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January 2017
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- January 31st
- The Westminster Dog Show will include cats this year
- A Dutch zoo has created 'Tinder for orangutans'
- Archaeologists discover 400-year-old shopping list
- Mar-a-Lago is officially being called the 'Winter White House' now
- Is President Trump turning his Supreme Court announcement into a rose ceremony?
- DHS Secretary John Kelly was noticeably evasive on the timing of Trump's immigration order
- This year's Budweiser Super Bowl commercial is a pointed celebration of America's immigrant history
- Lord Coe denies misleading MPs over Russian doping scandal
- Trump meets with 'pharma,' demands they 'get prices down'
- MSNBC's Joe Scarborough slams Trump for saying Sally Yates 'betrayed' the Justice Department: 'That's what an autocrat would use'
- Trump to keep LGBTQ federal workplace protections introduced by Obama
- A truck-sized asteroid zoomed frighteningly close to Earth this weekend
- Wildlife rangers search for dolphin wearing a T-shirt
- Woman 'told to prove she was lactating' at German airport
- Oprah Winfrey is joining 60 Minutes
- Brexit negotiator names 3 threats to united Europe: Islamist terrorism, Putin — and President Trump
- Trump to announce Supreme Court nominee Tuesday evening
- Barack Obama breaks silence to condemn Donald Trump's travel ban
- Stephen Colbert, John Dickerson make Stephen Bannon's greatest wish come true
- NHS paying up to £1bn too much for drugs, says report
- Stephen Colbert marvels at everything President Trump has undone in his first week
- FA Cup fifth round: Where will the upsets come?
- Peter Capaldi is leaving Doctor Who
- Seth Meyers cringes over Trump's 'cruel and unnecessary,' incompetently enacted immigration order
- Jimmy Kimmel yells at Sean Spicer for suggesting 5-year-old refugees are a security threat
- Watch Jeff Sessions urge the attorney general Trump just fired to resist a president's unlawful orders
- Marco Rubio says State Department staff were ordered not to talk to Congress about Trump's executive order
- Boy Scouts will allow transgender kids who identify as boys to enroll in programs
- January 30th
- A 25-pound bobcat is on the loose in Washington, D.C.
- Would you pay $18,000 to enjoy the perfect cup of coffee?
- More than 1,000 young liberals signed up to run for office this weekend
- Spicer says people held at airports for hours were 'temporarily inconvenienced for the safety of us all'
- Democrats will filibuster Trump's Supreme Court nominee unless it's Merrick Garland, which it won't be
- Star Wars spin-off director wants you to know Han definitely shot first
- Is Google's latest Doodle a jab at President Trump?
- The 'father of Pac-Man' dies at 91
- African Union slams U.S. for taking its people 'as slaves' but not as refugees
- Charities trial contactless boxes to combat decline in cash donations
- President Trump to sign executive action limiting new regulations
- President Trump's DHS secretary wasn't fully briefed on the immigration ban until it was already being signed
- Life does flash before your eyes when you die, says study
- White House justifies Steve Bannon's seat on the National Security Council by noting he was in the Navy
- Six teens found dead after garden party in Germany
- Trump blames computers, protesters for travel chaos caused by executive order
- Fake news inquiry: What will MPs examine?
- Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly clears U.S. green card holders for travel to U.S.
- Alexandre Bissonnette: Who is the man charged in Canada mosque shooting?
- The ACLU shattered all its previous fundraising records this weekend
- Veterans stand up for military interpreters blocked from entering the U.S.
- 6 killed in shooting at Quebec City mosque
- January 29th
- Trump gives former Breitbart chief Bannon a seat on the National Security Council
- Republican critics blast Trump order as 'ridiculous,' 'overly broad,' and unconstitutional
- Theresa May orders ministers to press U.S. counterparts on Trump order
- Conway says airport detentions are 'a small price to pay' for security
- Iran will issue a retaliatory travel ban, but Iraq will not
- January 28th
- Trump and Abe confirm 'the importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance'
- Trump memorializes Space Shuttle Challenger, attacks newspapers in morning tweets
- Congressional GOP debates ObamaCare replacement: 'That's going to be called TrumpCare'
- Actor John Hurt dies at 77
- Serena Williams beats Venus in the Australian Open final for her 23rd Grand Slam
- January 27th
- Nadal, Federer to face off in Australian Open finals
- This is how the Wall in Game of Thrones would compare to Trump's wall in real life
- Secret recording of Republicans' closed-door meeting reveals fears about repealing ObamaCare
- The white woman at the center of the Emmett Till murder trial just admitted she lied
- President Trump is a terrible negotiator
- Could Elon Musk's unlikely bromance with President Trump save solar?
- Frustrated NBA player punches team bench, breaks arm
- Iraq might ban visas for Americans in response to Trump's visa restrictions on Iraq
- Trump loves to be roasted, never laughs, Jeff Ross tells Conan
- Madeleine Albright and Mayim Bialik fight Trump's Muslim ban
- Working-class professionals paid £6,800 less
- Scientists create first human-pig 'chimera'
- Amazon has sold out of 1984
- Trump will meet with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday
- Seth Meyers wonders who's going to tell President Trump there's no serious voter fraud
- Al Gore has revived the climate change summit canceled by the CDC
- Trump reportedly cancels paid-for ObamaCare ads during final enrollment push
- Mikhail Gorbachev believes the world is 'preparing for war'
- The Daily Show calls BS on President Trump's flurry of executive orders
- Indiana teachers hold sit-in at office of senator linked to Betsy DeVos
- Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan is stepping down
- Trump reportedly ordered National Parks director to produce different inauguration crowd photos
- January 26th
- Lindsey Graham calls President Trump's Mexican import tax idea 'mucho sad'
- Study finds that young girls believe being 'really, really smart' is a male trait
- Scientists create the first human-pig hybrid
- All of the State Department's senior management officials just resigned
- Senate Democrats have resorted to asking West Virginia's senator to teach them how to talk to 'real people'
- The FBI says its surveillance cameras need to be secret to protect the privacy of the people it's watching
- Kellyanne Conway is sick of seeing herself on TV all the time too
- Populism is a snake oil cure for corruption, research says
- Texas has the longest U.S. border with Mexico. Zero of its 38 members of Congress support Trump's wall.
