last time Democrats performed this poorly in gubernatorial races, World War I hadn't happened yet
 - Watch Adele debut her new song, 'When We Were Young,' in a stirring live performance
 - Ireland just celebrated its first gay marriage
 - Western forces reportedly tried, failed, to kill suspected Paris attack mastermind in Syria
 - 'Fit for work' tests linked to higher suicide rates
 - History repeats itself? Before World War II, most Americans didn't want to accept Jewish refugees
 - Charlie Sheen learned of his HIV diagnosis four years ago
 - Archaeologists discover a lost Greek city in the Aegean Sea
 - Charlie Sheen says he is HIV-positive
 - France invokes never-used EU clause to demand support for ISIS battle
 - UK weather: selfies warning issued ahead of Storm Barney
 - Firefighter has most extensive facial transplant in the world
 - Islamic State 'plotting cyber attacks on British hospitals'
 - Daniel Craig tries ordering a bunch of frilly James Bond drinks for Jimmy Kimmel
 - Col. Jack Jacobs explains to Stephen Colbert why the U.S. isn't destroying ISIS
 - Watch Stephen Colbert's lovely, wry tribute to Paris on The Late Show
 - 6 killed, including child, in mysterious Texas campsite murder
 - French jets bomb ISIS stronghold of Raqqa again
 - Israel's security cabinet outlaws Islamic Movement's northern branch
 - U.S. governors can't really stop Syrian refugees from resettling in their states
 - AMA wants more warnings about pot use in pregnant, breast-feeding women
 - Scientists estimate the Earth's crust is storing 6 quintillion gallons of water
 - After suffering severe burns, firefighter receives new face and scalp in historic transplant
 - Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom
 - There is a 24/7 'jihadi help desk' for ISIS fighters
 
- November 16th
 - Christopher Nolan's Memento is already getting a remake
 - Here's what the U.S. process for vetting Syrian refugees actually looks like
 - Archaeologists uncover gorgeous 1,700-year-old courtyard mosaic in Israel
 - Russia reportedly thwarted a terrorist attack right before the 2014 Sochi Olympics
 - Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year 2015 isn't even a word — it's an emoji
 - GOP lawmakers might try to threaten a government shutdown over the Syria refugee debate
 - This Twitter account is honoring every Paris victim with a short biography and photo
 - At least 19 governors are trying to block Syrian refugees from entering their states
 - Obama: Pushback against ISIS extremism must 'come from within' Muslim community
 - Microsoft finally called it quits on its Zune music service
 - Paris suicide bomber didn't want to kill anyone, family claims
 - John Oliver's cathartic, profanity-strewn response to the Paris attacks is decidedly NSFW
 - CNN's Fareed Zakaria nails the awful truth of the Paris attacks and the only effective response
 - Paris attacks: names and stories of the victims begin to emerge
 - France identifies suspected Paris attacks mastermind, 2 more attackers
 - U.S. bombs ISIS oil trucks, looking to strangle revenue
 - John Oliver explains why daily fantasy sports is gambling, and why that matters
 - 'Absolutely rare' tornado tears through California town
 - What the Paris attack has taught us about ISIS
 - Report: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to visit North Korea
 - 9 arrested in Lebanon over deadly Beirut bombings
 - Anti-terror raids conducted across France
 - Syrian refugees cannot settle in Alabama, governor says
 - Holly Holm stuns Ronda Rousey with knockout, upset victory in UFC title fight
 - Report: FBI to increase wiretaps of suspected ISIS supporters
 - In the recaptured city of Sinjar, residents say destruction by ISIS 'can't be reversed'
 - United Arab Emirates accepts 5 Yemeni prisoners released from Guantanamo
 - French authorities: As many as 20 people may have planned the Paris attacks
 
- November 15th
 - France bombs ISIS-held city of Raqqa, Syria
 - The White House won't drastically change its ISIS strategy after the Paris attacks
 - Police release name, photo of 8th suspect in Paris attacks
 - Here's why Facebook activated its Safety Check for Paris but not Beirut
 - SNL opened its show with this touching tribute to Paris
 - Black Americans experience more nonlethal force from police than white Americans, DOJ report shows
 - U.S. airstrike thought to have killed ISIS leader in Libya
 - Investigators identify 2 suspects in Paris attacks
 - Clinton pounces on Sanders after Wall Street criticism: His comments 'impugn my integrity'
 - Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley want a $15 minimum wage. Hillary Clinton suggests $12.
 - Martin O'Malley earns thunderous applause by calling Donald Trump an 'immigrant-bashing carnival barker'
 - Bernie Sanders at Dem debate: End the 'embarrassment' of the American health care system
 - Bernie Sanders still believes climate change is the greatest threat to national security, links it to the growth of terrorism
 - Bernie Sanders rips Hillary Clinton on Iraq war: 'One of the worst foreign policy blunders in the history of the United States'
 - At Dem debate, Hillary Clinton distances herself from Obama on ISIS: 'It cannot be contained, it must be defeated'
 - Democrats counter Republicans in WiFi war by setting no password at their debate: We are 'a party of inclusion'
 
