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- May 31st
- Ohio attorney general sues pharmaceutical companies over opioid crisis
- Lebanon bans Wonder Woman because lead actress Gal Gadot is Israeli
- JetBlue might soon let you use your face as a boarding pass
- ExxonMobil shareholders vote to begin disclosing the company's effect on the climate
- Lucchese crime family members and associates — including 'Wonder Boy' and 'Paulie Roast Beef' — arrested in FBI bust
- It's 2017 so NASA is literally flying into the sun
- The New York Times disposes of its public editor position amid buyouts
- Anti-Theresa May song 'Liar Liar' tops music charts
- US successfully destroys mock warhead in anti-missile test
- The United Nations just brutally subtweeted Trump on climate change
- Megyn Kelly's debut on NBC is likely to be an interview with Vladimir Putin
- Michael Flynn's firm apparently made an unfinished film targeting an Erdogan critic
- UN: Yemen is facing total collapse under world's watch
- Huge car bomb in Kabul kills at least 80 people
- Nobody is sure what to make of Trump's 'covfefe' tweet
- The Daily Show's Trevor Noah recaps Trump's trip abroad, focusing on what his hands were doing
- Report: Scott Pelley out as anchor of CBS Evening News
- During test, U.S. successfully destroys mock ballistic missile over Pacific
- May 30th
- Photos of Kathy Griffin holding a bloodied Trump head spark outrage
- Jeb Bush failed in his bid to buy the Miami Marlins, too
- Sean Spicer gets in a fight with reporters after failing to come up with a sturdy example of fake news
- GOP Rep. Darrell Issa retreated to the rooftop as protesters gathered outside his office building
- Watch this State Department spokesman get completely stumped by a question about Saudi Arabia's commitment to democracy
- Trump's personal lawyer is now a person of interest in the Russia probe
- Alanis Morissette is teaming up with Juno's Diablo Cody to make her classic album Jagged Little Pill into a musical
- Coldplay, Katy Perry, and other celebs to join Ariana Grande for Manchester benefit concert
- Kellyanne Conway insists there's nothing wrong with Jared Kushner's secret Russia communications
- Manuel Noriega had a staff witch
- GOP senator, asked what the Republican Party stands for: 'I don't know'
- Stephen Miller reportedly gave a middle school friend a list of reasons why they couldn't be pals in high school, including that he was Latino
- GOP lawmaker concedes food is 'essential,' but hedges on whether every American is 'entitled to eat'
- North Korea orders development of more powerful weapons as a 'gift package' to America
- Zookeeper killed by tiger is named as Rosa King, 33
- Islamic State car bomb kills 15 at Baghdad ice cream parlour
- Contrary to Trump tweet, Republicans are far from being 'ahead of schedule' on tax reform
- MI5 to review intelligence handling on Manchester attacker
- British Airways boss 'won't resign' after flight chaos
- Frank Deford, storyteller of sport, is dead at 78
- Zookeeper in England dies after tiger attack
- Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega dies at 83
- Nationals-Giants game devolves into Memorial Day brawl between Bryce Harper, Hunter Strickland
- Car bomb in Baghdad kills at least 10
- Tiger Woods says alcohol was 'not involved' in his arrest
- Denver Post sportswriter fired over 'disrespectful' Indy 500 tweet
- May 29th
- Texas Republican lawmaker called immigration authorities on protesters
- Sofia Coppola becomes 2nd woman ever to win best director honors at Cannes
- After North Korea launches new ballistic missile, Trump says Pyongyang has 'shown great disrespect' to China
- Japan's Takuma Sato wins crash-filled Indy 500
- May 28th
- Mattis warns war with North Korea would be 'catastrophic'
- 8 dead in Mississippi shooting
- British police have arrested 14 Manchester-linked suspects
- DHS Secretary John Kelly says he 'might' ban laptop carry-ons for all international flights
- ISIS-linked Philippine rebels execute 8 civilians for fleeing violence
- Trump tweets, then deletes comments on NATO and Gianforte
- Trump returns to a White House mulling changes to contain the Russia investigation crisis
- North Korea claims to test an anti-aircraft missile
- May 27th
- A third of America's honeybee colonies died in the last year
- The White House might start vetting Trump's tweets
- McMaster says he 'would not be concerned' by a Russia backchannel
- 2 fatally stabbed in Portland by man yelling 'anti-Muslim and anti-everything slurs'
- Carter security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski dies at 89
- May 26th
- A Yale University dean was put on leave for her Yelp reviews
- Climate change is making it too hot to sleep
- Scientist observes packs of snakes engaged in 'coordinated hunting'
- America will conduct its first-ever test of an intercontinental missile intercept amid North Korea's continued tests
- All of the cool new things we learned about Jupiter this week — and some jaw-dropping photos
- The U.S.-led coalition in Syria is killing an alarming number of civilians
- Deliveroo offers per-trip pay to defuse workers' row
- The wives of NATO leaders all took a photo together. The husband of Luxembourg's gay prime minister joined them.
- U.N. peacekeepers allegedly ran a child sex ring in Haiti and were never prosecuted
- Joe Scarborough likens Trump's NATO speech to a 'love note to Vladimir Putin'
- Katie Hopkins to leave LBC over 'final solution' tweet
- Trump's travel ban is stuck in court. But visits from the targeted Muslim-majority countries are dropping anyway.
