- Quotations in the News
 - In Senate races, candidates tackle the blame game
 - Some police agencies not racially balanced
 - Iraqi officials: Suicide bomber strikes tribal gathering north of Baghdad, killing 16 people
 - Survey of company execs: US pay likely to stagnate
 - “Crossfire’s” swan dive into oblivion: Why it’s a good thing that the show was off-air during a summer of huge news
 - From Elizabeth Warren to Sarah Palin: Here’s which women decide to run for office
 - Watergate’s most lasting sin: Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, and the pardon that made us all cynics
 - “Deporter-in-chief” blows it: Why the president’s immigration announcement really burns
 - 8 terrifying sleep disorders — from “sexsomnia” to “exploding head syndrome”
 - Paul Krugman on Scottish independence: “The risks … are huge”
 - NYPD officers beat up Bronx man after he asks why he is being arrested
 - “Game of Thrones” star Maisie Williams shocked by ancient video game technology
 - Must-see morning clip: John Oliver urges viewers to take a stand against student debt
 - Kate Middleton is pregnant with the “spare to the heir”
 - Election 2014 update: GOP holds slight edge in race for Senate
 - Seth Rogen: “Ray Rice is a piece of garbage”
 - Olive Garden’s “Never Ending Pasta Pass” is a triumph of civilization
 - AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America
 - “There’s no debate”: 97 experts explain the scientific consensus on climate change
 - Ray Rice video’s second horror: Why it never should have been published in the first place
 - Neil Patrick Harris marries longtime partner David Burtka
 - “The Leftovers” finale: Frustrating and painful — but hopeful, too
 - Hundreds of children are being hospitalized for a rare respiratory virus
 - Wendy Davis’ choice: Why speaking out about abortion must remain a woman’s decision
 - 7 worst right-wing moments of the week — Kevin Sorbo wants to remind Jews they “killed Jesus”
 - This neoconservative pundit’s tweet on ISIS really says it all
 - Another white guy in late night: James Corden officially to host CBS’s “Late Late Show”
 - “The message is, take the stairs!”: Fox News hosts joke about domestic violence, get a lot of other things wrong
 - Reddit hits peak irony
 - DA drops charges against anti-coal activists, says he’ll see them at the Climate March
 - Pharrell, Ryan Adams, New Pornographers help Twitter launch new “buy” button
 - Rand Paul’s climate idiocy: How his political games could now hurt the planet
 - Why is a mom facing jail for helping her teen have an abortion?
 - Scalia’s utter moral failure: How he destroys any claim to a superior system of justice
 - GOP’s crude birth control fake: Here’s who they may fool (hint: it’s not women)
 - Become a master of the celebrity interview by watching Nardwuar talk to Aziz Ansari
 - Evangelical megachurch begins closing branches after pastor calls women “penis homes”
 - Neocon dolts and dopey pundits persist: Obama reveals ISIS strategy, whining continues anyway
 - Ray Rice fired — but every other terrible person associated with the Ravens still has a job
 - Stephen Hawking: “God particle” could demolish the universe
 - These photos powerfully portray the flooding devastation in Kashmir and Pakistan
 - WSJ continues to make things up about climate science
 - We are on the verge of a sixth mass extinction
 - Keith Olbermann on Roger Goodell: “An enabler of men who beat women” who “must resign”
 - So Taylor Swift is a Shoshanna: Now maybe we can stop declaring which “Girls” character we are
 - Turn down for butt: How the derrière took over pop culture
 - “I want a straight white male gaming convention”: Inside the culture war raging in the video gaming world
 - Tinder settles sexual harassment lawsuit with former executive