- November 14th
 - At least 1 suicide bomber was reportedly barred from entering the Paris soccer stadium
 - Syria talks move toward creating transitional government
 - These striking photos show world landmarks lit up in solidarity with France after attacks
 - Pope Francis: 'No justification' for Paris attacks
 - UK Prime Minister David Cameron to France: 'Your fight is our fight'
 - French President François Hollande calls attacks 'act of war' by ISIS, group later claims responsibility
 - US warns of Europe Christmas terror
 - Eagles of Death Metal, band who played concert hall during Paris attack, releases statement
 
- November 13th
 - Hostage situation at Paris concert hall reportedly over, at least 2 attackers dead
 - French police confirm at least two explosions were suicide attacks
 - French President Hollande declares a state of emergency, closes borders
 - Witness on Bataclan concert hall hostage situation: They're slaughtering us 'one by one'
 - UK Prime Minister David Cameron pledges support to Paris: 'We will do whatever we can to help'
 - Videos emerge depicting chaotic aftermath of Paris attacks
 - For those who have everything: Motorized roller skates
 - Supreme Court takes up first case on abortion in nearly a decade
 - Iowa's Democratic debate will air right in the middle of a major Iowa football game — and some think that decision was on purpose
 - Only in America: Ohio boy suspended for pretending to fire an imaginary bow and arrow
 - Donald Trump celebrates Friday the 13th by attacking Ben Carson in a brilliantly brutal horror-themed ad
 - Embattled daily fantasy sports site DraftKings is suing New York now
 - Federal employees must now be extra careful about what they tweet at work
 - Ex-CIA director, staff condemn Bush White House for failing to stop 9/11
 - General says U.S. could be condemned to fight ISIS 'forever'
 - Even the FEC chair knows her agency is about as useful as men's nipples
 - Watch Ted Cruz get really into acting out a scene from his all-time favorite movie The Princess Bride
 - Black Lives Matter might get a big cash injection from liberal mega-donors
 - Top 20 funniest screenplays ever written
 - Gayle Newland jailed for eight years in sex deceit case
 - Mr Ugly – the world's weirdest beauty pageant
 - UK weather: Storm Abigail brings 90mph wind warnings
 - Islamic State claims twin Beirut blasts that killed dozens
 - Best properties: interesting conversions
 - Police officers expecting to discover art thieves actually find a bunch of raccoons
 - A controversial $90 million Noah's Ark replica is being built in Kentucky
 - Watch Bei Bei the panda take his first, very wobbly steps
 - After alleged misconduct, Defense Secretary Ash Carter removes top aide
 - Surgeons preparing to perform the first uterus transplant in the U.S.
 
- November 12th
 - Report: Beirut bombing suspect says he was sent by ISIS
 - A judge just dismissed a copyright case against Taylor Swift — using her lyrics
 - Torture, forced confessions and abuse still 'rampant' in China
 - GOP voters really dislike the GOP-controlled Congress
 - Missouri police arrest a second suspect in connection to online threats
 - Amnesty International is already pushing to ban killer robots
 - Ex-Obama cabinet member says Obama never truly tried to be bipartisan
 - Apple forced to apologise after black teens kicked out of shop
 - Allergies are serious business. Don't lie to your waiter about your gluten, food tolerance.
 - A rare blue diamond sold for a record-breaking $48.5 million. A Hong Kong billionaire is giving it to his 7-year-old.
 - Archaeologists discover an imposing Roman gladiator colosseum in Tuscany
 - GJ 1132b – what do we know about Earth-like planet?
 - Is it time to forgive bankers?
 - Record-breaking 'Blue Moon' diamond bought for 7-year-old
 - Jeb Bush's last best hope: Copy John Kerry?
 - Stephen Colbert has a great faith-based solution to Starbucks' War-on-Christmas conundrum
 - Jimmy Kimmel livens up Tuesday's GOP debate by setting it to a vintage cartoon
 - U.S. arrests Venezuelan president's nephews on cocaine-smuggling charges
 - The Daily Show finds adorably creative ways to fact-check Tuesday's GOP debate
 - Bloomingdale's apologizes for 'inappropriate' copy in holiday catalog
 - Seth Meyers watched Tuesday's GOP debate so you didn't have to
 - Kurds launch offensive to retake Iraqi town of Sinjar from ISIS
 - U.S. reportedly relied on resentful Afghan commanders in Kunduz hospital bombing
 - Researchers say there may be a hidden tomb within the Great Pyramid of Giza
 - At Joe's Crab Shack, tipping could soon be a thing of the past
 - University of Missouri rejects resignation of professor who urged students to come to class despite threats
 
