Minister and activist to officiate first marriage since 2003

Autopsy: NY gunman shot self, not hit by police

Mother of youngest Sandy Hook victim gives interview

Joe Arpaio accepted award from neo-Confederate group

Shot of booze to the heart saves man's life

Paul Thomas Anderson on upcoming Pynchon adaptation: Screenplay is "more secretarial"

Not even Hollywood can screw up Les Misérables

Weird news: 60-foot beached whale dies on shores of New York City

Feinstein defends domestic surveillance program

NRA dismisses David Gregory's "silly felony"

Death by soap opera?

Humans reveal dark side in turtle experiment

Ben Affleck and Chris Terrio explain choices behind "Argo"

FBI arrests woman for alleged Newtown fundraising scam

Dumb tweet of the day: "President DOWNGRADE, President PORKULUS"

Top 10 Wikipedia pages of 2012

The National Guard in public schools?

Hiding my freckles

Bush aide: "Please put the harps back in the closet"

Hang tough, Mr. President

Norman Schwarzkopf, Iraq war general, dies at 78

Pick of the week: A hypnotic tale of doomed romance set in colonial Africa

Salon's Joan Walsh describes right wing honcho Dick Armey in plain English

White House meeting a last stab at fiscal deal

Neither side wants a deal

Indian gang-rape victim fights for her life

Private equity investor: "We didn't build that"

The CIA's expanding contractor security force

The real lesson in David Gregory's gun incident

Republicans just don't care what the nation thinks

Senate FISA vote inspiring display of bipartisan commitment to ignoring Fourth Amendment

Italian elections may decide euro's fate

The 10 best (and worst) tweets of 2012

Defending Judd Apatow's midlife crisis

Equity crowdfunding waits on the SEC

"Thelma and Louise," Waylon Jennings: The best fiscal cliff tweets

Israel establishes university in illegal West Bank settlement

Les Misérables is an even better novel

What's wrong with drug testing pregnant women

Report: Obama to propose compromise package to avoid cliff

Even this bleeding-heart liberal believes gun owners have a right to privacy

’Twas the night before the fiscal cliff

Longshoremen strike averted, for now

Chicago homicides hit grim milestone

Progressive victories you may have missed in 2012

Marilyn Monroe, communist?

The Daily Caller shamelessly shills for Big Tobacco

Wal-Mart's Sam's Club pulling smoked salmon over listeria fears

Could a black director have made "Django"?

Syrian regime using more precise Iranian missiles