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May 2016
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- May 31st
- Poland reviving effort to extradite Roman Polanski to the U.S.
- This Hong Kong businessman says filing lawsuits is 'just like having lunch' for Donald Trump
- Bomb-sniffing dogs can now find bombs before they are even bombs
- Archaeologists discover Stonehenge was surprisingly easy to build
- Supreme Court will not accept case arguing that the death penalty is 'cruel and unusual punishment'
- Vegan cafe in Georgia attacked by sausage-wielding extremists
- Liam Fee: Couple framed child for toddler's murder
- Obama has only allowed in 2,500 Syrian refugees this year
- Austin Reed to return to high street seven months after collapse
- Japanese boy found alive after parents left him in forest
- How bacteria from tea could help colonise Mars
- Cristiano Ronaldo divides opinion after Champions League win
- Britain is 'world's most corrupt country', says Mafia expert
- North Korean state media praises Donald Trump as 'wise politician,' dings 'dull Hillary'
- Florence has had the same wealthiest families for 600 years
- Game of Thrones star Kit Harrington blasts film industry for 'sexism towards men'
- Katie Couric admits to deceptively editing pro-gun activists in documentary
- Prince Philip to miss Jutland event on doctor's orders
- Iraqi forces push back ISIS counterattack in Fallujah
- This is what grown-up Harry, Ginny, and son look like in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
- The Daily Show explains Donald Trump's woman problem with unearthed Trump interview
- Gamer finds snake hiding in his PS4
- Gorilla zoo shooting: Calls to prosecute parents
- Alastair Cook joins the 10,000 run club: Can he catch Tendulkar?
- The British Library puts treasure trove of 20th century literature online for your browsing pleasure
- In Chicago, 4 dead, at least 53 injured in shootings over Memorial Day weekend
- Golden State Warriors beat Thunder, advance to NBA Finals
- Bernie Sanders attends Golden State-Oklahoma City Game 7, takes flak on Twitter
- South Korea says North Korea missile launch likely failed
- Search is on for 7-year-old left in forest by parents as a 'form of discipline'
- May 30th
- Chad's former President Hissene Habre found guilty of crimes against humanity
- Bleaching may have killed a third of coral in Northern Great Barrier Reef
- Mexican soccer star Alan Pulido rescued hours after kidnapping
- Another heartbreaking photo forces attention on Europe's migrant tragedy
- John Oliver has some great ideas for new things, plus some delightfully absurd ones
- Eric Holder: Edward Snowden performed a 'public service' exposing the NSA
- At least 6 dead in Texas flooding, as tropical storm hits Carolinas
- Iraqi forces enter Fallujah in final push to oust ISIS
- May 29th
- May 28th
- Watch the Libertarian Party pick its presidential candidate
- Jimmy Fallon expertly roasted '80s cop shows with help from Maya Rudolph and Martin Short
- WHO said the Olympics don't need to be moved due to the Zika outbreak
- Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen predicts she'll hike interest rates soon
- LeBron James is going to play in his 7th NBA Finals
- May 27th
- Only in America: Home Depot employee gets death threats for wearing 'America Was Never Great' hat
- Dr. Heimlich finally performs his maneuver at age 96
- Man dives through window after mistaking noisy school children for terrorist attack
- For those who have everything: A personal wood-fired hot tub
- Ryan Giggs leaves Man Utd: Where now for Old Trafford legend?
- 'Pharma bro' Martin Shkreli endorses Donald Trump
- Donald Trump once tried to sell a luxury condo to a journalist at a dinner party
- 23 athletes may be banned from Rio Games because of new evidence of doping at 2012 Olympics
- Only in America: School demands to see students' birth certificates to discourage LGBT enrollment
- Read this eerie note Harry Truman left about informing Stalin of the atomic bomb
- Facebook and Microsoft want to run a giant undersea cable from Virginia to Spain
- Your cellphone might really be giving you cancer, new study finds
- 'Girls in the mirror' optical illusion baffles Instagram
- Think you know your star sign? Most likely, you don't
- Donald Trump suggests Bernie Sanders run as an independent. Sanders has the perfect riposte.
- Modern-art fans mistake pair of glasses for exhibit
- Crow steals knife from scene of violent crime
- Terror suspects' DNA records deleted on a technicality
- Stephen Colbert reacts poorly to Donald Trump clinching GOP nomination, a Trump-Sanders debate
- Bernie Sanders talks up a Donald Trump debate on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- House votes down spending bill amid GOP infighting over LGBT amendment
- Seth Meyers digs into Hillary Clinton's latest emails scandal drip-drip-drip
- This is the world's most harrowing route to school
- This Haitian West Point cadet's dream of becoming a pilot is now a reality
- Samantha Bee has a solution to the Democrats' Bernie-Hillary civil war. It involves puppies.
- National Spelling Bee ends in a tie, again
- Canadian ambassador tackles protester in Ireland
- College students, tour guides escape Kentucky cave through neck-deep water
- May 26th
- Rapper Troy Ave arrested after deadly shooting at New York City concert
- Superbug resistant to last-resort antibiotic found for the first time in U.S.
