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The phony Chuck Hagel fight

Conservatives demand hammer control

Study: Racial stereotyping linked to creative stagnation

Illustrations

NRA holding seminar to teach lawmakers about semi-automatic weapons

Dumb tweet of the day: "Mr Obama Clause"

Colorado shooting families listen to police testimony

Anti-vaccine book tells kids to embrace measles

America's favorite joke is anything but funny

Weird news: Fast-food robbery suspect returns to restaurant, gets caught

America must stop blaming divorce on women

Maurice Sendak illustrations to go up for auction

Facebook-stalking his ex-girlfriend

Elmore Leonard rips off "Justified"!

Stifled poet in India

Alex Jones brings the crazy to Piers Morgan show

David Bowie makes a surprising return

UN unable to feed 1 million hungry Syrians

Chuck Hagel nomination: Obama rebukes Bushism

Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable dies at 91

Google's Schmidt sees NKoreans using Internet

Wikipedia's "Goan war" revealed to be a hoax

N.J. Democrat: Chris Christie "prayed" for Hurricane Sandy

Testimony set to begin in pregnancy drug case

Major settlements better for banks than homeowners

Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow "stand by" bin Laden manhunt film "Zero Dark Thirty"

Gun rights activists fired up by Biden's gun violence task force

Must-see morning clip

Have we really learned the lessons of Vietnam?

Al Roker lets out a secret

Award-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer dies

5 terrifying facts about John Brennan

California marijuana dispensary owner gets 10 years on federal charges

Ryan Lochte is getting a reality TV show

Monster squid caught on film

Cute science: Pandas can help fight superbugs

Mother of murdered girl featured in gun control ad

This isn't 2011's debt ceiling fight

Listen to a previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix track

Meet the Nate Silvers of the Oscar race

AIG may sue the government for bailing it out

Obama and Biden laughing

The "nuclear option" for filibuster reform is no option at all

Smart forks for stupid people

The platinum coin joke falls flat

Hybrid cars: Silent but deadly?

Watch James Franco lip-sync Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend"

Hot topics, big stars at N.Y. critics' dinner

Universal dental coverage in America?

Video: Sumo champs perform New Year ritual