After House Republicans left the White House Saturday morning distraught by the President's unwillingness to negotiate, the Senate has once again taken the lead in trying to end the government shutdown that is now finishing its second week. A breakthrough deal however, with the looming debt limit deadline on Thursday, remains far off.

That guilty twinge you feel when you cheat on something? Probably never happened. Because you love cheating. Cheating feels great.

Pedialyte, a drink meant for sick infants, saw a 16 percent increase in sales in August after college kids across America adopted it as a miracle hangover cure. Scientists are skeptical, however. Hungover of America, is this the breakthrough we've been waiting for?

Found by ANIMAL, another new piece by Banksy on the streets of New York's East Village — as of press time, no SVA or Cooper Union students have begun charging admission to see it.

She probably didn't see this coming: The psychic on trial for duping two women out of $138,000 was found guilty on Friday. She faces 18 years in prison.

A Brooklyn man has to flush with a rope a "safe distance away" after his toilet exploded last week, sending shrapnel into his face, arms and legs.

A fifth grade boy in Washington state was found guilty on Friday of conspiracy to kill one of his classmates, following a trial the presiding judge declared as “the most serious of my career."

A 9,000 pound Asian elephant with a history of aggression named Patience fatally crushed a 62-year-old zookeeper in Missouri yesterday.

A group of 20 Republicans who were presumably expecting the usual calligraphy and seal on their seat placards during a Thursday White House meeting instead found recycled, "scrawled" name cards with other politicians' names underneath.

"You know, I went to one of your first shows and there were more people on stage then there were in the audience. You don't need three drummers," Zach Galifianakis tells Arcade Fire in minute 14 of a 22-minute concert special directed by Roman Coppola, that also features Bill Hader, James Franco, Michael Cera, Aziz Ansari and Rainn Wilson.

Argentina has always been the most European of South American countries: It has a vibrant literary culture, adores anything Italian, and dislikes anything that isn't a large piece of meat. And for a very long time, it even harbored a fair amount of Nazis. But no more, says Argentina.

At least one of the nine teenagers missing from a troubled youth camp in New Mexico has returned safely home to his parents, the AP reports. Authorities are investigating claims that staff members of the unlicensed program beat and shackled teenagers for minor rule violations.

Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani woman who was shot in the head by the Taliban for believing that women have a right to education, met with President Obama on Friday, thanking him for his support of education and asking him to stop drone strikes in Pakistan.

All that progress being reported last night on a possible deal to increase the debt limit and maybe reopen the government? It's gone. House Republicans tell CNN that the President "rejected our deal" after a late-night session with the White House.

Bloviating Canadian bacon senator Ted Cruz is telling reporters that he confronted Obama last night, demanding that the president end the shutdown and help everyone "negatively affected by Obamacare."

"American Secrets: New York City" is an audiovisual attempt at reckoning with Stop and Frisk, gentrification, and coming of age New York City by three young American artists (two emcees, one graphic designer) and their Mayor. The song and video embedded above deal with these hard questions; the lyrics are pasted below.

In 1994, an Ohio court declared Donald E. Miller Jr. dead. He had been missing for several years and his wife needed to formalize his death to qualify her daughters for social security benefits. On Monday, Donald E. Miller appeared in court to testify on behalf of his own existence. He lost.

Cyclone Phailin, a massive storm off the coast of eastern India, is set to hit land in about an hour. It is expected to sustain winds of up to 167 mph.

A top aide to Republican New Jersey Senate candidate Steve Lonegan suggested yesterday that Lonegan's opponent, Cory Booker, is gay. Why? Because Booker didn't tell a smokin' hot stripper that he wanted to suck her boobs, of course.