- Search area for EgyptAir Flight 804 shrinks after locator signals detected
- China unveils elevated bus that can literally drive over traffic jams
- Saudi cleric says people need to quit taking selfies with their cats
- Best properties: Mill houses
- Archaeologists reportedly discover Aristotle's long-lost tomb
- America's nuclear bombs are controlled by floppy disks
- Bernie Sanders-inspired art installation takes over famous L.A. diner
- Watch this incredible video of an elephant speaking Korean
- Sweden to be world's first 'fossil fuel-free state'
- In bizarre indie rock analogy, Joe Scarborough claims Donald Trump is never going to be Arcade Fire
- U.S. productivity drops to three-decade low
- Amber Heard's film London Fields set for release
- Archivists find 19th-century recipe for 'aphrodisiac sorbet'
- House passes modified LGBT anti-discrimination amendment
- Python emerges from toilet and 'latches on to man's penis'
- Jimmy Kimmel nails Donald Trump's campaign in Seussian rhyme, reads it to Trump
- Donald Trump says Bernie Sanders 'would be easier to beat,' agrees to debate him
- Indonesia approves chemical castration, death penalty for child sex abuse
- 1 dead, 3 wounded after shooting at T.I. concert in New York City
- Disney CEO responds to criticism from Bernie Sanders: 'How many jobs have you created?'
- May 25th
- Watch this 6-year-old Scripps Spelling Bee competitor spell his 45-letter favorite word
- Katie Couric documentary was reportedly edited to make pro-gun activists look foolish
- 11 states are suing the Obama administration over transgender bathroom law
- Syrians in Raqqa might actually join ISIS rather than be freed by Kurds
- HMRC phone delays cost taxpayers £97m
- Jay Z finally responds to Beyoncé's Lemonade
- Thousands of federal inmates are held in prison for longer than their sentences
- Oberlin students want to abolish midterms and any grades below C
- Google to replace passwords with 'trust scores'
- Virtual pub quiz: 15 of the hardest questions
- Marco Rubio embraces his inner robot
- FBI, SEC reportedly investigating real estate firm with close ties to Sen. Bob Corker
- Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley's rare Trump backer, reportedly bankrolled Hulk Hogan's Gawker lawsuit
- Camper wakes up to lions licking tent – see the video
- Seth Meyers reminds everyone that Congress is still terrible, because everyone now expects that
- Taliban names new leader, confirming death of Mullah Mansour
- Jimmy Fallon takes Blake Shelton out for his first sushi dinner. He likes the sake.
- May 24th
- DOJ will seek death penalty for Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof
- Your Twitter timeline is about to get a huge makeover
- Super Bowl sites announced through 2021
- Extremely rare 'werewolf cat' reportedly found in South African animal shelter
- Cell phone records might help prevent the next big disease outbreak
- Late BMX legend Dave Mirra becomes first action sports athlete diagnosed with CTE
- Secret recordings reveal conspiracy to depose Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
- Stephen King, Dave Eggers, Amy Tan join hundreds of authors in signing open letter against Trump
- Marco Rubio says his 2016 campaign was a 'really strong building' that got hit by a 'Category 5 hurricane'
- Liverpool and Man United fined for Europa League chants
- Could Barclays, HSBC, RBS and Lloyds face bankruptcy?
- Waterstones completes exit from e-books market
- China's military is building a mysterious space station in Argentina
- Jack Wilshere demands to play in central role at Arsenal
- Al Gore almost didn't make An Inconvenient Truth
- Mayka Kukucova trial: model admits shooting ex-boyfriend
- Archaeologists discover surprisingly modern 5,000-year-old brewery in China
- OnePlus 3: Reviews and specs for bargain smartphone
- Seattle-area city manager in hot water for wanting to create a map of where Muslims live
- Start-up claims it can identify criminals using facial clues
- Cops and firefighters brawl at charity football match
- Samantha Bee documents how abortion was turned into a GOP hot-button issue
- Atheists now outnumber Christians in England and Wales
- Egyptian forensics officials disagree on evidence of an explosion on EgyptAir flight
- Prince Andrew faces more questions over Kazakh links
- Why does the Queen have two birthdays?
- Samantha Bee calls BS on Bernie Sanders' Democratic fraud and rigging allegations
- Watch Jennifer Lawrence, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon try (and fail) to tell the truth
- Bernie Sanders deplores violence, but says Democratic convention could get 'messy'
- After allegations of bias, Facebook announces changes to Trending Topics
- 23 Guantanamo detainees reportedly close to being released
- TSA head of security removed from post
- May 23rd
- Clinton: Trump could 'bankrupt America like he's bankrupted his companies'
- 5 killed after skydiving plane crashes in Hawaii
- Facebook apologizes for saying picture of plus-sized model violates 'health and fitness' standards
- Here's your first glimpse at Emma Watson as Belle in Beauty and the Beast
- Congressional report alleges NFL meddled with government brain disease study
- Not even Helen Hunt is safe from the tyranny of Starbucks drink labeling
- MLB teams are increasingly helping their Latino prospects earn high school diplomas
- Elijah Wood claims child sexual abuse is common in Hollywood
- 82 percent of Americans think hamburgers are healthy
- Angelina Jolie is now a professor
- The last member of the ISIS 'Beatles' has reportedly been identified
- Tom Brady just appealed his suspension because Deflategate is seriously still happening
- A bunch of awesome Mad Men props are about to go up for auction
- Baltimore police officer acquitted in death of Freddie Gray
- Supreme Court rules in favor of death row inmate in discrimination case
- Mars to pass closest to Earth in 11 years
- Trump denies global warming, but claims climate change is ruining his golf course
- Lego products are getting more violent, study argues
- Evidence suggests dinosaurs had lips
- 7 nearly simultaneous ISIS bombings kill more than 120 in Syria
- Project Ara: Google phone coming in 2017
- Kim Jong-un turns matchmaker for his sister
- US lifts decades-long Vietnam arms embargo
- Austrian presidential election: Far-right candidate defeated
- Bayer makes $62 billion cash offer for Monsanto
- Three die on Everest as dozens require medical aid
- U.S. fully lifts 50-year-old Vietnam weapons embargo
- Baghdad bombings: Islamic State escalates terror campaign
- Obama confirms death of Taliban leader, calls it 'an important milestone'