- Prison suicides at record levels in England and Wales
- 'Euro could collapse,' says Trump's choice for ambassador to EU
- Italy ends search of avalanche-crushed hotel, with 29 dead, 9 rescued
- Man United could expand Old Trafford to rival Wembley
- The ten most corrupt countries in the world
- Samantha Bee gloats over the Women's March, lets Trump voters gloat over his inauguration
- Paul Ryan says Congress will pay for Trump's $14 billion Mexico border wall
- Contractor sues Trump Hotel in D.C. for unpaid $2 million bill
- Mattis and Pompeo 'blindsided' by black sites report
- January 25th
- Democratic congresswoman reveals she met with Assad during secret 'fact finding' trip to Syria
- President Trump's Mar-a-Lago just doubled its initiation fee
- Actress Mary Tyler Moore dies at 80
- President Trump wakes up at 6 a.m. every morning and watches TV
- In some ways, America's manufacturing industry is actually booming
- Trump Hotels plans to triple its locations in the U.S.
- Roxane Gay pulls book from publisher in protest of alt-right hero Milo Yiannopoulos
- Texas radio stations bans Madonna for 'un-American' remarks
- Trump allies are reportedly crowing that the president has 'conquered' Fox News
- Is trust dead?
- Dow breaks 20,000 points for first time in its 120-year history
- Eddie Jones's black eye eclipses Six Nations launch
- UK (finally) on track to meet borrowing target
- Fox News' Tucker Carlson pans proposal to 'shun' Kellyanne Conway because 'the last administration lied a lot too'
- Granit Xhaka interviewed by police over racial abuse claim
- President Trump's advisers are begging him to watch less TV
- EasyJet shares crash on Brexit pound warning
- Here's what will need to happen before Trump can build his Mexico border wall
- Michael Jackson was murdered, claims daughter Paris
- Corey Lewandowski and Robby Mook are going on a speaking tour together
- British millionaire Barry Pring 'murdered' by wife, inquest hears
- Global watchdog rules that the U.S. is not a full democracy anymore
- Irish town swamped with sex calls in Babestation mix-up
- Scientists are planning their own march on Washington
- Fine firms for sexist dress codes, say MPs
- Jimmy Kimmel previews his sequel to M. Night Shyamalan's Split, starring Donald Trump
- Official blames rogue Badlands National Park tweets on rogue former employee
- Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has cancer
- More than 50,000 gallons of oil spill near sacred land in Canada
- Israel approves 2,500 new housing units in the West Bank
- January 24th
- This year's Oscar lineup features the most black nominees ever
- After Trump orders several federal agencies not to tweet, Badlands National Park goes on a tweetstorm about climate change
- Democratic senator forces Trump nominee to admit Trump's inauguration crowd was smaller than Obama's
- Michael Jackson's daughter alleges her father was actually murdered
- Climate change is making birds boring
- Guess which airline had the most flight delays in 2016?
- OMB nominee advises Senate committee not to 'read too much into' his description of Social Security as a 'Ponzi scheme'
- America's first new private passenger rail service in 100 years will open this summer
- Sen. Roberts demands to know if Sen. Wyden winked and smiled at him
- British Gas fined £9.5m for billing errors
- Model Hanne Gaby Odiele reveals she is intersex to 'break taboo'
- American automakers have created 'task forces' to monitor President Trump's tweeting
- La La Land leads Academy Awards nominations with 14 nods
- 1984 climbs the bestseller list — almost 70 years after it was published
- Tekken 7 coming to Xbox One, PS4 and PC this summer
- Wall Street executives have already cashed in a bundle since Trump's victory
- American automakers meet with Trump to talk Mexico, tariffs
- Russia to decriminalise domestic violence
- Kellyanne Conway received death threats, reportedly has her own Secret Service detail
- Britain's Supreme Court rules that Parliament must approve Brexit trigger
- Jimmy Kimmel loves the new Trump phrase 'alternative facts,' lists some of his own
- Republican state senator lambasted for anti-Women's March posts
- Seth Meyers compares Kellyanne Conway's 'alternative facts' to a Jedi novice trying out mind tricks
- Minnesota governor faints during State of the State address
- John Lewis graphic memoir March wins 4 American Library Association awards
- Mike Pompeo confirmed as CIA director
- January 23rd
- Judge blocks Aetna-Humana megamerger
- Stephen Colbert to host the 2017 Emmys
- This $500,000 gold armchair is built for 'comfort and world domination'
- The new White House press secretary really hates Dippin' Dots
- After being pilloried for peddling falsehoods, Press Secretary Sean Spicer insists the 'intention is never to lie to you'
- Vice President Mike Pence calls his wife 'mother'
- McCain rips Trump for withdrawing from TPP
- Here's the official title of the next Star Wars film
- George H.W. Bush to be moved out of ICU, former first lady Barbara Bush discharged from the hospital
- President Trump was apparently 'surprised' by his own plan to cut regulations
- Can Donald Trump boost US economic growth to 4%?
- Silicon Valley tycoons are building a doomsday bunker with a 'miniature Whole Foods'
- Marco Rubio to support Rex Tillerson for secretary of state despite 'reservations'
- Ryan Mason: Hull star awake and could return within months
- Is the Department of Defense subtweeting President Trump?
- Pound's plunge boosts FTSE dividends to record £16.6bn
- Chinese New Year: What does the year of the rooster mean?
