New Year’s Eve is that one special night of the year when CNN anchor Anderson Cooper destroys every bit of journalistic credibility he’s built up over the preceding year by co-hosting the festivities in New York City with Kathy Griffin. The big question tonight is whether Griffin looks better with or without her shirt on, with answers tweeted to #CNNNYE.
Is @kathygriffin hotter with or without her shirt on? Vote now by tweeting with or without using #CNNNYE pic…

An increase in the number of infants born in Brazil with a form of brain damage has been blamed on the Zika virus.

#ResignRahm demonstrators are once again gathering outside of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house, and they’re promising to do so for 16 consecutive nights to represent the 16 shots fired at Laquan McDonald last year.
Tonight, of course, is New Year’s Eve, and the Chicago Transit Authority is offering citizens free public transportation over the holiday — an offer protesters used to encourage others to join them in Emanuel’s driveway once they finished their die-ins downtown with Jesse Jackson in tow…

One of the most disturbing premises in the young adult genre is the one at the heart of The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney. In the book, 15-year-old Janie Johnson believes she is living a normal life until she sees her own picture on a milk carton as a missing child. […]
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It was a crazy year for news in 2015. Paris suffered two separate terror attacks, one million refugees arrived in Europe, we flew closer to Pluto than ever before, and Donald Trump turned being a loudmouth into a viable political career. But for some people, all this wasn’t enough. They had to go and invent […]
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A portion of the court-ordered batch of State Department emails finally emerged on New Year’s Eve and was largely overlooked with the exception of some novelties: a Phillipe Reines-created flow chart to see who got to ride in the limo with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Cheryl Mills’ “You look cute” response to the famous photo of Clinton checking her BlackBerry…

Archaeologists and historians have seen remarkable years in 2014 and 2015. Here are 10 recent scientific and historical finds that have yielded striking and compelling new information about our ancient past. Featured image via YouTube 10 Sunken Byzantine Basilica Found In Turkey During a routine aerial inventory of historical and cultural artifacts conducted by the […]
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It’s the last day of the month, which means that the State Department has dumped another court-ordered batch of emails on the American people, albeit a smaller batch than usual. Reporters spending New Year’s Eve combing through the highly redacted emails aren’t finding much, although American Commitment president Phil Kerpen found a familiar name.
That name was Elise Labott of CNN, whom State Department emails seemed to show had a very comfortable email relationship with Hillary Clinton’s State Department staff…

Wayne Rogers, best known for his role as Trapper John McIntyre in the TV series M*A*S*H, passed away Thursday night at the age of 82. While many know him only from that series, fans and followers remembered him in his many other roles.
RIP Wayne Rogers. pic.twitter.com/9WK2OHL2Ze
— Brodigan Rockin’ Eve (@brodigan) January 1, 2016RIP Wayne Rogers. https://t.co/DsUGrfHe0E
— Dean Cain (@RealDeanCain) January 1, 2016

he was trapper john on “M…