- John Oliver takes a steely look at U.S. system for selecting presidential nominees, pleads for reform
- 12-year-old prodigy with 3 degrees aspires to become doctor, then POTUS
- Watch Adele's psychedelic new video for 'Send My Love (To Your New Lover)'
- Peace Corps volunteers will soon be headed to Vietnam for 1st time
- At least 17 girls killed in fire at school in Thailand
- Pakistan: U.S. drone strike against Taliban leader 'violation of Pakistan's sovereignty'
- Egyptian submarine searching Mediterranean for black boxes from crashed jet
- Suspect in fatal Massachusetts police shooting dead
- World's oldest Olympic champion dies at 103
- May 22nd
- Iraqi military begins operation to retake Fallujah from ISIS
- This Dead Poets Society spoof is delightfully absurd
- 2 climbers just died descending Mount Everest
- SNL's Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders shared the best drunken dance
- 2 horses died in Preakness races
- Exaggerator upset Nyquist to win the Preakness Stakes
- U.S. kills Taliban leader in airstrike, Afghanistan says
- May 21st
- Jimmy Kimmel hosted a hilarious Breaking Bad reunion to celebrate Bryan Cranston's birthday
- Nyquist's trainer isn't worried about rain at the Preakness Stakes
- Mister Ed star Alan Young dies at 96
- Mexico approves U.S. extradition of 'El Chapo'
- 157 pregnant women in U.S. have the Zika virus, CDC says
- Oklahoma governor vetoes controversial abortion bill
- May 20th
- For those who have everything: A designer handbag for dog lovers
- Only in America: Man convicted for ripping off Muslim woman's hijab on airplane
- A rare Blue Moon will be visible this weekend, while Mars shines its brightest since 2003
- Former CIA director fears the EgyptAir crash was an 'inside job'
- Dangerously hot summers lead Texas Rangers to seek park with a retractable roof
- Plain cigarette packaging rules in force after court ruling
- Hampton stabbing: Four women attacked near Sainsbury's car park
- Aston Martin and Zagato create new Vanquish Concept
- David Ginola has quadruple bypass surgery after heart attack
- Government lawyers called 'intentionally deceptive,' forced to take ethics classes
- Britvic to change drinks recipes in response to sugar tax
- Best properties: Houses off the beaten track
- Tarantulas terrorize plane on nightmare flight to Montreal
- Patients to suffer as NHS overspend triples
- This bulldog just won the most prestigious award in the canine acting world
- It's official: Teenage boys are clumsy, researchers say
- Canada's Justin Trudeau reminds The Daily Show why Syrian refugees matter
- It was 123.8 degrees in India yesterday
- U.S. announces Iraqi victory over ISIS in strategic western town Rutba
- Egyptian army says it has found debris, 'personal belongings' from Flight 804
- China denies canning human flesh for export
- Stephen Colbert pays tribute to TV news legend Morley Safer
- Stephen Colbert previews Donald Trump's 'reality show' Republican convention. It looks fun.
- Cameron forced into 'major climbdown' over NHS TTIP deal
- Jimmy Kimmel makes his case for his vice presidency by citing Joe Biden
- New plan for English football – 100 clubs in five divisions
- Tsai Ing-wen sworn in as first female president of Taiwan
- Seth Meyers reminds us the 2008 Democratic Party was crazy, too
- Listen to Seth Rogen, Jimmy Fallon crack jokes written by elementary school kids
- Here's how you can spend a luxurious night at the Eiffel Tower
- American ISIS defector describes life inside a training camp, how he escaped
- San Francisco police chief resigns after deadly officer-involved shooting
- Gap to close 75 Banana Republic, Old Navy stores
- May 19th
- Nigerian army says second Chibok girl rescued from Boko Haram
- Idaho man becomes first combat-wounded veteran to summit Mount Everest
- EgyptAir retracts claim that 'wreckage' of Flight 804 was found
- Watch Nationals star Max Scherzer spontaneously play a round of catch with a young Mets fan
- Daniel Craig might not be returning to play James Bond
- Legendary 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer dies at 84
- San Francisco's last gun shop became a pot co-op
- Top ten in-demand jobs in the UK
- ISIS doesn't mention downed plane in daily news bulletin
- Venezuela on the brink of collapse
- Muirfield banned from hosting the Open after men only vote
- Nokia brand to make a comeback with smartphone launch
- 90 percent of Native Americans say the Redskins name doesn't bother them, poll reveals
- Egypt's aviation minister says 'terrorism' more likely than technical failure in EgyptAir crash
- 400-foot tsunamis may have shaped the surface of Mars
- LinkedIn passwords for 117 million users 'up for sale'
- Trump says he might nominate a Supreme Court justice who isn't on his list
- Stephen Colbert has a Seussian cautionary tale for disaffected young Bernie Sanders fans
- Missing EgyptAir Flight 804 crashed, officials say
- Methodist Church puts off consideration of LGBT clergy, gay marriage
- Watch Jimmy Kimmel's first vice presidential campaign ad
- Stephen Colbert chats with first-graders about the 2016 presidential race, and it's great
- EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo disappears from radar
- Google reveals Daydream virtual reality platform
- Republican senator spent the end of his life apologizing to Muslims for Trump
- EgyptAir MS804: 'Traces of explosives' found on victims' bodies
- Donald Trump is profiting from companies he publicly thrashes for outsourcing jobs
- California lifts statewide water use restrictions after wet winter
- Mark Zuckerberg holds meeting with prominent conservatives to 'build trust'
- B-52 bomber crashes at base in Guam
- Chinese jet fighters intercepted U.S. reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea
- New dinosaur species discovered in Montana by amateur fossil hunter
- May 18th
- Biden says there's no reason to worry about a 'split in the Democratic Party'
- 1 dead after two powerful earthquakes hit Ecuador
- Taylor Swift ads are making people listen to Jimmy Eat World again
- Federal Reserve eyes June for possible interest rate hike
- Donald Trump was frequently mocked by one of his own Supreme Court picks
- Google Home will compete with the Amazon Echo as a spiffy new smart speaker
- Majority of young voters want to see an independent candidate on the ballot, new poll finds
- Europa League: Silverware means more than gold to Liverpool
- Huge fireball in sky caught on police dash-cam
- Casa Brutale
- Kindergartener suspended for bringing bubble 'gun' to school
- Sony Xperia XA Ultra: Is this the ultimate phone for selfies?
