- AP NewsAlert
- Glenn Beck announces he’s been battling rare neurological illness
- David Foster Wallace’s mind-blowing creative nonfiction syllabus: “This does not mean an essayist’s goal is to ‘share’ or ‘express herself’ or whatever feel-good term you got taught in high school”
- Stephen Colbert’s Questlove: Imagining the new “Late Show” band
- Man who went to prison as a juvenile sex offender: Lena Dunham is lucky
- 10 Things to Know for Today
- 10 things parents should never say to their toddlers
- America’s George W. Bush disorder: Why our new Iraq war is doomed to fail
- Grossest midterms winner not GOP! Why K Street is readying an “orgy of lobbying”
- Our soldiers are killing themselves: One simple gun control rule could help military suicide problem
- “Christianity was my entire world. Then I stepped off a cliff”: Meet the minister who started an atheist church
- Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart slams President Obama for increasing troop levels in Iraq
- “I couldn’t understand why they were doing this”: JPMorgan whistle-blower and Matt Taibbi sound off on MSNBC
- Ferguson residents, cops are buying weapons and riot gear to prepare for grand jury decision
- Rand Paul is worried that Hillary Clinton is too old to run for president
- Awkward: Megyn Kelly makes major pronunciation flub introducing Mike Huckabee
- Eminem raps about domestic abuse: “I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice”
- At least eight women dead in India mass sterilization
- After a midterm disaster, the personhood movement is revamping its strategy
- “The Daily Show” has a brilliant strategy to avoid getting shot by cops
- G-20 nations spend $88 billion a year propping up the fossil fuel industry
- Wingnut Ben Stein rants about “beaten-down, pathetic, self-defeating black underclass”
- Amanda Palmer: “I wish I hadn’t made a snap decision about Jian Ghomeshi”
- “Why would you kill her?”: Michigan police shoot woman during response to domestic dispute
- “Serial wildlife killers” face federal charges in Nevada
- Real reason for the Republican wave: Mitt Romney’s endorsements! (says Romney’s pals)
- Bill Nye: The pope’s comments on evolution were “helpful”
- Argentina slams US judge on Citigroup payment
- Mitch’s first big headache: How to convince conservatives he can’t “repeal Obamacare”
- NY woman celebrates 100th birthday with sky dive
- Megyn Kelly’s “Huckabee” flub was Fox News at its best: Why we’re obsessed with cable news bloopers
- Look what we’ve done to the world’s oceans
- Ted Cruz gets even more annoying: Why he wants to make the Internet worse
- Spotify’s Top 10 most streamed tracks
- Stephen Colbert utterly destroys the GOP plans to not govern ahead of 2016 election
- India establishes ministry for yoga and ayurvedic medicine
- Watch the “Notorious RBG” creator’s touching profile of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Doctor recovers from Ebola, leaves NYC hospital
- America’s criminal justice revolution: How fighting to end mass incarceration united the left and right
- Social media strikes back at Cosby and Dapper Laughs
- Rig the vote! The right resurrects a shady plan to skew 2016 in the GOP’s favor
- Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted even more feelings about “Interstellar”
- The problem with the “sensible, moral middle ground on abortion”: You can’t legislate it
- The 7 biggest problems with “Interstellar”
- (Trace, harmless) Fukushima radiation has almost made it to California
- “Grotesque, odious, evil”: Piers Morgan’s “n-word” column provokes firestorm of criticism
- “Bad Turn Worse”: Texas teen noir infused with “Blood Simple”
- Eating tacos and drinking beer raised nearly $30,000 for abortion funds
- EXCLUSIVE: John McCain answers Salon questions about Ted Cruz, ISIS and repealing Obamacare
- Colorado is at the mercy of the tumbleweeds
- Woman pretends to be drunk and asks for help, is approached by gross men being gross
- US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,207
- Update from Brownbackistan: New numbers show Kansas’ budget woes are even worse than initially realized
- Joe Lieberman is pretty sure history will record that George W. Bush was just swell
