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- December 31st
- U.N. Security Council unanimously endorses Syria cease-fire deal
- Obama to strategize health care policy with Democratic lawmakers
- Tyrus Wong, whose art inspired Disney's Bambi, dies at 106
- ISIS claims responsibility for Baghdad explosion killing 28 and injuring 54
- Vermont utility system detects code tied to Russian hacking
- December 30th
- Syria cease-fire holds through early clashes
- Comet to cruise past Earth on New Year's Eve
- GOP congressman defends Russian hacking: 'They merely did what the media should've done'
- This small Louisiana town is jailing people over a 'hunch' or 'feeling'
- Poll: Most people think 2016 was good for them personally — but bad for the world
- Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds will have a joint funeral
- On last 2016 trading day, global stocks mixed, U.S. futures edge up
- Syria cease-fire takes effect
- December 29th
- Northern California Uber driver thwarts child sex trafficking
- Ryan Gosling to team up with La La Land director for Neil Armstrong biopic
- Parents complain that the most-hyped toy of 2016 curses, doesn't really work
- Serena Williams and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian are engaged
- Todd Fisher remembers his mother Debbie Reynolds, sister Carrie Fisher with touching illustration
- Visitors to the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2017 will receive a very generous welcome
- If you're in the U.S., a total solar eclipse is coming to a sky near you
- Israeli Justice Ministry: Update on Benjamin Netanyahu probe will come 'in due time'
- Incoming White House press secretary says 'business as usual is over'
- Amazon patents floating drone warehouses
- The developer of the red Solo Cup, Robert Hulseman, dies at 84
- Milo Yiannopoulos gets $250,000 book deal
- Trump swears his administration will only 'buy American and hire American'
- This is how David Fahrenthold used social media to uncover Donald Trump's secrets
- Do we need digital Miranda rights?
- China opens world's highest bridge
- NYPD to allow Sikh officers to grow a beard, wear a turban instead of a police hat
- To fight air pollution, Madrid is activating a temporary car ban
- Obama has protected vastly more land and sea than any other president
- JonBenet Ramsey's brother files defamation suit against CBS
- Trump claims deal with Sprint will bring 5,000 jobs to U.S.
- Obama creates two new national monuments in Utah and Nevada
- Actress Debbie Reynolds dies at 84
- December 28th
- GoFundMe launched to 'protect' Betty White from 2016
- Benjamin Netanyahu responds to John Kerry's 'unbalanced' speech
- Rodrigo Duterte's anti-drug stance stirs up mixed emotions in Manila
- To discourage panhandling, cities are installing meters for loose change
- Experts say Paul Ryan's proposed ban on livestreaming from House floor may be unconstitutional
- Suspected sperm mix-up at Dutch IVF center could affect 26 women
- 1 million Russians have been diagnosed with H.I.V. — and more are likely
- The fight for Mosul continues, with the last bridge in the city destroyed by an airstrike
- 3 Chinese citizens charged with hacking merger-lawyers for trading tips
- Vote delayed on building new housing in East Jerusalem
- As Venezuela starves, its military traffics food
- Donald Trump is 'NOT' happy with President Obama's 'inflammatory' comments
- In one of her final performances, Carrie Fisher lent her voice to Family Guy
- Carrie Fisher's beloved bulldog Gary will move in with Fisher's daughter
- Donald Trump boosts consumer confidence to 15-year high
- Russia reaches agreement with Turkey on Syrian cease-fire
- December 27th
- This is a perfect example of Carrie Fisher's quick wit in action
- Hollywood mourns Carrie Fisher: 'The force is dark today'
- Carrie Fisher used to rewrite Princess Leia's dialogue
- Carrie Fisher dies at 60
- New York attorney general says Trump can't dissolve foundation while it's under investigation
- Korean Air crews will soon be able to 'react more firmly' against rowdy passengers
- U.S.-backed alliance quickly gaining ground against ISIS in Syria
- Israel reducing ties with 10 countries over U.N. settlements vote
- America led the world in weapons sales with $40 billion last year
- Russia: Mass graves found in Aleppo
- Israel moves ahead with East Jerusalem settlement plan despite U.N. vote
- Russia finds flight-data recorder of crashed plane
- Japan's Shinzo Abe arrives in Hawaii for historic Pearl Harbor visit
- December 26th
- Ban Ki-moon is dropping the New Year's Eve ball in New York and is definitely capable of staying up until midnight
- Read this beautiful letter Frank Sinatra wrote to George Michael
- Watch George Michael rehearse 'Somebody to Love' in front of an approving David Bowie
- Netanyahu calls meeting with U.S. ambassador over U.N. vote
- The WNBA is worried its athletes face 'dangerous situations' while playing overseas
- At least 27 shot over Christmas weekend in Chicago
- 2016: The sports stars who were famous for 15 minutes – in pictures
- Britain's Queen Elizabeth misses Christmas services because of 'heavy cold'
- Russia blames crash of military plane with 92 aboard on pilot error or technical problems, not terrorism
- Watch George Michael and Smokey Robinson light up 'Careless Whisper' at the Apollo in 1985
- RNC clarifies it was not referring to 'new King' Trump in Christmas statement
- George Michael is dead at 53
- December 25th
- How investors made a killing off the resurrection of Twinkies
- It's not your imagination. Airplane seats are shrinking.