- Sony Xperia XA Ultra: Is this the ultimate phone for selfies?
- Chelsea and Barcelona sign mammoth kit deals with Nike
- Americans are upbeat about their financial health, but down on the economy, poll finds
- Best optical illusions of 2016
- The Zika virus could be coming to Europe
- Stephen Colbert lobbies for more female movie super-villains
- 200 families feared dead in Sri Lanka mudslides
- Climate change threatens £110trn worth of assets
- Seth Meyers revives a scrapped SNL sketch with Andy Samberg, Kenan Thompson, Greta Gerwig
- The first ad Hillary Clinton's super PAC is running against Donald Trump stars Donald Trump
- World War II vet reunites with Holocaust survivor he saved
- Bernie Sanders tells Democratic Party to 'open the doors, let the people in'
- May 17th
- Eric Fanning confirmed as first openly gay secretary of the Army
- Trump reportedly did business with a man linked to the Mafia
- Senate unanimously passes bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia
- Donald Trump really loves Tuesdays
- Dead people keep using their obituaries to tell people who not to vote for
- UK has among lowest rates of 'persistent' poverty in Europe
- Watching porn 'makes people more religious'
- Watch a huge fireball blaze over the northeastern U.S.
- Could intra-party turmoil sabotage the Democrats' turnout operation?
- Police outside cities would be 'sitting ducks' in event of terror attack
- Girls outperform boys in first-ever national technology and engineering literacy test
- Marco Rubio goes on weird Twitter rant mocking Washington Post
- DVLA reveals plans for smartphone driving licence
- The NSA once published a spy newsletter bragging about the success of tapping foreign satellites
- Tuition fees to rise above £9,000 cap
- America has too much cheese — 3 extra pounds for each man, woman, and child
- Workers evacuated as Fort McMurray wildfire continues to rage
- Leicester City party: 240,000 join epic title celebration
- How will the current account revolution affect you?
- Burger King spa opens in Finland
- Megyn Kelly tells Stephen Colbert about her 'dark year' fighting Donald Trump
- Whitby mulls idea of fake graveyard for goths
- Britflix: BBC may launch Netflix rival
- 'Illegal' schools putting children at risk of harm, warns Ofsted
- Bison calf put down after tourists tried to save it from the cold
- Stephen Colbert uses '90s pop culture to mock Hillary Clinton's plans for Bill
- Samantha Bee finds a super PAC super donor who wants super PACs to die
- Seth Meyers argues that Donald Trump's fake spokesman debacle is too important to laugh off
- Ad man who taught the world to sing about Coke and created 'Miller Time' is dead at 89
- The world's biggest cruise ship — with room for 6,360 passengers — sets sail
- Study: Nearly half of all heart attacks in the U.S. are 'silent'
- Jimmy Fallon and The Lonely Island perform 'I'm on a Boat' on classroom instruments
- Iranian prosecutor: 8 arrested for 'un-Islamic' Instagram modeling
- After chaotic convention, Nevada Democratic Party chairwoman says she's receiving 'vile' messages from Sanders fans
- Jane Little, world's longest-serving orchestra musician, dies on stage
- Bison calf euthanized after Yellowstone tourists thought they were saving it from the cold
- May 16th
- Report: Train engineer likely distracted by radio before deadly Amtrak 188 crash
- Twitter might stop counting links and photos in its character limit
- This new Mr. Robot trailer appears to star President Obama
- Waze is the latest ride-hailing app to challenge Uber
- Department of Justice rules schools in Cleveland, Mississippi, required to desegregate
- The International Space Station has now orbited Earth 100,000 times
- Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace burned her birth certificate on stage in North Carolina to protest the anti-trans law
- Bulgari’s brilliant new boutique and ‘perfect mistake’
- This is the guest list for Facebook's meeting with conservative leaders
- SCOTUS declines to rule on ObamaCare contraceptive mandate challenge
- Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons pledge to pass on Tampon Tax savings
- Richard Mille partners with Aston Martin and McLaren
- Archaeologists uncover 'extraordinary' treasure trove in ancient Roman shipwreck
- France has an Orwellian plan to 'deprogram' young Muslims
- Shell sets up renewable energy unit to avoid 'brutish and short end'
- That brutal Rangers-Blue Jays brawl was 7 months in the making
- In defending Donald Trump, Breitbart deems Bill Kristol a 'renegade Jew'
- The Philadelphia 76ers have reportedly landed the NBA's first jersey ad deal
- Leaked thumb drive offers insight into lives of Americans who joined ISIS
- Andy Murray sets out French Open credentials
- This law firm just hired a robot to work as an attorney
- Samsung may release two bending phones in 2017
- Security firm to be axed after £3m Man Utd bomb 'fiasco'
- First penis transplant performed in the U.S.
