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- 10 Things to Know for Friday
- Toronto kicks off with Downey Jr.’s ‘The Judge’
- Paul Krugman blasts the right-wing “deflation caucus” for “being wrong year after year”
- 11-year-old builds Lego version of David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”
- The Gulf of Mexico is devouring Southeastern Louisiana
- Gun nuts’ special privileges: How police treated a dangerous “open carry” zealot
- My daughter’s Ebola scare: Why we’re not ready to panic (yet)
- Gaza’s scary new outrage: How some Israeli leaders are pushing for war crimes
- Late night television hosts pay tribute to Joan Rivers with insults, jokes and memories
- Gloria Steinem on consent and sexual assault: “Since when is hearing ‘yes’ a turnoff?”
- Hillary Clinton bashes climate change deniers
- Stephen Colbert blasts GOP candidate for terrible comments on women, Muslims and the LGBT community
- Must-see morning clip: Refugee children are attacking America with finger paint
- Larry David’s Broadway play will probably not star any dogs
- Joan Rivers’ death brings out the snarling trolls
- Obamacare website hacked in “denial of service” attack
- GOP’s Kansas nightmare: How a red state is on verge of unthinkable upsets
- A reminder from the World Health Organization: LGBT people are not “sick”
- How Twitter can avoid the Facebook trap
- Move over, Mitch! Paul Ryan lets slip secrets of how GOP will run the Senate
- What Bill O’Reilly gets wrong about Asian Americans
- Missouri Republicans fight to pass one of the most draconian abortion laws in the country
- Glenn Beck’s laughably absurd Ferguson claim: “The good has far out-shadowed the bad”
- The fifth season of “Boardwalk Empire” is the end of an era for HBO
- “It’s just an absolutely necessary thing”: Why one woman is crowdfunding her abortion
- Jill Abramson on her New York Times legacy: “I poured my energies into putting out a hell of a paper, and a hell of a website”
- The EPA is (finally) taking on air travel
- Stop promoting idiot pundits: NBC revamps “Meet the Press” with always-wrong Joe Scarborough and Luke “Meritocracy” Russert
- It’s John McCain’s party again: How the GOP returned to total hawkishness
- A Happy Ending Salon with Zadie Smith, Matthew Thomas, Emily Wells and More!
- Grossest political ad of the season: Wingnut for Senate stokes racial resentment in new, terrible TV spot
- Military base cancels Cee Lo Green performance over rape comments
- Community Discussion: Should we resurrect the passenger pigeon?
- “God Help the Girl”: An irresistible pop musical from Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch
- Noam Chomsky exclusive: Pope Francis, Oscar Romero and the horror of Reagan foreign policy
- “It’s more difficult for a song to become a lightning rod”: DJ Shadow on the future of music
- Apple vows to beef up iCloud security after celebrity nude photo hack
- “Cut Boehner off at the knees”: How to finally end the GOP’s immigration charade
- Bob McDonnell’s shocking stupidity: How could a politician have been this dumb?
- Judge accused of hitting wife enters court program
- Esquire’s weird guide to “portly” style
- Update: Jamaican officials report that unresponsive plane has crashed
- This Michael Brown character smearing is particularly awful
- The 10 most inhumane laws courtesy of Southern Republicans
- Mrs. America goes to Crimea: The pageant that once tried to be trailblazing is a disaster
- Watch Funny or Die’s brutal satire of Ferguson police militarization
- Dear media: Women can be sexual predators too
- Werner Herzog will have a cameo on “Parks and Recreation” next season
- Portland’s planning a village of tiny houses for the homeless
- “Duck Dynasty” star’s anti-atheist scheme involves a Nicolas Cage movie about the Rapture
- CDC report: 1 in 5 women have been raped
- Gwyneth Paltrow reportedly planning to convert to Judaism
- “I wish someone would pull a Ferguson on them”: Louisiana cop resigns for racist texts
- Sean Hannity: I can’t encourage military service “in good conscience” while Obama is president
- Figures on government spending and debt
- Erick Erickson seems pretty confused about LGBTQ people in the military
- Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows
- Business Highlights
- Kmart kicks off September by reminding you that Christmas isn’t far away
- GoFundMe removes abortion fundraiser following anti-choice protest
- Bill Maher: GOP thinks “voting should be legal but discouraged, like interracial dating”
- Would you elect someone named “The Smiler”? The scariest comic book presidents
- Robyn Hitchcock: “I don’t think I’ve written many songs about lightbulb heads or insects or frogs in 25 years”
- My sick, shameful soap opera addiction
