Daily Show Prep - Friday January 29, 2016

• Video: Sparks fly during GOP debate
• Cruz explains his immigration vote to Megyn Kelly after the debate
• TV ratings up from last debate, down from first Fox News debate
• Donald Trump throws a grand old party
• Issa: 'FBI director would like to indict both Huma and Hillary'
• State Department delays release of Hillary's emails until after Iowa caucuses
• Official: Some Hillary e-mails 'too damaging' to release
• FBI video shows LaVoy Finicum going for something in his pocket before he's shot
• Longshoremen walk off the job in New York
• Half of us get our news from 10 Internet publishers
• New technique allows scientists to read minds at the speed of thought
• Study: Daily trips to the gym a waste of time in losing weight
• QB Russell Wilson's graphic novel on faith
• Father charged with theft for taking his daughter's cellphone found not guilty
• Woman who tried to steal handcuffs from Walmart ends up in handcuffs
• Expert of the Day: Michael Pregent on why al-Nusra is a bigger threat than ISIS

Daily Show Prep - Thursday January 28, 2016

• A third of Iowa voters could change their minds before Monday
• Trump refuses to reconsider Fox News debate appearance
• Huckabee will attend Trump's rival event
• Veterans group refuses donations from Trump event
• Trump, Clinton lead in Tennessee
• Jeb now in second place in one poll in NH
• Former FBI official predicts Hillary indictment during 'heat of the general election'
• Clinton chief of staff lost her Blackberry that contained classified e-mails
• Iowa man mistakes black CNN host for Ben Carson
• Biden tells Dems the GOP field is 'a gift from the Lord'
• Zika virus is 'spreading explosively' in the Americas
• Flashback: DDT is safe, despite what the dirt people tell you
• HHS didn't check homes before giving migrant kids to traffickers
• Muslim arrested trying to smuggle guns inside Disneyland Paris
• More arrests at the Oregon refuge standoff
• 'Affluenza' teen extradited from Mexico to U.S. to face trial
• 300 scientists want NOAA to stop hiding global warming data
• Half of all union workers live in just 7 states
• Hundreds of DHS guns, badges, and phones have been lost or stolen
• Outrage at white actor tapped to play Michael Jackson
• The all-day breakfast is saving McDonald's
• Charles Barkley: ESPN turning Super Bowl into 'black vs. white'
• Big Butt Barbie makes her debut
• Circuit City is back...again
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Barf detergent powder

Daily Show Prep - Wednesday January 27, 2016

• Trump backs out of Fox debate, apparently with good reason
• Poll: 83% say they won't watch without him
• Could FBI force Justice Department to prosecute Hillary?
• Hillary and her 'man problem'
• CNBC: Why millennials are embracing socialism
• Oregon standoff spokesman killed in confrontation with police
• Colleges offer students course credit to attend 'White Privilege Conference'
• Danny Glover: Maybe we should do away with the Oscars
• Hollywood is too white, says Lena Dunham, whose own show was all white
• Bill Nye the Pseudoscience Guy takes on NASCAR
• Special Ops commander demands Pentagon stop exposing operations
• UVA rape hoaxer ordered to turn over communications
• Feds remove 'he' and 'she' from labor regs
• Natural selection: Pantsless motorist killed while, um, pleasuring himself
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Professor Dick Swaab

Daily Show Prep - Tuesday January 26, 2016

• Tom DeLay: FBI ready to ask for indictment of Hillary
• FBI going 'right to the source' in email probe
• Gowdy: "Eye-opening' and 'surprising' results coming from Benghazi investigation
• Hillary slips below 50% nationwide in new Fox poll
• Student at town hall reveals CNN scripted his question to Hillary
• Trump tops 40% for first time in nationwide CNN poll
• Gun documentary director blasts Trump for shooting comment
• O'Malley gaining with illegals in Iowa
• Feds foresee $30 trillion debt
• OPEC may finally relent and cut output by May
• CDC criticized for slow response to Zika outbreak
• Study: al-Nusra worse than ISIS
• Thousands of Cuban refugees cross border into America
• Silly: Italy covers Roman nudes for Iranian leader's visit
• U of Oregon debates removing MLK quote because it wasn't inclusive enough
• Colorado homeowner robbed at gunpoint faces charges for killing suspect
• Concept plane claims to get passengers from NYC to London in 11 minutes
• Feminist Internet: Worrying about obesity is 'oppressive'
• Abe Vigoda really dead this time
• Lizard found in kindergartener's salad made class pet
• Feds spend 80 grand to test effects of spaceflight on herpes
• Homeless man pours coffee on himself for $5