- Newt Gingrich thinks Madonna should be arrested for saying she considered 'blowing up the White House'
- Victorians were happier than we are today, finds new study
- This zany viral 'Japanese commercial' predicted what the world would look like if Trump was elected president
- Kellyanne Conway flatly states that President Trump won't release his tax returns
- Sen. Marco Rubio could potentially upset Rex Tillerson's nomination Monday
- President Trump prepares for 'busy week' of meetings, executive orders
- An estimated 1 in 100 Americans marched for women on Saturday
- Crunchy roast potatoes are cancer risk, watchdog warns
- Man nicknamed 'Goober' gets Trump throat tattoo
- SNL host Aziz Ansari holds out an olive branch to (most) Trump supporters in stand-up monologue
- Wenger admits FA charge and warns Xhaka 'not to tackle'
- Syrian opposition says it will only discuss cease-fire during peace talks
- Defeated Gambian leader drained state coffers, shipped luxury cars out before being forced into exile
- Bill in Russia aims to decriminalize domestic violence
- Patriots and Falcons to face off in Super Bowl
- Computer outage grounds all domestic United Airlines flights
- Ethics lawyers to file lawsuit over foreign payments to Trump businesses
- January 22nd
- Pope Francis says it's too soon to judge President Trump: 'We must wait and see'
- MLB players Yordano Ventura and Andy Marte die in separate Dominican car crashes
- President Obama made $20 million since he went to Washington
- SNL's Kellyanne Conway gleefully celebrates her new fame, Chicago-style
- SNL's Putin promises Russia will take care of America: 'It's the most expensive thing we've ever bought'
- January 21st
- The Justice Department says it's not illegal nepotism for Trump to hire his son-in-law
- 4 dead in Mississippi tornado
- Ashley Judd recited a beat poem called 'I am a nasty woman' at the Women's March
- 'We march today for the moral core of this nation,' says America Ferrera at the Women's March
- Merkel plans compromise while Le Pen calls for European nationalism
- 200,000 women are expected to rally for the Women's March on Washington
- Trump signs executive order targeting ObamaCare
- The Trump White House has already toned down the Melania Trump jewelry hawking in her official bio
- The Trumps take their first inaugural dance, to Sinatra's 'My Way'
- A band at Donald Trump's first inaugural ball just played 'Fight Song'
- Senate confirms former Gen. John Kelly as homeland security secretary
- January 20th
- CNN shows side-by-side video of 2017 and 2013 inauguration crowds, for some reason
- Watch as the first family arrives at the White House for the first time
- Obama was the best president for the stock market since Eisenhower
- Planes packed with women head to Washington, D.C.
- Angela Merkel went to an art museum instead of watching President Trump's inaugural address
- The Trump White House is already undoing Obama's legacy
- After Trump's inauguration, Joe Biden took the train home to Delaware
- Everyone is praising America for once again not having a coup or dictator
- Compare Trump's inauguration crowd to Obama's in these side-by-side photos
- House Democrats at the inauguration are making a silent statement on health care
- What everyone wore to Trump's inauguration
- New Spurs stadium: tunnel views at eyewatering prices
- There is an 'Inauguration Day package' at Trump Hotel in D.C. It costs $500,000.
- Excited Trump fans throw inaugural parties in Russia and Melania Trump's Slovenia
- West Ham sell Payet - and offer to replace fans' shirts
- Hundreds gather for free marijuana in D.C. ahead of Trump's inauguration
- Newspapers around the world wish America 'good luck' and hold their breath
- Westminster and Waterloo bridges close after discovery of WWII bomb
- Donald Trump's Inauguration Day begins with stunning sunrise over U.S. Capitol
- Donald Trump has reportedly surrendered his personal smartphone
- 'Huge leap' in prostate cancer tests may prevent 25,000 biopsies
- Stephen Colbert braces for Trump's inauguration, 'inevitable like death and never seeing his taxes'
- Surrey council to hold referendum on 15% tax hike
- Sailor Armel Le Cleac'h wins Vendee Globe in record time
- Three dead in Melbourne car rampage
- Stephen Colbert's conservative alter-ego returns to beg Obama to stay
- Alec Baldwin trots out SNL Donald Trump impersonation at comedy-laden NYC Trump protest
- New York City's two tabloids use identical punny headlines to ring in the Trump era
- Trump attends official inaugural concert at Lincoln Memorial, thanks supporters for 'real change'
- Republican senator wants to work with Democrats to 'fix' ObamaCare
- NCIS: Los Angeles star Miguel Ferrer dies at 61
- January 19th
- Gorillaz, Arcade Fire release new songs to protest Trump
- Will and Grace reboot to hit NBC this fall
- Steven Mnuchin sidesteps questions about ObamaCare tax cuts
- Sen. Claire McCaskill presses Trump's treasury secretary nominee about Trump's foreign-held debt
- Rick Perry says he'll 'rely upon' scientists when it comes to nuclear testing
- Try not to read into this exchange between Sen. Al Franken and Rick Perry
- Mnuchin admits Trump's 'rather modest campaign staff' might not have done a great job with his tax plan
- Rick Perry dodges whether he'd fight against budget cuts at the Energy Department
- The Trump team is reportedly working on a budget that cuts $10.5 trillion in spending over 10 years
- Steven Mnuchin defends his Cayman Island investment fund during Senate grilling
- Steven Mnuchin rejects accusations that he was a 'foreclosure machine'
- Watch this Democrat's warm introduction of Rick Perry
- Gabriel Jesus: Can striker save Manchester City's season?
