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- December 31st
- Houston police find weapons in drunk man's hotel room above New Year's Eve festivities
- Scaramucci says 'you'll be surprised' by Trump's view of climate change
- 1 killed, 6 injured in Colorado domestic shooting
- Iran restricts Instagram access as a warning to protesters
- Trump says Democrats winning 2018 would 'totally kill the great wealth' he's created
- New Year's revelers face extreme cold
- The military will begin accepting transgender recruits on New Year's Day
- Iranian protesters chant 'death to the dictator' despite their government's threats of violence
- California police arrest suspect in deadly swatting prank
- December 30th
- Pence's neighbors hang 'Make America gay again' banner
- Criminal justice reform activist Erica Garner, daughter of Eric Garner, dies at 27
- ISIS claimed an attack that killed at least 9 people at a Cairo church
- Police in Wichita killed an unarmed man targeted by a 'swatting' prank
- The State Department published Huma Abedin's emails from Anthony Weiner's laptop
- North Korea says don't 'expect any change' in nuclear policy in 2018
- Iran warns citizens against joining 'illegal gatherings' to protest state corruption
- December 29th
- NBA guard Avery Bradley revealed to have paid settlement sum after sexual assault allegations
- South Korea seizes Hong Kong-registered vessel for allegedly transferring oil to North Korea
- After spate of attacks, NYPD prepares biggest security detail ever for Times Square New Year's Eve
- Berlin's New Year's Eve celebration will have a women-only 'safe zone' to prevent harassment, assault
- The GOP tax overhaul just made Goldman Sachs $5 billion poorer
- Historic cold snap grips northern half of America
- Liberia's next president is former soccer star George Weah
- Dick Van Dyke Show star Rose Marie dies at 94
- 12 dead, 15 injured after fire rips through Bronx apartment building
- Apple apologizes for slowed-down iPhones
- December 28th
- The Dr. Phil show reportedly helped addicts score drugs and alcohol before they went on air
- Playing too many video games is a mental health disorder, World Health Organization says
- Trump tweets defense of Vanity Fair's controversial Hillary Clinton video, somehow brings Anna Wintour into it
- New York City is on track to have its lowest number of murders ever
- Chris Christie pardons the parent of one of his son's schoolmates
- Iraq estimates it needs $100 billion to rebuild after defeating ISIS
- Survey: A third of men admit to behavior in the past year that could qualify as sexual harassment
- Russian hacker says he can prove Kremlin ordered DNC hack
- Rex Tillerson praises State Department's handling of 'immense challenges'
- Elon Musk says he's 'dying' to build a Tesla pickup truck
- IRS: Homeowners can deduct pre-paid 2018 property taxes, but under limited circumstances
- American Airlines apologizes after accusing pro basketball players of stealing blankets
- December 27th
- NBA unveils brand-new 'City' edition jerseys
- Israel wants to name a train station in Jerusalem after Trump
- Americans will return $90 billion worth of holiday gifts this year
- Erie, Pennsylvania, got hammered with 5 feet of snow in 2 days
- In interview with Prince Harry, Obama warns against divisive social media use
- December 26th
- The Library of Congress is done archiving your silly tweets
- American home prices just soared to their highest point since 2006
- GOP congressman calls for 'purge' of the Justice Department
- In the wake of the Matt Lauer scandal, NBC staffers can now reportedly be fired for failing to report a colleague's misconduct
- You have just 6 days left to collect $10 million if you have information about this puzzling art heist
- Bill de Blasio likens himself to Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Mahatma Gandhi
- Venezuelans 'dollarize' to survive
- China's economy is projected to be bigger than America's by 2032
- Trump fires off post-Christmas Fox and Friends-inspired tweet about 'Crooked Hillary' and the 'bogus' Russia dossier
- Holiday sales rise at best pace in 6 years
- Business school professors are adjusting their courses for a post-#MeToo world
- British woman sentenced to 3 years in prison in Egypt after attempting to bring her boyfriend medication for his back pain
- Watch Jodie Whittaker make her debut as the first female Doctor Who
- Peruvians protest suspiciously timed medical pardon of jailed ex-leader Alberto Fujimori
- Heather Menzies-Urich, a von Trapp daughter in The Sound of Music, is dead at 68
- Secret Service interviews person who claimed credit for Treasury Secretary Mnuchin's gift-wrapped manure
- The Trump administration reportedly wants to scrap post-Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rules
- The Trumps and Pope Francis both pray for peace in Christmas messages
- December 24th
- December 23rd
- Now that the GOP tax plan is law, the IRS must figure out how it works
- Pro-Trump singer accuses Lewandowski of slapping her butt at a party
- Flash floods and mudslides kill at least 100 in the Philippines
- Two courts rejected Trump's request to stop transgender military recruitment next year
- The Thomas Fire is now the largest in California's recorded history
- Trump doesn't have authority to issue a travel ban, appeals court rules
- U.S. to sell anti-tank missiles to Ukraine
- December 22nd
- America teams up with Russia, China, to pass strict new economic sanctions on North Korea
- Amazon continues its quest to enter your home while you're not there
- Jack in the Box is coming out with a 'munchie' meal for stoners
- Trump's promise to help the steel industry has reportedly done more harm than good
- The red-carpet treatment: The Beverly Hills Hotel review
- Stephen Bannon and Corey Lewandowski will ring in the new year by testifying before the House Intelligence Committee
- Fox & Friends slams the U.N. as an 'anti-American, anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic cesspool'
- People in Britain are losing their minds over the new blue passports
- Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski scolds Mark Halperin's accusers for not meeting with him to hear his apology
- Blue passports: British firm De La Rue fights to keep contract after Brexit
- The Daily Show seriously tries to explain bitcoin and other 'stupid meme currencies'
- Eric Schmidt steps down as Alphabet executive chairman: what next for Google?