Daily Show Prep - Monday January 25, 2016

• Seven days until Iowa
• Pastor decries Trump's rhetoric, says 'racism is in the air we breathe'
• Tina Fey's Sarah Palin parody is hilarious
• Cruz's stock falls in prediction markets
• Ted Cruz video surfaces
• Dixie Chicks singer ashamed Ted Cruz claims to be an American
• Rick Perry endorses Cruz
• Marco Rubio's 'Pawn Stars' endorser brings up admiration for 'pathway to citizenship'
• Glen Beck prefers Sanders to Trump
• Ben & Jerry's co-founder announces Bernie Sanders flavor
• Bloomberg may jump into Dem race
• Loony leftist Lena Dunham has list of words media shouldn't use describing female candidates
• NY $15 minimum wage could cripple health care industry
• Energy guru says Saudis can't destroy the U.S. fracking industry
• JFK allowed international flight to bypass customs . . . again!
• Flint militia joins demand for justice in water crisis
• Downton Abbey's Dowager Countess delivers epic rant against government-run healthcare
• Walmart runs competition out of business then leave
• Oil prices reverse
• Nutty professor who pushed reporter charged with assault
• UK company criticized for asking migrants to wear wristbands
• Actor Ian McKellen says homophobia in Hollywood just as rampant as racism
• Barbershop patrons answer robbers with hail of bullets, one robber confirmed dead
• Rapper believes the world is flat
• A drug to cure fear
• Chronic stress could lead to depression, dementia
• Battery suspect told cops he could 'smell sex in the air'
• Expert of the Day: Dr. John Lott on the Air Force now allowing off duty personnel to carry a weapon
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Quindarious Gooch

Daily Show Prep - Friday January 22, 2016

• Snow! Snow! Snow!
• More than 6,000 flights cancelled
• Former Defense Secretary Gates: 'Odds are pretty high' Russia, China, and Iran accessed Hillary's e-mails
• Former AG Mukasey calls for Hillary's arrest
• Ted Nugent calls for Obama and Hillary to be hanged over Benghazi
• Feminist blogger says Hillary is 'largely an advocate for well-off white women'
• BernMe takes the lead in Iowa
• Group of GOP senators back Trump
• Congressmen erupt over IRS erasing another hard drive
• Another American taken in North Korea
• Oscar nominee says outcry 'racist to whites'
• White guy declares Stacey Dash is no longer black
• Academy board votes to increase diversity in members, nominees
• Anonymous launches campaign against Mich. guv over Flint water
• Strategist: Oil could rebound to $60-a-barrel this year
• Mother wants cop who broke up school fight fired
• 1 dead, a dozen hospitalized over listeria from Dole salads
• More than 99% of Penn. teachers inherited their union but never voted on it
• Google is paying Apple $1 billion to keep search bar on iPhones
• Man banned from having sex unless he gives police 24 hours notice
• 'Ron Burgundy' arrested for running sex club
• Expert of the Day: Barry Latzer, author of 'The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America'
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Katie Shufflebottom

Daily Show Prep - Thursday January 21, 2016

• Obama's new visa rules won't weed out terrorists
• Replaced Disney worker stars in ad about cheap foreign labor
• Dave Shiflett: Donald Trump's America
• Kasich tied with Cruz for second in New Hampshire
• Lindsay Grahamnesty: Choosing between Trump and Cruz like 'being shot or poisoned'
• Stock slide demotes Twitter CEO from billionaire to millionaire
• Oil cheaper than the barrel it comes in
• In 1977, Jimmy Carter said we'd run out of oil by now
• Op-ed on exactly what Uncle Phil has been saying for 2 years
• Harvard report proposes changes to college admissions that have nothing to do with excellence
• Oscar nominee Mark Ruffalo will attend the Oscars to call attention to victims of sexual abuse
• Round 1: Court sides with Obama on EPA climate rules
• Most see less government as answer to income gap
• Refugees in Germany demand luxury, threaten female workers
• Former White House supervisor accused of stealing $11,000 of taxpayer money
• Nekked people yell discrimination after being banned from city pool
• What could go wrong? Bill Clinton campaigning minutes from porn convention
• Expert of the Day: Michelle Minton from Competitive Enterprise Institute on why CDC's warning on salt might be overblown
• Jerry Madden, Senior Fellow at Right on Crime, discusses the 'Ban the Box' movement
• Dave Shiflett, who co-wrote a book with Donald Trump, gives his take on Trump