- Iraqi Christians celebrate a bittersweet Christmas amid destruction and liberation
- British police discovered a marijuana plant disguised as a Christmas tree
- Well wishes pour in for Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher
- South Koreans organize 'Santa protest' demanding their president's resignation
- Germany's biggest bomb evacuation since World War II is scheduled for Christmas
- December 24th
- Pope Francis mourns children who 'suffer the squalid mangers that devour dignity' in Christmas Eve Mass
- Donald Trump will dissolve his charitable foundation
- Berlin market attack suspect's nephew among 3 arrested in Tunisia
- Court overturns life sentence for stealing $15
- Watch the president and first lady giggle and reminisce in their final Christmas message
- Track Santa's trip around the globe in 3D with a little help from NORAD and Google
- Police raided a family's home and mocked them on Snapchat — then realized it was the wrong house
- Nigerian troops have ousted Boko Haram from their forest stronghold
- FBI warns of possible ISIS-inspired attacks on churches at Christmas
- Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher 'out of emergency' after in-flight medical crisis
- December 23rd
- Here's one A-list celebrity willing to perform at Trump's inauguration
- Islamic State media releases video of Berlin truck attack suspect
- Trump reportedly narrowing in on former Bush aide Tom Bossert for homeland security and counterterrorism adviser
- North Carolina's democracy is as dysfunctional as Iran's
- Experimental Ebola vaccine offers '100 percent protection' in final tests
- Starbucks is giving away free espresso drinks for 10 days, if you're in the right place at the right time
- Public sector pay has slumped in real terms, warns TUC
- Has 2016 done for Labour?
- Belief in God plunges after torrid year
- Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse agree to pay $12.5 billion to settle U.S. mortgage cases
- Egypt delays UN Israel motion after Trump intervention
- Christmas Day 'terror attack' foiled in Australia
- Rough sleepers urinated on by public, 'horrifying' study finds
- Late Night playfully skewers atheist parents with ad for 'Elf on the Shelf' alternative
- Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is apparently already setting U.S. policy on Israel
- Swaleside jail 'taken over by inmates'
- Anti-Defamation League calls viral tale of Jewish family fleeing Pennsylvania 'untrue and damaging'
- Donald Trump says he no longer wants 'so-called 'A' list celebrities' at his inauguration
- December 22nd
- Tiger Woods' version of Santa is just as sleazy as you'd expect
- Everyone really hates the word 'whatever'
- The world's first 'solar road' is kind of a disaster
- Chance the Rapper, Jeremih release surprise Christmas-themed mixtape
- Premier League Christmas fixtures: Why just one big game?
- Ikea tells teens to stop holding sleepovers in its stores
- Ex-BlackRock fund manager jailed for insider dealing
- Congo in chaos as death toll mounts
- As Donald Trump struggles to land inauguration performers, promoter plans 'counter-concert' in Miami
- Plastic 'rice' confiscated in Nigeria
- NHS to give 'bionic eyes' to ten blind patients
- Rachel Maddow explains Donald Trump's conflicts of interest, using windmills
- Delta explains why it kicked YouTube star Adam Saleh off its flight
- Most new ObamaCare enrollees are from states Donald Trump won
- Prison numbers should be halved, senior politicians say
- Kellyanne Conway named counselor to the president
- Fury as Northampton avoid sanction over George North concussion
- 'Heavy cold' delays Queen's Christmas travel plans
- You've never heard of the 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunner
- Donald Trump apparently puts looks above résumé in choosing his Cabinet
- Hoping for a happy Christmas? Then get off Facebook
- Britain braced for Storm Barbara on busiest day of the year for travel
- MS sufferers given new hope with 'landmark' drug
- Obama looks to secure his green legacy
- This is what Aleppo looked like before Syria's civil war, and how it looks now
- Seth Meyers has some thoughts on Donald Trump and climate change
- The Daily Show finds the one safe Christmas gift for your pro- and anti-Trump loved ones
- Trump names activist investor Carl Icahn, China critic Peter Navarro as key advisers on trade, regulation
- North Carolina effort to repeal 'bathroom bill' HB2 ends in embarrassing failure
- December 21st
- Ikea is asking people to please stop holding sleepovers in their stores
- Boeing CEO says Air Force One won't cost $4 billion
- Trump hotel in Las Vegas reaches union contract with workers
- Brianna Wu, who fought trolls during GamerGate, plans to run for Congress in 2018
- Suspicious bags prompt evacuation of terminals at LAX
- Dozens of people in a Siberian city are dead after drinking bath lotion
- College campuses are a lot more moderate than you think
- Germany approves regulation to allow expansion of video surveillance network
- Last round of evacuations underway in Aleppo
- You don't need addresses for Uber anymore. You just need your friend's name.