- Republican senator offers Democrat a 'Valium,' sets off fight in finance committee
- Rick Perry says he regrets suggesting the Department of Energy should be abolished
- Team GB sprinters 'lucky to be alive' after motorbike crash
- Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks to cut 400 staff
- The GOP just hired its first female representative to recruit more women to run for office
- The Washington Redskins' fate is now in the hands of the Supreme Court
- Why Peta is calling for boycott of A Dog's Purpose film
- Fox News' Tucker Carlson tears into 'crackpot' Huffington Post writer for article claiming Clinton is the legitimate president
- Bruce Springsteen secretly performed a thank-you concert for President Obama's staff
- Donald Trump's secretary of the Army nominee allegedly punched a concessions worker in the face at a horse auction
- Rick Perry, Steven Mnuchin go before Senate for confirmation hearings
- Ten most complained about adverts in 2016
- In stunning Australian Open upset, Djokovic falls to unknown wild card player from Uzbekistan
- Westmonster: Arron Banks launches 'anti-establishment' website
- Stephen Colbert unveils backup Trump 2020 slogans, in case 'Keep America Great' doesn't pan out
- Islamic State caliphate crumbles as east Mosul 'liberated'
- Italian hotel buried under avalanche, with several deaths feared
- A Russian dissident tells Samantha Bee her concerns about Donald Trump, calmly advises panic
- Samantha Bee introduces you to Trump's swampy treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin
- Rick Perry reportedly agreed to be energy secretary without checking what the Energy Department does
- Donald Trump pays out his $25 million Trump University settlement
- Trump taps Sonny Perdue as secretary of agriculture
- Investigation opened into 'disturbing' treatment of German shepherd on set of A Dog's Purpose
- Feds sue largest student loan servicer in the U.S., alleging it cheated borrowers
- January 18th
- A Democratic senator brought a bottle of Trump water to the Pruitt hearing
- Americans over 60 have a shocking amount of student debt
- Watch this Republican senator's hilarious takedown of the EPA's puddle regulations
- China is finally dismantling its 2,000-year-old monopoly on table salt
- At his final press conference, Obama thanks the media
- Tom Price faces bipartisan grilling on how he will help the medical needs of minorities
- U.S. officials declare 2016 hottest year on record
- Elizabeth Warren rips Tom Price's explanation for his questionable stock purchases: 'Wink wink, nod nod, we're all supposed to believe that?'
- Wilbur Ross acknowledges need for federal spending on infrastructure — something Republicans have tried to avoid
- Kirsten Gillibrand to EPA nominee Scott Pruitt: 'I need you to care about human health'
- Scott Pruitt says the EPA will operate through 'cooperative federalism'
- Democratic senator takes Tom Price to task over questionable stock purchases
- Nikki Haley wobbles on the Paris Agreement, saying it could put industries 'at peril'
- Trump's EPA nominee argues for 'debate and dialogue' about climate change
- Watch Bernie Sanders' fiery confrontation with Tom Price about universal health care
- Nikki Haley suggests standing strong against Russia: 'I don't think we can trust them'
- Trump's health and human services nominee vows health care for 'every single American'
- Commerce nominee Wilbur Ross vows to be 'quite scrupulous'
- Nikki Haley vows to take a stand against U.N. 'bias' toward Israel
- Juventus badge: The biggest redesign in football history?
- Fox News' Tucker Carlson perfectly exposed a guest trying to spread a hoax on air
- Did this Democratic congresswoman meet with Assad during her secret trip to Syria?
- Most people on Earth still don't use the internet
- EE fined £2.7m for overcharging customers by 630%
- Donald Trump plans to bring back military parades
- UK accused of failing on anti-corruption pledges
- Manchester United appoint full-time counter-terrorism chief
- Majority of Brits think the country is 'in decline'
- Stephen Colbert asks if God could really triumph over Trump. 'God' isn't so sure.
- Airbus to test flying cars by end of year
- Thousands of Britons to be flown out of The Gambia
- Federal ethics chief responds to threats from House GOP by suggesting public meeting
- Betsy DeVos tells Senate hearing she supports guns in schools because of grizzly bears
- Hairstylist says 'entitled' Marla Maples expected free Inauguration Day services in exchange for 'exposure'
- Bernie Sanders asks Betsy DeVos pointed questions about her family's contributions to the GOP
- More than 100 dead after Nigerian military mistakenly bombs refugee camp
- January 17th
- Apprentice contestant sues Donald Trump for defamation
- Florida airport shooting suspect claims he was inspired by ISIS
- ObamaCare has never been more popular
- Bernie Sanders grills Ryan Zinke on climate change
- Poem hails 'Melania the fair,' 'the handsome Trump clan'
- Trump makes American debt 'go bye bye' in new children's book
- The Obamas are beelining to Palm Springs right after Trump's inauguration
- Betty White is 95 and still cooler than you are
- A Michigan man got a ticket for warming up his car in his driveway
- Commerce secretary nominee Wilbur Ross oversaw companies that sent thousands of jobs overseas
- Donald Trump to be sworn in as president using his 60-year-old childhood bible
- Malia and Sasha Obama's White House swing set donated after being rejected by Barron Trump
- Archaeologists discover mysterious pendant that could have ties to Anne Frank
- Trump's team is really, definitely, absolutely not concerned about the fact that there are no major celebrities at the inauguration
- Donald Trump is right that he has no deals in Russia. But it's not because he didn't try.
- Theresa May promises a 'truly global Britain' after Brexit
- Mark Zuckerberg to testify in $2bn VR lawsuit
- Trump health secretary nominee Rep. Tom Price accused of insider trading in Congress
- CNN's Jake Tapper explains how Trump's war on the press compares with Obama's fight against Fox News
- BAT signs £$49bn merger deal to create tobacco giant
- World Economic Forum: 'Elites' descend on Davos
- FA gets tough over diving as disease spreads to rugby
- Stephen Colbert annotates the Donald Trump–John Lewis spat over MLK weekend
- Stephen Colbert looks at the GOP's ObamaCare repeal chicanery, finds their replacement plan
- Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo star lectures John Lewis on how MLK 'won civil rights'
- Van Jones tells Conan how he knew Donald Trump might win
- Nearly 75 percent of Americans want Donald Trump to release his tax returns, new poll finds
- Donald Trump taps business partner, fellow developers, to head $1 trillion infrastructure plan
- Bruce Springsteen cover band pulls out of Trump inauguration gala
- Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, dies at 82
- January 16th
- Report: Turkish police capture Istanbul nightclub attacker
- After plagiarism accusations, Monica Crowley turns down role in Trump administration
- Charity warns over rise of workplace 'fatherhood penalty'
- Mother who drove children into lake admits murder
- Alan Sugar has emergency heart surgery in US
- These 8 men have as much money as the world's poorest half
- Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Martin Luther King III on Monday
- Sales of vinyl reach 25-year high: Do you own these valuable records?