Daily Show Prep - Wednesday January 20, 2016

• Fast and Furious rifle capable of taking down chopper found in El Chapo cache
• Most voters still angry
• Billionaire dirt person Steyer may go Sanders
• Trump still leads big in NH, Cruz moving up
• WND birther writer on Ted Cruz
• Oil drops to $27 a barrel
• OMG: NASA says 2015 was hottest on record!
• Not so fast: Here are the real satellite temps
• Calls mount for Chris Rock to step down as Oscars host
• Oscar voters defend their votes
• Stacey Dash says it's time to get rid of BET, Black Awareness Month
• Trump agrees
• IRS erases hard drive despite court order
• Weenies on parade: Cuddle parties in Minneapolis
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Dr. Priti Manek

Daily Show Prep - Tuesday January 19, 2016

• Phil's take on the movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
• New WMUR poll has BurnMe trouncing Hillary 60-33%
• Iowa's GOP guv wants voters of his state to reject Ted Cruz
• Iran prisoner exchange: 'We gave away the farm for a Starbucks gift card'
• CBO: Deficit to rise to over half-trillion this year
• SCOTUS to rule on Obama amnesty plan
• Judge: Obama has to turn over 'Fast & Furious' docs
• IG: Hillary's e-mails had intel from most secretive, classified programs
• 'Fresh Prince' star blasts Will Smith's wife's call for boycott of Oscars
• First black director nominated for an Oscar disagrees with the boycott
• British actor Idris Elba praises the U.S. film industry for its diversity
• Surprise: Michael Moore joins Oscar boycott
• Rasmussen: Half the country says race relations getting worse
• IEA predicts oil glut until at least the end of 2016
• Americans are the world's most charitable
• More global warming: Northeast braces for historic snow storm
• 'Climatarians' say your burger is killing the planet
• Facebook launches online campaign against hate speech
• Town shuts down WiFi over health fears
• Paper: Gluten-free diet is total BS
• Expert of the Day: Philip Klein, managing editor of the Washington Examiner, on BurnMe Sanders' $19.6 trillion in tax hikes
• Scott Williams, TN state director of the Convention of States on why this is a good idea

Daily Show Prep - Friday January 15, 2016

• US turns to the UN to screen refugees
• Despite denial, Trump did advocate a 45% tariff on Chinese goods
• Trump rents out Iowa theater to show '13 Hours'
• Benghazi movie reignites 'stand down' order debate
• Quarter of Republicans think Cruz's birthplace disqualifies him
• NY Daily News goes after Cruz on his 'NY values' comments
• Hillary focuses on Flint water pollution, ignores Bill's water pollution problem way back when
• Navy captain says Iran was trying to send a message with humiliating photos of sailors
• Walmart plans to shutter 269 stores
• Swiss mother converts to Islam, takes 4-year-old son to join ISIS
• Idiot woman blows all her money on lottery tickets, raises money on GoFundMe
• Wisconsin high schools ban 'hurtful' chants at basketball games
• Air Force officials apologize for MLK, Jr. 'Fun Shoot'
• Fox orders pilot for '24:Legacy'; no Jack Bauer
• Expert of the Day: Gayle Trotter says political correctness is getting us killed
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Anna Prentice

Daily Show Prep - Thursday January 14, 2016

• GOP's Spanish response to SOTU promised amnesty
• Republicans down to 7 in GOP debate tonight
• Video: Rand Paul explains why he refuses to participate in 'NIT' debate
• Is this Trump's John Lennon moment? Says he has more support than Reagan.
• Trump's doubt about Cruz's eligibility taking its toll in Iowa
• Cruz didn't report Goldman Sachs loan
• Hillary's campaign freaks as BurnMe surges in Iowa
• '13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi'  opens this weekend
• What '13 Hours' teaches about Benghazi
• Some good news: Obama says Michelle will not run for president
• Sharpton slams 'fraudulent' Oscars for lack of black nominees
• Oil falls below $30
• Oil bounces back and lifts oil stocks
• T-Mobile employee in Chicago opens fire on would-be robbers
• IRS may still be targeting conservatives
• Obama continues to empty Gitmo
• Folk singer invites ISIS to his concert, give peace a chance
• Powerball winners in California, Florida, and Tennessee
• Internet set to cut cord with U.S. government this year
• Actor Alan Rickman dies of cancer
• You may be powerless to stop a drone from hovering over your own yard
• Obama gets the age of the nation wrong
• Dan Kish, Institute for Energy Research, on Obama's energy plan and the current price of oil
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Learjet founder, Bill Lear, named one of his daughters Shanda