- Movies to watch in 2018
- Boris Johnson and Sergei Lavrov spar at fiery first UK-Russia meeting in five years
- Premier League: best moments of the season so far and 2018 predictions
- Republicans are preparing for another senator to step down early next year
- Catalonia crisis: now what?
- FCC fines Sinclair Broadcast Group for failing to disclose stealth paid programming
- The year in pictures - 2017
- Doug Jones tells Seth Meyers about how he won in Alabama, Roy Moore, sexual misconduct, and Jimmy Buffett
- 2017 quiz of the year: how closely were you paying attention?
- Arsenal transfer news: Man City may wait to make their move for Alexis Sanchez
- Wall Street titans seem to have done particularly well under the final GOP tax plan
- Seth Meyers deflates Trump's 'delusional self-congratulations' on taxes, but feeds them on ObamaCare
- At least 5 people are fighting for Charles Manson's remains
- Despite hurdles, 8.8 million people signed up for ObamaCare this fall
- Donald Trump’s Jerusalem policy rejected by UN
- Judge dismisses suits claiming Trump is violating emoluments clauses
- Papa John's founder stepping down as CEO
- December 21st
- A deadly pandemic is sweeping through the world's snakes
- A frat party in Maryland got so out of hand that the air in the house blew a 0.01 on a breathalyzer
- Sean Hannity tried to make a fool of NBC but possibly just made a fool of himself
- You probably treat workers at Walmart worse than ones at Saks
- Facebook ditches fake news warnings
- May turns the tables on Met after Damian Green sacking
- Bob Corker says he finally understands 'fake news' after press scrutinizes his support for Republican tax bill
- Sesame Street is designing a $100 million program specifically for Syrian refugees
- Translator invited into Downing Street suspected of being Russian spy
- This grab-and-go beverage company is now 'pivoting to blockchain'
- Americans' life expectancy dropped for the second year in a row, and experts are panicking
- President Trump's first-year stock market gains actually look pretty middling compared with Obama's
- The Justice Department is re-examining the FBI's investigation of the Uranium One deal
- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘eligible for early release’
- The Disney-Fox merger might well make your cable bill go up
- Floyd Mayweather: I’m not going to fight in the UFC
- Will last orders be called for drinking at rugby matches?
- Diesel fallout blamed for rise in new car CO2 emissions
- SUV ‘deliberately’ rams crowd in Melbourne, injuring 19
- Stephen Colbert's Late Show lets the Trump dossier defend itself from attacks by Trump, Fox News
- Louis van Gaal favourite to replace Paul Clement at Swansea City
- Britain's Theresa May ousts top aide Damian Green over lying about porn on his work computer
- Arsenal transfer news: Thomas Lemar ‘would prefer’ to join Liverpool
- Carabao Cup: Bristol City stun Man Utd to reach the semi-finals
- The Daily Show isn't convinced liberal 'preppers' would survive the apocalypse
- She just made her debut, and this adorable baby panda is already stealing hearts in Tokyo
- Congress plans to leave for Christmas without funding the CHIP health program serving 9 million kids
- Another North Korean soldier has defected at the demilitarized zone
- ‘Infant circumcision training kit’ pulled from Amazon
- Donald Trump threatens to withhold aid over UN Jerusalem vote
- Damian Green sacked for lying about porn
- Report: House Republicans are secretly investigating the FBI, Department of Justice
- Al Franken will leave the Senate on Jan. 2
- December 20th
- AT&T just gave thousands of employees a $1000 bonus in celebration of tax reform
- Roy Moore might have to actually concede to Doug Jones now
- LaVar Ball, who withdrew his son from college, wants to start a paid basketball league for players who don't go to college
- Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney sues USA Gymnastics for 'hypocritical, immoral' behavior
- Paternity pay in the dock
- Turkey wants to imprison this NBA player for insulting their president
- Global warming brings jackals to Western Europe
- A few of my favourite things: Connolly
- Today's Savannah Guthrie just grilled Paul Ryan on the GOP tax bill: 'Are you living in a fantasy world?'