- Denis Johnson, award-winning author of Jesus' Son, Tree of Smoke, dies at 67
- Republicans are pushing the Hillbilly Elegy author to run for Senate in Ohio
- Montegrappa releases exquisite Game of Thrones pen collection
- Pound at two-week low as Tory poll lead slips
- Theresa May calls on G7 to combat online extremism
- Watch Jamie Foxx turn Jimmy Fallon's singing game into high art
- This is exactly what happened in the brawl between Turkish President Erdogan's security detail and unarmed protesters last week
- FISA court chided the FBI for sharing NSA data on Americans with outside contractors
- Jared Kushner under scrutiny in FBI investigation
- Cleveland Cavs to face Golden State Warriors in 3rd straight NBA Finals
- More than 100 civilians killed in US air strike in Mosul
- Stephen Colbert shows he sometimes body-slams people asking him questions, too
- Jeremy Corbyn: UK foreign policy increases risk of terror attacks
- French President Emmanuel Macron and J.K. Rowling tag-team troll Trump
- Greg Gianforte says he's 'not proud' of altercation with reporter
- Jimmy Kimmel has 4th graders read Trump's overseas speeches, sees who read it better
- Memo claims Air Force mortuary official offered to let people look at John Glenn's remains
- NOAA predicts above-average Atlantic hurricane season
- After they blew off his first request, Jason Chaffetz asks FBI again for Comey documents
- May 25th
- British police resume sharing intelligence with U.S.
- Trump reportedly told EU officials Germany is 'very evil'
- 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds block on Trump's travel ban
- Jared Kushner leaves multimillion-dollar art collection off government financial disclosure form
- NATO leaders share smirks and eyerolls as Trump lectures them on paying their fair share
- Watch Trump casually push a fellow NATO leader out of the way so he can preen up front
- Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows breaks down in tears after learning how much the GOP's health plan will hurt Americans with pre-existing conditions
- Trump's budget accused of $2trn accounting error
- Theresa May appeals to Nato for unity against terrorism
- Leading conservatives urge GOP to disavow Gianforte
- China's credit rating downgraded for first time since 1989
- British police are reportedly 'furious' at all the Manchester attack leaks from American officials
- Family debt close to pre-financial crisis level
- Trump meets EU, NATO leaders in Brussels
- Manchester attack: UK stops sharing information with US
- Car production drops sharply in April
- Stephen Colbert sees an upside in Trump's leaked secret-spilling to Philippine leader Duterte
- Stephen Colbert asks Cartoon Pope Francis if he's sorry for throwing shade at Trump
- Middlebury College disciplines students over protest of conservative writer Charles Murray
- Jimmy Kimmel jokes his way through Trump's visit with Pope Francis, and Fox News' 'slobbering' coverage
- Stephen Colbert and Paul Simon musically grimace at Trump's America, are still feelin' groovy
- Fox News team says it witnessed GOP congressional candidate Greg Gianforte 'body slam' reporter
- Companies pulling advertising from Hannity
- Father of Manchester bomber says his son was not a member of ISIS
- Ben Carson thinks poverty is 'a state of mind'
- May 24th
- DOJ: Sessions did not disclose meetings with Russian officials on security clearance form
- The GOP's health-care plan could jack up premiums 800 percent on low-income seniors
- This description of New York Times scoop machine Maggie Haberman working will give you a heart attack
- Why are whales so big?
- Not even Mitch McConnell knows how to get the GOP health bill through the Senate
- New Game of Thrones trailer gives fans a glimpse of the 'Great War'
- Scientists may have finally figured out how flamingos can stand on one leg, not fall over
- U.K. police investigating 'terror network' in connection with Manchester attack
- Sean Hannity is losing his mind over Seth Rich and 'liberal fascism'
- Paul Ryan clarifies that James Comey is not a 'nut job'
- Alabama prisoner faces execution Thursday — for the 8th time
- Pressure grows on Brazilian president to resign
- Mark Carney caught by prankster who embarrassed Barclays
- Chelsea cancel bus parade after Manchester terror attack
- Joe Lieberman will reportedly not be the FBI director after all
- Google knows where you're using your credit and debit cards
- NFL relaxes rules on celebrations - but no twerking allowed
- NATO expected to symbolically join fight against ISIS in bid to make Trump happy
- Trump's Twitter has been conspicuously calm on his overseas travels. There's a reason for that.
- Roger Moore: Ten things you didn't know about the Bond star
- Manchester bomber was known to intelligence services, might not have acted alone, Britain says
- Taiwan becomes the first Asian nation to recognize same-sex marriage
- Stephen Colbert pans Trump's budget, stages his own Trump Twitter intervention
- Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte declares martial law on island
- Stephen Colbert and 'God' discuss Trump's world tour of holy sites
- Trump meets with Pope Francis, calls it 'a great honor'
- On Kimmel Live, U2 reminds everyone that Joshua Tree has really held up over 30 years
- Unlike in Saudi Arabia, Melania Trump covered her hair at the Vatican
- Seth Meyers checks in to see how Trump's swamp-draining is going
- Trump's budget math is probably off by several trillion dollars
- 8-year-old believed to be youngest victim of Manchester Arena bombing
- Senate panel to subpoena Michael Flynn businesses
- May 23rd
- Unlike Fox News, Sean Hannity won't retract Seth Rich story
- U.K. raises threat level to 'critical' following Manchester attack
- Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio really likes googling himself
- It's World Turtle Day and some members of Congress are stoked
- Fox News just retracted its Seth Rich conspiracy story, admitting it wasn't 'subjected' to a 'high degree of editorial scrutiny'
- Al Franken's new book has an entire chapter on how much he hates Ted Cruz
- Mick Mulvaney says the White House's budget proposal will help people 'take charge of their own lives again'
- James Bond actor Roger Moore dies aged 89
- Olive oil prices surge as drought hits harvests
- A City United: Manchester clubs pledge £1m after attack
- New fossil 'rewrites history of human evolution'
- Trump is reportedly considering tapping Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager he fired, to be a 'crisis manager'
- James Bond actor Roger Moore dies at 89
- Paul Ryan goes rogue on taxes, setting up showdown with the White House
- Fox News just lost a ratings battle with both MSNBC and CNN for the first time in 17 years
- British police arrest 1 as ISIS claims responsibility for Manchester attack
- Fox News employees are horrified Sean Hannity is still promoting Seth Rich conspiracy theories
- Rachel Maddow tells Stephen Colbert that if Trump is guilty, Republicans will do the right thing
- GOP Senate Intelligence Committee chairman says Flynn could be held in contempt
- Stephen Colbert gleefully recaps Trump's adventures in Saudi Arabia and Israel
- The lady is for turning: Theresa May's U-turns
- Manchester police say a male suicide bomber likely caused arena blast, raise death toll to 22
- Trump's budget targets Medicaid, food stamps, farm subsidies, assumes the AHCA becomes law
- Manchester Arena attack: Salman Abedi 'assembled deadly bomb alone'
- In 2016, more than 600,000 foreigners overstayed visas, new report says
- Father of slain Bowie State University student praises son's 'loving and giving heart'
- James Corden tries to put the heartbreaking Manchester attack in some context
- Jimmy Kimmel has some thoughts on Trump handling that glowing orb in Saudi Arabia
- In Yemen, U.S. military conducts ground raid against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
- Golden State Warriors beat Spurs, head to their third straight NBA Finals
- Manchester Arena witnesses describe terrifying scene after blast
- Manchester Police urge residents to 'remain vigilant'
- Theresa May makes brief statement on 'appalling' Manchester attack
- Manchester residents use Twitter to offer stranded concertgoers places to stay
- Ariana Grande safe after explosion at Manchester concert
- May 22nd
- 19 dead, 50 injured after explosion at Ariana Grande concert in Manchester
- Monica Lewinsky writes scathing reflection on Roger Ailes
- Netflix reportedly nabs film deal starring Rihanna and Lupita Nyong'o
- This D.C. restaurant is selling 'Pill Cosby' cocktails with fake capsules floating in them. Really.