- Missoni Art Colour at the Fashion and Textile Museum
- Florida woman hospitalised with shark locked on arm
- Philippine President-elect Duterte pledges to bring back death penalty
- Russia calls foul after Ukraine wins 2016 Eurovision contest with song criticizing Stalin
- John Oliver doesn't want calling 911 to be a joke. So he made this brutally frank PSA.
- Rachel Maddow has ideas on how to beat Donald Trump, but thinks it's '50-50' he wins
- May 15th
- Glenn Beck says he's going to meet with Mark Zuckerberg about conservative news coverage
- Drake wants you to know he's more than his internet memes
- Sheryl Sandberg addressed her husband's death in a moving commencement speech
- The Red Sox showered David Ortiz with baby powder after his game-winning double
- ISIS militants kill at least 24 in Iraq, Yemen
- May 14th
- Mother of Aurora movie theater shooter James Holmes speaks out
- Kit Harington told a cop about Jon Snow's fate to get out of a speeding ticket
- FIFA just named its first-ever female secretary general
- Germany to reportedly spend $106 billion on refugee crisis by 2020
- 'America's Toughest Sheriff' Joe Arpaio found in contempt of court
- Chicago is going to reform its police oversight system
- May 13th
- For those who have everything: A 3D printer for your pancakes
- Only in America: Student with autism takes sister to prom, gets turned away at door
- Russia slams Olympic doping allegations as 'slander by a turncoat'
- The Department of Homeland Security is sick of long TSA lines, too
- This Indiana town was once so superstitious it made black cats wear bells on Friday the 13th
- Airborne turtle destroys woman's windshield and is perfectly okay
- Megyn Kelly expertly ridicules media coverage of Donald Trump meeting Paul Ryan
- John Terry thanks fans as he signs new one-year Chelsea deal
- Study: We're more aggressive toward people we believe are genetically different
- Thousands evacuated after WW2 bomb found in Bath
- Could the Chicago Cubs actually win the World Series?
- Alcohol sales fall for the first time in nearly 20 years
- Amy Schumer just destroyed the stereotype about 'hormonal' women in power
- Has Ibrahimovic left PSG to sign for Man Utd?
- World's oldest person dies at the age of 116
- BMW iNext autonomous car coming in 2021
- Broker gets record sentence for insider trading
- Gboard: What can Google's keyboard do?
- 'Missing million' found as Brexit campaign turns on immigration
- Mark Zuckerberg says he'll meet 'leading conservatives' after Facebook political suppression claims
- Best properties: Properties near Michelin-starred restaurants
- Apple invests $1 billion in Chinese Uber rival, Didi
- Jimmy Kimmel ropes in CNN to kick off his strange and brilliant election stunt
- First woman to lead top U.S. combat command takes reins today
- Serena Williams gets sick after eating her dog's food, still wins Italian Open match
- Watch Jimmy Kimmel announce he's running for vice president
- After 6-month trial, Joe's Crab Shack is mostly giving up on tip-free dining
- A Good Wife spinoff is in the works for CBS All Access
- Senators call on airlines to skip baggage fees this summer to shorten TSA lines
- U.S. soldier gives Invictus Games medal to UK hospital that saved her life
- May 12th
- Acting president of Brazil names all-male cabinet
- Michigan craft brewery one-ups Budweiser with its own 'USA' beer
- Russian Olympic athletes reportedly mix their steroids with alcohol
- House Republicans win court case against 'unconstitutional' ObamaCare spending
- Week in pictures: 7-13 May
- Megyn Kelly slams liberal media bias for dubbing her the 'sane' Fox News commentator
- Woody Allen says he has no plans to read his son's essay about assault claims
- Neart na Gaoithe wind farm failure brings scrutiny on subsidy schemes
- An anonymous congressman just published a shocking book confirming your worst fears about Congress
- Watch all 20 of Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer's record-breaking strikeouts against the Tigers
- Sorry, but it's way too late for a viable third-party campaign
- Has Google killed off payday loans?
- ArcelorMittal Orbit slide
- Could women soon serve as Catholic deacons?
- New era beckons for Spurs as Pochettino extends contract
- Google Cardboard: £15 VR headset arrives in UK
- Jobless claims rise to highest level in more than a year
- Two more pieces of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 found
- The American middle class is shrinking. Find out if you make the cut.
- Climbers reach Mount Everest summit for the first time in 2 years
- If you live in a city, you're probably breathing in dangerously polluted air
- Suliman Gani: Cameron apologises for Islamic State claim
- One in four pregnancies ends in abortion, say new global estimates
- Cameron clamps down on offshore-owners of UK property
- Brazil Senate votes to impeach President Rousseff, suspending her from office
- Jimmy Kimmel gets pedestrians to gush about Donald Trump's nonexistent running mate
- Power-drill corn 'scalps' woman with long hair
- Stephen Colbert dissects Donald Trump's nickname strategy with Trump's 'chief nickname strategist'
- Agony aunt Sally Brampton dies after long battle with depression
- George Zimmerman auctioning off 'iconic' gun used in Trayvon Martin shooting
- Seth Meyers laughs nervously at Donald Trump's support from white nationalists
- Shooting survivor starts residency at hospital where doctors saved his life
- Italy approves same-sex civil unions
- Hyperloop One holds successful test of its futuristic propulsion system
- Judge finds Colorado Planned Parenthood shooter incompetent to stand trial
- Donald Trump to kick off series of fundraisers in California
- Google to ban ads for payday lenders
- May 11th
- Morley Safer to retire from 60 Minutes after 46 years
- Uzbek national arrested in New York City for allegedly plotting with ISIS
- A raccoon single-handedly knocked out power in Seattle this morning
- How Donald Trump dominated Appalachia, in 1 startling map
- North Carolina's refusal to drop its bathroom law could cost it $5 billion a year
- Luke Shaw and David de Gea launch blue Man Utd away kit
- Budweiser rebrands to 'America' until end of elections
- Surrey woman rugby-tackles Brad Pitt the runaway llama
- Top hedge fund managers earning 'more than some nations'
- The Panama Papers reveal actress Emma Watson set up offshore accounts
- Trump's new nicknames for Sanders and Warren are his least creative yet
- West Ham bid farewell to the Boleyn Ground - in pictures
- Brazilian Senate to vote on impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff
- Apple reveals Product Red iPhone 7 and an updated iPad
- Parents don't want to name their babies after Hillary, Donald, or Bernie
- Queen Elizabeth caught on camera calling Chinese officials 'very rude'
- Cannes Film Festival 2016: Ten films to look out for
- iPad could get two screens with this smart cover
- Which teams can qualify for Europa and Champions League?