- Catalonia heads to the polls for Madrid-ordered elections
- Justin Gatlin: I am not using performance-enhancing drugs
- Britain just guaranteed broadband internet access to all homes and businesses
- McDonald's is going McVegan
- Well-to-do Frankfurt fines homeless people for sleeping rough
- Minnesota lawmaker cites Roy Moore to explain her refusal to meet with a high school politics club
- Top European court rules Uber is a taxi service, in major challenge to the gig economy
- Apple cuts price of replacement iPhone 6 batteries
- Trump has given a big boost to cable news, and not just the network he likes
- Ian Wright slams Arsenal board over Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez contracts
- Atletico report Barcelona to Fifa for illegal Antoine Griezmann approach
- Carabao Cup: Arsenal and Man City progress to the semi-finals
- The GOP tax bill will actually add $2 trillion to the national debt, Trump's alma mater predicts
- ECJ’s Uber ruling has widespread implications for gig economy
- Senate Republicans pass massive GOP tax bill, send back to House for technical re-vote
- 25-year-old woman gives birth from embryo frozen 25 years ago
- Cardinal Bernard Law, Boston archbishop at center of Catholic sex abuse scandal, is dead at 86
- Germany admits failings in wake of market attack
- Mexican journalist murdered at son's Christmas pageant
- Investigators looking into whether Amtrak engineer lost 'situational awareness' ahead of derailment
- At least 12 killed in tourist bus crash in Mexico
- December 19th
- Your bad breath may be genetic
- A California company is making a breathalyzer for marijuana
- Watch Paul Ryan commemorate tax reform with the mightiest of gavel bangs
- Who really benefits from Donald Trump’s tax reforms?
- Facebook will now alert you if it detects your face in random photos
- A third of NHS doctors trained overseas, raising fears of staffing crisis
- Major League Soccer is reportedly coming to Nashville
- Cuba and Russia agree new economic ties as US turns inwards
- Silicon Valley's T.J. Miller accused of violently assaulting his college girlfriend
- Terrorists tapping social media to raise money for jihad
- Scientists want to zap your brain to stop you from making dumb decisions
- 'Anti-bird' spikes on Bristol trees outrage environmentalists
- ‘Safer’ 20mph zones can make roads ‘more dangerous’
- Trump reportedly thanked this GOP senator for grilling his unqualified judicial nominee
- Sir Ian McKellen and Matt Damon in hot water over harrassment comments
- Paul Ryan is celebrating the GOP's impending tax overhaul like it's 1998
- German security services switch tactics to identify terrorists
- Congress considers nearly doubling the disaster relief package requested by the White House to $81 billion
- The $1.5 trillion Republican tax bill is increasingly unpopular as it nears passage
- Anthony Joshua vs. Tyson Fury may happen in late 2018, says Eddie Hearn
- Saudi Arabia intercepts Yemeni missile heading for King Salman’s palace
- Trump judge nominee withdraws after ‘humiliating interview’
- Could Spain be kicked out of the Fifa 2018 World Cup?
- The £3.1bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is leaking
- Twitter blocks Britain First leaders over hate speech
- Young man pleads guilty to voting for Labour twice in the general election
- 9th Circuit appellate Judge Alex Kozinski steps down over sexual impropriety allegations
- The Daily Show debuts a song celebrating the women of 2017, with some interesting cameos
- Puerto Rico will officially revisit its dubiously low Hurricane Maria death count
- Arsenal transfer news: Gunners to make £25m bid for Chelsea star David Luiz
- Justin Gatlin: world champion’s team involved in new doping scandal
- Darlene Love joins Jimmy Fallon, Anna Kendrick, and the Roots to sing 'Christmas' with a wall of toy sounds
- Man City transfer news: ‘Unsettled’ Sergio Aguero is a target for Real Madrid
- Charlottesville police chief retires in wake of scathing report
- Report: Mueller team expects probe to continue well into 2018
- Senate committee investigating Russia asks for documents from Jill Stein
- December 18th
- Sarah Palin's son was arrested for beating up his dad, calling police 'peasants'
- Nobody knew but Anna Kournikova just had twins with Enrique Iglesias
- Paul Manafort really wants to spend Christmas in the Hamptons
- Amtrak train derails outside Seattle, causing 'multiple injuries and fatalities'
- Whitehall’s gender pay gap revealed
- Most talked-about videos of 2017
- Children are dying of hunger in Venezuela
- RAF Mildenhall: Shots fired by US guards during ‘security incident’
- January transfer window: what date does it close?
- Capitol Hill is obsessed with guessing who will be exposed for sexual harassment next
- MSNBC's Joe Scarborough says the GOP tax plan steals $1.5 trillion from millennials
- Facebook’s cure for social media ills? More Facebook
- Two dead in fire at historic Loch Lomond hotel
- Ex-Fox News contributor tells CNN how Rupert Murdoch ruined her life
- SHINee lead singer Jonghyun dies in apparent suicide
- GOP leaders are confident their tax overhaul will pass this week
- Plans for ‘water cremation’ are put on hold
- Police to use AI to identify child abuse images
- Austrian party founded by ex-Nazis enters coalition government
- Whitewash is on: Australia regain the Ashes with crushing win in Perth
- Arsenal transfer news: Gunners, Man Utd and Man City want to sign Jonny Evans
- Sen. Bob Corker wants to know how a measure enriching him was slipped into the GOP tax bill he now supports
- Premier League: can anyone even beat Manchester City?