Daily Show Prep - Wednesday January 13, 2016

• Iran says seizure of U.S. boat a lesson to 'troublemakers' in Congress
• Release humiliating images of U.S. sailors in captivity
• Iran sanctions lifted by Monday
• Trump: What about the other hostages?
• Obama proposes 'wage insurance' as the latest liberal entitlement
• Ann Coulter calls for Trump to deport Nikki Haley
• Reuters: Jeb in 3rd place
• Obama shifts on immigration to appease angry Dems
• $10 oil?
• First genetically-modified embryos could be created this week
• Al Jazeera America shutting down
• China arrests prominent human rights lawyer for subversion
• Penn State asks students to report microaggressions
• Georgia Dems introduce 'assault weapons' confiscation bill
• USC apologizes for asking students to reveal sexual history
• Claim: Global warming could cause us to develop webbed feet
• Driverless cars? They ain't there yet.
• Missing Afghan airman located
• Fugitive sends police selfie to replace bad mugshot
• Expert of the Day: Tim Graham from MRC on the State of the Union address
• Mark Meckler on the Convention of States
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Yu

Daily Show Prep - Tuesday January 12, 2016

• Iran seizes two Navy boats
• All's not nice with the OPEC nations
• MoveOn.org endorses BurnMe Sanders
• BurnMe opens up big lead in NH
• Tavis Smiley says Obama has failed black America
• Illegal immigration by families up 38 percent
• CBS' Nancy Drew will not be white
• Powerball up to $1.5 billion
• Alabamians lining up to buy lottery tickets in Georgia
• Leftie sports writer says Fox News women dress like hookers
• MIT makes incandescent lightbulbs more efficient than LEDs
• USC students required to detail sexual history before registering for classes
• Update: Whitesboro residents vote to keep controversial seal
• Science world abuzz with gravitational wave rumors
• Buddhist monk mugged buying lottery ticket in Philly
• Photographer captures Grim Reaper at cemetery
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Dennis Muchmore

Daily Show Prep - Monday January 11, 2016

• Senators ID 113 terrorists in the U.S.
• Trump takes the lead in Iowa
• Commanding lead in New Hampshire
• Republican establishment start to freak
• Opinion: Debunking 'conservative' concerns about Trump
• FBI's Hillary probe expands to public corruption track
• Former U.S. attorney: Clinton Foundation probe has been going on for months
• Hillary calls for 4 percent tax hike on multimillionaires
• Goes after Bernie
• Mary Matalin: When Hillary loses IA and NH, Biden or Warren will jump in
• Crude hits 12-year low
• Every state but one will see health insurance premium hikes this year
• Ten million more migrants heading for Europe
• New way police are watching you, assessing your threat level
• Are unlimited data cellphone plans on their way back?
• Second largest coal company files for bankruptcy
• Powerball reaches $1.3 billion
• Meme about solving poverty has math problem
• Liberal rag up for sale
• Matt Damon defends Sean Penn's El Chapo interview
• Playboy mansion for sale, but Hef gets to stay
• Ringling elephants retire in May
• NY village to vote on city seal depicting settler choking Indian
• People describe fires and accidents
• Expert of the Day: Dr. Merrill Matthews from the Institute for Policy Innovation on why Hillary can't tell the difference between Democrats and socialists
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Attorney Dick Strong

Daily Show Prep - Friday January 8, 2016

• Jihadist attack in Philly, suspect shoots officer in the name of Islam 
• Islam to become second-largest religion in U.S. by 2040
• ISIS member executes his own mother
• Obama argues with Anderson Cooper over Obama's characterization of gun-snatching as a 'conspiracy'
• Bernie Sanders brings up Monica Lewinsky
• Big Oil losing money for first time in 48 years
• State Department misses court deadline for Hillary e-mails
• At least 1,340 Hillary e-mails now known to contain classified material
• Drug lord El Chapo has been captured
• Wash State Y lets patrons choose locker room they're comfortable with
• Missing U.S. missile turns up in Cuba
• Missouri bill defines sex between lobbyist and lawmaker a 'gift'
• Oldest living animal, tortoise at 183
• Man claiming to be Jesus arrested in plot to kidnap First Dog
• Gym Stereotypes: The video Phil was talking about
• Expert of the Day: Christine Harbin from Americans for Prosperity applauds the latest effort to repeal parts of Obamacare
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Seymour Legg

