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The Republican says his joke about monkeys wasn't aimed at President Obama, and he's shocked anyone thinks it was

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Brazil is trying to clone its most endangered species. Conservation experts insist there must be a better way

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The U.S. is not in store for a nationwide epidemic, despite what Fox News and CNN might have you believe

Anyone who interpreted his "blood coming out of her wherever" remark to mean menstruation is "a deviant"

An elementary school in Batesville, Mississippi is under investigation for racism

The State Department questions whether the animal survived -- or if the flight happened at all

Raunchiness -- in art or in life -- is a teen-idol tradition. But will it ruin these Disney stars' careers?

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