- Labour MP Jamie Reed stands down for nuclear energy job
- EU judges hit Theresa May's 'snoopers' charter'
- Why the Mac might cause Apple's downfall
- Marie Stopes abortion practices 'put women at risk'
- Trump's doctor waves off health concerns by citing the line of succession: 'They can just keep dying'
- This BBC reporter warns that America's 'post-truth' media culture could savage Britain's democracy, too
- Shoppers face 'click-and-collect chaos' at Christmas
- Vesuvius's big brother is starting to wake, say scientists
- Wes Anderson is making an animated film with Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Edward Norton
- East Icelanders tell weatherman to move
- Man accuses Delta of kicking him off plane for speaking Arabic
- Storm Barbara to hammer the north over Christmas
- Hope Not Hate crowdfunds lawsuit against Nigel Farage
- Germany is reportedly searching for a Tunisian suspect in the Berlin market truck attack
- Trump's team is reportedly exploring how to make his blind trust only 'half-blind'
- Arctic ice machine to halt melting caps
- Death sentences fall to 40-year low as U.S. attitudes change on capital punishment
- Queen gives up 25 patronages to 'wind down' workload
- Tucker Carlson demands that a Vox writer explain how 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' is 'rapey'
- Bill O'Reilly: Electoral College critics want to take power from the 'white establishment'
- Paul McCartney joins Jimmy Fallon, the Roots, and special guests to sing, redeem 'Wonderful Christmastime'
- U.N. commissioner wants to see an investigation into Rodrigo Duterte's claims he killed people
- This camera lets you experience the northern lights, minus the freezing temperatures
- The nonexistent Independent Republic of California opens an embassy in Moscow
- Singer Richard Marx helps subdue disruptive passenger on plane
- At least 27 killed in explosions at Mexican fireworks market
- December 20th
- America created 10 million new jobs in the last decade. Almost all of them are temporary or contract gigs.
- Alphabet lost $3.6 billion experimenting with non-Google projects this year
- Four more Flint officials charged over water crisis
- Police release man arrested in connection to Berlin attack
- Alec Baldwin says the key to being Donald Trump is in the 'puffs' between his words
- Donald Trump apparently doesn't know what to do with his kids either
- There's a river of molten iron racing beneath Earth's surface — and it's gaining speed
- The most iconic outfits of 2016
- Investigators say Ankara assassination was 'not a one-man action'
- Top five trend predictions for home interiors in 2017
- Petra Kvitova 'lucky to be alive' after knife attack
- UK police step up security following Berlin and Turkey attacks
- Donald Trump's sons are asking for $1 million in exchange for access to the president-elect
- This man demonstrates why you don't golf on ice, with brutally hilarious efficiency
- An ancient vial of 'miracle' blood failed to liquefy, and that's a bad omen for 2017
- Overseas patients owe NHS £30m
- Monday's Electoral College revolt made history, even though it failed
- Austria's Freedom Party casually mentions it met with Trump's national security adviser before signing pact with Moscow
- Jedi bid to become recognised religion rejected
- Saudi Arabia dropped British-made cluster bombs in Yemen
- Berlin attack: Anis Amri shot dead in Milan
- Berlin police call deadly truck crash at Christmas market 'intentional,' probably 'terrorist attack'
- Samantha Bee and Glenn Beck try to found anti-Trumpism alliance, bizarrely find so much more
- Samantha Bee uses the North Carolina GOP power grab to urge local action, not Facebook petitions
- China returns U.S. undersea drone it seized in international waters
- Seth Meyers explains why you should care about the GOP's 'naked power grab' in North Carolina
- Following conviction, IMF board stands behind Christine Lagarde
- 3 shot at Muslim prayer center in Zurich
- December 19th
- U.N. to dispatch observers to Aleppo
- Dozens injured, at least 12 dead after truck plows into Christmas market in Berlin
- Merrick Garland, Obama's sidelined Supreme Court nominee, to head back to his old job in January
- The assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey was caught on video
- 24 percent of Trump voters are more worried about the War on Christmas than a war with China
- Trump nominates billionaire investor to be secretary of the Army
- Greek bailout talks: another stand-off with eurozone?
- Merriam-Webster's word of the year? Surreal.
- Tube strike kicks off week of walkouts
- UK accused of 'dumping' billions from foreign aid budget
- Neo-Nazis publish photos, contact info of Jewish residents of Montana town, urge 'action'
- Fears of more violence after Birmingham inmates riot
- Conan imagines Obama-Trump phone chats about Putin election hacking, hamster tunnels, daughters
- Government proposes oath of allegiance to British values
- Rex Tillerson, Trump's secretary of state pick, was a director of a U.S.-Russian oil firm in the Bahamas
- Aleppo evacuations in limbo as U.N. Security Council readies vote on monitoring of exodus
- Donald Trump holds off-the-record Christmas party with reporters, but photos were okay
- Actress, socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor is dead at 99
- December 18th
- Russia to veto French U.N. resolution for 'neutral monitoring' of Aleppo evacuation
- A Canadian tourist and 4 police officers have been killed in a Jordan shooting
- Hillary Clinton takes a page from Love Actually to woo a GOP elector on SNL
- SNL's shirtless Vladimir Putin brings Donald Trump an Elf on the Shelf
- Dr. Henry Heimlich dies at 96
- December 17th
- Wintry weather leads to 55-car crash in Baltimore
- A car bomb in Turkey killed 13 people and wounded 56 more
- Minnesota football players agree to end boycott over player suspension
- Feds to reveal how many Americans are under digital surveillance
- Anne Frank may not have been betrayed to the Nazis after all
- Tsunami warning issued in Papua New Guinea after 7.9 magnitude earthquake
- The American and Chinese militaries are 'appropriately handling' the underwater drone seizure
- Trump names budget director pick, slams media at Florida rally
- December 16th
- University of Pennsylvania students remove Shakespeare portrait over diversity concerns
- New York City wants to kill a deer. New York state wants to save the deer. This is their story.
