Today in viral videos: a fitting farewell to the man who founded Men's Warehouse, a catalog of history's most unfortunate and noteworthy deaths, and a couple of pets so well-trained that it's very disturbing.
And now they're being replaced by just as silly "thank you" banners for the more than one million donors (along with non-donating bystanders) who got them to the $20 million benchmark.
Possibly proving that Donald Trump still matters to some people somewhere, his supporters have allegedly filed paperwork allowing him to run as a third party candidate in Texas.
Dressing better and working standard 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 40-hour work week will supposedly help the company go from "good" to "great".
Cartoonist Tom Toles sees a common Republican theme.
Police are on the hunt for two "persons of interest" in the investigations of both the murder of a park ranger in Washington and an arson spree that has spooked the city of Los Angeles.
The Former Pennsylvania Senator proved last night that old people saying dirty things is inherently funny.
"Ask Osama bin Laden" has become President Obama's catchphrase and policy when it comes to the fight against al-Qaeda, but the successful results of America's drone program only provide one answer--and perhaps it's not the only one we want.
All it took was one documentary and the upcoming caucuses for the dwindling Republican hopeful to say the procedure isn't justifiable in rape, incest or when it's a danger to the mother's life.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson foresees a busy year for Republicans.
President Obama spoke, after nearly an hour's delay, about the payroll tax deal before heading to Hawaii for his Christmas vacation.
Well this is awkward. North Korean officials have sternly invited demanded South Korea send a delegation to Kim Jong Il's funeral next week, and that not doing so would be "an unbearable insult and mockery of our dignity."
In one of the more disturbing things you'll hear from Pakistani leaders today, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has warned that a military coup is in the works.
President Barack Obama's brief speech on the payroll tax cut gridlock turned up the heat on House Republicans telling them, "Enough is enough."
Because of a lack of supply sparked by climate change the Texas drought, this holiday season will not feature much mistletoe, and no one will even notice it's gone.
To break down the payroll tax cut and the repercussions of the stalemate into simpler terms, the White House took to Twitter and asked the masses what $40 meant to them and came away with sad snapshots of American life in 2011.
While the rest of the world is still grasping at the tiny bits of information about Kim Jong-un, the state-run North Korean News has started producing legends of its new "divine" leader.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on Boehner's holiday plans.
The Players: David Zurawik, television critic for The Baltimore Sun who's not a fan of Chelsea Clinton journalism; Erik Wemple, media reporter and critic for The Washington Post who actually explains why he isn't a fan of Chelsea Clinton's journalism (yet).
One day after Piers Morgan's evasive testimony denying phone hacking during his editorship at The Daily Mirror, James Hipwell, an ex-columnist has offered up contrary details to the Leveson Inquiry, claiming the practice was widespread at The Mirror.
Angered by the indelible images of soldiers beating, stripping, and abusing female protesters, thousands of women marched on Cairo's streets Tuesday night in a beautiful and inspiring show of solidarity in Egypt.
The European Central Bank first action to stave off the European Debt Crisis is one for the records, as the Frankfurt-based bank promised to lend €489 billion ($645 billion), the most ever in a single operation and more than economists had predicted.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the end of the Iraq War.
The Players: Dean Baquet, Managing Editor of the New York Times who once defied corporate orders at the Tribune Company and was ousted because of it, Gerould "Gerry" Kern, Editor of the Chicago Tribune often seen as a Tribune Company loyalist.
Proving that insider trading in Congress can work both ways, The Wall Street Journal reports on a disturbing trend of hedge funds gaining valuable tips from lawmakers voting on and making multi-million dollar decisions.
Confirming that he probably shouldn't be in power, Gen. Abdel Moneim Kato, a military adviser in the government's Morale Affairs Department said yesterday that protesters "deserve to be thrown into Hitler's ovens."
Chicken feet exports to China, which at one point brought in $278 million for the United States, has become a rather facetious-sounding sparring ground for very serious trade conflicts between the two countries.
Now that robots have proven they can clear IEDs, tour the then-radioactive Fukushima nuclear power plant, and observe endangered tortoises, the next natural step for these overachievers is investigating dangerous drug tunnels.
In one of the more disturbing things you'll hear from North Korea today, the country conducted at least one short-range missile test today, news reports are confirming.
Hundreds of troops fired at Occupy Cabinet protesters in Tahrir Square early Monday, killing at least three and bringing the four-day death toll to at least 14--which the ruling military council says is for the good of the state.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson illustrates a giant Gingrich problem.
Dutch Archbishop Wim Eijk has offered up apologies and up to $130,000 for the 10,000- 20,000 victims of sexual abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church.
Egypt's three-week long sit in against military rule, known as "Occupy Cabinet" is taking a terrifying turn as the ruling military junta has resorted to throwing rocks and using violence against this set of "Occupiers".
Cartoonist Lisa Benson sees some rough patches in Obama's 2012 campaign.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley gave Mitt Romney her endorsement on Fox and Friends this morning, giving him both a solid conservative nod and an endorsement he actually wanted.
In the wake of fakery claims regarding his Frozen Planet series, David Attenborough and his team have (sadly) come clean about penguin body doubles in his new 3-D film, possibly ruining the whole idea of a true nature documentary.
Need more signs of just how bad things are going for Vladimir Putin? The Russian Prime Minister is now happily (bizarrely?) taking credit for shaping those massive anti-government protests.
Cartoonist Tom Toles on tobacco's kid-friendly options.
The Players: Jack Shafer, Reuters' media pundit extraordinaire whose job it is to keep journalists and their stories honest ; Henry Blodget, Business Insider's CEO whose site's stories have come under fire for not always being the most honest ones out there.
President Obama's presidential campaign effort unveiled a new strategy last night--asking his supporters (those subscribed to the President's mailing list) to submit the email addresses of their Republican acquaintances.
The case against the bad global economy: people spent $115 million on Elizabeth Taylor's jewels last night
Proving that $1.2 billion is actually really difficult to find, the Justice Department and news outlets are clinging to testimony from a fourth-hand witness saying that Jon Corzine knows where that MF Global money went.
Republican afterthought and Tea Party sweetheart Christine O'Donnell gave her endorsement to Mitt Romney last night, eliciting media chuckles and a surprisingly polite and serious response from the Republican hopeful.
Now that Toronto's penguin couple, Buddy and Pedro, have moved on to courting females, it seems their platonic relationship was more of a bromance than a gay romance.
From the official numbers and down to the individual protesters, reports are surfacing that yesterday's 25,000-person strong Pro-Putin rally in Moscow was really all a sham.
Cartoonist Ben Sargent on America's missing middle class.
Belgian officials say that there was only one attacker who killed three and injured 123 before killing himself in the city of Liege.
The Players: Glenn Beck, a conservative provocateur who has a burgeoning news site called The Blaze ; Andrew Breitbart, a conservative provocateur who's run his own news site Breitbart.com and conservative-slanted Big aggregation network.
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