- November 11th
 - Netanyahu speaks out against EU decision to label Israeli settlement goods
 - Donald Trump tells a space-loving 10-year-old to forget NASA — we need to fix potholes
 - University of Missouri police arrest suspect behind online threats
 - Watch SNL send in 'Scalp Team 6' to shield Donald Trump's hair from wind in this unaired sketch
 - Does anyone even know Rick Santorum is running for president?
 - Tuesday's GOP debate was the least watched yet
 - Aziz Ansari gets frank about TV's diversity problem while needling CBS on Colbert's Late Show
 - The Daily Show's Trevor Noah starts Change.org 'Free Jeb' petition to save Jeb Bush from his campaign
 - Bad news for Bernie: Americans will vote for many types of people, but not socialists
 - Channel 4 part-privatisation still in the frame
 - A joke holiday in China just shattered the record for the world's biggest online shopping day ever
 - Sorry, Marco Rubio: Philosophy majors actually earn way more than welders
 - Man who wrote 'the most famous drum sample of all time' finally gets paid for it
 - Carly Fiorina keeps changing her story about meeting Vladimir Putin
 - Utah's Department of Transportation reminds drivers to stay safe with punny signs
 - FBI arrests suspected white supremacists in Virginia for allegedly plotting a 'race war'
 - In Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi officially wins her seat in Parliament
 - During debate, GOP candidates talked about foreign policy for 18 minutes, the economy for 4
 - Marco Rubio wants 'more welders and less philosophers'
 
- November 10th
 - Jimmy Carter's doctors say he shows no signs of new cancer
 - Everyone in the media has to type 'StopHillary' to get WiFi at tonight's GOP debate
 - Congress passes a ban on moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to the U.S.
 - Bernie Sanders had his own cable access show in the 1980s — and it's totally mesmerizing
 - New Orleans R&B pioneer Allen Toussaint dies at 77
 - Jeb Bush narrates Marco Rubio's latest ad
 - There's now a way to search all the pictures 2016 candidates have posted of their dogs
 - Study: Federal agencies don't check whether their new regulations are even working
 - The Senate is taking more than 5 months off in 2016
 - At least 50 members of Congress sleep in their offices rather than rent out homes in D.C.
 - Is SeaWorld really putting an end to its killer whale shows?
 - UK weather: Storm to batter Britain this weekend
 - Stephen Colbert previews Tuesday's GOP debate, focusing on Ben Carson
 - Details are emerging about police killing of Louisiana 6-year-old, and they are very disturbing
 - Seth Meyers weighs who is being sillier about Ben Carson's past: Carson or the media
 - Watch Sen. Claire McCaskill take a strong, politically questionable stand against mansplaining
 - Modigliani's 'Nu Couché' sells at auction for an incredible $170.4 million
 - Bears are taking over one tiny California town
 - NHTSA head wants seat belts on all school buses
 
- November 9th
 - Hundreds of Yale students block traffic protesting 'white girls only' frat party
 - Jeb Bush would enthusiastically kill baby Hitler
 - President Obama only just joined Facebook
 - San Diego SeaWorld is phasing out its 'Shamu shows' amid controversy
 - Conservative think tank slams 2016 field in scorecard — but leaves Ted Cruz practically unscathed
 - National Grid: will Tories nationalise the energy system operator?
 - Mike Huckabee just wants to clarify that he's 'never stabbed anybody'
 - Fox Business swears its debate will be the opposite of CNBC's: 'It's not Access Hollywood'
 - Jordan: policeman shoots dead US officers and a South African
 - Archaeologists uncover massive Greek city abandoned in ancient massacre
 - Catalonia to push for secession from Spain
 - Equal pay day: women will now work for free until end of year
 - SNL ridiculed the Democrats' non-debate, but mostly let Larry David channel Bernie Sanders
 - Aung San Suu Kyi picks aide to become president of Myanmar
 - Airport security: how Sinai crash will affect air travel
 - Stephen Colbert presses John Kasich pretty hard on marijuana prohibition
 - John Oliver explains how hard it is to leave prison in America, provides happy ending
 - New Taliban faction says it wants to start peace talks, believes women deserve rights
 - 'Major disturbance' at Australian detention center following death of refugee
 - In Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD party says it has won 70 percent of votes
 - 'Sinkhole' in Mississippi IHOP parking lot swallows at least 12 cars
 
