| 'Family Guy,' 'Simpsons' crossover Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:42 PM PDT How do you keep things fresh in your 26th season? If you're "The Simpsons," you roll out a jaw-dropping couch gag AND kill off a Springfield resident while you're at it.  |
| 9 Ukraine soldiers killed by tank fire Posted: 29 Sep 2014 11:17 AM PDT Seven Ukrainian soldiers were killed by tank fire Monday at the airport in the flashpoint city of Donetsk, the country's state news agency reported.  |
| Cheers as Lenin statue falls Posted: 29 Sep 2014 08:44 AM PDT Crowds in Eastern Ukraine cheered as a the largest statue of Vladimir Lenin in the country was pulled down.  |
| Doctor exposed to Ebola arrives in U.S. Posted: 29 Sep 2014 04:52 AM PDT An American doctor who was exposed to Ebola has arrived at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, the National Institutes of Health said Sunday.  |
| Mexican flag dust-up goes viral Posted: 29 Sep 2014 04:33 AM PDT A woman says she lost her job after a video of her confronting a couple about flying the Mexican flag went viral.  |
| Brothers take trip before going blind Posted: 29 Sep 2014 07:52 AM PDT Tod Purvis and his brother Justin knew that they were going blind. Both had been diagnosed with choroideremia, a rare genetic disorder that causes progressive vision loss and eventually leads to complete blindness.  |
| 'SNL' kicks off season 40 Posted: 29 Sep 2014 08:37 AM PDT Season 40 of "Saturday Night Live" kicked off over the weekend with much the same assessment as previous seasons: talent that needs seasoning, up-and-down sketches and mixed reviews.  |
| Potato salad joke turns charity bash Posted: 29 Sep 2014 07:44 AM PDT Potato salad is a cause worthy of charitable donations.  |
| 'I was becoming a sugar baby' Posted: 28 Sep 2014 07:57 PM PDT Lisa Ling describes herself as a fiercely independent woman and a die-hard feminist. But she opens up about the one time she was seduced by a much different lifestyle.  |
| Beheading suspect told police he felt oppressed at work Posted: 29 Sep 2014 10:14 AM PDT Police accuse Nolen of beheading one woman and attacking another at the Moore, Oklahoma, food processing plant from which he'd just been fired.  |
| Now on Google: poverty Posted: 29 Sep 2014 10:44 AM PDT Lake Providence, Louisiana, is the parish seat of the "most unequal place in America," meaning it has a higher rate of income inequality than any other parish or county. And until somewhat recently, the poor side of town was invisible on Google Maps.  |
| Will Colorado wipe out history? Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:31 PM PDT David Wheeler says Colorado students are right to protest curriculum changes that downplays civil disobedience.  |
| How Common Core went bad Posted: 29 Sep 2014 07:25 AM PDT Ruben Navarrette says Common Core supporters can't devise a new curriculum and then fail to effectively sell it.  |
| Democrats heading for 2016 split? Posted: 29 Sep 2014 04:29 AM PDT Julian Zelizer says in the run up to the 2016 election the party faces divisions on its approach to the U.S.'s place in the world  |
| ISIS fighter: U.S. can't stop us Posted: 29 Sep 2014 09:48 AM PDT "They thought they knew everything," Syrian ISIS fighter Abu Talha said. "But thank God, they don't know anything. And God willing, we will defeat the infidels."  |
| Ben Bradlee is in hospice care Posted: 29 Sep 2014 09:16 AM PDT Ben Bradlee, the former top editor of The Washington Post who oversaw the paper's coverage of the Watergate scandal, is in hospice care as his health has declined over the last six weeks, his wife said in a C-SPAN interview.  |
| 2 dead after midair collision Posted: 29 Sep 2014 08:40 AM PDT Police say a 78-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy died after their plane collided midair with another aircraft.  |
| Arrest made in missing Realtor case Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:41 PM PDT [Breaking news update published at 12:03 p.m. ET]  |
| Did enterovirus cause kids' paralysis? Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:11 PM PDT Health officials are looking for the cause of a neurologic illness that's affected nine children in Colorado.  |
| Hannah Graham case linked to '09 case Posted: 29 Sep 2014 11:42 AM PDT The arrest of Jesse Matthew -- the suspect in the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham -- has resulted in a "significant break" in the 2009 death of another young woman in the same area, police said.  |
| More bodies found on volcano Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:41 AM PDT Five more lifeless bodies have been found on the slopes of Japan's Mount Ontake, bringing the total number of presumed dead in a volcanic eruption Saturday to 36.  |
