guns in schools After 3rd grader at Texas elementary school finds gun in bathroom, superintendent resigns Carla Sinclair
celebrities Watch Paris Hilton's masterful code-switch at US Congressional hearing (video) Allan Rose Hill
trials Juror dismissed after reporting that someone dropped $120,000 bag of cash at her home and promised more after acquittal Rob Beschizza
tabloids Melania Trump's smoking gun, and Mitch McConnell's short-circuiting brain, in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
broken systems Boy stuck for weeks at Colorado hospital after dad abandons him and social services too busy to take action Carla Sinclair
books Pulitzer prize winner Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, By America" is about consumption, exploitation and how money trickles up Elías Villoro
only in america Another 6-year-old boy brings a gun to school, but this time things go right Carla Sinclair
good luck Lottery winner claims $30 million prize wearing silly cartoon mascot costume to keep jackpot secret from his family David Pescovitz
politics Mississippi gave $1m of welfare money to Brett Favre for "speeches" he never made—and has just fired an investigator looking into it Rob Beschizza
population Deaths in Japan far outpace births in 2021, resulting in a population decline of 628,205 Mark Frauenfelder
when "playing" isn't playing School bus monitor charged after choking a 7-year-old child, but still has his job Carla Sinclair
psychedelics "Curious Alice" is a trippy anti-drugs PSA from 1971 that may unintentionally inspire its viewers to drop LSD Popkin
crime R Kelly guilty of child sex exploitation and trafficking, faces life imprisonment Rob Beschizza
