The billionaire said to be weighing a proposal to resurrect incendiary comments by President Barack Obama's former pastor shelved the idea Thursday after Obama and Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney denounced the tactic.
A short documentary now playing on the Internet is the best movie about Mark Zuckerberg yet. It’s studded with clues to the workings of Zuckerberg’s brain, and possibly even clues to the future of Facebook, which makes its initial public stock offering on Friday.
Donna Summer, whom millions of fans revered as "the Queen of Disco," has died at the age of 63 in Florida after a battle with cancer, the Associated Press has confirmed with the singer's family Thursday morning.
John Edwards was a bad husband who cheated on his wife while she died of cancer, but he never broke the law, his lawyer said in closing arguments today.
Mitt Romney's public image appears to be rebounding. A new Gallup poll finds 50 percent of Americans polled have a "favorable" view of the presumptive Republican nominee—an 11-point jump since February. According to Gallup, that's the highest favorable rating the poll has recorded since they began tracking opinions about Romney in 2006. Romney's favorable rating [...]
The latest news fueling Massachusetts gossip mills comes from the Herald, which reports that Warren, a Democrat, contributed five recipes to a 1984 cookbook entitled "Pow Wow Chow," which was promoted as a collection of "special recipes passed down through the Five Tribes families."
Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., died of "asphyxiation due to hanging," according to the results of an autopsy performed on Thursday.
The attorney for Trayvon Martin's parents is calling for the release of all of the documents related to the death of their son, rather than continue what he says are strategic leaks of records intended to benefit the defense of George Zimmerman, who is charged with killing Martin. Attorney Benjamin Crump said on Wednesday he [...]
The veteran Republican political consultant Fred Davis is considering an ad campaign that criticizes President Obama's ties to his former controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the New York Times reported Thursday.
Former Serbian army commander Ratko Mladic continues to offend those in the audience at his genocide trial, and now he's got a reason to gloat as the judge suspended the proceedings thanks to a potentially huge error in prosecutors' disclosure of evidence.