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Furious at his gun-control crusade, Americans petitioned the White House to deport CNN host Piers Morgan. The White House answered with the First Amendment.
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Furious at his gun-control crusade, Americans petitioned the White House to deport CNN host Piers Morgan. The White House answered with the First Amendment.

A Social Security Administration employee in Baltimore was formally reprimanded in writing for excessive workplace flatulence, and the internet noticed.

An Atlanta postal supervisor, a coworker, and four accomplices pled guilty to stealing $3 million in U.S. Treasury checks from the mail.

Christian parents in Encinitas, California threatened to sue their school district over classroom yoga, calling it Eastern religious indoctrination.

Pope Benedict XVI joined Twitter on December 12, 2012, sending his first tweet to the world's Catholics and to anyone else paying attention.

Vidya Balan rushed to finish Ghanchakkar before her December 2012 wedding to Disney UTV chief Siddharth Roy Kapur, the industry wedding of the year.

Diet, fashion, and now weddings: Indian couples are giving the big fat wedding a vegan twist, from dairy-free feasts to cruelty-free finery.

Thieves dug up dozens of graves at Paris's Pantin cemetery for gold teeth, and gravediggers were among those arrested in the 2012 crime wave.

From Russia's paperwork maze to India's beautiful chaos, eight destinations where even seasoned travelers are smarter with a guide at their side.

Belgian researchers built a curved LCD display that fits inside a contact lens, promising text messages and directions projected straight onto the eye.

When Charlie Bit My Finger passed 500 million YouTube views in 2012, the 56-second home video became the defining artifact of the early viral internet.

On December 6, 2012, Washington's marijuana legalization took effect with a midnight celebration at the Space Needle and a wink from Seattle police.

With days to go before December 21, 2012, panic buying hit China and Russia, shelter sales boomed in America, and believers converged on a French mountain.

Jane Perez was sued for $750,000 over her Yelp reviews of contractor Christopher Dietz. The case became a landmark fight over online free speech.

Skyfall took 94.3 million pounds in 40 days to pass Avatar as the UK's highest-grossing film ever, a fitting crown for Bond's 50th anniversary year.

Researcher Terri Orbuch found that when husbands felt close to their wives' parents, couples reported happier marriages. The in-law effect is real.

In 2011 Aldi's UK business swung from a 56 million pound loss to a 57.8 million pound profit. Here is the discount model behind the turnaround.

Organic or fresh? USDA scientist Gene Lester's research suggests the question is wrong: what matters is how recently produce was picked and handled.

An Indian radiographer was dismissed from Manchester's Christie cancer hospital after six years over complaints he could not communicate clearly in English.

At a 2012 FLO event, Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw argued educated women should compete on merit, not seek special privileges. It still divides opinion.