- China just plucked a U.S. drone from international waters and carried it away
- Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald pulled out a literal binder of Tucker Carlson's 'falsehoods' during a brutal Fox News interview
- The BBC brought in a street performer to dance to its theme song
- Heineken packs Punch with £400m takeover deal
- It's literally warmer on Mars than in Minnesota right now
- Drugs firms accused of fixing price of NHS drug
- A Tennessee man spent 31 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. His compensation was $75.
- Russian troops were the secret weapon in the Syrian government's mission to retake Aleppo
- Americans agree fake news is a big problem — for other people
- Mexico just leapfrogged past Canada to become America's second-largest trading partner
- Leicester skipper Wes Morgan wants to buy everyone a drink
- Russia tried to hack the RNC too. The RNC spam filter caught the email.
- You can 'enjoy coffee with Ivanka Trump' for a hefty price tag
- Scientists reverse ageing process in mice
- Obama administration extends ObamaCare signup deadline amid record demand
- Heroes of 2016
- Thousands of Syrians have been evacuated from Aleppo, and thousands more are waiting
- Stephen Colbert and Michael Stipe recap 2016 with modified R.E.M. song, feel fine
- The Daily Show's Trevor Noah marvels at the audacity of Donald Trump's post-election honesty
- Trump's choice for Israel ambassador is his bankruptcy lawyer, a hard-liner on West Bank settlements
- December 15th
- NBA sideline reporter Craig Sager dies at 65
- Vanity Fair just beat Donald Trump at his own game
- Facebook rolls out strategies to curb spread of fake news
- Super Mario Run launches, expected to make millions in a month
- The federal government is 'exposing dogs to anthrax, forcing them to suffer heart attacks, and drilling into their skulls'
- Terrorists hiding among migrants, UK defence chief warns
- Kellyanne Conway says there's an 'exception' to anti-nepotism laws that would open a 'realm of possibilities'
- The president-elect just attacked Vanity Fair on Twitter because they gave Trump Grill a bad review
- The Yahoo breach might have seriously compromised national security
- Some Democrats say they are willing to work with Republicans in replacing ObamaCare
- Israeli women barred from parliament over 'short' skirts
- Yahoo hack may have affected 'one billion users'
- Argos delivery drivers call off three-day strike
- North Carolina's GOP legislature moves to strip power from incoming Democratic governor
- Four per cent of airline pilots 'experience suicidal thoughts'
- Stephen Colbert reads 1 real, 3 fake letters from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump
- Pagan wins right to wear goat's horns for ID photo
- Donald Trump denies offering ambassadorships for A-list singers at his inauguration
- Where does Rogue One fit in the correct Star Wars viewing order?
- The Austrian government is grappling with how to prevent Hitler's birthplace from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine
- Trump and Obama discuss Kanye, acronyms, inauguration guests in imagined Conan chats
- Mother of Sandy Hook victim is on a mission to stop school violence
- California tells Uber to stop transporting people in self-driving cars
- December 14th
- Yahoo discloses breach compromising more than 1 billion users
- Trump reportedly excluded Twitter from major tech meeting because they wouldn't make a Crooked Hillary emoji
- November's enormous market rally was largely fueled by just 3 stocks
- Your salary is probably a fraction of what first-year workers earn in Silicon Valley
- Donald Trump brings his 'blind trust' to meeting with tech executives
- The president of the Philippines is now claiming he personally murdered suspected criminals
- Republicans' dramatic change of heart over Vladimir Putin, in 1 stunning graph
- Rancher discovers massive 'Stonehenge' in the depths of the Amazon
- Unicredit announces Italy's biggest-ever rescue fundraising
- Oldest hominin footprints reveal females likely shared common 'husband'
- How does Santa get around the world so quickly?
