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- Fox News misleads about Jon Stewart: Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and the insane new partisanship
- Keystone XL bill dies in the Senate
- Inside Charles Manson’s bizarre wedding: A prison minister on tying the knot behind bars
- Meghan Daum won’t apologize: How she forged a new genre of confessional writing
- “Happy Valley”: What really went wrong at Penn State
- Study will test survivors’ blood to treat Ebola
- Other times snow has stranded motorists en masse
- Robert Reich: The 1 percent is gutting America’s middle class
- “Your comments put students at risk”: An open letter to Lincoln University’s president
- Erick Erickson’s shutdown fantasy: Have GOP hurt people, then lie about it!
- A racial state of emergency: How we prepare for devastation in Ferguson
- Why a Republican Congress might actually be the end of the world
- Don Lemon to Cosby accuser: “There are ways not to perform oral sex”
- Don Lemon to Bill Cosby accuser: “There are ways not to perform oral sex”
- Charter movement’s civil war: Meet the activist who says “unions get way too much blame”
- How the political media is poisoning American discourse
- How Senate Republicans scuttled NSA reform
- Stephen Colbert destroys GOP policies that force poor people to eat trash
- “I remember a lot of pain”: Janice Dickinson accuses Bill Cosby of raping her
- Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart tackles Obamacare and “Grubergate”
- The year of the rear: A thorough history of 2014 in butts
- Taylor Swift’s power play, Billy Bragg’s protest — and why Steve Albini thinks they’re all wrong
- Bad news for xenophobic wingnuts: Why new immigration poll should reassure White House
- Stephen Colbert lampoons the GOP’s plans to retaliate over Obama immigration action
- Rikers Island to offer separate housing unit for transgender inmates
- Interpol trapped in tour bus as epic snowstorm slams New York
- Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the science behind the ending of “Interstellar”
- Media’s awful right-wing fetish: Why pundit calls for Obama centrism are deluded
- Meet Lammily, the “average” Barbie featuring acne and stretch marks
- Senate votes to help low-income families pay for childcare, but more action is needed
- Netflix postpones Bill Cosby tribute amid rape allegations
- GOP’s politics of hurt feelings: Why their go-to excuse for inaction makes no sense
- Jimmy Fallon trapped Russell Brand in a “vortex of words” — the result is hilarious
- 10 million children have died because they lack access to toilets
- Watch Alec Baldwin give out relationship advice on his new Web series
- John Hodgman is “baffled” Uber exec wasn’t fired, says he won’t use Uber
- GOP’s absurd comic book scheme: How they’re trying to “retcon” Obamacare
- Report: NBC to cancel upcoming Bill Cosby project
- Tracy Morgan may never be “the person he once was” in the wake of traumatic brain injury
- GOP’s shutdown civil war looms: Why party leadership is already at odds with conservatives
- Belfast judge’s message to anti-choice protesters: Stop harassing women
- “Is the law good, is the law bad?” Why the NSA debate over legality is so misguided
- James Patterson: “Amazon could actually dedicate itself to saving books and literature in this country”
- Incredible time-lapse video shows NY lake-effect storm pummel Buffalo
- Countdown to climate catastrophe: World must reach zero net emissions by 2070, U.N. warns
- A brief history of Angelina Jolie saying she’s going to quit acting
- Canadian couple will be charged nearly $1 million in medical bills because they gave birth in the U.S.
- “Truly absurd”: New Web series skewers San Francisco’s tech culture
- Bill Cosby’s gross corporate lesson: What NBC’s reaction reveals about rape & money
- Bill Cosby’s new lawyer denies Janice Dickinson rape allegations
- We have no idea why “SNL” cut this amazing musical sketch
- House Republicans pass yet another underhanded attack on science
- Watch Don Lemon’s non-apology for controversial Bill Cosby rape comments
- Why people make life-changing decisions right before their 30th birthday
- House Republicans just passed a bill forbidding scientists from advising the EPA on their own research
- Figures on government spending and debt
- The Internet has the perfect response to Barbie’s failed computer engineering book