- This is how Sally Yates learned she was fired
- After a sea lion yanks a little girl off a dock, officials blast her family for 'reckless behavior'
- The Earth has opened up to try to swallow Mar-a-Lago
- Supreme Court finds illegal, racial gerrymandering in North Carolina
- Trump's trip to Israel may have made history before he even got off the plane
- Church of England generates 'stellar' investment returns
- Chair for thought: Can MRI scans create the perfect seat?
- Here's the latest ethics conflict swirling in Trump's White House
- Wilbur Ross marvels that there 'was not a single hint of a protester' in Saudi Arabia — where protesters are jailed
- Turkey summons America's ambassador to complain that Turkish bodyguards who attacked peaceful protesters were the real victims
- Nikki Haley, ignoring Trump's budget, promises Syrian refugees continued U.S. financial support
- Facebook leak reveals rules for controversial content
- Jared Kushner is keeping 90 percent of his real estate holdings, even as he could stand to illegally profit off his office
- Three Girls: Petition calls for award for Rochdale whistleblower Sara Rowbotham
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is still alive, despite Trump's U.S. withdrawal
- Labour to scrap tuition fees for students starting in September
- Texas takes a major step toward enacting its own transgender 'bathroom' law
- Newt Gingrich spreads conspiracy theory about Democrat murder
- John Oliver recaps last week's 'absolutely insane' Trump news, and the sad drudgery of 'Stupid Watergate'
- Ford is reportedly dropping CEO Mark Fields, elevating Jim Hackett
- Billy Bush wants to make a classic Hollywood comeback
- Trump, Saudi King Salman, and Egypt's president touched a glowing orb, and Twitter had a wry laugh
- 3 climbers die on Mount Everest
- Ringling Bros. circus ends after 146 years
- Students walk out during Pence's Notre Dame address
- Report: Trump budget proposes deep cuts to Medicaid
- May 21st
- Self-proclaimed DHS candidate Sheriff David Clarke reportedly plagiarized the ACLU for his master's thesis
- Watch Vanessa Bayer and Bobby Moynihan say goodbye to SNL on 'Weekend Update'
- China reportedly killed and imprisoned as many as 20 CIA sources
- SNL bids a pre-emptive farewell to Trump with 'Hallelujah'
- North Korea tests another medium-range missile
- Trump to speak on Islam — but maybe not 'radical Islamic terrorism' — to Muslim leaders
- May 20th
- Trump, West Wing staff lawyer up for Russia probe
- Tillerson hopes re-elected Rouhani 'puts an end' to Iran's ballistic missile testing
- Trump signs largest arms deal in American history with Saudi Arabia
- Trump attacked Michelle Obama for visiting Saudi Arabia without a headscarf. Melania Trump is now doing exactly that.