- November 8th
 - Some Starbucks customers are offended by their plain red holiday cups
 - Watch Donald Trump ace Drake's dancing in this 'Hotline Bling' spoof
 - Sierra Leone is officially Ebola-free
 - Black Missouri football players are refusing to play until their president resigns
 - Pope Francis vows to move forward after Vatican leak
 
- November 7th
 - The presidents of China and Taiwan just met to improve relations
 - Lin-Manuel Miranda freestyled Jimmy Fallon’s epic voicemail message
 - Ben Carson may have lied about being 'the most honest student' in a Yale class
 - Kobe Bryant said he'll never play for another NBA team
 - Egypt calls out West over Russian plane intelligence
 - A judge just granted Serial's Adnan Syed a new hearing
 - Kentucky's next governor vows to remove clerk names from marriage licenses
 
- November 6th
 - This brutal attack ad crushes David Vitter for choosing 'prostitutes over patriots'
 - Only in America: Louisiana public school insists on its legal right to advocate Christianity
 - Scott Walker is still taking donations — to pay off his campaign debt
 - For those who have everything: Personalized thumbprint rug
 - This illegal pot farm was powered by the most insanely dangerous electric setup you've ever seen
 - Only in America: African-American man applies for political asylum in Canada citing police racism
 - Ben Carson's campaign calls Politico's West Point story 'an outright lie'
 - What it's like to be a man named Taylor Swift
 - Daily Show host Trevor Noah skewers the American health care system after his emergency appendectomy
 - A terminally ill cancer patient didn't think he'd live to see the new Star Wars movie — so Disney let him see it early
 - Jeb Bush describes the massage and martini-fueled life of George H.W. Bush, 91
 - This Donald Trump satire is a big hit in Mexico
 - Rumsfeld hits back at Bush Snr with senility claim
 - Chile admits that Pablo Neruda was probably murdered
 - The U.S. economy created 271,000 jobs in October
 - Archaeologists discover an ancient Chinese tomb filled with riches — and maybe even an emperor
 - Ben Carson made up his tales of youthful violence, CNN suggests
 - South Korea is literally building a monument to 'Gangnam Style'
 - Hoods off: Anonymous finally unveils Ku Klux Klan list
 - A small cluster of villages in Guinea is the last known place on Earth with Ebola
 - Lewes Bonfire Night – pictures
 - Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump, Republicans like her when she's not running for office
 - Bryan Cranston and Stephen Colbert swap deep questions, witty answers
 - Jimmy Kimmel asks Hillary Clinton: 'Do you feel at all sorry for Jeb Bush?'
 - NASA explains how and when Mars lost its atmosphere and bountiful water
 - Seth Meyers explains Ohio's anti-pot vote, how Nick Lachey almost became the boy-band Walter White
 - At least 15 people believed dead after dam bursts in Brazil
 - Jimmy Fallon's latest fake soap opera co-stars a cross-dressing Martin Short and Steve Martin
 - Listen to this Trump impersonator share what it's like to play The Donald
 - Ira Glass brings his This American Life shtick to the Late Show announcer's booth
 - Batmobile creator George Barris dies at 89
 - Adidas says it will help U.S. high schools ditch 'potentially harmful' Native American mascots and monikers
 - Jeb Bush defends Cheney, Rumsfeld against his dad's slams
 
