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Australia apologizes for 50-year practice of kidnapping Aboriginal children.
Putin’s heir apparent to receive Deep Purple concert as parting gift from Gazprom.
How American Samoa prepared for its Super Tuesday spotlight; how America’s ridiculous caucus rules are, in fact, legal.
Ladies and gentlemen, and Tony Blair… World leaders gather for Ahmadinejad roast (see also: thermal pictures from a zoo).
Reading the week in fashion Suzy Menkes.
It’s only February, but it seems the headline of the year has been found.
How you see it: a single news story told by three news stations simultaneously.
New technique involving three parents and one baby may prevent mitochondrial disease.
The week’s brilliant inventions include nugget-holding soda cups and smoking ban-friendly mini-cigarettes.
Sometimes a party’s so great, you have to swallow your house key to avoid going home.
McCain sees big wins across the nation, though Huckabee, Romney aren’t out of the race.
Romney loses West Virginia, thanks to some old school moves from the McCain and Paul teams.
One more loser from yesterday: the proposal to replace Alcatraz with a global peace center.
Scientific itch-scratching really scratches the itch.
The tale behind the O’Brien/Colbert/Stewart feud, and all of it in one succinct YouTube number.
Matthew Baldwin watches Sophie’s Choice as part of his AFI 100 Project. (See the rest of the project here.)
These stories…reveal something about the eternal and dangerous nature of being female. The adoptions and abortions of four decades ago.
Fiction writers: L Magazine’s Search for Pocket Fiction competition is now taking submissions.
Video: A meeting with an editor: “Maybe it’s not a shark, but it’s a squid, or a pebble, or a policeman.”
At a London concert, Morrissey sports an “Obama-Morrissey” T-shirt.
I recently shaved my 161 day old beard and placed it in a mason jar. Beard for sale.