In a reversal, the Obama administration is considering signing an sign executive order that would protect gay federal contractors from workplace discrimination.
What can we expect, knowing what we know from previous years we've managed to survive? What will be in? What will be out? What do we hope is finally, please, done with? What should remain for the next 12 months, and into perpetuity? We've compiled a list for you, because no matter what you hear, lists are still hot in 2013.
Discovered: Scientists hazard their latest guesses about what we'll experience in the new year, showing us previews of rising sea levels, soaring temperatures, and a close encounter with a supercomet.
Because the only thing better than Times Square is Times Square littered with bright pieces of paper.
At an unnamed bar somewhere in the middle of Anytown, America, in the late hours of December 31, 2012, a group of New Year's Resolutions were deep in conversation.
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