- South Korean prosecutor calls for Samsung chief's arrest
- Trump says he would lift Russian sanctions for nuclear arms reduction deal
- Hammond threatens Brexit Britain could become a tax haven
- Turkish cargo plane crash kills at least 37 in Kyrgyzstan
- China sternly warns Trump that Taiwan policy is 'non-negotiable'
- Donald Trump promises ObamaCare replacement plan will provide 'insurance for everybody'
- World's eight richest men own as much as 50% of poor
- January 15th
- Reince Priebus says talk of a new presidential press conference space is 'getting way out of whack'
- Hologram Tina Fey joins Star Wars' Felicity Jones in her SNL monologue
- Rand Paul debuts his ObamaCare replacement plan
- SNL's Donald Trump is a 'major whiz at jobs' who will bring a 'thick stream of jobs to this country'
- Theresa May will finally detail her Brexit plan Tuesday
- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is closing after 146 years
- January 14th
- January 13th
- This ridiculous big-wheel tricycle for adults will bring out the big kid in you
- 82 percent of Americans view Russia as a 'threat'
- The 'fix-and-flip' housing craze is back
- House votes to begin dismantling ObamaCare
- Woman discovers she is a long-missing child after getting 'an inclination'
- 'Don's Johns' port-a-potties carefully censored ahead of inauguration
- Trump finally found musicians to play at his inauguration
- The real reason box-office revenues hit an all-time high in 2016
- There is going to be a global clapping event to applaud Obama
- NFL prepares to kick off divisional playoff round
- Mike Pence, with a wink, explains why he was buying ice cream last night
- Lord Snowdon dies at 86: A royal marriage in pictures
- Trump rally 'breaks the man who broke the Bank of England'
- Would you get on this extremely unlucky airplane?
- WhatsApp's encryption reportedly has a backdoor for snooping
- Donald Trump dossier: UK spy exposed Sepp Blatter and Fifa
- Lady Liberty will be depicted as an African-American woman on a new U.S. coin
- Real Madrid: 40 games without defeat as Benzema strikes
- Stoke by-election: Tristram Hunt quits for V&A role
- British Museum launches hunt after mystery gold found in piano
- Chris Christie is already plotting his comeback
- Refugee who posed for selfie with Merkel sues Facebook
- One in five low-paid men now works part-time
- Tommy Allsup, the Buddy Holly guitarist who lived, is dead at 85
- New Nintendo console to launch in March
- Donald Trump has raised twice as much for his inauguration as Obama
- GOP House oversight chairman issues thinly veiled threat to ethics chief over Trump critiques
- Travel chaos and evacuations as snowstorms batter UK
- 'Alien-looking shrimp' hatch in Australian desert
- Stephen Colbert has some thoughts on the British spy behind the Trump Russia dossier
- Watch an MSNBC guest criticizing Russian hacking get caught in a creepy loop repeating 'Russia'
- CNN journalists debate, fret about Team Trump's 'hostility to facts' and 'denial of real news'
- Seth Meyers recaps Donald Trump's news conference, highlighting the 'especially creepy' parts
- Paul Ryan suggests Republicans will replace ObamaCare in Trump's first 100 days
- Jimmy Fallon and Kevin Bacon charmingly refashion the Kinks' 'Lola' as a goofy song about spelling
- January 12th
- George Saunders' audiobook will be narrated by celebrities including Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, and Lena Dunham
- RT just took over a C-SPAN feed for 10 minutes with no explanation
- There are 200 buses headed to D.C. for Trump's inauguration — and 1,200 bound for the concurrent protest
- Revenge of the GOP losers
- Amazon promises to create over 100,000 new jobs by 2018
- After 5 years, northern California's drought is over
- James Mattis backtracks, says he won't oppose women, LGBT individuals in the military
- Mike Pompeo says he has 'no doubt' that Putin intended to destabilize American democracy
- Elizabeth Warren grills Ben Carson as to whether HUD money will benefit Trump
- Paper calendars and planners are making a quiet comeback
- Ben Carson proposes a 'listening tour' during HUD confirmation hearing
- The FDA's drug approval rate plunged in 2016
- James Mattis suggests the U.S. military isn't strong enough to handle threats from Russia, China, and terrorists
- Rising inequality biggest threat to global economy, says WEF
- Americans expect Obama to fare better in history than 6 of the last 11 presidents
- Donald Trump might try to stop the AT&T merger with Time Warner
- Mattis hearing expected to focus on women, LGBT people in the military
- Trump hires Rudy Giuliani to advise on cybersecurity as a 'trusted friend'
- Homes evacuated after 'WW1 bomb is brought into pub'
- Former CIA chief suggests that U.S. intelligence must believe parts of the Trump Russia dossier
- Our next president wants you to 'buy L.L. Bean'
- Russia poised to decriminalize domestic violence
- Apple is planning to make original TV shows and movies
- Federer beats Nadal as old rivals serve up another classic
- BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith defends decision to publish Trump Russia file, rejects 'fake news' label
- James Mattis, Ben Carson, Mike Pompeo to face Senate hearings
- 'Annoying vegan' denied passport in Switzerland
- Scientists discover how stress causes heart attacks and strokes
- What is thundersnow – and is it dangerous?
- Stephen Colbert cracks puns about the Trump Russia dossier for 2 straight minutes
- Samantha Bee, Seth Meyers skeptically tackle the most salacious claim in the Trump Russia dossier
- Senate formally begins repealing the Affordable Care Act
- Federal ethics chief cites Donald Trump's favorite Supreme Court justice to urge him to divest
- Report: Chargers will soon announce move from San Diego to Los Angeles
- Head of ethics agency calls Trump's plan to step away from businesses 'inadequate'
- January 11th
- Tillerson emphasizes his opposition to U.N. efforts to 'coerce' negotiations between Israel, Palestine
- The law firm advising Trump on his business conflicts was named 'Russia Law Firm of the Year' in 2016
- Tillerson avoids condemning Philippines dictator Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs as a human rights violation
- Watch civil rights legend John Lewis' moving testimony against Jeff Sessions
- Watergate is on fire. Literally.