- Trousergate: Nicky Morgan's rift with the PM, explained
- A civilian survivor of a U.S. drone strike is finally getting his day in court
- Federal agency says Trump must give up his D.C. hotel before his inauguration
- The Princess Bride, The Lion King, Rushmore among National Film Registry honorees
- UK 'languishing in 4G digital slow lane'
- Jose Mourinho takes on Michael Owen over Ibrahimovic comment
- The Eiffel Tower will go dark early in solidarity with the people of Aleppo
- Markets await Fed interest rate hike
- Trump to meet with tech leaders Wednesday
- EPA concludes fracking contaminates water after all
- 'Are you truly incapable of shame?' U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power blasts Russia, Syria over Aleppo 'evil'
- Aleppo ceasefire, evacuation appear on brink of collapse, and rebels mostly blame Iran
- Stephen Colbert begs Trump supporters to leave Rogue One alone
- In Stephen Colbert's dark Charlie Brown Christmas homage, Santa voted for Donald Trump
- Evacuations from war-torn Aleppo possibly delayed until Thursday
- Alan Thicke, famous TV dad, also composed maybe the best TV theme songs of the 1980s
- Robin Thicke calls dad Alan Thicke 'the greatest man I ever met'
- Growing Pains star Alan Thicke dies at 69
- NASA scientist warns Earth is due for an 'extinction-level event'
- SeaWorld opening first theme park without killer whales
- December 13th
- Pentagon: ISIS militants linked to Paris attacks killed in Syria
- Study finds Christians in the U.S. tend to be less educated than Hindus, Jews, and Muslims
- Ceasefire in eastern Aleppo allows rebels, civilians to evacuate
- Climate scientists take steps to protect research in case Trump administration attempts to erase it
- UN axes Wonder Woman as honorary women's empowerment ambassador
- Some of the NFL's worst teams will play in London in 2017
- Donald Trump and Kanye West pulled off a surprisingly successful bro hug
- Donald Trump's Cabinet has 2 bankers, 2 generals, 3 business executives, and 1 wealthy philanthropist
- Donald Trump selects Rick Perry to head Energy Department
- America's oldest person celebrates her birthday, still lies about her age
- Five-year-old dies in Santa's arms as last wish granted just in time
- Yaya Toure admits drink driving but says he's teetotal
- Kanye West is at Trump Tower to meet with the president-elect
- Will John McCain, Marco Rubio, and Lindsey Graham block Rex Tillerson?
- Nearly 4 million Americans could be drinking toxic water
- GOP leaders in Congress back investigation into Russian hacking
- Childline receives record number of calls about gender issues
- Poll: Voters are wary of bankers in Trump's Cabinet
- Stephen Colbert congratulates Russia on belatedly winning the Cold War
- Rex Tillerson wants sanctions on Russia lifted. That could hugely benefit his company.
- Donald Trump picks ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for secretary of state
- Forest Hill stabbing: Knifeman shouted 'Death to Muslims'
- Donald Trump is scheduled for at least one more deposition before taking office
- Man spends $1m playing Game of War on mobile
- Tests for three-year-olds 'can predict future criminals'
- On The Daily Show, President Obama wasn't laughing at Trevor Noah's email-hacking jokes
- See inside the world's first permanent ice hotel
- Leo Villareal to light up London's bridges
- In lieu of press conference, Donald Trump tweets out plan to handle business conflicts
- Samantha Bee asks why Democrats are borrowing 'identity politics' talking points from Fox News
- Justice Department investigating Virginia jail with highest death rate in the state
- Seth Meyers makes some good points about Donald Trump and Russian election meddling
- Electoral College electors explain their demand for pre-vote intelligence briefing on Russian meddling
- Lockheed Martin shares fall after Trump tweets F-35 costs are 'out of control'
- L.A. Rams fire head coach Jeff Fisher
- Rescue group says streets of eastern Aleppo are 'full with dead bodies'
- December 12th
- Trump officially nominates Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn to head his National Economic Council
- Listen to a hockey announcer lose his mind on this game-winning goal call
- La La Land snags 7 Golden Globe nominations
- Council tax could rise £100 a year to deal with care crisis
- Kellyanne Conway dismisses Rex Tillerson's Russia ties: 'It's not like he's pounding down vodka with Vladimir Putin'
- Amazon workers 'sleeping in tents' to save money
- Arsenal vs Bayern Munich – another nightmare tie for Wenger
- What is the key to happiness?
- Reindeer 'shrinking' as Arctic climate change continues
- China is 'seriously concerned' about Donald Trump's latest Taiwan comments
- Officials hunt war memorial potato roasters
- Cairo Coptic church bombing kills at least 25
- Best Buy employees surprise teen who visited daily with his own WiiU
- La La Land wins big at Critics' Choice Awards
- Scientists say climate change is causing reindeer in the Arctic to shrink
- 12 hospitalized after fire breaks out at Michigan ski resort
- Islamic State retakes ancient Syrian city of Palmyra
- December 11th
- SNL imagines Donald Trump's fluctuating view of his hands, his world, and himself
- Kurdish militants claim responsibility for deadly stadium attack in Turkey
- Rand Paul pledges to block John Bolton nomination: 'I'm an automatic no'
- Breaking Bad's Walter White is Donald Trump's latest 'alt-good' Cabinet pick on SNL
- December 10th
- Kerry requests 'big, magnanimous choices from Russia' as Aleppo falls
- At least 50 killed by ISIS suicide bomber in Yemen
- Trump's team sent a 74-question memo asking for a list of Energy Department staff working on climate change
- Ikea renamed its products after your most pressing relationship questions
- U.S. to send 200 more troops to fight ISIS in Syria
- Trump says he will devote 'zero time' to The Apprentice and reports to the contrary are 'fake news'
- Charleston shooter Dylann Roof laughed in confession video: 'I did it'
- Bulgarian cargo train explosion kills 5, injures 25
- December 9th
- 75 percent of American companies plan to give holiday bonuses this year
- Taylor Swift just released a single with Zayn Malik, her first in 2 years
- Here's how Amazon is preparing its warehouse workforce for the holidays
- Parents demand Illinois high school ban any books that mention or allude to sex
- Kellyanne Conway defends Trump's continued involvement with The Apprentice by pointing out Obama plays golf
- Why the Fed's much-promised interest rate increase might herald a new era of crime
- Did the Department of Homeland Security try to hack Georgia's vote?