- Ted Cruz tries to slam Mark Hamill on net neutrality, probably wishes he hadn't
- Uber driver arrested over murder of UK diplomat in Beirut
- Sebastian Pinera: new president will take Chile to the right
- A blackout at the Atlanta airport has forced the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights a week before Christmas
- December 17th
- Prince Harry interviewed Obama
- The Thomas Fire will soon be the largest wildfire in California's recorded history
- Trump says tax plan is 'one of the great Christmas gifts' to the middle class
- Turkey to open embassy in East Jerusalem
- Automatic pension saving to begin at 18
- SNL's Trump trims his 'tree of shame' with 'haters and losers' he 'destroyed this year'
- At least 8 killed in church attack in Pakistan
- Trump transition team accuses Mueller of unlawfully obtaining private emails
- December 16th
- Report: Civil rights lawyer solicited donations for Trump accusers
- GOP voters' approval of congressional Republicans spiked as the tax bill was finalized
- Stronger winds to test California firefighters over the weekend
- Judge temporarily blocks Trump contraception rule
- Roy Moore still refuses to concede and is trying to raise more money
- Trump reportedly won't let the CDC say 'evidence-based' or 'science-based'
- December 15th
- Don't bet on the Golden State Warriors
- Paul Manafort's curfew is stricter than many high schoolers'
- Magnetic sperm could be the next big cancer-fighting innovation
- Australia has an unusual recommendation to prevent child sex abuse
- Republicans tweak child tax credit to win over final Senate holdouts
- This Virginia state lawmaker is on a quest to legalize public profanity
- Week in pictures: 9 - 16 December
- The true story of The Post: how the Pentagon Papers exposed America’s role in Vietnam
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi makes near-record $45 million in previews
- Antoine Griezmann allowed to leave Atletico Madrid - where will he go next?
- Wladimir Klitschko: Anthony Joshua can unify the heavyweight division
- Man Utd transfer news: Chelsea star Willian is on Jose Mourinho’s target list
- Tony Martin calls for Chris Froome to be banned over failed drugs test
- Seth Meyers says any room Omarosa enters becomes 'a Situation Room'
- Republican tax cuts in doubt as Rubio joins the revolt
- Priest celibacy should be voluntary, says child abuse report
- Email shows music publicist suggested meeting between Trump, Putin in 2015
- Rubio won't support GOP tax bill unless it expands child tax credit
- Firefighter killed while battling massive Southern California blaze
- December 14th
- Lindsey Graham is beating the war drums on North Korea
- Alibaba wants to sell you a car from a vending machine
- Your dog could live longer thanks to 3,000 golden retrievers
- Rumors are swirling that Paul Ryan will step down
- The U.S. just had a close call with Russian fighter jets in Syria
- Net neutrality rules reversed by US vote
- Richest 0.1% boost their wealth by as much as poorest half
- In pictures: Grenfell fire memorial
- Villains of 2017
- 9 more women accuse Russell Simmons of rape or sexual harassment
- End of the race for Formula 1’s grid girls?
- Heroes of 2017
- Disney agrees £39bn deal for 21st Century Fox assets
- Party time: dazzling women's watches
- The best experience gifts for Christmas
- Disney agrees to buy 20th Century Fox, other 21st Century Fox film and TV assets for $52.4 billion
- The best restaurants with live music
- This season's best winter coats
- Pictures: top 10 richest sports stars of all time
- The FCC is about to scrap net neutrality rules, even though 8 in 10 voters want them preserved
- US embassy features London’s first new moat since medieval era
- Chinese millionaire buys four F1 cars with cryptocurrency
- ICC: no evidence of match fixing in third Ashes Test match
- Stephen Colbert doubts that God will save Roy Moore from defeat, and 'God' agrees
- Arsenal transfer news: £35m fee ‘agreed’ for Sevilla’s Steven N’Zonzi
- GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold admits to regularly calling staffers one particular vulgar name, says it was 'in jest'
- Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah gape at Roy Moore's loss. Stephen Colbert turns it into a song.
- On The Daily Show and Late Night, four black comedians savor, take a bow for Roy Moore defeat
- Roy Moore still won't concede, says we're all going to hell in a handbasket
- Kentucky lawmaker accused of sexual assault fatally shot himself
- John McCain hospitalized due to 'normal side effects' of cancer treatment
- Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein defends Mueller against charges of bias by Republican lawmakers
- PBS suspends Tavis Smiley talk show over sexual misconduct allegations
- December 13th
- Democrats ask Republicans to hold off on tax vote until Jones is seated in the Senate
- Even the FCC's chief technology officer is worried about net neutrality repeal
- Forged documents accusing Chuck Schumer of sexual harassment apparently used a real complaint against John Conyers as a template
- House Democrat, scandalized by colleagues' clothes, reportedly calls certain outfits 'an invitation' for harassment
- Succulence triumphs in Europe's kebab fight
- East Jerusalem declared capital of Palestine by 57 Muslim nations
- Scientists discover smoking weed could benefit HIV patients
- Are public inquiries a waste of time and money?
- Here's how to catch one of the best meteor showers of the year
- France ‘complicit’ in Rwandan genocide
- Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to assume Al Franken's Senate seat
- 'Secret Santas' buy nearly $100,000 worth of gifts at Walmarts across the U.S.