- November 5th
 - Jeb Bush puts email trolls in their place by seriously answering their questions
 - A Republican senator had the best response to the question of whether he'd support Donald Trump
 - Ben Carson wants to drink orange juice with Jesus
 - Watch Aziz Ansari pretend to be Bobby Jindal
 - Jeb Bush just gave an incredibly emotional, honest interview about his daughter's drug addiction
 - Tarantino defends police remarks: 'I was under the impression...I had First Amendment rights'
 - What maketh a lady? Country Life has the (long) list
 - Doctors Without Borders called U.S. in distress during hospital bombing, was told 'I'm sorry to hear that'
 - Egypt and Russia deny that a bomb downed Metrojet plane
 - The Pentagon has paid sports teams millions to publicly honor soldiers
 - Ben Carson insists a biblical figure built the pyramids of Egypt to store grain
 - Speed camera boost could help fund struggling police
 - Trans-Pacific Partnership details finally released to the public
 - Million Mask March: Three police officers hospitalised following yesterday's protest
 - Justin Timberlake crashes Country Music Awards, steals the show with Chris Stapleton duet
 - Country music stars read mean tweets about themselves for Jimmy Kimmel
 - Stephen Colbert gives a confused, half-hearted Hunger Games sendoff to Lawrence Lessig
 - 20 years later, the cast of The Baby-Sitters Club reunites
 - Seth Meyers explains Houston's anti-LGBT vote, debunks the transgender 'bathroom myth'
 - Seattle's massive Gum Wall to receive a major scrub-down
 - NASA has released a stunning ultra-HD video of the sun, and it really is 'thermonuclear art'
 - El Niño-related storms helped Southern Californians breathe easier this summer
 - Attention, thieves: Don't ever try to steal a phone from Serena Williams
 - 6-year-old boy shot, killed in Louisiana during police pursuit
 - Factory collapse in Pakistan kills at least 18
 - E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison dies at 65
 - For the first time, Canada's cabinet has an equal number of men and women
 
- November 4th
 - Supreme Court ruling could lead to marijuana legalization in Mexico
 - Donald Trump can't even get through this SNL promo without trashing Ben Carson
 - U.S. official: Russian plane crash likely caused by ISIS-planted bomb
 - Daily Show episode canceled as Trevor Noah gets emergency surgery
 - NASA just announced it's hiring astronauts for Mars missions. Here's how to apply.
 - Police: Illinois officer staged suicide to cover up embezzlement
 - Jeb Bush just told a bunch of kids how his dad sent him 'into a deep, spiraling depression for days'
 - Romanian PM Victor Ponta quits after mass protest over fire
 - Watch Megyn Kelly expertly dissect Ted Cruz's debate criteria — to his face
 - Police officer handcuffs boy, 7, with ADHD
 - Vice Media is now worth more than The New York Times and Oprah Winfrey
 - Florida middle schooler gets detention for a hug
 - Afghan woman stoned to death for trying to flee forced marriage
 - Kentucky just elected its first African-American to statewide office
 - Here's your first look at the Harry Potter prequel movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
 - Should there be affordability checks for credit cards?
 - Coywolf: what is the new coyote-wolf hybrid?
 - HMRC giving taxpayers 'worst of both worlds', say MPs
 - Finish what you started in Libya, President Sisi tells Cameron
 - What is Lewy body dementia? Robin Williams's secret disease
 - Jeb Bush is now polling at 4 percent
 - In Afghanistan, imams are risking their lives to preach birth control in mosques
 - Archaeologists uncover an ancient Mayan village buried under 17 feet of volcanic ash
 - Benzema arrested over sex-tape blackmail – what is it all about?
 - Bill O'Reilly lists his own demands for the GOP debates, starting with 'stop complaining'
 - The Daily Show laughs at the Republican efforts to 'baby-proof' the debates and the election
 - Cargo plane crash in South Sudan kills at least 41, including children
 - Stephen Colbert explains what to do when the Russians nuke your internet
 - Seth Meyers looks at GOP debate demands, suggests trapdoor
 - New data shows China burns a lot more coal than reported
 - Report: Illinois police officer whose shooting death sparked huge manhunt killed himself
 - Donald Trump to run his first TV ads in key markets this week
 - Jimmy Fallon, Alanis Morissette, Meghan Trainor form a supergroup to cluck '90s hit 'Ironic'
 - Leaders of Taiwan, China to meet for first time in 66 years
 - Ohio voters reject amendment to legalize marijuana
 