- Boeing is donating $1 million to fund Donald Trump's inaugural event
- Resurrecting the great British port habit
- Donald Trump's labor secretary pick thinks 'beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis' is 'very American'
- Firmino was a bargain signing, says Klopp
- Trump spent $12 million on family-owned businesses, his kids' travel during the campaign
- Trump defends billionaires in his Cabinet: 'I want people that made a fortune!'
- Trevor Noah counts the ways the Electoral College is a bizarre, anti-democratic aberration
- Those Carrier jobs Donald Trump saved? They'll soon be done by robots.
- Tory win in Sleaford by-election leaves Labour red-faced
- Alabama executes inmate Ronald Smith Jr. after split Supreme Court refuses stay
- David Cameron calls for 'course correction' in Western politics
- Mick Jagger becomes a father for the eighth time at age 73
- Miami fisherman catches a kilo of cocaine
- Stephen Colbert really doesn't want a Donald Trump inaugural parade in Manhattan
- Feathered dinosaur tail found preserved in amber
- South Korean lawmakers impeach president, handing power to prime minister
- Michael Moore says he still isn't sure Donald Trump will become president
- House passes temporary spending package to keep government open, but Senate might derail it
- Donald Trump has a financial stake in NBC's new Celebrity Apprentice
- December 8th
- John Glenn dies at 95
- In 1970, 92 percent of Americans earned more than their parents at age 30. Now barely half do.
- Scientists just discovered a dinosaur tail preserved in amber — and it's feathered
- Apprentice producer Mark Burnett is helping to orchestrate Trump's Inauguration Day festivities
- Half a dozen of Trump's top appointees were direct or indirect donors to his election
- New report suggests giraffes are 'vulnerable' to extinction
- Watch these Mexican politicians gleefully whack a Donald Trump piñata
- The U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS attacked Mosul's main hospital yesterday
- Wenger 'will not sell Sanchez or Ozil' – but is he bluffing?
- Pantone's color of 2017 is extremely green
- Paris makes all public transport free to tackle pollution
- American life expectancy just dropped for the first time since 1993
- Reince Priebus jokes Trump will be such a good president that he'll be on the $20 bill instead of Harriet Tubman
- Viola Desmond to be the first woman on a Canadian bank note
- Veterans 'face fresh investigation into killings during the Troubles'
- Trump claims he could stop any company from moving out of the U.S. with just a 5-minute phone call
- Nigel Farage is getting nervous about Brexit. Trump could be his life preserver.
- Iranian camels issued with number plates
- Donald Trump reportedly plans to keep a stake in his business
- Consultancies accused of taking billions from UK foreign aid
- GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher fiercely defends Russia, calls human rights violations 'baloney'
- Children's online junk food ads banned by watchdog
- D.C. pizzeria gunman says he still believes in Pizzagate but 'intel on this wasn't 100 percent'
- When are the last post dates for Christmas 2019?
- Real Madrid and Bayern Munich lie in wait for Arsenal and Leicester
- Spread-betting shares slashed after regulator cracks down
- Hundreds of police accused of sexual exploitation
- Colbert's Late Show mocks the media by imagining how Time picked Trump as Person of the Year
- Stephen Colbert's been dragged into #Pizzagate, and he has a message for conspiracy mongers
- Madonna, James Corden vogue, twerk, dish, and Carpool Karaoke through Manhattan
- Donald Trump tweet-insults Carrier union official by name, blames unions for offshoring
- December 7th
- Trump just tapped the co-founder of wrestling empire WWE to head the Small Business Administration
- Ohio lawmakers approve bill to ban abortion after 6 weeks
- America just exported more natural gas than it imported — for the 1st time in almost 60 years
- Listen to Ted Cruz’s bizarre 40-second monologue about the wonders of queso
- Listen to WNYC's original broadcast on Pearl Harbor
- A chunk of Antarctica could soon break off and become an iceberg the size of Delaware
- Keith Ellison promises to resign from Congress if elected DNC chair
- Tina Fey explains how a Nazi filmmaker taught her how to think about making art under President Trump
- Co-op Travel leaves high street in £55m deal
- Cricket introduces red cards to stamp out violence
- There might be hidden messages in Trump's Person of the Year cover
- Trouble as Man City endure another strange night in Europe
- 69 percent of Americans don't think Trump should have to sell his businesses
- Muslim reporter describes the struggles of covering the election: 'Empathy felt like a one-way street'
- England's £400m Nike deal contains performance clauses
- Football sex abuse: Le Tissier 'given naked massage' by former coach
- Trump finally got his Person of the Year cover. His other Time covers haven't been as flattering.