- Eerie photos of empty London on Christmas Day
- GOP Rep. Peter King rips Stephen Bannon as 'morally vacuous,' likens him to a 'disheveled drunk'
- Meghan Markle’s Toronto house goes up for sale
- Fox & Friends has a desperate spin on Doug Jones' unexpected Alabama victory
- Tailor made: the coach-built Tesla Model S Shooting Brake
- Zlatan: Pep Guardiola is the most immature coach I’ve worked with
- Fed expected to hike interest rates at end of Wednesday meeting
- Google expands AI research with new Chinese facility
- Vanellope Wilkins: the UK baby born with her heart outside her body
- Jean-Claude Juncker dragged into Luxembourg spy scandal
- York becomes third UK city to ban Uber
- Chris Froome faces ban from cycling after failed drugs test
- Stephen Colbert laughs at Roy Moore's horse, gasps at Trump's Gillibrand tweet
- Chelsea join Arsenal and Liverpool in race to sign Thomas Lemar
- Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show gives Peanuts the Riverdale treatment
- Forged document falsely accuses Chuck Schumer of sexual harassment
- Democrat Doug Jones pulls off unlikely Alabama Senate win over Roy Moore in blow to Trump
- If Moore wins in Alabama, GOP senators will meet Wednesday to discuss next steps
- Tillerson: U.S. is ready to talk to North Korea without preconditions
- December 12th
- Republicans close to agreeing on tax bill that lowers the top individual tax rate
- Jake Tapper just asked Roy Moore's spokesman if Moore thinks 'homosexual conduct' should be illegal. His answer: 'Probably.'
- This robot just smashed through a wall to deliver the Olympic torch
- Scientists spot the first interstellar space rock and wonder if aliens made it
- Tinder thinks you need a timeline for your matches
- Where to eat on Christmas Day
- Luxury stocking fillers for under £100
- Frozen Britain faces winter energy crisis
- The best diaries for 2018
- Stop and search ‘colour discrepancy’ laid bare
- The five best gifts with a conscience
- Roy Moore rode his horse Sassy to go vote today
- Quebec to launch world’s biggest basic income scheme
- What galloping cockroaches can teach the robots of the future
- Saudis reopen cinemas - but don’t expect mixed seating and sex scenes
- Auschwitz survivor deems North Korean camps worse than Nazi concentration camps
- Ryanair’s Dublin pilots to strike pre-Christmas
- GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold's office is apparently fueled by beer, sexual innuendo, and lewd texts from lobbyists
- Can Macron convince world leaders to commit to climate change?
- Merriam-Webster picks 'feminism' as the 2017 word of the year
- Joke about Theresa May tops list of best modern Christmas cracker gags
- The House and Senate have resolved 'nothing really' on a final tax bill
- The Pentagon will allow transgender applicants for military service starting Jan. 1
- The ultimate accessories gift guide
- San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is dead at 65
- Sean Spicer is writing a book to 'set the record straight' about his Trump tenure
- Chinese rooftop climber dies after 62-storey fall
- Donald Trump named the most powerful person in sport
- New York attack: does Bangladesh have a terrorism problem?
- Stephen Colbert tests some ideas for Trump's imagined presidential reality TV show
- Canadian doctor claims man flu is real
- Is the Diego Maradona statue worse than Ronaldo’s?
- Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel laugh about Roy Moore's new interview with a 12-year-old girl
- Clermont accuse Saracens of treating fans as ‘vulgar toys’
- Chelsea transfer news: Blues ready to make new bid for Ross Barkley
- Jimmy Kimmel enlists his infant son, Billy, to remind Congress it needs to fund children's health care, stat
- Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show makes Star Wars characters sing Hanson's 'MMMBop' to whet your appetite
- Roy Moore's friend recounts the time they accidentally went to a brothel with 'very young' girls
- At Roy Moore rally, Bannon mocks Alabama grad Joe Scarborough for not making 'the cut' at Bannon's elite 'Yankee' alma maters
- Pentagon to allow transgender military recruits
- Arnold Schwarzenegger pokes at Trump during climate change meeting
- Roy Moore's wife Kayla: We can't be anti-Semitic because 'one of our attorneys is a Jew!'
- Alabama farmer who lost his gay daughter to suicide speaks out near Roy Moore rally
- U.S. Treasury's one-page tax plan analysis slammed by tax experts, Democrats
- December 11th
- Macron's 'Make Our Planet Great Again' grants awarded to 13 U.S. scientists
- The New Yorker just fired Ryan Lizza after allegations of sexual misconduct. He says the magazine made a 'terrible mistake.'
- Energy executive denies that Michael Flynn sent text during inauguration saying Russia sanctions would be 'ripped up'
- Climate change could devastate wind farming
- Arms sales rise for first time in five years
- New economic crime centre will tackle money-laundering
- North Korea claims that Kim Jong Un stopped a blizzard
- 18 sporting events to see in 2018
- The FBI really did advise Jeff Sessions against releasing his foreign contacts
- Cambridge reviews Uber licence following London, Sheffield suspensions
- Keith Chegwin dies aged 60
- CNN's Chris Cuomo eerily predicts Trump's attack on a New York Times report on his TV-watching obsession
- Huntington’s disease: hope for a cure following ‘ground-breaking’ trial
- Is bad behaviour ruining the image of English cricket?
