A new Pew Research study finds that 48 percent of Republicans continue to believe that "humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time," while 27 percent of Democrats continue to deny that species change and adapt.

As the Marine Corps inches closer to permitting women into ground combat roles, the service is delaying its 2014 plan to require female Marines to do three pullups. The reason: Women haven't proven very good at the exercise so far.

Vines: Those perfectly distilled six-second bites of Internet.

Women. When they're not dying, they're spending more money on cars. What is up with that, ladies?

More horrific news from the Cleveland neighborhood where Ariel Castro tortured three women for a decade: On Monday, Elias Acevedo Sr, Castro's neighbor, pleaded guilty to hundreds of charges, including two counts of murder and the rape of his three daughters and sister-in-law.

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), who is challenging conservative Sen. John Cornyn in a primary because Corny's too librul, evidently doesn't know much about gun-cleaning, or buying American.

The first rule of Indigenous Fight Club is: You do not talk about Indigenous Fight Club. The second rule of Indigenous Fight Club is: There's nothing weird about resuscitating a knocked out fighter with a hand job.

Right-wing fat guy Erick Erickson fancies himself a theologian, and he whined about being bloodied by "ignorant" lefties after tweeting this. Actually, Erick, your "less than human" drivel is a self-serving anti-evangelical innovation that's at odds with N.T. Wright's position on Christian mortalism. Don't front.

With a flowery but platitudinous column of cobbled-together homilies on the most hackneyed of subjects ("For 2014, Tweet Less, Read More"), Frank Bruni closes out 2013 in the most Frank Bruni-esque possible way. We'd say "better luck next year," but we're not optimistic.

With the death toll from Sunday and Monday's suicide bombings officially at 34, Russian authorities have increased security in the city of Volgograd, where the attacks took place, and across the country amid concerns about terrorism at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Late in the afternoon on the West Coast, a California judge ruled that a 13-year-old girl named Jahi McMath be kept on life support at Children's Hospital Oakland. The case has come before a court there in the wake of a botched tonsil surgery that eventually sent the girl into cardiac arrest.

Taylor Swift has three homes. One is a "modest" four bed, four bath cottage-style house in Beverly Hills that sits on 1.5 acres. Another, her main residence, is a penthouse in downtown Nashville. The third is a beachside mansion on the coast of Rhode Island that she bought this year for $17.7 million in cash. People there hate it.

Do you know what hell is? Hell is spending six hours on the phone with Target customer service.

New Year's Eve: if it's not impossible to find something fun to do, it always feels like something more fun is going on somewhere else. Like — to pick a name out of thin air here — the Applebee's in Times Square, where you can attend a NYE bash this year for the low, low price of... $375!

[Pigeons fly outside the Karti Sakhi shrine in Kabul. Photo by Rahmat Gul via AP]

Danielle Bruckman doesn't know what happened to her iPhone.

Fast food chain Pret a Manger prides itself on providing "natural, tasty food" to New York's lunch break crowd, but it seems they may have put a bit too much emphasis on "natural," leaving much to be desired in terms of taste.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science today reveals what we already suspected: Being "hotheaded" is an actual physiological phenomenon. So are butterflies in the stomach and...contemptuous loins?

A Salt Lake City reporter has filed an under-the-wire addition to the 2013 news blooper reel — and it's a doozy.

Professional wrestler and food enthusiast Bryan Smith needs your help. For some reason, his Manor Professional Wrestling Dinner Theater outside Orlando hasn't reached Medieval Times-style levels of success just yet.