Clarification: The government shutdown did not make Nickelback more popular than Congress. (That poll is from January 8, 2013.) It did, however, help make Congress less liked than dog doo-doo. Very important distinction.

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Thousands of commemorative medals issued by the Vatican to celebrate Pope Francis’s first year of papacy had to be withdrawn this week over a typo. It seems the Vatican misspelled "Jesus."

"Getting through this injury has been the toughest experience of my life...It's a huge deal, it should have taken eight months [to recover] and even my doctors can't believe it." - Mariah Carey, medical miracle

A trio of pro-gun groups has come together to declare December 14, the one-year anniversary of last year's horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, "Guns Save Lives Day." Because when you think about all the people saved by America's many, many handguns and rifles and shotguns, what springs to mind but the day when 26 innocent people—20 of them children—were slaughtered with guns?

One house isn't cool. You know what's cool? Five houses. All of which Mark Zuckerberg now owns, after spending $30 million to buy up his neighbors' lots.

For almost a year now, a national labor movement has been pushing for higher wages for America's fast food workers. Last week in Chicago, a longtime McDonald's worker interrupted a speech by McDonald's USA president Jeff Stratton, asking "Do you think it's fair that I have to be living on a poverty wage?"

Edward Snowden, last seen grocery shopping in Russia, received a derogatory report in 2009 when he worked at the CIA, where his supervisor suspected him of attempting to access classified files to which he did not have security clearance.

If the grim news about our slow-cooking world has got you down, you might be an environmentalist. Recycling bins, hiking boots, and that reusable grocery bag you got at the farmer's market are other signs that you may have ecological beliefs and concerns. To the industrial propagandists, even your awareness of the hotter temperatures and horrific storms is proof that your green behavior is actually a religion. So what would happen if 10 million or 50 million religious environmentalists suddenly appeared on the national scene?

Dartmouth College has placed Beta Alpha Omega on “immediate temporary suspension” following Gawker’s report on the fraternity’s publicly available list-serv, where brothers disseminated documents detailing alcohol-soaked initiation rituals (which Dartmouth believes is hazing) and exchanged standard-issue frat bro fodder about “hoes” and each other.

Ten students were suspended from Pittsburg High School in California this week after posting a photo to Facebook and Instagram that appeared to show their principal, Todd Whitmire, putting a classmate in a chokehold.

As predictably as the sun rises and sets, so too do economic bubbles inflate and then pop, bringing euphoria followed by suicidal gloom. Where will the next bubble in our economy be? Today, we turn our keen eye to the source of all troubles: tech companies.

Has your boss ever bought everyone pizza, as a special favor? That must have been cool! Twitter employees ate oysters, scallops and lamb chops yesterday.

Barista-slash-singer-slash-songwriter-slash-designer-slash-photographer-slash-producer-slash-what-else-you've-got Brody "Odag" Ryan Curtis — better known as the original #StarbucksDrakeHands guy — officially broke his silence yesterday on Inside Edition, where he told a decidedly different meet-cute story than the one being spread around by Studio City model Piper Kennedy.

"No Vegas experience would be complete without seeing the Entertainment Capital of the World's funniest resident headliner, Carrot Top," according to a news story on the home page of America's third-largest newspaper this morning.

After a long, hard day of waiting tables at a Red Lobster in Franklin, Tennessee, server Toni Christina Jenkins was extremely disheartened to find that two customers had apparently left behind a receipt with the word "nigger" in lieu of a tip.

The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the United Nations-backed group in charge of destroying Syria's chemical arms.

Here's one reason House Republicans are pushing for a short-term debt increase before next week's deadline: The GOP's popularity is at an all-time low while President Obama's is rising, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.

I think we can officially declare proposal videos over. We’ve seen dogs do it, pilots do it, even gay men in Home Depot do it. And now we’ve seen Justin Baldoni do it, which is a beautiful or awful thing, depending on your tolerance for self-promotion.

A new report on the Los Angeles Sheriff Department Canine Special Detail reveals that 100 percent of police dog bite victims in the first six months of 2013 were blacks and Latinos.