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- ISIS claims responsibility for Texas cartoon attack, but experts are wary
- Jeremy Renner won’t stop calling Black Widow a “slut”: “I’m unapologetic about a lot of things”
- Charlie Hebdo cartoonists distance magazine from Texas shooting: “There is absolutely no comparison”
- Congress’ despicable war on working women: How our warped laws perpetuate discrimination
- Ryan Gosling finally ate his cereal in moving tribute to deceased Vine creator
- Scott Walker would like you to know that he’s an intergalactic princess
- Bill O’Reilly’s racist, sexist stand-up comedy routine is maybe even worse that you’d expect
- Fox News defends Ben Carson’s hilarious early campaign blunders: “He’s a surgeon — not a community organizer!”
- Barack Obama & David Letterman plan their retirements together: “I would really like the idea of playing some dominoes with you”
- Marvel doesn’t seem excited about female superhero movies: “Very bad idea and the end result was very, very bad”
- Stop blaming a “rabid feminist ‘Avengers’ backlash” for Joss Whedon’s Twitter exit
- South Carolina college student caught poisoning roommates’ food — could face 20 years in prison
- Researchers link fracking to Pennsylvania drinking water contamination
- Louis C.K. returns to film in the most “Louie” way possible: Playing a depressed, middle-aged rookie cop
- Oh, the places these bigots will go!: “The Daily Show” bids farewell to the “Hate Class of 2015”
- Secret battles behind the GOP freak show: The backroom struggles for Republican domination
- Pamela Geller compares self to Rosa Parks: “I will not abridge my freedom so as not to offend savages”
- The Huckster could pull it off: Why the Beyoncé-hating, gay-baiting Mike Huckabee may go the distance in 2016
- The era of (Bill) Clinton liberalism is over. What does that mean for Hillary and the Dems?
- “They’re full of sh*t”: Sex workers claim A&E exploited them for reality series “8 Minutes”
- Will Ferrell crashes David Letterman monologue with impersonation of veteran sportscaster Harry Caray
- The Christie “comeback” tracker: How many rebounds can New Jersey’s governor (almost) have?
- The GOP’s paranoid right-wing renaissance: What Pam Geller’s anti-Islam fear mongering says about American politics
- Bill Nye reveals the science of racism: “We’re all the same, from a scientific standpoint”
- The truth about Operation Jade Helm is that some of you can’t handle the truth: Obama really isn’t invading Texas
- Fox News “Medical A-Team” member Keith Ablow: “Men should be able to veto women’s abortions”
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- Richard Cohen, unmitigated racist: Why the Washington Post hack is pining for Nixon
- Conservatives try to figure out #HowToSpotAFeminist, are quickly enlightened by feminists
- Oregon lake eerily disappears once a year
- Jon Stewart schools “Dallas dipsh*ts” who think Obama is invading Texas
- New study reveals just how jaw-droppingly sexist the American workplace still is
- Nepal earthquake animal rescue
- Panera is banishing more than 150 artificial ingredients from its food
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- The Price Is Right awards worst-ever prize to contestant in wheelchair — a treadmill
- “It’s pure authoritarianism”: Glenn Greenwald exposes the link between Baltimore’s uprising and the NSA
- Heart-wrenching photos depict animal rescue efforts after Nepal’s earthquake
- Right-wing media’s big con: Why privileged, powerful conservatives pretend they’re underdog insurgents
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- Christian developer creates “Kill the F*ggot” video game to show that gaming world is “too overly sensitive”
- Noam Chomsky undresses Sam Harris: Stop “pretending to have a rational discussion”
- Texas GOP lawmaker pushes to ban insurance coverage for all “elective” abortions
- Anna Kendrick blasts Hollywood sexism: “I have to wait for all the male roles to be cast before I can even become a part of the conversation”
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- “This is war”: Sunday’s attack by two radicals gave Geller a perfect platform for dividing Americans along religious and ethnic lines
- Marc Maron won’t talk politics anymore: “Now I’d rather deal with the source of that anger”
- Neil Gaiman stands up for Charlie Hebdo: “For f**k’s sake, they drew somebody and they shot them, and you don’t get to do that”
- Julia Sweeney’s “SNL” backstage stories: “You could just watch how many more Adam Sandler and David Spade and Chris Farley sketches there are, that white-male energy that I wasn’t part of”
