- Former 41-pound fat cat in Texas slims down to 19 pounds
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- Health care spending to accelerate, US report says
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- Noam Chomsky: The United States is totally isolated
- Adam Sandler is finished: Why “Pixels” may be his last gasp of crude misogyny
- Secret history of a northern slave state: How slavery was written into New Jersey’s DNA
- Jeb’s bubble bamboozle: Deflating some of Bush’s absurd economic boasting
- A chilling reminder that Black lives matter less to police: “I won’t soon forget the sound of people screaming from pepper spray”
- Camille Paglia takes on Jon Stewart, Trump, Sanders: “Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true!”
- The 1 percent declares war on Puerto Rico: The austerity push that unmasks neoliberalism
- Palestinian children have suffered disproportionately as a result of the Israeli Occupation
- The world let these monsters get away with it: Bill Cosby, Jimmy Savile & the license to commit hideous crimes
- Jeb Bush is about to find out just what kind of Republican Party he’s dealing with
- Bill O’Reilly rips Jay Z and Beyonce for associating with “fringe nuts” who travel the country “talking about genocide”
- Smoke it while you can, Colorado — President Chris Christie will be gunning for your legal weed
- Jon Stewart to Tom Cruise: What happened to the old, “vulnerable” Tom Cruise?
- Trevor Noah tackles police brutality and racism at stand-up set in L.A.: “I don’t know how not to die”
- Jon Stewart is forced to answer: “F*ck, Marry, Kill” Colbert, Wilmore or Oliver?
- The Daily Donald: “You’re disgusting”: New revelations lay bare Trump’s gross misogyny
- Jimmy Kimmel breaks down in tears while discussing Cecil the Lion: “Maybe we can show the world that not all Americans are like this jackhole”
- “Daily Show” classics: How Jon Stewart made George Bush’s public appearances a little more bearable
- Protestors are dangling from a Portland bridge in a spectacular effort to block Shell’s Arctic vessel
- Conservatives revolt: GOP congressman moves to oust John Boehner
- Jimmy Kimmel eviscerates “a-hole dentist who wants a lion’s head over the fireplace in his man cave,” proving he’s late night’s true hero
- Conservatives on Twitter link illegal killing of Cecil the lion to legal procedures offered by Planned Parenthood
- Donald Trump’s spirit animal is Tony Soprano: How he built a campaign full of “Goodfellas” wannabes
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- Chris Harrison despises “Bachelor”-inspired show “UnREAL”: “They would love to jump on our coattails”
- Jon Stewart’s secret White House visits: When access looks too cozy, integrity and independence are on the line
- Jon Stewart reveals the truth about his “secret” meetings with Obama
- Janis Ian says Bill Cosby spread lesbian rumors about her as a teen, tried to blacklist her from TV
- Lion-poaching dentist Walter Palmer isn’t a first-time offender — he knew what he was doing
- Fox News’ quiet coup: How its debate criteria give it total control over the early presidential process
- Watch: Macy Gray’s ode to her sex toy “B.O.B” mixed with decades of buzzworthy, vibrator lovin’ tunes
- Alec Baldwin: I’d “love to see Trump win”
- Sorry, coal definitely isn’t “good for humanity”
- Hate your job, or your life — or both? Find catharsis in the cruel humor of “Review”
- Sean Hannity is killing the GOP: Fox News & conservative media have the party in a stranglehold
- “This is, without question, a murder”: Prosecutor indicts “asinine” white cop in shooting death of unarmed black motorist
- Hillary Clinton continues to defend Planned Parenthood but calls videos “disturbing”
- Cosby’s biggest accuser comes out: Will his defenders finally believe her story now?
- Jeb gets Trumped in his own state: New poll shows Bush losing Florida to The Donald
- “Empire” star Terrence Howard is being sued for sexual assault by his ex-wife
- Hillary’s bizarre Keystone dodge: Once again, she plays into Sanders’ hands
- “Friends” creator thinks legendary $1-million payday was “ridiculous”
- The drought’s latest victims: Hundreds of thousands of salmon are dying in the northwest
- “Where were Cecil the lion’s parents?”: Twitter uses gallows humor to cope with dentist’s grisly act
- Cara Delevingne tangles with local morning show anchors in an interview gone off the rails: How did this TV trainwreck happen?
- Louie Gohmert proposes banishing gays to an island to prove same-sex marriage is unnatural
- AP Top Sports News At 6:22 p.m. EDT
- Deadbeat corporations: How schools suffer when big companies don’t pay their fair share of state taxes
- Forced into togetherness: When the economy fell apart, our family came together
- Jason Segel on playing David Foster Wallace: “I’m starting to think the things we’ve been told will make us feel good are a lie”
- “I don’t strive to be offensive”: Trevor Noah tells Salon how his “Daily Show” will be different from — and similar to — Jon Stewart’s
