- 10 Things to Know for Thursday
- Jay Smooth: “Why do they never try to save them?”
- Rand Paul’s vile abortion deceit: How he’s trying to conceal his odious anti-choice record
- Fox News’ Rolling Stone problem: Imagine a panel investigating Bill O’Reilly’s “war stories” and Megyn Kelly’s hyperbole
- America’s glaring double standard on terror: Why the Tsarnaev conviction is another black eye for Gitmo
- Jon Stewart demolishes Rolling Stone: “If nobody has the guts to do it, I’ll fire them!”
- Anatomy of an Internet freakout: The long, slow death of “Rickrolling”
- Fox News host’s bizarre race evasion: “I didn’t see a black man killed by a white cop”
- Jon Stewart skewers Rahm Emanuel over election fiasco: “A terrible record and a universally recognized abrasive personality”
- “We look up to you”: The immigrant who shot the horrific Walter Scott video is the conscience of America
- Chuck Schumer’s epic Iran fail: How the hawkish Dem may accidentally save a nuclear deal
- A majority of Americans support gender equality — so why don’t they identify as feminists?
- Leelah Alcorn’s legacy: The White House moves against conversion therapy
- Pennsylvania homes contain dangerous levels of a radioactive gas — and scientists think fracking could be to blame
- Ryan Gosling’s not perfect after all: Critics roast his new film, “a movie to see, if at all, under the influence”
- Louis C.K. gets an extreme “Star Wars” makeover in hilarious parody video
- Jeb’s foreign policy con: Why his “my own man” campaign is so disingenuous
- Everbody hates Rick Santorum: How the former GOP heavyweight became a political irrelevancy
- Study: People who love grilled cheese have more sex, are more charitable
- Black bodies on the ground: Shocking images spark #BlackLivesMatter outrage — but at what price?
- A bunch of pet goldfish have completely taken over a Colorado lake
- The first trailer for “Orange is the New Black” season 3 has arrived, and it looks awesome
- Bill O’Reilly references debunked statistics to prove black men aren’t disproportionately killed by cops
- Scientology head David Miscavige allegedly spied on his own father, told P.I. to let him die
- It’s still Dick Cheney’s GOP: The terrifying truth revealed by Tom Cotton’s warmongering
- Civil War: 150th anniversary of Lee surrender at Appomattox
- More American women are not having kids
- New Yorker copyeditor dishes on the wacky side of her (quite dignified) job: “One feels so silly looking up [profanity]”
- “Dick pics for freedom”: How John Oliver accidentally started a NSFW revolution
- C’mon, feel the Chafee-mentum! Another bored white guy might jump into the Democratic race
- Ann Coulter’s perverted history: The right’s latest obsessive, venomous half-truths
- Poll: Most Americans side with LGBT people in “religious freedom” disputes
- GOP’s sick new crusade: Inside the conservative war on poor women
- Ayn Rand’s post-traumatic ideology: How her difficult early years fueled her philosophy — and created the Great Recession
- The “Dr. Evil” of climate denial: Meet the legendary P.R. exec with a sinister anti-science agenda
- The first trailer for “True Detective” season 2 is finally here
- “Those women were not yelling at you”: Megyn Kelly condemns Rand Paul’s interview conduct
- The anorexia pay gap: Study shows women with eating disorders earn less
- Ted Cruz’s twisted persecution complex: Why the self-absorbed wingnut depicts himself as a media victim
- “The Daily Show’s” Aasif Mandvi wants you to calm down about Jon Stewart: “We don’t need to freak out”
- The lonesome death of Walter Scott: Why Michael Thomas Slager should share the blame
- Jesus went to hell: The Christian history churches would rather not acknowledge
- Here’s hoping the “Golden Girls” LEGO set becomes a reality
- Homeopathy is for suckers: What the medicine industry doesn’t want you to know
- Tucker Carlson is still a misogynist pig: Conservative talking head has had it with “this chick” targeted by his brother
- Tell your mom to get a checkup — like Taylor Swift did
- Grain lower, livestock mixed
- “Game Of Thrones”: HBO throws out George R.R. Martin’s books — and saves the show
- Clueless Beltway scribes still don’t get it: Why Rahm Emanuel’s win was vindication for the left
- AP investigation details perimeter breaches at US airports
- John Oliver and Edward Snowden create an unguessable email password: “Margaret Thatcher is 100% Sexy”
- Here’s why you should care about ocean acidification: It’s behind Earth’s worst-ever mass extinction
- The twisted metamorphosis of Scott Walker’s Wisconsin: How a once-liberal state became a political battlefield
- Our coming theocratic hell: Look out, the right’s “religious freedom” push is just the beginning
- Listen, it’s still their f**king fault: Bush, Cheney, neo-con drivel, and the truth about Iraq and ISIS
- She’s making it official: Hillary Clinton reportedly set to announce her 2016 campaign this weekend
- AP Top Sports News At 6:43 p.m. EDT
- Karen Russell interviews Kent Russell: “I was firmly in the throes of male adolescence’s hurtful apathy”
- Classic rock and the big arena show: Who will pack the stadiums when the legacy acts retire?
- Kristen Stewart’s post-“Twilight” resurrection: Her indie career is no gimmick, and no surprise
- The porn star next door: Dudes crowdsource their crush’s X-rated look-alikes with DoppelBangHer