- 21-year-old Navy SEAL dies during first week of training
- At least 45 killed in Baghdad car bombing claimed by ISIS
- Britain's biggest gold nugget found on Welsh beach
- Stephen Colbert sees Paul Ryan's hesitancy to go all the way with Trump, gives him 'the talk'
- Jimmy Kimmel's fake Rick Perry ad calls Donald Trump a 'benign ass cancer,' as a compliment
- Seth Meyers explains why you should care about the UK's Brexit vote on leaving the EU
- Warrant reveals Prince met with doctor twice in the month before he died
- Staples and Office Depot call off $6.3 billion merger after U.S. court says no
- Islamist leader executed in Bangladesh for war crimes
- 3 dead, including suspect, after attacks at home and mall in Massachusetts
- May 10th
- Man bets his life savings on the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series
- Heidi Cruz compared her husband's failed presidential campaign to the struggle to end slavery
- NASA just discovered a record-breaking number of planets
- There is a matchmaking service to help Americans flee to Canada if Trump becomes president
- Fugitive arrested after almost 50 years in hiding
- 6 reasons why Stephen Curry is the first unanimous league MVP in NBA history
- Ted Cruz would consider rebooting his campaign if he wins Nebraska
- An Instagram 'follow' notification could violate a restraining order
- Millennials are convinced Canada is the greatest country in the world
- The Pentagon is spending $2 billion on mysterious space weapons
- Donald Trump apparently only kind of regrets saying all those sexist things on The Howard Stern Show
- The IRS said it was broke. Then it hired 700 new employees.
- Your tax dollars paid to get birds drunk and see if they slur their songs
- Budweiser is renaming its beer 'America'
- EU referendum debate: Who won at Wembley?
- Albert Einstein's best quotes
- President James Monroe's 'plain' and 'humble' cottage was actually just his guesthouse. He lived in a mansion.
- John Terry hires Stamford Bridge for Chelsea farewell
- Facebook denies censoring conservative topics
- Everyone thought this North Korean general had been executed. Then he got promoted.
- Stephen Colbert mocks Donald Trump's odd West Virginia coal miner pandering
- XPL: Scientists develop 'second skin' to hide wrinkles
- Undressed: 350 years of underwear in fashion
- Upton Park or Boleyn Ground - what is West Ham's home really called?
- West Virginia, Nebraska vote in primaries on Tuesday
- Facebook executive denies allegations of anti-conservative censorship
- Rodrigo Duterte: Philippines President likens himself to Hitler
- Samantha Bee isn't letting Democrats off the hook for North Carolina's 'trans-phobic' bathroom law
- Man arrested over video of pug's 'Nazi salute'
- Brazil's presidential impeachment fight thrown into turmoil as key vote declared void
- Bernie Sanders spins Stephen Colbert's vending machine mishap into campaign gold
- Dan Savage says LGBT America has 'complicated' views of Donald Trump, trusts Hillary Clinton
- Rodrigo Duterte wins Philippine presidency after rivals concede
- Samantha Bee bids a sad farewell to Ted Cruz, the 2016 candidate she loved to hate the most
- Watch Will Ferrell, Ryan Gosling sling cutlery as the Knife Guys
- Seth Meyers looks at Donald Trump's brazen flip-flops, finds one he thinks Trump fans will hate
- Listen to Michelle Branch's scathing musical farewell to Ted Cruz
- Active military personnel support Trump over Clinton, Sanders, new survey suggests
- Alberta premier: 90 percent of buildings survived Fort McMurray wildfire
- Pentagon: Top ISIS leader in Iraq killed by U.S. airstrike
- At least 2 killed after tornadoes hit Oklahoma
- May 9th
- Dozens of Americans in the Panama Papers are reportedly tied to financial frauds
- Scientists created a crazy new 'second skin' that covers up wrinkles, treats skin conditions
- Funding for Bernie Sanders' health care plan would fall $18 trillion short, studies say
- North Carolina governor wants other states to join his lawsuit over anti-LGBT law
- ACLU sues Mississippi over anti-LGBT law
- Swaddling babies may up their risk of SIDS
- Maine wants to treat High Times like Playboy
- Here's the Good Wife creators' explanation for 'the slap'
- Iraqis still think America supports ISIS
- Leicester City Premier League celebrations – in pictures
- North Carolina just sued the federal government over its controversial bathroom law
- Facebook reportedly suppresses conservative news coverage
- Ferguson is swearing in its first black police chief
- Julian Assange has befriended a cute kitten while living in an Ecuadorian embassy
- China bans women 'seductively eating bananas'
- This Muslim student was misidentified as 'Isis' in her high school yearbook
- These breathtaking photos capture Mercury's rare transit across the sun
- Nationwide and Halifax extend mortgage age limits
- North Carolina faces impending federal deadline on bathroom law
- John Oliver wants you to meet the Philippines' likely next president, Rodrigo Duterte, 'Trump of the East'
- Murray beaten by Djokovic at Madrid Masters
- Canada declines Russia's offer of water bombers to help fight wildfire
- Bafta TV Awards 2016: Graham Norton's diciest gags
- The life-expectancy gap between black and white America has never been smaller
- Study finds e-cigarettes are making more children sick
- John Oliver stands up for science, pours cold water on all those scientific studies you love
- Prince Harry, Michelle Obama kick off the Invictus Games in Orlando
- BBC reporter detained in North Korea, expelled, over 'disrespectful' coverage of Kim Jong Un
- Uber and Lyft to leave Austin after spending $8 million on failed vote
- Watch Mercury make a rare transit across the sun on Monday
- Thousands protest as Greece passes pension and tax reforms
- Jackpot-winning Powerball ticket sold in Trenton, New Jersey
- May 8th
- May 7th
- This olive-skinned man was suspected of terrorism on his flight. He was just doing math.