- The Shape of Water leads 2018 Golden Globe nominations
- FCC Chairman Ajit Pai deregulated telegrams, just because he could
- New York attack: 27-year-old ‘Isis-inspired’ man arrested over explosion near Times Square
- Bitcoin futures begin trading, in a landmark moment for cryptocurrencies
- Champions League last 16 draw: Real Madrid get PSG and Chelsea face Barcelona
- Grenfell Tower: 80% of families homeless as inquiry begins
- Glasgow passenger plane misses drone by three seconds
- Saudi Arabia lifts 35-year-old ban on movie theaters
- Battle of Manchester: United and City clash in the tunnel after derby
- Trump and GOP promises about middle-class tax cuts were apparently swamped by ideology, lobbying, math
- Black ice Monday: UK weather chaos leaves thousands stranded
- Arsenal transfer news: Olivier Giroud seeks new year move ahead of World Cup
- Pioneering journalist Simeon Booker dies at 99
- Some states are turning to a main drug in the opioid crisis to execute prisoners
- Venezuelan opposition banned from presidential election
- Queens of the Stone Age frontman says he kicked photographer because he was 'lost' in his performance
- Out-of-control fire in Southern California grows to 200,000 acres
- Nobel Peace Prize winner: Nuclear war is 'one tiny tantrum away'
- December 10th
- Christmas market cancelled due to snow
- Alabama's other senator, Republican Richard Shelby, voted against Roy Moore
- SNL goes after inconsistent responses to misconduct in 'Sexual Harassment Charlie'
- Violence erupts near U.S. Embassy in Lebanon
- Swedish synagogue attacked with firebombs
- California governor says wildfires are the 'new normal' thanks to climate change
- SNL's Santa has Al Franken on the naughty list and Roy Moore on a registry
- December 9th
- Puerto Rico's Hurricane Maria death toll may exceed 1,000
- Trump reportedly spends up to 8 hours watching TV every day
- Mueller filing says Manafort violated gag order with Ukraine op-ed
- Snowstorm blankets Deep South before heading northeast
- Southern California fires claim first life
- Iraq says its war on ISIS is over
- December 8th
- GOP Rep. Steve King really doesn't like diversity
- The sketchy story about how the founder of RT died just got way sketchier
- Trump might change the GOP tax plan because his rich friends asked him to
- Brown University is replacing student loans with scholarships
- Pentagon documents reveal how America once planned for a nuclear war with North Korea
- Japan to buy 'standoff' missiles to counter North Korea
- At least 14 U.N. peacekeepers killed in Congo in the worst attack 'in recent memory'
- Pope Francis wants to change the Lord's Prayer
- Amazon rolls out its streaming music service in 28 new countries
- South Africa at a crossroads: ANC chooses new leader
- The Justice Department is now reportedly investigating Planned Parenthood
- Economy adds 228,000 jobs in November, exceeding expectations
- YouTuber cements head in microwave
- Week in pictures: 2 - 8 December
- Ryan Zinke spent $6,250 in taxpayer dollars on a helicopter flight to ride horses with Mike Pence
- Pope Francis wants change to Lord’s Prayer
- American farmers and ranchers are finally using fewer antibiotics on farm animals
- Festive winter-sun escapes
- Best dress watches for the party season
- What is the Rooney Rule and why have EFL clubs adopted it?
- Stephen Colbert isn't sure Donald Trump Jr. knows what 'privilege' means
- Liverpool transfer news: Philippe Coutinho unsure of Anfield future
- EU and Britain announce agreement on the terms of the Brexit divorce
- Trevor Noah takes a sly #DentureDonald victory lap
- Trump's first White House Hanukkah party was missing a few things
- Senator Al Franken resigns after harassment claims
- Boris Johnson will travel to Iran to seek Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release
- House Ethics Committee clears Devin Nunes, opens investigation into Blake Farenthold
- 12 million Southern California residents received a fire danger text alert
- Fires in 5 Southern California counties burn more than 125,000 acres
- December 7th
- America's top mercenary wants to go into Afghanistan and take the minerals
- Silicon Valley companies are apparently paying models to pretend to be guests at their boring holiday parties
- Pantone's color of the year is an ode to Prince and outer space
- You can feel this man's stress as he saves a rabbit from a California wildfire
- Uber backlash: Sheffield follows London by suspending licence
- Alzheimer's cases are about to skyrocket
- Police officer who shot unarmed black motorist as he fled sentenced to 20 years in prison
- Al Franken says he'll resign 'in the coming weeks.' What does that mean?
- Global murder rate rises for first time in a decade
- Japan's Mario Kart driving tours just got a lot safer
- NFL: Roger Goodell signs new deal and Week 14 play-off picture
- A British retailer is selling seedless avocados because people don't know how to cut open avocados
- North Korea claims America and South Korea's ongoing military drills will make war inevitable
- Best foot forward: men’s winter footwear round-up
- 2018 Winter Olympics: will US athletes travel to South Korea?
- House of Commons pub shuts after man is ‘glassed’
- Rep. John Conyers' son and potential successor was arrested earlier this year for domestic violence
- Bitcoin soars to record high of $15,000
- Should British Isis fighters be hunted and killed?
- Corey Lewandowski defends Trump's fast food habit: 'He never ate the bread'
- If Al Franken resigns, get ready for Sen. Tina Smith
- Corey Feldman's 1993 pedophile-naming interview was just found at the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office
- The Veterans Affairs Department is defunding a major program for homeless vets
- Supermassive black hole ‘could hold answers to how the universe began’
- Stephen Colbert cheers the #MeToo Person of the Year winners, highlights some losers
- Trevor Noah has a plausible reason Trump slurred his Jerusalem speech. Stephen Colbert just laughed.
- Champions League last 16: when is the draw and who have qualified?
