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Comedian Joan Rivers hates a lot of things. Her new book, I Hate Everyone, Starting With Me, details the things Rivers can't stand, from her appearance to obituaries to younger comedians who steal her gigs.

To understand how social rules affect the interactions between humans and machines, scientists re-created a famous psychology experiment using robots. What they found is that if robots are nice to us, we're nice to them. If they're not, we "punish" them.

The latest device that beams your computer to your TV is Google Chromecast. Technology writer Larry Magid tells us how it stacks up against the competition and how the Internet giant will impact streaming TV.

"Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey was an icon of Saturday Night Live in the 1990's. Now Jack Handey has written a novel, "The Stench of Honolulu." He talks to host Rachel Martin about the book, his time on SNL, and his philosophy on comedy.

Robert Siegel talks to Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon about his reaction to the executive summary of the so-called torture report.

The new Amazon series is a comedy, not a reality show — in any way, shape or form. But classical music fans may chuckle knowingly at the trials and tribulations of a young oboist in New York.

House Hunters is your best television destination for scenes in which people sniff derisively at houses just like yours. Do you have wall-to-wall carpeting? An electric stove? How do you deal with the shame?

A group of Jewish and Muslim musicians who played together in the bars and cafes of Algiers in the 1940s and '50s thought they'd never see each other again. But after a chance encounter one of them had with a tourist in an Algerian bazaar, their lives changed forever.

A new app uses geolocation to bring to life a lesser-known section of Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate — Mulberry Row, which was the bustling enclave of skilled slaves who worked at Monticello.

A Republican will be governor of Kentucky for only the second time in 40 years. Democrats blamed "Trump-mania." Conservatives helped block pot legalization in Ohio and repealed an LGBT law in Houston.