- Senate votes to reopen government, avoid default
- Congress passes bill to reopen government, lift debt ceiling
- Born to Blaze Trails: China Machado.
- No, women wouldn’t have solved the shutdown sooner!
- Right-wing nuts nab new way to sabotage Obamacare
- GOP’s huge Tea Party mess has only just begun
- Snapchat is handing your private messages to police
- Karl Lagerfeld’s cat can has cheezburger
- Amnesty urges Egypt to stop detaining Syrians
- Daredevil stunts proving worth for networks
- Study: Women drink faster when music is playing
- States enact laws to stock epinephrine at schools
- 5 ways Noah Webster Americanized the English language
- No, America is not a Christian nation
- Special prosecutor requested to re-examine Maryville rape case
- Air pollution is officially a carcinogen
- Must-see morning clip: “Jimmy Kimmel Live” asks people about debt ceiling fans and sequester furloughs
- GOP reeling after epic defeat
- Prince is holding an all-night pajama dance party at his house this weekend
- Pollution may force Vatican to limit visits to the Sistine Chapel
- A possible Supreme Court challenge to wiretaps
- Creator of Gummy Bear dies at 90
- The best “Jeopardy!” answer of all time
- Mary Queen of Scots, feminist icon?
- Gitmo detainees take force-feeding to court
- Facebook fiddles with public posts to attract more teenagers
- Maine loses offshore wind chance
- Panda Cam is back!
- GOP is “crazy and awful”: The Josh Barro Republicans are displeased
- Dollar drops and pound gains amid bets that Fed won’t slow stimulus
- House stenographer’s unhinged outburst: No crazier than the right’s shutdown talk
- Putin’s billionaire ally buys up Russian telecom operator
- What was “essential” and what wasn’t?
- How to track airborne microbes with drones
- Searching for Avonte Oquendo: How racial suspicion hurts missing black kids
- Finally, there is a yogurt just for men
- Watch the colorful trailer for Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
- Post-shutdown, right-wing media assigns blame
- Oregon will now recognize the marriages of gay couples who wed in other states
- Revealed: NSA close involvement in drone killings
- New York’s horse-drawn carriages may soon be a thing of the past
- Robots are already figuring out your personality
- “Calvin and Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson gives rare interview
- Drown Your Town
- This is your city underwater
- Discovery reveals we may we more like forebears than thought
- “The Signature of All Things”: Adventures of a lady scientist
- Keep the Replacements out of the Rock Hall
- U.S. infrastructure found to be vulnerable to hacking
- “The Fifth Estate”: WikiLeaks as failed bromance
- Our legal system has no idea how to deal with bullies
- The best account of an octopus wrestling match you’ll read this week
- GOP lawmaker voted against debt deal because he thought it funded Joseph Kony
- Weather Channel founder claims polar bears aren’t in danger because “Eskimos” are “more civilized” now
- Family Research Council: Christians should not want the government to care for the poor
- Tea Partyers’ grave fear: Why they disdain young people — even their own!
- Tinder co-founder appears to take swipe at “silly Asians”
- The way we talk about sexual assault is broken
- Pick of the week: From freedom to slavery and back
- John Boehner fan fiction: Three novelists go inside the speaker’s brain and imagine the shutdown’s final hours