- Pippa Middleton marries in royal-studded wedding
- Passengers and crew subdued a man who tried to break into the cockpit on a flight to Hawaii
- May 19th
- Stock market loses momentum after latest Trump bombshells
- This commencement ceremony is only open to students of color
- The Trump administration wants to open a new private prison specifically for undocumented immigrants
- Huma Abedin files for divorce from Anthony Weiner
- This pillow costs as much as a fancy car
- Rod Rosenstein defends Comey memo, says there was no 'political interference'
- Trump's hiring freeze has left nearly 700 positions unfilled at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Conservatives talk tough over 'Philip Green law'
- One in 16 people now work from home
- Nuclear blasts have screwed up space
- Instagram rated worst social network for mental health
- Driver in Times Square incident charged with murder, 20 counts of attempted murder
- Anthony Weiner reportedly to plead guilty to sexting a minor, 'likely' to end up a registered sex offender
- Trump reportedly to propose 6 weeks paid family leave for biological mothers, fathers, and adoptive parents
- Saudi caterers prepare Trump a special plate of steak with ketchup while everyone else dines on halal lamb, rice
- Conservative manifesto 2017: Business questions interventionist 'signals'
- FCC votes to start rolling back net neutrality rules
- Rolf Harris released from prison after three years
- Sweden drops rape investigation of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
- FA aims to stop footballers diving with retrospective bans
- Stephen Colbert explains why special counsel Robert Mueller is Trump's 'worst nightmare'
- The Daily Show's Trevor Noah quickly hits Brazil's presidential mess, Turkey's goons, and, yes, Trump
- Basquiat painting sells for $110.5 million, setting record
- Bill O'Reilly remembers Roger Ailes as a 'force of nature with an agenda'
- May 18th
- Shep Smith tearfully remembers Roger Ailes, a 'complicated' man he 'so admired'
- Roger Ailes once reportedly bragged about creating a network for 'guys who just sit on their couch' and are aged '55 to dead'
- Rod Rosenstein apparently told senators he knew Comey was going to be fired regardless of his memo
- Trump's associates were advising him to hire an outside lawyer even before a special prosecutor was named
- Japanese princess forfeits her royalty to marry a commoner
- The king of the Netherlands has secretly been flying airplanes for a Dutch commercial airline for 21 years
- Country singer Toby Keith is doing a special men-only concert in Saudi Arabia for Trump’s visit
- Sean Spicer's days on camera might be numbered
- China is using adorable propaganda videos to cast itself as the global defender of free trade
- Sean Hannity lionizes Roger Ailes: 'He has dramatically and forever changed the political and the media landscape'
- Emmanuel Macron unveils gender-balanced cabinet
- Trump calls Russia probe 'the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history'
- White House staffers are reportedly shopping their résumés, prepping their memoirs, blaming Trump
- Dutch king reveals double life as airline pilot
- GOP congressman demands arrest of Turkish president's guards after beatings of peaceful D.C. protesters
- Conservative manifesto 2017: Property-rich elderly to pay for care
- Girl Guides badges updated for 21st century
- Stephen Colbert has some suggestions for how Trump can divert attention from his 'scandal stroganoff'
- As Fox News downplays Trump scandals, CNN and MSNBC pull ahead in the ratings
- The Daily Show's Trevor Noah tackles Trump's latest scandals, then shows how Fox News is covering them
- Trump proposal cuts $10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, expands school choice
- Jimmy Kimmel wistfully previews this 2020 Trump presidential smackdown: The Donald vs. The Rock
- After being paid to lobby for Turkey, Flynn reportedly axed a military operation opposed by Turkey
- Appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel has bipartisan support
- Manafort, Flynn are reportedly the major figures in the FBI's criminal investigation of Russia ties
- May 17th
- DOJ appoints special prosecutor to take over Russia investigation
- Controversial Sheriff David Clarke says he's joining the Department of Homeland Security
- Brexit could cost London 9,000 banking jobs
- Dow down more than 300 points in 'Washington-driven' plunge
- Jason Chaffetz invites James Comey to hearing next week
- It's apparently very easy to hack Mar-a-Lago
- Gucci Mr Porter: First look at the capsule collection
- Pochettino rejects Inter Milan rumours and commits to Spurs
- George Stephanopoulos suspects the Comey memo will be the 'modern equivalent of Nixon's tapes'
- Mile-high clubbing: BigCityBeats host largest private party in the sky
- Erdogan 'bodyguards' clash with protesters outside Turkish embassy in Washington DC
- Lib Dem manifesto to include rent-to-own policy
- Source behind Fox News' Seth Rich 'scoop' was apparently fed the story by Fox News' reporter
- Almost every major aide is traveling abroad with Trump, for better or worse
- This is why Trump is buried in scandals, Art of the Deal ghostwriter explains
- Doctors call on Tories to pledge £350m a week for NHS
- Labour manifesto 2017: 'Knee-jerk' policies get business thumbs down
- Chelsea Manning to be released from prison Wednesday after 7 years
- Fat but fit: Experts debunk obesity myth
- Stephen Colbert says the Russia fiasco explains why Trump doesn't write murder mysteries
- Jimmy Kimmel Live brutally illustrates how Trump's 'lies' become 'facts,' drawing from Schoolhouse Rock!
- Men in dark suits beat, kick anti-Erdogan protesters outside Turkish embassy in Washington
- May 16th
- Democratic and Republican senators were apparently discussing the 'definition of obstruction of justice' shortly after news of Comey's memo broke
- Jake Tapper witheringly pokes holes in H.R. McMaster's definition of 'wholly appropriate'
- Rare white wolf mysteriously shot in Yellowstone National Park
- Fox News' Kimberly Guilfoyle confirms she's talking to the White House about replacing Sean Spicer
- The FBI impersonated documentary filmmakers in order to infiltrate the Bundy family
- Andy Murray pays tribute to London terror victims after Paris win
- Family of murdered DNC staffer says there are 'no facts' behind reports tying him to WikiLeaks
- China wants to build a giant 'road' through 68 countries
- Chanel £1,130 boomerang sparks cultural appropriation row
- Bombshell report on Trump's loose lips with Russia conspicuously absent from right-wing websites
- The Ashes saved as Australian cricket resolves pay dispute
- Ill staff more likely to work than throw a sickie
- Hackers 'hold next Pirates of the Caribbean film to ransom'
- Dior, Hermes or Chanel - the best investment handbags to buy
- EasyJet shares in hard landing as losses soar
- Syria 'built crematorium to hide killings', says US
- Stephen Colbert explains Trump's Russia intel scandal, begs Trump not to fire Sean Spicer
- Moors Murderer Ian Brady dies aged 79
- FCC chairman Ajit Pai, stung by John Oliver-inspired criticism, reads mean tweets about himself
- Seth Meyers talks with a worried GOP senator about Trump's Russia intel problem, puts the report in context
- The Daily Show's Trevor Noah finds the tragedy and upside in Trump's reported secret-spilling to Russia
- South Carolina teen dies from caffeine overdose
- Idaho senator defends Trump and his 'ability to declassify anything at any time'
- May 15th
- Republican senator: The White House is in a 'downward spiral right now'
- This remote island in the South Pacific is cluttered with more than 17 tons of trash
- Australian millionaire scolds millennials for spending all their money on avocado toast
- Gun sales have plummeted since Trump took office
- Roger Federer withdraws from the French Open
- Judge worries it's going to be like 'Tom Hanks at the airport' under Trump's travel ban
- American support for same-sex marriage just hit a new high
- Corey Lewandowski once falsely tried to claim he'd fired a staffer for being a 'chronic masturbator'
- NATO is reportedly planning its upcoming meeting around President Trump's attention span
- Apparent piano virtuoso Vladimir Putin can't yet decide what song he'd play for President Trump: 'We'd need to meet him'
- Labour says 'Robin Hood tax' would raise £26bn
- North Carolina's controversial voter ID law is officially dead
- Is MSNBC about to dump Lawrence O'Donnell?
