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- Director Guillermo del Toro: Too many summer movies are “about one race, one credo, and one country saving the world”
- Militarized police overreach: “Oh, God, I thought they were going to shoot me next”
- Meet the “mindfulness” caucus: Politicians who meditate!
- A gay country music star plays it (relatively) safe
- Samuel Beckett’s manuscript sells for $1.4 million
- Whose transgression was worse, Weiner or Spitzer?
- Senate to vote on restoring lower student loan rate
- Snowden could spark a new Cold War
- Must-see morning clip: Meet this Minnesota town’s 4-year-old mayor
- Nuclear watchdog: Ocean contamination likely at Fukushima
- Sarah Palin is mulling a bid for Senate
- Gun-rights activist reportedly arrested for firearm, drug possession
- McDonnell and his wife reportedly received additional $120,000 from donor
- Watch “Two American Families” right now
- Comedy Central to roast James Franco
- Don’t spend the summer at “Camp”
- North Carolina’s sweeping abortion ban faces scrutiny from state health regulators
- “Crystal Fairy”: Dosed in the desert with a New Age seeker
- The sexual assault crisis at America’s colleges
- CNN asks if Korea’s hierarchical culture caused crash
- Federal judge: Apple conspired to raise e-book prices
- Writer Geoff Dyer really, really likes to sit
- Blackwater founder is writing a memoir
- Run Sarah run!
- Bill to prevent LGBT workplace discrimination advances in the Senate
- North Carolina Republicans sneak antiabortion provisions into motorcycle safety bill
- Senate fails to keep student loan rates low
- Execution of “mentally retarded” man moves ahead
- Worst sex toy review ever
- Woman blasts Texas lawmakers over abortion ban, is forcibly removed from Capitol
- London Review of Books marginally improves its female representation
- Ill Doctrine: BET’s apology insults our intelligence
- Conspiracy theorists: Dzhokhar was framed!
- Texas House approves sweeping abortion restrictions
- Only 1 percent of “terrorists” caught by the FBI are real
- Jason Schwartzman, Patton Oswalt, Billy Dee Williams do “Star Wars” karaoke
- This summer’s blockbusters are really about overpopulation
- For 10 years, Elisabeth Hasselbeck was conservatism’s Trojan horse
- Comcast profits off of poverty
- Texas GOPer wants to defund schools that ban imaginary guns
- In the “mommy wars,” black single moms are invisible
- Starbucks Glock sale could have broken the law
- Snowden denies giving info to China, Russia
- Christian scouting group launches for boys who don’t “openly flaunt sexuality”
- Apple’s latest setback won’t bring e-book prices down
- Tsarnaev pleads not guilty
- GOP will filibuster just about anything
- George Zimmerman won’t testify
- 6 most influential women writers you’ve never heard of
- Americans much calmer about national security than lawmakers
- Family Research Council sounding a lot like the “Patriot” movement
- Alaska senator: I don’t even know if Palin is a resident
- Who’s crazier: Glenn Beck or Justin Bieber?
- What is the average penis length?
- 5 obsolete forms of paper
- Beverly Hills moms say pot makes them better mothers
- We are all “The Real Housewives of New Jersey”
- Jay-Z gives 6-hour performance of “Picasso Baby” on loop
- Novelists, rewrite your cyberthrillers
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