- Transportation nominee Elaine Chao argues private spending should help fund Trump's infrastructure plans
- Cory Booker makes history testifying against Jeff Sessions
- Trump closes rowdy press conference in the most Trump way
- Trump claims 'repeal and replace' of ObamaCare could happen 'in the same hour'
- Rex Tillerson artfully dodges questions on whether human activity is responsible for climate change
- Donald Trump immediately attacks U.S. intelligence community in first press conference in 6 months
- Rex Tillerson says 'radical Islam' would be his top priority as secretary of state
- Marco Rubio completely destroys Rex Tillerson over friendliness towards Russia
- Bovis accused of paying buyers to move into unfinished houses
- Secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson addresses Russia, China in opening statement
- Goat yoga class has 900-person waiting list
- The most common New Year resolutions – and who has stuck to them
- NHS crisis 'putting lives at risk', say top doctors
- Donald Trump is scheduled to hold his first press conference in 6 months this morning
- Senate confirmation hearings enter second day with Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions, Elaine Chao
- Seth Meyers is worried that Jeff Sessions is coming for your legal marijuana
- Now that Obama has delivered his farewell address, watch Key & Peele's eerily prescient preview
- 'Democracy needs you,' Barack Obama tells farewell rally
- Stephen Colbert quietly freaks out about Donald Trump firing America's nuclear guardians
- The first bumblebee was just added to the Endangered Species List
- Newly obtained letter from 1986 details Coretta Scott King's concerns about Jeff Sessions
- Famously agreeable FISA court reportedly turned down FBI request to monitor Trump officials
- Obama: To deny climate change 'betrays the spirit of this country'
- The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will be built in Los Angeles
- January 10th
- Trump's DHS nominee suggests a border wall alone 'will not do the job'
- 9 things Jeff Sessions claimed he knew nothing about
- Sessions, in reversal, says 'clearly it would be' sexual assault to grab a woman without her consent
- John Kerry says there hasn't 'been a lot of high-level exchange' during the transition
- Fox News quietly settled sexual harassment allegations against host Bill O'Reilly
- Paul Ryan says GOP will repeal and replace ObamaCare 'concurrently'
- Watch Dick Durbin's fiery takedown of Jeff Sessions' history on immigration
- Patrick Leahy ruthlessly dogs Jeff Sessions over his opposition to the Violence Against Women Act
- Jeff Sessions concedes Roe v. Wade, same-sex marriage are 'law of the land'
- Jeff Sessions defends himself against accusations of racism: 'I abhor the Klan'
- Protesters posing as the KKK disrupt Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing
- Joe Root poised to replace Alastair Cook as England captain
- FIFA to expand World Cup tournament to include more teams
- Lots of Democratic senators are actually very chummy with Jeff Sessions
- Senate GOP may not have enough votes to repeal ObamaCare without a replacement plan
- Robby Mook warns 'Russia's DNC hack was only the start' in dark op-ed
- 'Ditch white philosophers', students tell London university
- More than half of Americans don't want ObamaCare repealed without a replacement
- Have scientists cracked the mystery of the Earth's core?
- The FBI apparently pays Geek Squad techs who find, turn over evidence of child pornography
- US warship fires warning shots at Iranian vessels
- Cheese toastie leads to police stand-off
- Billy Joel reveals his Top 5 favorite Billy Joel songs on Colbert's Late Show
- Northern Ireland Assembly in crisis after McGuinness quits
- Stephen Colbert draws a red line at Donald Trump calling Meryl Streep 'over-rated'
- Teenager charged with murder of seven-year-old Katie Rough
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott met with Taiwan's president, gave her a very awkward present
- Donald Trump says the inauguration is causing a dress shortage in D.C. Boutique owners say otherwise.
- Sen. Cory Booker to testify against Jeff Sessions
- Clemson upsets Alabama to win national college football title
- Yahoo is renaming itself Altaba, CEO Marissa Mayer stepping down, after Verizon sale
- Senate postpones confirmation hearing for Trump's education pick
- Under Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil did business with Iran and Syria
- At least 7 killed in suspension bridge accident in Colombia
- Khizr Khan urges Senate not to confirm Jeff Sessions as attorney general
- Committee to Protect Journalists flooded with donations after Meryl Streep name-drop
- January 9th
- Mike Pence has the best named rabbit
- Eric Trump admits it's 'probably not' the right time for the Trump Organization to make deals in Russia
- Ring in the Year of the Rooster with a giant inflatable Donald Trump chicken
- Volkswagen reveals plans for self-driving version of its classic hippie van
- Jared Kushner reportedly to be named senior adviser to the president
- Scientists are recreating extinct mega-cows
- Golden Globes 2017: Best red carpet dresses
- This drug might help teeth repair their own cavities
- Gay footballers should come out together says FA chief
- Lord Sugar beats tax hike with bumper £181m payout
- Senate Democrats will mount their ObamaCare defense at the worst possible time
- Kellyanne Conway calls out Meryl Streep for using her 'platform' to incite 'people's worst instincts'
- Djokovic is Australian Open favourite after beating Murray
- A 1,000-year-old California tree with a tunnel big enough to drive a car through just toppled over in a storm
- Black-face Morris dancers heckled in Birmingham
- Mitch McConnell assures Americans that ObamaCare won't 'end overnight' in op-ed
- Clemson Tigers look to defeat the seemingly unstoppable Alabama Crimson Tide
- Donald Trump takes a swipe at 'over-rated' Meryl Streep after her Golden Globes speech
- How office life costs UK workers up to £1,000 a year
- Theresa May promises mental health overhaul - but is it enough?