- Obama Presidential Library: Design concepts revealed
- Ebola outbreak declared in Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Trump reportedly fretted about appointing Newt Gingrich's wife as Vatican ambassador because he would lose Gingrich defending him on TV
- To pay for Trump's border wall and military buildup, House Republicans target the safety net
- John Oliver has given up on Trump. But he still expects something more from Congress.
- Russia was hit hardest by the global ransomware attack, and it is unironically angry
- Fox News scandal spreads, reportedly touches Stephen Bannon, Roger Stone
- International manhunt for hackers behind Wannacry cyber attack
- John Oliver tackles kidney dialysis, Taco Bell, and what they can teach us about single-payer health care
- John Oliver has a brief update on his net neutrality call-to-arms
- Actor Powers Boothe dies at 68
- Miss District of Columbia named 2017's Miss USA
- New York Yankees retire Derek Jeter's No. 2
- North Korea says it launched a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead
- May 14th
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- May 12th
- Fox News' Chris Wallace reels after 'astonishing' week in Washington: 'I find it very troubling'
- Cornyn, Gowdy among candidates to replace Comey at FBI
- Downton Abbey is being made into a movie
- HHS Secretary Tom Price thinks the Senate will vote on health care before the August recess
- The lawyers who claim Trump received no income from Russia work at the 2016 Russia Law Firm of the Year
- Former Attorney General Eric Holder calls new drug prosecutions policy 'dumb on crime'
- United flight delayed for hours after a scorpion 'emerged from a customer's clothing'
- You can travel up to 400 feet under water in this hovering submarine
- Harry Redknapp signs on to take Birmingham to the Premier League
- Eurovision Song Contest: who are the past winners?
- Avocado Wars: Morrisons slashes price of 'wonky' fruit
- Six great movies about American politics
- Trump lawyers assert without evidence that Trump has no Russian income
- McConnell reportedly promises to have at least one woman in all health-care meetings
- A website about Captain America villains now redirects to WhiteHouse.gov
- Can you solve the crossword puzzle Bill Clinton wrote for today's New York Times?
- NSA has constricted its surveillance of Americans' emails and text messages
- Anarchists suspected after bomb blast in Rome
- New Neptune-like planet could be giant water world
- Will Labour spend £300bn more on pensions?
- Cannes puts limits on Netflix in Palme d’Or contest
- Samantha Bee has some thoughts on Ivanka Trump's new working-women's guide to success
- Lib Dems pledge a month off for new dads
- Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein says he didn't threaten to quit, but it's complicated
- UN chief seeks extra $900m for Somalia
- Stephen Colbert reassures everyone that President Trump can't keep up with this James Comey story, either
- Trevor Noah laughs, cringes at the thing that finally made Trump angry at Russia
- Aides think Trump, trying to fix the Comey media mess, made things worse with his NBC interview
- CNN's Dana Bash compares Trump's interactions with James Comey to something 'out of The Godfather'
- Want to know what Chris Christie will do once his term is up? Too bad.
- May 11th
- Trump says he has no investments in Russia, is 'in total compliance in every way'
- Former congresswoman found guilty of taking money from fake charity
- Most Americans think Comey's firing was inappropriate, poll finds
- The New Yorker's Comey cover is hilariously perfect
- Major confectioners band together to whittle down calories, sugars in packaged sweets
- Just Eat fails to avoid full competition investigation
- A gluten-free diet could actually raise the risk of obesity, study reveals
- This year's AP English exam asked about 'artifice' in politics. A lot of students wrote about Trump.
- Homeownership is spiking in 2017
- America's best-paid interns make more money than the median U.S. worker
- Trump says he might release his taxes — after leaving office
- Republican senator suggests James Comey's replacement should be Merrick Garland
- Infamous New York-area injury law firm facing its demise as Cellino sues Barnes
- Trump reportedly decided to fire James Comey while watching TV on Sunday
- Aetna is pulling out of its remaining ObamaCare markets
- Could former Sen. Kelly Ayotte be the next FBI director?
- Trump takes credit for inventing the 1930s economic phrase 'priming the pump'
- BT to axe 4,000 jobs and cuts boss's bonus
- Rep. Tom MacArthur met with livid constituents for the first time since he resuscitated the GOP health bill
- NHS spends hundreds of thousands on obesity ambulances
- Fixed-odds betting terminals take billions from gamblers
- The Washington Post has a delightful clarification on that story about Sean Spicer hiding in the bushes
- New HIV drugs raise life expectancy to 'near normal'
- Stephen Colbert explains how we know Trump fired James Comey to stop the Russia investigation
- Slavery cases in London up by 60%
- Trevor Noah warns that after Trump's firing of James Comey, 'even Africa is possible in America'
- General election 2017: Labour faces split as manifesto leaks
- Dakota Access Pipeline leaked 84 gallons of oil in April
- Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reportedly threatened to resign after Comey firing
- WSJ: Comey's firing came as he accelerated Russia investigation
- In goodbye letter, Comey says he won't dwell on the way he was fired
- CIA creates mission center focused on North Korea's nuclear threat
- May 10th
- Betsy DeVos booed while delivering commencement speech
- James Comey spent his day 'casually puttering in his yard'
- Syrian city of Tabqa, nearby dam 'completely liberated' from ISIS control
- John McCain's former chief of staff says the security of America 'might now depend on electing a Democratic Congress'
- Comey deserved a 'more gracious' exit, says son of America's only other fired FBI director
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims James Comey committed 'basic atrocities'
- The earliest Pacific Coast tropical storm on record is forming off of Mexico
- Vladimir Putin, decked out in full hockey gear, claims he had nothing to do with firing Comey
- Labour and Lib Dems pledge to increase corporation tax
- GOP lawmaker reassures his constituents that Trump is 'small potatoes compared to Nazi Germany'
- The Ashes: England to face Australia once more at the Waca
- This senator just found a way James Comey could still be involved in the Trump-Russia investigation
- Russia is making fun of us for the hysteria around the Comey firing
- Schoolgirl who died at Drayton Manor named as Evha Jannath
- Anderson Cooper gives Kellyanne Conway the world's greatest eye roll
- Majority of Tory MPs will not face election expenses charges, says CPS
- CNN's Chris Cuomo called out Kellyanne Conway for her outrageous spin on the Comey firing
- Trump watched this Democratic senator criticize him on CNN, then went on a bizarre rage-tweet spree
- Sean Spicer literally hid in bushes to avoid the press yesterday
- A reporter asked Tom Price about the GOP's health-care bill. Then he reportedly got arrested.