- Arizona is finally offering health insurance to low-income kids
- Kenya to shut down refugee camps
- Canada's massive wildfire could double in size, official says
- Panama Papers whistleblower speaks out, seeks immunity
- May 6th
- For those who have everything: A hybrid electric scooter
- Only in America: Boy claims gender discrimination after school forces him to get a haircut
- Golfer is disqualified for using the putter he bent by smacking himself on the head
- London set to elect its first Muslim mayor
- Why Donald Trump's business savvy might not translate to the presidency
- Justin Timberlake just released his first single in three years. Have a listen.
- Britain vetoes 'Boaty McBoatface' for research vessel, will give name to submarine instead
- A musical, abbreviated history of Drake's 7-year obsession with Rihanna
- Who's 'they'? The rise of the gender-neutral singular pronoun
- Donald Trump yadda yaddas his past support for the Iraq war: 'Blah, blah, blah, yes, I guess'
- Champions League qualification: Liverpool face test of nerve
- This photo perfectly sums up the intensity and energy of the Stanley Cup playoffs
- Alastair Cook 'cannot see the ball' in new cricket helmet
- Airbnb to expand into 'leisure hosting' activities
- Tories fined record £70,000 over election expenses
- Best properties: Houses with tennis courts
- Amy Schumer recruits Oscar-winning actresses to blast Hollywood's women problem
- Da Vinci code: DNA could solve mystery of Leonardo's grave
- Stephen Colbert unveils a real, working Bernie Sanders video game (for the 99 percent)
- Jimmy Kimmel convinces people to confess their biggest lie to their mom, for Mother's Day
- Jon Stewart, David Letterman help USO celebrate 75th birthday. Yes, there's a Trump joke.
- Samantha Bee dismantles Andrew Jackson in expletive-filled history lesson
- Insurance company alleges Joe Paterno knew about Jerry Sandusky sex abuse in 1976
- Seth Meyers cheers women joining the military draft, jeers Republican who accidentally enabled it
- Watch these super cute puppies predict the winner of the Kentucky Derby
- Russian orchestra performs in ancient Syrian ruins of Palmyra
- North Korea holding first party congress in decades
- Arsenio Hall suing Sinead O'Connor for $5 million over claims he gave Prince illegal drugs
- Alberta wildfire creating its own weather system
- Man found guilty of murdering 10 women in 'Grim Sleeper' case
- May 5th
- Watch the adorable moment President Obama met 8-year-old 'Little Miss Flint'
- Trump names former Goldman Sachs partner as his national finance chair
- Should you defer taking your state pension?
- Poll: Most Americans want to let the world solve its own problems
- This Canadian newspaper's front page shows just how massive Alberta's wildfire is
- Sweet! Hotel Chocolat founders collect £40m from flotation
- Red Bull send Kvyat to the F1 gulag as Verstappen steps up
- GOP senator pushes for a third-party candidate in scathing Twitter rant: 'The people deserve better'
- Read this eerie article Trump wrote in 2000 about becoming the first celebrity president
- Chelsea defend price of £90 tops after 2016-17 kit goes on sale
- China: Markets stall over fears for the economy
- KFC is now selling nail polish that tastes like chicken
- Donald Trump's deportation plan could shrink economy by 2 percent, study finds
- Human embryo breakthrough sparks fierce ethical debate
- Motorcyclist lands on flying mattress – watch the video
- New Day newspaper to close after just nine weeks
- Stephen Colbert asks God why he let Donald Trump win the GOP nomination. It was news to God.
- Vice President Island: Jimmy Kimmel has an idea for Donald Trump's VP search
- Stephen Colbert sends off Ted Cruz, John Kasich in Hunger Games fashion
- Have a look at the unlivable mess that is post-ISIS Ramadi
- Watch Gwen Stefani, James Corden's totally b-a-n-a-n-a-s carpool karaoke
- Jimmy Fallon's Donald Trump calls fake Obama to brag about GOP nomination, ask him to be VP
- Army captain suing Obama over ISIS fight
- Former Utah Sen. Bob Bennett dies at 82
- California's smoking age raised to 21
- The Takata air bag recall is now the largest in U.S. history
- May 4th
- Justice Department says North Carolina's bathroom law violates the Civil Rights Act
- Sanders would have to convince at least 161 superdelegates to switch sides to win the nomination
- John Kasich says he's the GOP's 'only hope' in ultra-nerdy Star Wars Day campaign ad
- UK bakes on hottest day of the year: How long will heatwave last?