- Goat carrying money suspected of witchcraft
- La La Land sets Golden Globes record
- Benjamin Netanyahu blames Islamic State for Jerusalem attack
- This interview of Trump-backing conspiracist Alex Jones goes pretty much as you'd expect
- Police: Several suspects arrested over Kim Kardashian robbery
- Martin Shkreli's Twitter account suspended following harassment of journalist
- Celebrate David Bowie's 70th birthday with a new Bowie EP, video
- Jimmy Fallon cracked the first Donald Trump jokes at the Golden Globes
- La La Land sets Golden Globes record
- Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Moonlight win Golden Globes
- In a powerful Golden Globes speech, Meryl Streep defends Hollywood, the press
- Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly negotiated with newspaper publisher for positive coverage
- Hugh Laurie has a theory about why the Golden Globes might end this year
- January 8th
- Hawaiian restaurant owner stops banning Trump supporters after online uproar
- U.S. military buildup planned for Europe, Afghanistan
- This man spent 3 days in jail because the cops thought cat litter was meth
- Jerusalem truck attack kills 4 IDF soldiers and injures 15
- SeaWorld San Diego hosts its final killer whale show
- Theresa May says her Brexit plan is not 'muddled' and she'll share it soon
- The Florida gunman has been charged and may face the death penalty
- January 7th
- A store in New Mexico is banning 'Obama and other Muslims'
- This fancy drink dispenser can bring even the flattest of beers back to life
- A piece of ice the size of Delaware is about to break off Antarctica
- EU breakup 'is no longer unthinkable,' says German vice chancellor
- America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016
- Georgia's Snow Mountain snow tubing park closes because of snow
- Carrie Fisher's urn is a giant Prozac pill
- At least 43 killed, dozens wounded in Syrian truck bombing near Turkey
- Florida airport shooting suspect had a history of mental illness and military service
- The four Chicago torture suspects will be held without bail
- January 6th
- Florida airport shooting suspect identified as Esteban Santiago
- Fort Lauderdale airport shooting comes amid Florida debate about allowing open carry in airports
- The Trump Organization allegedly owes money all over D.C.
- Sean Hannity mocks Joe Scarborough for 'asking Fox to hire you'
- The South and the West are bracing for some particularly abominable winter weather
- Obama vows to 'publicly support' repealing the ACA if Republicans present a better plan first
- Blackfish orca Tilikum dies at SeaWorld Orlando
- A zombie apocalypse would wipe out all but 273 people on Earth in just 100 days
- Arnold Schwarzenegger takes the high road after our next president rips him to shreds
- The world’s safest – and least safe – airlines for 2019
- Obama slams GOP 'repeal and delay' plan for health care as 'reckless'
- Silverstone could pull the plug on the British Grand Prix
- Chris Cuomo bulldozes Kellyanne Conway in raucous debate about Russia
- 2016 reversed a years-long trend toward political independence
- Cher to star in Lifetime's upcoming TV movie about the water crisis in Flint
- The economic roller coaster of the Obama administration, in 4 stats
- The economy added fewer jobs than expected in December, but wages rose
- High street sales fall as Christmas shoppers go online
- Police say Chicago beating streamed on Facebook began as friendly meet-up at fast-food chain
- Russia begins military withdrawal from Syria
- Donald Trump insists Mexico will repay America for 'the Great Wall'
- Russia says it has begun military withdrawal from Syria
- Gigantic iceberg poised to break away from Antarctica
- Chinese Super League clubs accused of 'burning money'
- House GOP enacts rule allowing lawmakers to fire, slash salaries of individual federal employees
- Majority of Greeks regret joining euro
- Stephen Colbert has a big question about Donald Trump's Julian Assange tweets
- Inheritance 'fuels widening inequality'
- Nissan expects to soon start testing driverless cars in Japan
- FBI Director James Comey says 2016 was a 'challenging year' for the organization
- Report: Trump will ask Congress to pay for U.S.-Mexico border wall
- U.S. officials: Intelligence report identifies liaisons who gave WikiLeaks stolen emails
- January 5th
- Benjamin Netanyahu questioned by police again in corruption probe
- Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown joins star-studded Black Panther adaptation
- Two small businesses claim they still haven't been paid for their work on Donald Trump's new D.C. hotel
- Vanity Fair printed Donald Trump's disparaging tweet on its latest cover
- Fox News is becoming suspiciously Trump-friendly
- Charleston church shooter says it's 'not fair' victims' families are sharing so many emotional stories
- Former Fox News host Greta Van Susteren to have dinnertime news program on MSNBC
- Toyota's stock wavers after Trump slams its plans to build a plant in Mexico
- Gawker's A.J. Daulerio opens up about his life — and the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that ruined it
- Can you spot the problem with this newspaper's front page?
- Why Chelsea are still title favourites despite Spurs defeat
- Puerto Rico just filed a bill for statehood by 2025
- The earlier kids try peanuts, the less likely they may be to develop a peanut allergy
- Car sales reach all-time high - but 'will fall this year'
- Fox News' Tucker Carlson ceaselessly interrogates Democratic congressman over ObamaCare 'failure'
- Tiger Woods among Masters favourites as he confirms long-awaited comeback
- Will Mark Zuckerberg run for president in 2020?
- Apple pulls New York Times at Chinese censors' request
- Was 2016 really unusually deadly for celebrities?
- Global warming 'pause' does not exist, researchers say
- Here's what's going on with ObamaCare
- Princess Diana's letters about 'naughty' Harry up for sale
- Senate Armed Services Committee convenes for hearing on 'foreign cyberthreats'
- Stephen Colbert sees opportunity, jokes in Trump following Emergency Kittens on Twitter
- Meet your 'newest' organ – the mesentery
- Children 'signing away their rights online'
- Busy roads could be linked to dementia risk, researchers say
- Police investigate 'hate crime' streamed live on Facebook
- Stephen Colbert uncovers 'proof' that an iceberg sank the Titanic after all
- Chicago police detain four suspects in connection with 'sickening' Facebook Live torture video
- Donald Trump taps Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton to lead SEC
- Macy's to close 68 stores and cut 10,000 jobs
- Joe Biden plans to work on lowering cancer drug prices
- January 4th
- NASA to launch two asteroid exploration missions in early 2020s
- Mitch McConnell now says the American people 'will not tolerate' politicians blocking a Supreme Court nominee
- Here's what congressional deliberation looks like in 2017
- 105-year-old man bikes 14 miles in an hour, setting new world record
- Charleston shooter denies mental illness: 'There's nothing wrong with me psychologically'
- Chance the Rapper, Phoenix, and Tool to headline this year's Governors Ball
- Public urged to learn first aid in case of terror attack
- BuzzFeed investigation uncovers several Trump-related domain names owned by known mob affiliate Joseph Cinque
- Obama warns Democrats not to 'rescue' Republicans from health-care replacement battle
- Manu Tuilagi out for the season – will he miss Lions tour?