Daily Show Prep - Thursday January 7, 2016

• Dow has worst four-day start to a year on record
• Soros: It's the 2008 crisis all over again
• TransCanada sues U.S. over Keystone XL Pipeline
• Ted Cruz denies having a Canadian passport
• They all pile on Cruz
• Bill Clinton avoids reporter's questions about woman he allegedly raped
• Oil falls again to lowest level in 11 years
• Alabama sues feds over refugee program
• Cher calls for Michigan governor to be executed
• Crazy 'false flag' professor, who says Sandy Hook never happened, fired
• 'Affluenza' teen's mom arrives in Texas
• Shocker (sarcasm): Women 3 times more likely than men to say they're bisexual
• Red wine, they say, is bad for you after all
• Lawsuit: Fitbit heart rate tracking dangerously inaccurate
• The definition of white trash: Man proposes to fiancee at Walmart, steals sex toys for her
• Israeli reporter stabbed testing stab-proof vest
• Mapco stations in Nashville close due to contaminated gas
• Actor Mike Rowe mistaken for suspected bank robber
• News crew robbed while attending anti-robbery press conference in D.C.
• Greyhound driver strands passengers to take nap at hotel
• Man with a lemon phobia shoots his friend when he taunts him with the fruit
• Man punches disabled vet because he wouldn't let his daughter pet his service dog
• Are we this starved for entertainment? Woman becomes sensation smashing face into bread
• Judge rules against monkey in selfie case
• New app alerts women to stop saying 'sorry' at work
• Expert of the Day: David Harsanyi of The Federalist says Steven Avery of 'Making a Murderer' is 'guilty as hell'
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Japanese magazine for elderly men-OilyBoy

Daily Show Prep - Wednesday January 6, 2016

• North Korea says it has the 'H-bomb of justice'
• Hillary slams 'bully' North Korea, but her husband made them a bully
• Former U.S. attorney: Hillary could face criminal indictment
• Alabama chief justice orders halt to same-sex marriage licenses
• Pentagon probes how a civilian lived at Ft. Bragg for months
• 2015 wasn't even close to being the hottest on record
• Vikings playoff game could reach near record low temperature
• Star Wars star wears Atlas Shrugged t-shirt
• DC bureaucrat stole $4 million from government through IRS scheme
• New iPhone feature can drive your bill through the roof
• Sexbots could be biggest trend of 2016
• New chair alerts company how long you sit
• Expert of the Day: Brad Meltzer, author of the children's book I Am Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Singer Carrie Oakey

Daily Show Prep - Tuesday January 5, 2016

• Please! Obama wipes away tears as he calls for new gun measures
• Doctors can report some mentally ill patients to the FBI under new rule
• Here we go with the 'polar vortex' again
• Apple stock drops on news of reduced production of iPhone
• Your smart phone is making you hallucinate
• Commies buying Hollywood production company
• Michigan guv declares emergency in Flint over water
• East Carolina University declares 'slight' neck touching a form of 'sexual battery'
• Man with bionic penis to lose his virginity to dominatrix who ran for parliament
• Naked nurse strolls through Vatican yelling 'I'm from Brazil'
• Tree falls from terrace, falls perfectly into sunroof of BMW
• Expert of the Day: Ross Rosenberg author of The Human Magnet Syndrome: Why We Love People Who Hurt Us
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Futurist Faith Popcorn

Daily Show Prep - Monday January 4, 2016

• China's new circuit breaker may have worsened stock drop
• Obama set to implement gun control by executive order
• Gallup: Guns and gun control rank low among America's top issues
• Cruz vows to rescind Obama's executive action on guns
• Saudis cut ties with Iran
• Bill Clinton flustered when ABC asks if his past is fair game
• Paul Jones calls Hillary a 'two-faced liar' who 'cares nothing about women at all'
• 12 things the media won't tell you about militia occupation in Oregon
• CNN analyst: White militiamen aren't a threat like black protestors because 'they're not looting anything'
• U.S. sues VW over emissions-cheating software in cars
• NY guv to raise minimum wage at stage colleges to $15-an-hour
• More evidence that raising the minimum wage leads to more unemployment
• 'Baghdad Jim' to retire from congress
• Mysterious 'poles' of light above Russian city stir fears of aliens
• Furious wife stops traffic after spotting husband in car with mistress
• Cursed at Birth, The Most Unfortunate Name of the Day: Dwayne Pipe