- November 3rd
 - The 100-pound Mastiff that helped Derek Jeter tackle his lifelong fear of dogs
 - World's largest cat painting sells to mystery buyer for $826,000
 - Takata faces up to $200 million in fines for faulty airbags
 - Robin Williams' widow says dementia, not depression, led actor to take his life: He 'was very aware that he was losing his mind'
 - Jon Stewart announces return to current events coverage — on HBO
 - Even undercard debater Bobby Jindal is polling better than Jeb Bush in Iowa
 - Investigatory Powers Bill: why is Snooper's Charter so contentious?
 - Adele on her latest album: 'I can't write a f---ing heartbreak record again'
 - Not even calorie counts on menus can change New Yorkers' eating habits
 - New House Speaker Paul Ryan is trying to 'detoxify' John Boehner's smelly old office
 - Ireland plans to decriminalise small amounts of heroin and cocaine
 - Four Seasons closes homes as losses widen
 - Amazon's new brick-and-mortar bookstore still uses data to target you
 - Study finds sharp drop in Americans who are 'absolutely certain' God exists
 - Naturalist Sir David Attenborough narrates Adele's return to the hunt
 - Rand Paul awkwardly eats soul food with Larry Wilmore, finally jabs at Donald Trump
 - Ahmad Chalabi, key Iraqi promoter of 2003 Iraq invasion, is dead from heart attack
 - Tory police commissioners threaten Home Office with legal action
 - Allison Janney and Stephen Colbert get hot and bothered acting out 1978 Foreigner love song
 - Kurt Cobain's Unplugged sweater, lock of hair to be auctioned off
 - Mississippi man charged with bombing Walmart to protest Confederate flag ban
 - Activision Blizzard to acquire Candy Crush maker King for $5.9 billion
 - 'MEDPIMP,' 'HPYHOKR' among the latest 'vulgar' personalized license plates rejected by California
 - What happens when parents tell kids they ate their Halloween candy? Jimmy Kimmel gleefully curates the heartache.
 - Study: Melting ice in west Antarctica could raise seas by 10 feet
 - Hillary Clinton meets with mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown
 - U.S. official says satellite shows heat flash when Russian Metrojet plane crashed in Sinai
 - TransCanada asks U.S. to suspend Keystone XL Pipeline permit
 
- November 2nd
 - New Star Trek TV series to premiere in January 2017
 - Glenn Beck really wants to host the GOP debate meant for NBC
 - Donald Trump reportedly wants to bypass the GOP and negotiate debate terms with TV execs
 - The Pentagon spent $43 million to build a gas station in Afghanistan. It should have cost less than $500,000.
 - The totally depressing reason Keira Knightley is willing to take a pay cut
 - Politicians are not happy with a hacker claiming they're linked to the KKK
 - This Israeli politician wants to deport stray cats to a foreign country
 - The EPA just listed more car models allegedly linked to the Volkswagen emissions scandal
 - Longshot Democratic candidate Larry Lessig drops out: 'The party won't let me be a candidate'
 - Herman Cain has a plan to 'fix these God-awful debates'
 - There's officially been a human in space for 15 straight years
 - The one minority group that both political parties are having trouble courting
 - Thomas Cook records first profit for five years
 - Conflict of interest? Bill Clinton is on the board of the Commission on Presidential Debates.
 - South African police charged with murder after 'execution'
 - Australia drops knights and dames from honours system
 - Need for Speed to Star Wars: top video games for Christmas
 - Serial partners with Pandora for second season
 - Diehard Royals fan Paul Rudd got in on the team's boozy World Series celebration
 - Marco Rubio's former chief of staff endorses Jeb Bush for president
 - Tom Jones is getting a DNA test to find out if he's black
 - Barclays the big winner from £15bn Visa re-merger
 - Archaeologists discover a secret dwelling where ancient 'hobbits' may once have lived
 - Singapore tops list of world's healthiest countries – UK fails to make the top 20
 - Vodafone customers told to be 'vigilant' after data breach
 - AP takes a deep, dark look at rape and other sex crimes by U.S. police officers
 - Sinai plane crash: Egypt says 'no proof of terrorism'
 - John Oliver reminds you there's an election Tuesday, with Medicaid and thousand of lives at stake
 - Royals win 2015 World Series, beating Mets 4 games to 1
 - Former Sen. Fred Thompson, actor and politician, is dead at 73
 
- November 1st
 - Russian plane 'broke down in midair,' official says
 - Bernie Sanders' first TV ad highlights his personal history and governing experience
 - This runner was banned from juggling during the NYC Marathon
 - Al Sharpton calls for police reform at funeral for Florida man killed by officer
 - American Pharoah dominated his last race
 - Paul Ryan says he won't be 'dictator' of the House
 - Romanian president suggests 'ignorance of the rules' may have led to deadly fire
 
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