- Angela Merkel's burka ban met with overwhelming support
- Seven million UK workers living in poverty
- Hospitals warn that repealing ObamaCare could spark 'unprecedented public health crisis'
- Syrian monitoring group says rebels have been routed from Aleppo's Old City
- Indonesia earthquake: 54 dead in Aceh province
- TV dads Stephen Colbert, 'Pops' Joe Biden tiptoe around Trump in American 'family meeting'
- Mannequin challenge leads to two arrests
- Indonesia says at least 54 dead in Aceh earthquake
- Trump fires Michael Flynn Jr., son of national security adviser, after phony-news tweets
- December 6th
- Chinese state media slams Trump as a 'diplomatic rookie'
- Obama urges continued pursuit of 'smart strategy' in counterterrorism fight in final national security speech
- Chris Christie has the lowest approval rating for any governor in Quinnipiac's entire history
- The Weather Channel blasts Breitbart for using its video to 'mislead Americans' about climate change
- Trump's spokesperson just claimed the president-elect sold 'all' his stock back in June
- David Brock wants to build a 'Breitbart of the left'
- John McCain refuses to discuss the future most powerful person in the world
- Bob Dole is paid $20,000 a month to lobby for Taiwan. He admitted he 'may have' brokered Trump's call.
- Trump Tower condos are now touting the U.S. Secret Service as a 'new amenity'
- Google to rely solely on renewable energy in 2017
- Donald Trump apparently exaggerated the number of jobs saved in the Carrier deal
- Here's how to make the U.S. smarter
- Gatland to name Lions coaches as All Blacks 'shiver'
- Donald Trump threatened on Twitter to cancel a $4 billion Boeing contract. Boeing's stock immediately dropped.
- Mark Carney laments 'first lost decade since 1860'
- Peter Vaughan, who played Maester Aemon on Game of Thrones, dies at 93
- Republicans rally to give Texas congressman the right to grill ribs on his office balcony
- Beyoncé leads Grammy nominations with 9 nods for Lemonade
- Man Utd a 'long distance' from title, but Mourinho safe
- Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is being cared for by Dr. David Bowie
- The most popular tweet of the year was only one word
- Turner Prize is 'modish crap', says Michael Gove
- Cancer drug offers surprise hope to infertile women
- Abuse victims name senior figures amid hush-money claims
- Donald Trump named Time Person of the Year 2016
- Bernard Cazeneuve named French prime minister as Manuel Valls resigns to run for president
- School pupils targeted by cranky owl
- Samantha Bee says no to the 2016 recounts — all of them
- Colbert's Late Show playfully pokes fun at Jill Stein's recount fever
- CNN journalist tries to reason with white nationalist hosting Texas A&M alt-right forum
- Lawyers offer free support to electors who want to oppose Trump
- Seth Meyers refashions the Pledge of Allegiance for Trump's post-fact presidency
- FBI investigating threat made against Los Angeles metro station
- Report: Pentagon buried audit that exposed $125 billion in bureaucratic waste
- Study: Just one cigarette a day can greatly increase risk of dying early
- December 5th
- Russia, China vote against Aleppo ceasefire
- After 19 members killed in plane crash, Chapecoense soccer team declared South American cup champion
- Trump economic adviser defends Taiwan phone call: 'If China doesn't like it, screw 'em'
- Mistrial declared in Michael Slager murder trial
- Donald Trump, Simone Biles lead the short list for Time's Person of the Year
- Donald Trump and climate change activist Al Gore just sat down for a 'lengthy' meeting
- Jimmy Kimmel will host the Oscars
- Melania Trump to stay behind in New York while Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner move to D.C.