- Stephen Colbert hosts Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Sam Bee, other Daily Show alumni for a reunion, gabfest
- Khloe Kardashian advert cleared of body-shaming
- Wall Street 'fear gauge' at lowest level for 24 years
- General election 2017: Labour and Lib Dems pledge education windfall
- Stephen Colbert marvels that Trump even made firing James Comey all about Trump
- Theresa May pledges free vote on foxhunting
- Trevor Noah, Jimmy Kimmel have a bewildered laugh over Trump's 'gangsta excuse' for firing James Comey
- Kellyanne Conway, refuting Chuck Schumer, says Comey's firing is 'not a cover-up'
- James Comey thought he was being pranked when he heard he was fired
- CNN: Federal prosecutors issued grand jury subpoenas to Flynn associates
- Elizabeth Warren: 'Comey was fired because of the Russians'
- The Nixon Library is taking umbrage at people calling Comey's firing 'Nixonian'
- May 9th
- Bob Corker: Comey's removal 'will raise questions'
- President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey
- FBI sends letter to Senate correcting Comey's email testimony
- GOP senator expects a lengthy battle over ObamaCare repeal because 'the public wants every dime they can be given'
- Spicer claims the White House didn't act immediately on Flynn warning because Yates is a 'political opponent'
- This ancient relative of Homo sapiens may have co-existed with early humans
- Korean news station reports on exit polls with an incredible Game of Thrones-style animation
- Are transatlantic flights about to ban laptops and tablets?
- Salt might not actually make you thirsty
- Kanye West has apparently retreated to a Wyoming mountaintop to work on his next album
- O2 and EE agree to end roaming charges
- Democrat Kamala Harris swats down a GOP health-care claim: 'What the f--- is that?'
- Leaked tapes reveal Italian authorities apparently stood by as 268 Syrian refugees drowned
- ABC is bringing back American Idol for a 16th season
- Fifa seeks 'clarification' over Man United Pogba deal
- Why is Mark Zuckerberg avoiding the media?
- Trump advisers propose sending more troops to Afghanistan to fight Taliban
- After a TV interview he cut short, Iowa GOP congressman faces an even tougher town hall
- Towering ambition: Why autocratic nations get high on skyscrapers
- There will be 13 men and zero women writing the Senate Republican health-care bill
- Jakarta governor guilty of blasphemy for 'insulting Islam'
- Stephen Colbert has a theory on why Trump fired the first female White House chief usher
- New US laws attack right to protest
- FCC insists hackers, not John Oliver fans and net neutrality proponents, crashed the FCC website Monday
- Jimmy Kimmel responds to the criticism over his health-care plea, grills a friendly GOP senator
- Seth Meyers responds to email Paul Ryan's office sent him about the health-care bill
- New Orleans sued over planned removal of statue honoring Confederate general
- May 8th
- Poll: Only 31 percent of Americans support GOP's health-care bill
- Report: White House staffers asked Trudeau to convince Trump not to drop NAFTA
- This GOP senator tried to shame Sally Yates for opposing Trump's travel ban. She demolished him.
- Dove is now selling its body wash in bottles that represent different body types
- Uncertainty about what the Trump administration is doing with health care has already led insurers to increase costs
- Bill Clinton is writing a suspense novel with James Patterson
- French presidential election: Macron now faces economic test
- Tax cuts in 2017? It's a long shot.
- British Gas owner to axe 1,500 jobs
- Super secret 'space plane' booms back to Earth after 2 years in orbit
- This Irish beach was washed away 33 years ago. It reappeared seemingly overnight.