- Fisher-Price made an exercise bike with a tablet holder — for 3-year-olds
- Has the world's oldest killer whale died at the age of 105?
- Did Trump cause Ford to cancel $1.6bn Mexico plant?
- Apple reportedly has a plan to silence annoying iPhones in movie theaters
- Israeli court convicts IDF soldier who killed immobilized Palestinian
- Poll finds it is 'very important' Trump mention jobs at the inauguration. The border wall? Not so much.
- Elor Azaria: Israeli soldier convicted over Hebron shooting
- Oprah tells Stephen Colbert the thing she'll miss most about the Obamas
- Zero sugar - zero effects? Why 'diet' drinks might not work
- Obama, Vice President-elect Mike Pence head to Capitol Hill to strategize on ObamaCare
- Next warns of 'challenging' 2017 after Christmas downturn
- Woman takes drug-fuelled joyride through Wal-Mart
- James Corden mourns George Michael, his first carpool karaoke guest
- Stephen Colbert imagines if Jesus tweeted like Donald Trump
- Warnings of violence ahead of Trump’s Jerusalem embassy move
- Pro-pot group to pass out 4,200 free joints on Inauguration Day
- On New Year's Eve, Donald Trump shared his stage with a colorful felon nicknamed 'Joey No Socks'
- Mark Zuckerberg says he'll spend much of 2017 touring the United States
- More than 150 inmates escape from Philippines jail
- Watch an emotional Megyn Kelly announce her departure to NBC on Fox News
- There are just 2 Shakers left in the United States
- January 3rd
- Janet Jackson welcomes a son, Eissa
- 1,100 law professors beg Congress not to confirm Jeff Sessions
- Radiohead, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar to headline Coachella
- Joe Biden kissed GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley's wife on the lips
- Under intense criticism, House GOP backtracks on gutting ethics watchdog
- Sir Ivan Rogers: Diplomat's departure means Brexit 'chaos'
- Previously unknown organ identified in the human gut
- Bradford Bulls go into liquidation
- Trump slams GM for manufacturing Chevy Cruze in Mexico. GM points out it's made in Ohio.
- The new Congress is the most racially diverse in American history
- 'Ill-mannered' Pep Guardiola clashes with BBC again
- Finland to trial basic income for the unemployed
- GOP aims to unravel Obama's legacy as new Congress convenes
- The Trump Organization is opening a golf course in Dubai in February and it's already threatening the 'emoluments clause'
- Police find gun in car of man killed in M62 shooting
- Severe weather pummeling the South blamed for at least 5 deaths in Alabama, Florida
- Labour election victory 'unthinkable'
- Turkish nightclub attack suspect arrested in Istanbul
- Livestream of eagle's nest leaves viewers around the world riveted
- Donald Trump reportedly picks lawyer Robert Lighthizer as U.S. trade representative
- Joe Biden dares Republicans on ObamaCare: 'Go ahead, repeal it'
- Facing corruption allegations, Benjamin Netanyahu interrogated by Israeli police
- Arnold Schwarzenegger's Celebrity Apprentice catchphrase is about what you'd expect
- Airports across the U.S. affected by customs computer outage
- Rose Bowl: In a nail-biter, USC beats Penn State 52-49
- Texas state representative survives being shot by stray bullet
- Syrian rebel groups threaten to boycott peace talks
- January 2nd
- Donald Trump gave a special thanks to his Dubai business partner at New Year's Eve bash
- Rogue One played for only 18 days in 2016. It was still the second-highest grossing film of the year.
- Sean Hannity to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London
- At least 60 killed in Brazil prison riot
- Rebecca Ferguson says she will accept invitation to perform at Trump inauguration if she can sing 'Strange Fruit'
- Trump uses platform for future policy announcements to complain about unflattering photo
- SpaceX announces its first launch since rocket explosion
- American shot during Istanbul nightclub attack survived by playing dead
- Dozens killed in multiple Baghdad bombings carried out by ISIS
- Terrifying Beijing advertisement offers 'glorious glimpse of our dystopian future'
- Researcher claims a gigantic fire, not an iceberg, sank the Titanic
- Indonesia says this man is 146 years old
- Donald Trump loves, loves, loves the 1980s
- Chicago homicides rose dramatically in 2016
- Expelled Russian diplomats leave the U.S.
- French employees now get to ignore work-related emails when they aren't working
- Joe Scarborough blows up at reporter who accuses him of 'partying' with Donald Trump
- New Year's Rockin' Eve denies Mariah Carey claim it sabotaged her performance
- Joker celebrates marijuana legalization in California by modifying iconic Hollywood sign
- ISIS claims responsibility for attack that killed 39 at Istanbul nightclub
- New York City's Second Avenue subway line opens for business after nearly 100 years
- Denver Broncos coach Kubiak stepping down, as 49ers and Chargers fire coaches in NFL shakeup
- January 1st
- Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch is related to Arthur Conan Doyle, researchers discover
- 'The Clinton days are over' for the Democratic Party, says Van Jones
- Federal judge blocks enforcement of transgender, abortion-related ObamaCare rule
- Mariah Carey gave up and walked off the stage during her New Year's Eve show
- The gunman who killed at least 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub attack is still on the run
- Pope Francis mourns Istanbul attack, prays for peace in New Year's address
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