- Chelsea transfer news: Real Madrid ready to make offer for Eden Hazard
- Trump calls on Saudi Arabia to end its Yemen blockade 'immediately' for 'humanitarian reasons'
- Australian parliament gives final approval for same-sex marriage
- Roy Moore's spokeswoman defiantly struggles with Anderson Cooper's questions about Moore's beliefs
- The mystery of who bought a Leonardo da Vinci painting for $450 million has been solved
- House passes national concealed-carry gun bill pushed by NRA
- Trump Jr. tells lawmakers he can't discuss conversation he had with his father
- December 6th
- The secretaries of defense and state both advised against moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem
- Google's AI became the world's best chess player in just four hours
- Eighth woman accuses Al Franken of groping her: 'There's a rot in the Democratic Party'
- A massive black hole may help scientists establish a better timeline for our universe
- Viagra is about to get a lot cheaper
- Jared Kushner needs to call his charity
- Vine might be getting a second life
- Kim Davis denied this gay man a marriage license. Now he's running against her.
- Amazon vs. Google row leaves customers in the cold
- We're all going to get the flu
- Don't ask Siri about John Travolta
- Someone made their backyard shed into the No. 1 restaurant in London on TripAdvisor
- British electoral system faces ‘perfect storm’
- Wal-Mart is changing its name ... to Walmart
- Michael Schumacher ‘still fighting’ says FIA president Jean Todt
- Is it safe to eat food after the best-before and use-by dates?
- Watch Megyn Kelly's powerful experiment illustrating how massive the #MeToo movement really is
- The horror of Southern California's wildfires, in 5 photos
- CNN's Chris Cuomo shuts down Kellyanne Conway's defense of Roy Moore: 'It seems like you have no standard of morality'
- NBA 2K League player qualifying event starts on 1 January
- George W. Bush's top tax official is mortified by the GOP tax overhaul: 'Holy crap, what's this?'
- Bitcoin hits $12,000 for first time
- Harvey Weinstein reportedly made his assistants procure erectile dysfunction shots
- There is frightening new evidence to suggest the Cuban sonic attacks are real
- Phone maker offers 42% discount to show ads
- Lubaina Himid wins Turner Prize - in pictures
- Stephen Colbert isn't surprised Trump assaults Mother Nature, but he's shocked someone punished Russia
- Nissan’s driverless ‘robo-taxi’ hits the streets
- Profumo affair: model and showgirl Christine Keeler dies
- Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah have pet theories on why Trump and his GOP are standing by Roy Moore
- Arsenal transfer news: Man City and Real Madrid battle to sign Alexis Sanchez
- Senate confirms Kirstjen Nielsen as homeland security secretary
- Washington Examiner: Roy Moore likely began dating his wife while she was married
- Russia banned from 2018 Winter Olympics
- Bannon hits Mitt Romney's religion, family tree at Roy Moore rally, putting RNC chairwoman in a tough spot
- December 5th
- ICE isn't rounding up the violent criminals like Trump promised
- Stephen Bannon is going back on the radio
- Weight loss could send diabetes into remission, scientists find
- Britain might willingly surrender itself to domination by mutant rats
- One in five British soldiers ‘not fit for duty’
- Senators randomly started quoting Meat Loaf at each other during a banking committee hearing
- EU ‘tax haven’ blacklist labelled a ‘whitewash’
- Millions of Tokyo residents to take part in nuclear drills
- Finland celebrates 100 years of independence: ten fast facts
- British spy agency concludes terror attack at Manchester Arena could have been prevented
- Adding just 1.5 percent more minority officers to a police force can majorly decrease racial profiling
- Sporting year in pictures - 2017
- Roy Moore's spokeswoman just congratulated CNN's Poppy Harlow on her pregnancy. Then she warned Moore's opponent wants to kill her unborn child.
- Manchester bombing ‘might have been averted’
- Record-breaking nine-hour rainbow appears in Taiwan
- Supreme Court hears arguments in controversial 'gay wedding cake' case
- Robert Mueller is reportedly closing in on Trump's personal finances
- Samsung launches luxurious W2018 flip phone
- Saudis and UAE form exclusive trade and military partnership
- John Oliver confronted Dustin Hoffman over sexual harassment accusations, and things got awkward
- EastEnders’ Pat Butcher admits to using cannabis for pain relief every day
- 2018 World Cup TV guide: BBC and ITV to show the final
- Reggie Yates steps down from Top of the Pops over ‘fat Jewish’ comment
- Fast-moving wildfire spreads through California's Ventura County
- Stephen Colbert isn't buying Trump's new Nixonian argument that presidents can't obstruct justice
- Jordan Klepper sneakily warns liberals about a sweeping gun bill moving through Congress
- Man Utd transfer news: Jose Mourinho ready to spend big in January
- FA Cup third round draw: Liverpool to play Everton in Merseyside derby clash
- Staffer who sued Rep. Blake Farenthold for sexual harassment still can't land a job, babysits for cash
- Ed Sheeran is Spotify's most streamed artist of 2017
- Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert celebrate an early Christmas, with Robert Mueller as Santa Claus
- Trump travel ban can be enforced, says US Supreme Court
- John Anderson, liberal Republican and 1980 third-party presidential candidate, has died at 95
- PBS to temporarily replace Charlie Rose with Christiane Amanpour program
- Patagonia to sue Trump administration over 'unlawful' elimination of protected land
- December 4th