- Coach to buy rival Kate Spade for $2.4 billion amid sagging handbag sales
- More than half of vapers quit tobacco
- Conservative manifesto 2017: Migration cap will 'definitely' appear
- Islamic State: Afghan leader killed in raid
- NHS staff 'leaving to work in supermarkets due to low pay'
- John Oliver explains why the GOP health-care bill doesn't really cover pre-existing conditions
- 82 Chibok schoolgirls freed in exchange for five Boko Haram leaders
- Emmanuel Macron beats Marine Le Pen to win French presidency in a landslide victory
- John Oliver sounds the warning siren on net neutrality, summoning the internet horde that saved it before
- Ads to start running against 24 Republicans who voted to repeal ObamaCare
- With Macron, the leaders of Europe's 4 biggest economies have a combined 0 biological children
- Trump's EPA dismisses at least 5 scientists from a major science advisory board
- Israel's Parliament to consider bill demoting Arabic from official language status
- Obama calls on Congress to have the 'courage' to protect ObamaCare
- Texas governor signs bill banning 'sanctuary cities'
- Islamic State in Afghanistan leader confirmed dead after raid
- May 7th
- Jake Tapper grills HHS Secretary Tom Price on whether President Trump broke his Medicaid promise
- Paul Ryan says 'you cannot be denied coverage if you have a pre-existing condition' under the AHCA
- Bros are totally bummed out by that whole dystopia thing in SNL's take on The Handmaid's Tale
- U.S. Olympic bobsledder Steven Holcomb found dead
- SNL plays Where in the world is Kellyanne Conway? — but no one wants to find her
- Reporters prohibited at Kushner investment events in China
- May 6th
- Here's how to bet on the Kentucky Derby without looking like you've had too many juleps
- Hamas chooses new political leader
- Stephen Colbert is under FCC investigation for a Trump joke — but it's just standard procedure
- Trump suggests federal assistance to historically black colleges may be unconstitutional
- This marathon runner was just 26 seconds shy of breaking the 2-hour barrier
- Russia, Iran, and Turkey agree to implement de-escalation zones in Syria
- The police officer who shot Jordan Edwards has been arrested for murder
- Macron campaign suffers data breach on eve of French runoff
- May 5th
- President Trump doubles down on praise for Australia's health care: 'Of course the Australians have better health care than we do — everybody does'
- A Pikachu dance performance at the Pokémon World Festival went terribly wrong after the lead Pikachu started to deflate
- President Trump signs $1.2 trillion spending bill, White House confirms
- Republican congressman asks local paper to explain the effects of the health-care bill he voted to pass
- There's a one-eyed horse racing in this year's Kentucky Derby
- Forget virtual reality goggles — now you can have a whole VR suit
- FA drops £4m-a-year deal with Ladbrokes
- Grandmother with terminal cancer jailed for prescribed medical marijuana
- Study: Trump is the butt of twice the late-night jokes of other recent presidents
- ISIS is touting American gun shows as easy ways to snag weapons
- What are Amazon's 'brainboxes' working on in Cambridge?
- A Brooklyn cafe that sells Unicorn Lattes is suing Starbucks over its Unicorn Frappuccino
- U.S. hiring bounced back stronger than expected in April
- Insurance companies join doctors and hospitals in opposing the GOP health-care bill
- On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Mark Hamill makes up for missing Adam Scott's 2nd birthday party
- Swearing helps make you stronger, says study
- Fox News' legal troubles grow as federal prosecutors expand investigation
- Kent grammar schools' entry test 'loaded against poorer pupils'
- Stephen Colbert and 'God' discuss Trump's religious liberty executive order. Neither's a fan.
- Stephen Colbert mockingly congratulates the GOP on its TrumpCare self-congratulations
- Tories gain ground in local elections as Ukip faces wipeout
- On Fox News, Charles Krauthammer predicts America will have single-payer health care within 7 years
- Pence tells crowd at Cinco de Mayo party Trump has made Latinos 'a priority'
- Trevor Noah searches for anybody who actually likes the Republican health-care bill
- Seth Meyers is here to remind Paul Ryan how he used to feel about rushed health-care bills
- GOP ex-congressman explains why House Republicans probably won't be punished for their health-care vote
- Uber is reportedly being investigated by the Justice Department
- Trump praises Australia's universal health care during meeting with prime minister
- May 4th
- Hillary Clinton urges Americans to 'fight back' against the GOP's health-care bill
- HBO announces 4 potential Game of Thrones spin-offs
- Reince Priebus tries to make a funny sportsball reference, falls on his face
- President Trump gathers the GOP to celebrate the House's passage of health care: 'We want to brag'
- Here's what awaits the AHCA in the Senate
- House Republicans confronted with 'Shame!' chants after leaving victorious health-care vote
- House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy dodges when asked if he's confident the health-care bill will pass the Senate
- Democrats sing 'hey hey goodbye' to Republicans as health-care bill passes
- Actually, there was no Bud Light at the GOP's health-care celebration
- The White House just claimed its health-care bill is 'impossible to score.' The CBO is expected to score it as early as next week.
- Paul Ryan demands to know if Republicans will be 'men and women of our word' ahead of health-care vote
- President Trump just tweeted that he's watching the House's health-care vote
- The ACLU has already promised a lawsuit fighting President Trump's 'religious liberty' order
- Watch these Republicans scurry away when asked if they've actually read the health-care bill they're about to vote on
- A Democratic senator just alphabetically listed the pre-existing conditions that could cause people to pay more under the GOP health-care bill
- Flint is threatening 8,000 foreclosures over unpaid water bills
- Americans have found their limit with the TSA, and it's pulling Post-It Notes out of their bags at security
- Who's to blame for the plummeting wages of American construction workers?
- President Trump offered to preside over Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's wedding at Mar-a-Lago
- Watch Paul Ryan in 2009: 'I don't think we should pass bills that we haven't read, that we don't know what they cost'
- Fury as Sulley Muntari is banned after protesting about racism
- The Trump administration claims his tax cuts will pay for themselves. Only 5 percent of economists believe that.
- Theresa May 'plans vote on Syria air strikes if Tories win election'
- Prince Philip to step down from royal duties
- Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are reportedly engaged
- Local elections 2017: Which are the areas to watch?
- Britain's Prince Philip announces retirement from royal engagements
- General election 2017: Do TV debates matter - and will they make a difference to the results?
- Jimmy Fallon celebrates Star Wars Day by making Star Wars characters sing Smash Mouth
- Stephen Colbert has some choice words for FBI Director James Comey
- At least 2 Republicans are returning to Washington from medical emergencies to vote on the GOP health-care bill
- 35 killed after explosion at coal mine in Iran
- Trump to sign executive order aiming to allow churches to endorse political candidates
- GOP health-care bill would strip funding for special-needs students
- Research suggests climate change could make turbulence stronger, more frequent
- Authorities: Bottles of Bombay Sapphire gin sold in Canada 'not safe for consumption'
- Nancy Pelosi: GOP health-care plan is a 'moral monstrosity'
- May 3rd
- House to vote on GOP health-care plan Thursday
- Department of Justice not bringing charges against officers who fatally shot Alton Sterling
- Sen. Bob Casey relays the deportation of a mother and son in a heartwrenching series of tweets
- Cigarette sales are plummeting. But tobacco company profits are still booming.