| 8 arrested in Ferguson Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:10 PM PDT Eight people were arrested outside the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department on Sunday night when demonstrations grew violent yet again, police say.  |
| Parents, kids found mysteriously dead Posted: 28 Sep 2014 11:47 PM PDT There were no signs of trauma, no clues of any violence or foul play.  |
| 5 babies test positive for TB Posted: 29 Sep 2014 08:36 AM PDT Five babies in El Paso, Texas, have tested positive for tuberculosis after being exposed to the infectious disease at a local hospital, the city's health department says.  |
| Mom pulled over has baby in trunk Posted: 29 Sep 2014 08:41 AM PDT A Florida mother has been charged with child abuse after police say she had her baby placed in the trunk.  |
| George Clooney makes it legal Posted: 29 Sep 2014 10:20 AM PDT George Clooney, the man long considered one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, followed up his private wedding to British human rights attorney Amal Alamuddin with a civil ceremony in Venice, Italy, on Monday.  |
| Boy pens viral letter about her speech Posted: 29 Sep 2014 07:39 AM PDT A 15-year-old British schoolboy has struck a chord with his eloquent response to actress Emma Watson's United Nations speech encouraging men to join in the fight for gender equality.  |
| Men who antagonize Apple and Yahoo Posted: 29 Sep 2014 04:01 AM PDT CNNMoney's Paul LaMonica explains activist investors: who they are and how they use their power.  |
| Up close with 80,000-lb. humpback whale Posted: 29 Sep 2014 03:43 AM PDT A man and woman in Australia got extremely close to a mother whale and her calf. Seven Network reports.  |
| Dare to dive into the deepest pool? Posted: 28 Sep 2014 11:01 PM PDT Yes it's a dive hotel, but not that kind of dive hotel.  |
| 'Batman' patrols the streets of Detroit Posted: 29 Sep 2014 03:43 AM PDT Walter "Batman" Gildersleeve fights crime in abandoned neighborhoods in West Detroit. CNN affiliate WXYZ reports.  |
| This lab holds 2,000 brains Posted: 29 Sep 2014 08:06 AM PDT The University of Miami Brain Endowment Bank provides brain tissues to researchers to study various brain disorders.  |
| Most spectacular buildings from 2014 Posted: 29 Sep 2014 09:10 AM PDT Zaha Hadid's spaceship-like Dongdaemun Design Plaza, an avant-garde new home for Singapore's oldest Buddhist Temple, and a private bunker sprawling on top of a lake are some of the shortlisted entries competing for architectural honors at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore this week.  |
| Palin mocks Obama's coffee cup salute Posted: 29 Sep 2014 08:30 AM PDT Sarah Palin takes another jab at President Obama mocking his "coffee cup salute" moment.  |
| 'Laguna Beach' turns 10 Posted: 29 Sep 2014 08:29 AM PDT It seems like just yesterday Lauren and Kristin were competing for Stephen.  |
| 'They shouldn't have used tear gas' Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:39 PM PDT Thousands of protesters in Hong Kong are vocalizing their disdain of what they say is China encroaching on the "high degree of autonomy" promised to the city. They want Beijing to stay out of their affairs.  |
| What you need to know Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:03 PM PDT Hong Kong is in the midst of its longest series of political protests since the 1997 handover.  |
| Inside Hong Kong's 'Umbrella Revolution' Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:04 PM PDT The Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations began as both isolated and all-consuming events.  |
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| ISIS fighter Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:36 AM PDT The United States may be touting its strikes on ISIS targets in Syria, but one of the terror group's fighters says the hits are trivial at best.  |
| Volcano Posted: 29 Sep 2014 02:08 AM PDT Five more lifeless bodies have been found on the slopes of Japan's Mount Ontake, bringing the total number of presumed dead in a volcanic eruption Saturday to 36.  |
| Realtor vanishes Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:41 PM PDT [Breaking news update published at 12:03 p.m. ET]  |
| Mysterious family deaths Posted: 29 Sep 2014 07:41 AM PDT There were no signs of trauma, no clues of any violence or foul play.  |
| Oklahoma beheading Posted: 29 Sep 2014 09:30 AM PDT He calls himself Jah'Keem Yisrael on Facebook. But he grew up as Alton Nolen, a good kid raised in a loving home, said a woman who identified herself as the mother of the Oklahoma beheading suspect in an online posting.  |
| Hong Kong protesters Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:39 PM PDT Thousands of pro-democracy protesters remained camped out on major highways in the heart of Hong Kong on Monday, defying government attempts to both coerce and cajole them into giving up their extraordinary demonstration.  |