- Ahead of its time: Chanel's latest J12 watch collection
- Joe Scarborough says Michael Flynn should apologize for the 'trail of crap' he left behind with fake news tweets
- Jose Mourinho named in major tax avoidance leak
- V&A Museum to release its own paint range
- Agency workers are being 'exploited', says think-tank
- Trump owns stock in the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline
- Morning Joe sets off alarm bells in cozying up to Donald Trump
- Victory for Standing Rock Sioux as Dakota pipeline is rerouted
- Monte dei Paschi bailout looms as Italy approves €20bn banks rescue plan
- The most and least trusted professions in the UK
- Man punches kangaroo to save dog from headlock
- Britain has 'failed to integrate minorities', says Casey review
- Austrian election: Far-right leader concedes defeat
- Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigns after referendum defeat
- Al Pacino, James Taylor, Mavis Staples celebrated at Kennedy Center Honors
- Far-right candidate Norbert Hofer concedes defeat in Austria
- Police: Gunman inside D.C. pizza place says he was investigating fake story
- New Zealand Prime Minister John Key stuns country with resignation
- Italian prime minister to resign following referendum defeat
- December 4th
- Feds deny easement for Dakota Access Pipeline
- Pence says Trump will intervene to stop outsourcing 'on a day-by-day basis'
- California warehouse fire death toll rises to 24
- Watch Mike Pence avoid answering why the Carrier deal isn't crony capitalism
- Iran promises a 'firm response' if new U.S. sanctions are enacted
- SNL launches a Bigfoot-style search for Hillary Clinton in the woods of Westchester County
- Fidel Castro's ashes interred
- SNL lambastes Donald Trump's weird Twitter addiction
- Jill Stein will now sue for a Pennsylvania recount on constitutional grounds
- December 3rd
- A transgender police officer was denied entry into an LGBTQ event over her uniform
- The NBA coach of the year hopes pro sports soften their stance on pot
- Russia seeks negotiations with U.S. for full rebel withdrawal from Aleppo
- Scientists found a new species of giant, air-breathing fish in the Amazon
- Ford is open to a deal with Trump to keep jobs in America — for a price
- At least 9 dead, 25 missing in California warehouse rave fire
- Veterans are building a shelter so pipeline protesters can weather the winter
- Best properties: Houses with water features
- Trump speaks with Taiwanese president, risking diplomatic crisis with China
- December 2nd
- Newly released Hamilton Mixtape tops iTunes, Amazon
- Donald Trump's trick for a perfectly in-place tie? Scotch tape.
- Jill Stein's recount efforts hit with lawsuits in Michigan and Wisconsin
- How Brexit is changing Christmas shopping
- Nestle's 'good science' to reduce sugar by 40%
- Anger as rail fares to increase by 2.3%
- Virginia schools ban To Kill a Mockingbird over 'offensive wording'
- America put more than 67,000 people in solitary confinement last year
- Newt Gingrich is using his proximity to Trump to jack up his speaking fees
- Nico Rosberg announces shock retirement from F1
- Ex-Chelsea footballer 'paid £50k by club to keep quiet on abuse'
- Unemployment rate drops to 4.6 percent, a 9-year low
- Paul Ryan assures America that he has spoken to Donald Trump about the Constitution
- Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi bet it all on Sunday's referendum, and he may well lose
- After 22 years in power, Gambia's president will reportedly accept defeat
- Lauren Graham puts one Gilmore Girls controversy firmly to rest on Colbert's Late Show
- As Tennessee wildfire death toll hits 11, park official blame humans for starting blaze
- England unbeaten in 2016 – but there is still work to do
- Family protests over 'gang rape of donkey'
- Stephen Colbert warns that Trump will soon be able to send you unblockable text messages
- Indiana is giving Carrier $7 million to save 800 jobs. Not everyone's impressed with Trump's deal.
- Princess Cruises to pay $40 million fine for polluting ocean
- Watch President Obama light his final National Christmas Tree at White House celebration
- A group of veterans staged a peaceful protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline
- Thai crown prince takes throne as King Rama X
- At Ohio rally, Donald Trump promises to repeal ObamaCare, calls press 'extremely dishonest'
- Trump team says he supports the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline
- December 1st
- Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to step down in 2017
- Jill Stein is officially 2016's Ralph Nader
- Trump vows during Carrier visit that companies 'are not going to leave the United States anymore'
- Rep. Keith Ellison, frontrunner for DNC chair, is still being plagued by his past associations with anti-Semitism
- Why untangling Donald Trump from his business would be surprisingly easy
- Watch this startling clip of a Trump supporter confidently and baselessly claiming massive voter fraud
- CrossFit lobbyists are in 'a holy war with Big Soda'
- Trevor Noah got into an incredibly heated debate with The Blaze's Tomi Lahren last night
- Steven Mnuchin's bank once foreclosed on an elderly woman over a 27-cent error
- Hallucinogenic mushrooms may hold the key to treating anxiety, depression in cancer patients
- Since Trump's win, the percentage of Republicans interested in repealing ObamaCare has plummeted
- Football abuse scandal: NSPCC helpline flooded with 860 calls
- Republicans might be planning an ObamaCare trap for Democrats
- Football sex abuse: Chelsea investigate scout after 'secret payout'
- Magic mushrooms 'reduce depression in cancer patients'
- True hue: British Racing Green
- The London Illustration Fair: A capital idea
- Zidane makes it a family affair at Madrid
- Tumblr user 'sends severed toe to make pendant'
- BuzzFeed published a lame hit-piece on the Fixer Upper couple, and Megyn Kelly is outraged
- Donald Trump's unfinished Cabinet is already the wealthiest in modern history
- South Korea says it will pursue more unilateral sanctions against North Korea
- Questions swirl around deal to keep Carrier jobs in Indianapolis
- North Carolina GOP wins partial recount of Democratic stronghold in governor's race
- In Mosul, at least 500,000 people have no access to running water
- Influential Saudi prince says it's 'high time' women be allowed to drive
- Jim Delligatti, inventor of the Big Mac, dies at 98
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