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On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart took a look at the latest challenges facing Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Romney has a Michigan problem considering that he once endorsed letting Detroit fail completely and now is running ads with blatant non-truths in them. More »

The Pew Research Center released the results of a study today that found the number of mixed race marriages has doubled in the United States in the past 30 years. More »

The would-be suicide bomber who, in 2009, failed to blow-up a Detroit-bound international flight but succeeded in burning his genitals was sentenced to life in prison without parole today. More »

It's a great time to sell regular-sized furniture and label it "kid-sized," according to a recent CNN.com report. A story posted Wednesday cites numerous manufacturers of school furniture who confess to increasing the size of chairs and desks to accommodate the new generation's larger students. More »

New York Fashion Week may have ended today, but that doesn't mean you can't attend an exciting fashion event tonight—and you don't need to be in New York, or even leave the house. More »

More pets died on Delta than any other air carrier last year, according to an Air Travel Consumer Report released by the U. S. Department of Transportation earlier this week. The report, available online, confirms that 19 of last year's 35 in-flight pet deaths happened on Delta planes. More »

(Jezebel.com ) On Sunday night, Chris Brown performed live on television twice, and won his first Grammy, for Best R&B Album. This sparked outrage among certain people. More on Jezebel »

Outside her New York hotel today, a smiling Sarah Palin proved that she has finally conquered her possibly crippling fear of Asians. Jeremy Lin for leader of the free world. [Images via Pacific Coast News] More »

Rihanna is currently working on "Birthday Cake (Remix)," due out soon, and who better to feature on the track than Chris Brown. Forget that he once violently beat Rihanna, resulting in injuries police called "horrific," for there are Birthday Cakes to remix. [Vibe, image via Getty] More »

Turns out that just hours before we published our inside look at Facebook's content moderation process, they released an updated version of their guidelines. More »

Turns out Sam Kashner, the Vanity Fair contributing editor currently embroiled in a literary cheating scandal, has been accused of being an erotic deceit before. More »

I shamelessly swiped this post, but it is perfect and deserves recognition. The image comes to us from Thailand's Tiffany Show, which is billed as "the original transvestite show."

According to one of Kim Kardashian's friends, Kim's publicist has arranged for her to go on a date with Knicks demigod, Jeremy Lin. And while it's probable that there's no truth in this, it's kind of fun to imagine. More »

Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, is pissed at Facebook. Last year he spent a few weeks training to screen illicit Facebook content through an outsourcing firm, for which he was paid a measly $1 an hour. More »

Representative Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, refused to allow women to testify at a hearing discussing a new regulation that requires employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. More »

Hayden Panettiere muse and martyr, Amanda Knox has sold her memoir to HarperCollins for a cool four million bones. The rights to Knox's 2007 giallo in Perugia were put up for auction in a days-long battle between the top names in publishing. More »

Slate advice column Dear Prudence (which really is the prudest internet advice column) fielded a titillating question of dubious veracity today, from a gay man in a committed sexual relationship with his twin brother. More »

Those of you who caught the news (revealed, no doubt coincidentally, in two different articles published on the same day) that New York Times media wunderkind Brian Stelter and NY1 traffic reporter Jamie Shupak are dating — More »

"Snooki's Getting Married" is the headline in In Touch Weekly, the tabloid you buy when the supermarket is out of People, Us Weekly, Star, National Enquirer, and even OK!. More »

Take a deep breath. Relax. Center yourself. Think about your bank account. Now. Are you ready for an article explaining why $196,000 per year is not that much money? More »

(Jezebel.com ) A 56-year-old student was banned from Michigan's Oakland University for writing a lengthy essay about how hot his writing professor was — oh, and possibly having a "gun obsession." Now he wants to be reinstated — More on Jezebel »

(Deadspin.com ) Who's the biggest thing in New York right now? Is it Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin, the unlikely guy leading his team on an improbable charge to .500, collecting terrible, punning tabloid headlines along the way? More on Deadspin »

Commonly acknowledged worst living mouth-breather, Chris Brown has struck gold again. According to US Weekly, the belligerent singer has refined his pick-up lines so that they are more, uh, relevant. After the Grammy's, he purportedly hit on a woman in the Lasio Professional Hair Care suite Grammy... More »

Zelda Kaplan, the hard-partying 95-year-old socialite who has been a fixture of the New York scene since the '60s, collapsed right in the middle of the Joanna Mastroianni fashion show at Lincoln Center yesterday, just as the second model walked past her. More »

This famously sexy star has had every flavor of famous man stopping by her hotel room for a romp. This Real Housewives couple is close to breaking up and this famous couple is wearing promise rings. More »

Nothing to see here folks, just your typical Sphynx cat broadcasting "carpe diem" from his be-tatted chest. It's a cattoo! This man should be punished not just for animal abuse, but also for his poor taste in tattoos. More »

Of the ongoing battle against the stubborn head lice infestation at Indiana's Huntington University, one campus official says, "We feel like we're turning a good corner here." Homosexual assfucking is not allowed at Huntington University. [Journal-Gazette via Inside Higher Ed. Photo: More »

Beginning with last night's rerun episode, which focused on Herman Cain, The Colbert Report has temporarily suspended production for at least a week. Seems like the suspension was a surprise to everyone involved with the show, considering ticketholders to last night's episode weren't notified of... More »

See that flag? It is the state flag of Wisconsin. On the top there is the name of the state, "Wisconsin," and on the bottom is the year that Wisconsin was admitted to the union. More »

Jon Stewart swung by Late Night with David Letterman and naturally the topic turned to politics. During the discussion, Stewart explained exactly what it is that the GOP doesn't like about Mitt Romney: More »

Bill Maher stopped by the Tonight Show and bantered about with Jay Leno tonight. Among the topics covered was Maher's take on Rick Santorum and his outdated politics regarding birth control, gay marriage and life in general which included the nugget that "he believes life begins at erection." More »

A handful of Pennsylvania legislators claim they were duped into supporting a measure that would make 2012 "the Year of the Bible" and have asked the state House of Representatives to reconsider its adoption of the resolution. House Resolution 535 was one in a stack of documents that came up for... More »

On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart examined the little problem that Congress has with indulging in insider trading. You know how it goes, you learn some confidential information in a Senate hearing or something and then use that knowledge for your personal financial gain. More »

More than 350 people are dead after fire consumed a crowded prison in Honduras late Tuesday night. The official word is that the blaze started when an inmate purposely set fire to his own mattress. More »

There's been a lot of news lately out of the Falkland Islands which, as we all knew without checking Wikipedia, are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located over 250 nautical miles east of the coast of mainland South America. More »

Tonight's geographically disorienting episode of Top Chef: Texas takes place in Canada. Don't ask me why—maybe they should have called this season Top Chef: More »

Sony Music has issued an apology for hiking the prices of two of Whitney Houston's greatest hit compilations in the hours following her death, the New York Times reports. "Whitney Houston product was mistakenly mispriced on the U.K. More »

Three years ago, Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger were a middle-aged married couple co-writing Furious Love, a book about Liz Taylor and Richard Burton's scandalous extramarital affair on the set of Cleopatra. Turns out Kashner, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, is a method writer: More »

President and noted mixologist Barack Obama is looking to change the mix of metals that go into pennies and nickels, in an effort to produce the coins more cheaply. More »