December 13, 2012: Afternoon
- Joe Lieberman's lonely departure.
- A map of the probable range and accuracy of North Korea's missiles.
- An informal network of astronomers tracks near-Earth asteroids—but nobody knows who's going to stop one from making impact.
- Mike Deri Smith consults with disaster experts to find out who's going to save our bacon when the unthinkable happens.
- Backgrounder on Chávez's political heir.
- Photos of refugees upon their first arrival on U.S. soil.
- Forensic scientists use the sound of electricity to authenticate recordings submitted as courtroom evidence.
- Interviews with Britons protesting Starbucks over the coffee giant's failure to pay UK taxes for 14 years.
- Related: By breeding a culture of haters, Starbucks changed coffee for the better—and could do the same for tea.
- TMN's Robert Birnbaum chats with Benjamin Asastas, the novelist who had it all and then lost everything.
- An early Hans Christian Andersen short story is discovered at the bottom of a box near the author's hometown.
- New Yorkers flock to Guy Fieri's restaurant to see just how bad it could be.
- Dallas announces J.R.'s funeral.
- Perpetua: Just about every great thing that happened in music in 2012.