- Jay Z is reportedly writing an album to tell 'his side' of Beyoncé's Lemonade
- Legalizing marijuana makes it way less expensive
- Adele says she was left utterly 'speechless' by Beyonce's Lemonade
- Marco Rubio raves about returning to Senate job: 'It's the most enjoyable and productive I've been'
- Watch Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry force overtime with a half-court heave at the buzzer
- America might be about to elect its oldest president ever
- U.S. intelligence official says ISIS could hit U.S. with Paris-style attack
- Prince was trying to beat a painkiller addiction before he died
- Dead could be 'brought back to life' in medical trial
- Police dig at former home of Fred and Rose West's friends
- Jimmy Kimmel reads mean comments he got after schooling climate change deniers
- NHS to share 1.6 million medical records with Google
- Stephen Colbert one-ups Donald Trump's conspiracy theory about Cruz and JFK's killer
- Entire Canadian city of 60,000 evacuated due to wildfire
- Republican party chairman crowns Donald Trump 'presumptive GOP nominee,' urges party unity
- U.S. Navy SEAL killed in Iraq was a grandson of infamous financier Charles Keating
- May 3rd
- Sanders promises he'll create million of jobs and an economy that 'works for all of us'
- Afeni Shakur, mother of rapper Tupac Shakur, dies at 69
- Mars' mysterious streaks might be caused by water boiling beneath its surface
- Here's what Megyn Kelly's first date with her husband was like
- The 2016 candidates' Indiana basketball pandering: A definitive scorecard
- Massive violet diamond discovered in Western Australia
- Radiohead releases first single ahead of ninth album
- Can newly promoted Burnley 'do a Leicester' in the Premier League?
- India's plan to reduce climate change? Make its cows burp less.
- Same-sex adoption is now legal in all 50 states
- Cash-strapped ISIS is selling stolen chickens and eggs in Libya to raise money
- An Argentine TV station made an incredible ad for the Copa América tournament featuring Donald Trump
- Russia spends £1m to keep the rain away
- YouTube users really hate the new Ghostbusters trailer
- Met Gala 2016: Best dresses from the year's 'most exclusive party'
- Terrorism fears over visa-free Turkish immigration
- Brazil is building a sex theme park called ErotikaLand, and it's totally crazy
- France bans foie gras following bird flu scare
- Stephen Colbert doesn't think Ted Cruz will win Indiana for one big reason
- U.S. troop killed in northern Iraq by 'enemy fire'
- Thousands of children 'on strike' following SATs changes
- BMW i3 refresh gets big range boost
- Praise for Radiohead's new album – but is it their last?
- Oral sex part of spider's 'rich sexual repertoire'
- Bill O'Reilly explains to Stephen Colbert why Donald Trump won the GOP nomination
- Stephen Colbert thought Larry Wilmore's White House Correspondents' Dinner act was great
- Colorado Supreme Court strikes down local fracking bans
- Colorado might approve single-payer health care, and Seth Meyers weighs pros and cons
- Emma Watson's Met Gala dress was made out of recycled plastic bottles
- Obama calls TPP the best chance for America, not China, to 'call the shots' on global trade
- Peculiar glowing jellyfish discovered near Mariana Trench
- Jimmy Kimmel has a surprisingly strong, scientific, and sassy message on climate change
- 81-year-old man exonerated more than 5 decades after wrongful conviction
- Claire Danes wore a glow-in-the-dark masterpiece to the Met Gala
- See what Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and other stars wore to the Met Gala
- May 2nd
- In her first year, Princess Charlotte has received everything from a $45,000 rattle to a $6 pack of diapers
- Leicester City Foxes claim Premier League title
- It'll soon be legal for employees to carry guns on Tennessee public campuses
- Former presidential hopeful Jim Gilmore couldn't get elected as a party delegate, either
- Heidi Cruz wants you to know her husband isn't the Zodiac Killer
- Ted Cruz watched Carly Fiorina fall off a stage and just kept shaking people's hands
- A Space Jam sequel starring LeBron James might finally be on the way
- Scientists just discovered 3 potentially habitable planets
- The 8 best lines from this insane profile on Melania Trump
- Hollywood needs to work on upping its LGBT representation, new study says
- You can now wake up to The Rock's motivational messages
- Misty Copeland is getting her own Barbie doll
- The Rent team retold the heartbreaking story of the show's creator dying hours after dress rehearsal
- The Biggest Loser doesn't actually work, according to science
- This secret court denied exactly 0 spying requests from the feds in 2015
- Kit Harington apologizes for 'lying to everyone' after major Game of Thrones reveal
- Hulu reportedly wants to start streaming cable and broadcast TV channels
- Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old 'gentlemanly' horseracing rules that allowed 'others a chance to win'
- Top Los Angeles police official resigns over offensive emails from previous job
- A team with 5,000-to-1 odds could clinch top soccer title today. Here's how to watch.
- Obama gets in one last glorious birth certificate joke in White House skit
- At least 23 people have been shot by toddlers in America this year
- Larry Wilmore bombed at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Will he get the last laugh?
- Australian businessman says he created Bitcoin
- Lawsuit claims Starbucks purposely overfills its cold beverage cups with ice
- Remains of climber Alex Lowe, cameraman found 16 years after they were killed by an avalanche
- John Kasich is now aiding teenagers with 'promposals'
- John Oliver catches this year's cicada swarm up on everything that's happened since 1999
- 5 years later, Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad neighbors describe the aftermath of the 2011 raid
- First cruise from the U.S. to Cuba in decades is headed to Havana
- Ringling Brothers elephants perform in their final show
- Puerto Rico to default on $422 million debt payment
- Iraqi demonstrators leave Baghdad's Green Zone
- May 1st
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