- More stores may close in 2017 than in the worst year of the Great Recession
- Puerto Rico governor announces historic bankruptcy filing in federal court
- Trump vows to help Israel and Palestine achieve peace, a deal he's heard is 'perhaps the toughest' to make
- GOP lawmaker says Republicans are treating the health-care bill like a 'kidney stone' they just want to 'pass'
- James Comey dismisses WikiLeaks as 'intelligence porn'
- Who said it: John McDonnell or Chairman Mao?
- This is what an 'anti-Trump aerobics' class looks like
- Spurs bid farewell to White Hart Lane after 118 years
- Prince William and Kate Middleton seek €1.5m over topless photos
- Hulu launches live TV streaming service
- Budget director Mick Mulvaney says Republicans are so 'close' on health care that he'd 'probably go to the floor' if he were speaker
- Young adults in the Middle East, North Africa see Russia as the Arab world's best friend
- Former House Intelligence chair says Russia's meddling was so 'wildly successful' it's still shaping 'legislative process today'
- Support as Aaron Lennon is detained under Mental Health Act
- The Eagles are suing the Hotel California
- How an ObamaCare repeal vote could actually be good for Democrats
- ITV boss Adam Crozier steps down after seven years
- Did Jimmy Kimmel kill the GOP's heath-care bill?
- Democrats and Republicans agree that people with pre-existing conditions should be federally protected
- How the GOP health-care bill could harm everyone with employer-based insurance
- Stephen Colbert thinks Hillary Clinton accidentally revealed the real reason she lost in November
- Nine of the best gins and whiskies for Father's Day
- President Trump is reportedly leaning toward pulling America out of the Paris climate pact
- Stephen Colbert previews Trump's proposed changes to the Constitution
- House Republicans still don't have the votes for their health-care bill
- Listen to Seth Meyers explain how airline deregulation brought us to the hellscape we have today
- Trevor Noah has his own analysis of why Hillary Clinton lost to Trump
- Kansas archdiocese ending relationship with Girl Scouts over 'troubling trends'
- Officer in Texas who shot and killed black teenager fired
- Report: Justice Department won't charge officers in fatal shooting of Alton Sterling
- May 2nd
- Appeals court says same-sex couple can sue Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis for damages
- Listen to a sea of reporters angrily shout 'Sean' at Sean Spicer
- Amazon just gave everyone in the town of Manchester-by-the-Sea free Prime Video for a year so they can watch Manchester by the Sea
- Ivanka Trump's book is being promoted by the government-funded broadcaster Voice of America
- President Trump used a speech honoring the Air Force Academy football team to nag Congress about the health-care bill
- 10 years later, J.K. Rowling says she's sorry she killed off Snape
- Is the car market facing a mis-selling scandal?
- Sir Philip Green and wife Tina lose £433m from their fortune
- The Wall Street Journal just uncovered previously undisclosed investments that tie Jared Kushner to Goldman Sachs, George Soros
- General election 2017: The 50 Labour MPs most at risk of losing their seat
- How to join a political party
- Mark Selby beats John Higgins to join snooker's Crucible greats
- Ivanka Trump proposed dividing Planned Parenthood so one arm provides abortions, another other health services
- Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 leads 2017 Tony nominations
- Is St Edmund buried in Bury St Edmunds?
- Texas police change story on the lead-up to the death of unarmed 15-year-old
- A woman is on trial for laughing when a senator said Jeff Sessions treats 'all Americans equally'
- Hobbled by Trump, House Republicans are still trying to nail down health-care votes
- General election 2017: What will we learn from the local election results?
- Fyre Festival goes down in flames after being hit with $100m lawsuit
- Hollywood writers, producers agree on a new contract, averting a damaging strike
- Paris May Day march descends into violence in run-up to election
- Jimmy Kimmel emotionally describes how his infant son almost died last week from a pre-existing condition
- Today's front pages: Brussels gossip or a humiliating defeat?
- Hamas softens its stance on Israel
- Hamas drops demand that Israel be destroyed, amid growing Palestinian power struggle
- Wembley 'booked' for Joshua vs Fury in April 2018
- Stephen Colbert and the ghost of Abraham Lincoln ponder Trump's Civil War history lessons
- Russian anti-Putin activists and journalists are being doused, maybe blinded with green astringent
- Rihanna, Katy Perry, Solange Knowles wear daring frocks to this year's Met Gala
- Stephen Colbert edits himself into a one-on-one dream interview with President Trump
- Thousands participate in May Day marches across the U.S.
- Wilbur Ross calls Syrian missile strike Mar-a-Lago's 'after-dinner entertainment'
- May 1st
- Venezuelan president, amid demands to resign, calls for a new constitution
- This Fox News publicity photo from just a few months ago is now weirdly jarring
- Arctic sea ice could be gone entirely in just 23 years
- Trump administration ends Michelle Obama's program facilitating educational opportunities for girls around the world
- Trump says he is 'looking at' breaking up Wall Street banks
- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says tax proposal 'is really a jobs bill'
- Remember Stephen Bannon's Hamilton-like rap musical about the L.A. riots? Professional actors just performed it aloud.
- CBS News' John Dickerson pressed Trump on his bogus wiretapping claims. Trump immediately ended the interview.
- Ancient Turkish carvings describe comet strike that led to the rise of modern civilization
- Sexual assault in grade school by students is a real, under-reported problem, AP finds
- This week might be the GOP's last chance to repeal ObamaCare
- Twitter TV? It's happening.
- SpaceX completes first rocket launch for U.S. government
- Will Ferrell's George W. Bush returns to take a post-Trump victory lap
- Pentagon identifies soldier killed in Mosul, Iraq
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