- Prosecutors: While under house arrest, Manafort worked on secret op-ed with Russian colleague
- Roy Moore accuser comes forward with new evidence
- America is spending $100 million to learn how to kill bugs
- Messenger Kids: Facebook launches app for young children
- School for ‘submissive women’ shut down in China
- Gulf summit seeks to resolve Qatar crisis
- The Trump administration is pushing a socialist tip-pooling scheme for restaurants
- House Republicans are trying to bait Democrats into loosening gun laws
- North Korea's nuclear tests are killing North Koreans
- Facebook just launched a messaging app for 6-year-olds
- Google artificial intelligence creates its own AI ‘child’
- Yemen’s ex-president Saleh reported dead in Sanaa fighting
- Free-flowing alcohol is drying up at office holiday parties amid America's sex abuse reckoning
- Catalonia crisis: ex-president Puigdemont faces wait for extradition verdict
- Game of Thrones star Kit Harington tops GQ’s worst dressed list
- Trump's lawyer argues that Trump cannot obstruct justice, period
- The U.S. and South Korea begin massive joint air force exercises amid growing North Korea tensions
- UK suspends Syria aid programme amid questions over funds ‘paid to jihadis’
- Facebook and Google facing ‘formal inquiry’ in Australia
- The Republican tax cuts won't trickle down, CEO writes in scathing op-ed
- Ten arrested over murder of Malta journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
- Sen. Grassley says the estate tax unfairly favors people who waste money on 'booze or women or movies'
- Liverpool transfer news: Dortmund ace Aubameyang is Klopp’s top target
- Premier League: lucky 13 for Man City as they win late again
- New York's Metropolitan Opera suspends conductor James Levine after sexual abuse allegations
- Trump lawyer says he wrote the tweet potentially aiding an obstruction of justice case, calls it sloppy
- Donald Trump prepares to reveal stance on Jerusalem
- Trump is reportedly trying his hardest to keep Mitt Romney from becoming Utah's next senator
- Billy Bush is back to remind Trump that is definitely him on the Access Hollywood tape
- CVS to buy Aetna for $69 billion
- December 3rd
- Who are the Bitcoin billionaires?
- Germany offers asylum seekers extra cash to go home
- McConnell says there's 'not going to be a government shutdown'
- College football playoff selections coming Sunday
- SNL's Trump is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come, a gleeful Hillary Rodham Clinton
- McMaster says potential for war with North Korea is 'increasing every day'
- Trump celebrates suspension of ABC reporter Brian Ross, proposes lawsuits against ABC
- December 2nd
- Roy Moore's Senate race is heading toward photo finish
- Here's what still has to happen before the GOP tax plan becomes law
- Hawaii revives Cold War-era nuclear alarms
- A retirement community resident allegedly made ricin poison and tested it on her neighbors
- Trump tweets on Senate tax win: 'Look forward to signing a final bill before Christmas!'
- Senate passes biggest tax overhaul in 30 years
- December 1st
- A woman born without a uterus just gave birth
- More than half of all D.C. lobbyists worked on tax reform
- Coffee shop under fire for 'happily gentrifying' Denver
- Jared Kushner reportedly asked Michael Flynn to coordinate with Russia
- GOP congressman used $84,000 in taxpayer money to settle sexual harassment lawsuit
- Ted Cruz says Roy Moore shouldn't step down if elected, but calls allegations against Al Franken a serious problem
- Fox News kept a Hillary Clinton story at the top of their homepage after the Michael Flynn news broke
- 2018 World Cup draw: England to face Belgium, Tunisia and Panama
- Michael Flynn confirms he's cooperating with special counsel
- Michael Flynn admits lying to the FBI
- Week in pictures: 25 November - 1 December
- Read the charge against Michael Flynn
- Michael Flynn charged with making false statements to the FBI, expected to plead guilty
- The Christmas party feud between CNN and the White House has officially taken a turn for the bizarre
- House GOP banking chairman waves off tax cut deficit concerns, pivots to entitlement reform
- Prosecutors apparently refused to accept Manafort's Trump Tower apartment for bond
- Elon Musk just built a battery the size of a football field in less than 100 days
- Jimmy Kimmel shares the Roy Moore stunt that launched a Twitter feud
- Britain First gets ‘hundreds of membership applications’ after Trump retweets
- Stephen Colbert's Melania Trump unconvincingly insists she's happy being first lady
- Stephen Colbert finds the lighter side of Rex Tillerson's rumored termination
- Emmerson Mnangagwa packs ‘recycled’ cabinet with soldiers
- ‘Thousands’ of pornographic images on deputy PM Damian Green’s computer
- Man Utd transfer news: Mourinho in the market for £176m Mauro Icardi transfer
- Senate Republicans are rewriting major parts of their tax plan after Thursday night setbacks
- CNN's Jake Tapper turns Lindsey Graham's Trump-tied media criticism back on him, using Lindsey Graham
- Jimmy Kimmel says he'll fight Roy Moore — as long as he can wear a Girl Scout uniform
- RedState writer suggests conservatives were lied to about the Kate Steinle case
- Seth Meyers calls Matt Lauer 'the dildo at work'
- Rescue mission ends for missing Argentinian submarine
- Trevor Noah tries to explain why everyone's always talking about Trump, seriously
- The Treasury Department's inspector general is now on the hunt for Steven Mnuchin's missing tax plan analysis
- Actor Jim Nabors, TV's Gomer Pyle, dies at 87
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