TV legend Dick Clark dies at 82
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Secret Service ousts 3 members from agency
The Secret Service announced late Wednesday that three of its personnel connected to the Colombia prostitute scandal -- two supervisors and one agent -- will leave the agency while eight more remain under investigation over the controversy.Read More ...
GSA scandal is just a drop in the Buffett
Right now, Washington is roiled by two budget conflicts of vastly different scale.Read More ...
Syria not complying with Annan peace plan: U.N. chief
Syria has not fully complied with its obligations to withdraw troops and heavy weapons from towns and has yet to send a "clear signal" about its commitment to peace, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.Read More ...
India tests nuke-capable missile able to hit China
India announced Thursday that it had successfully test launched a new nuclear-capable missile that would give it, for the first time, the capability of striking the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai.Read More ...
Nurse accused in baby abduction had miscarried
Verna McClain told her fiance she had given birth to their child. But after she suffered a miscarriage, authorities said, she went looking for another baby to present to him.Read More ...
Mel Gibson rage recording in Costa Rica
Mel Gibson shouted terrifying epithets at his houseguests during a rampage at his home in Costa Rica in December, according to a recording obtained by TheWrap.Read More ...
Romney: Obama is ‘in over his head’ on the economy
Mitt Romney said President Barack Obama is "in over his head and swimming in the wrong direction" when it comes to the nation's economy and that his policies are "putting in peril" America's future.Read More ...
Buffett cancer diagnosis: The real question facing investors
The trading world trembled after the bell yesterday with the disclosure that Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett has stage 1 prostate cancer.Read More ...
Obama campaign launches all-out blitz for Latino vote
President Obama's campaign has launched an aggressive national effort to energize and rally Latino voters who could help him carry key states like Colorado, Florida and Nevada and hand him a second term.Read More ...
Small Illinois town’s comptroller accused of stealing millions
The chief financial officer of Dixon, Ill., has been put on unpaid leave after she was arrested by FBI agents and charged with defrauding the city of $3.2 million and misappropriating another $30 million in city funds.Read More ...
N.J. bully's paralyzing punch costs school district $4.2 milliont
A New Jersey school district has agreed to pay $4.2 million to settle a lawsuit by a middle school student who was paralyzed when a known bully punched him in the abdomen.
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Ted Nugent to meet with Secret Service over Obama comments
Ted Nugent said he will meet with the Secret Service on Thursday to discuss his controversial comments about President Barack Obama. "I will be as polite and supportive as I possibly can be, which will be thoroughly," Nugent told Glenn Beck on Wednesday. During a National Rifle Association convention last weekend, Nugent said, "If Barack [...]Read More ...
Cops take school kids' DNA in Calif. murder case
Samples of DNA were collected without parental consent from students at a Sacramento, Calif., middle school in connection with the murder of an 8th grade student who was found stabbed, strangled and beaten to death.Read More ...
Airport stripper says he was 'nude but not lewd'
A high-tech worker who stripped naked at Portland International Airport as a protest against airport security screeners said Wednesday he was being "nude but not lewd," and characterized his act of defiance as protected political speech.Read More ...
Is James Cameron launching an asteroid mining company?
A new company called Planetary Resources held its official launch today promising a new venture that would merge "space exploration and natural resources," while adding "trillions" of dollars to the global GDP.Read More ...
Rick Perry will give 2016 run 'a good examination'
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Escort says Secret Service agent offered her just $30 for sex
The New York Times has what appears to be the first interview with an escort involved in the Colombia prostitution scandal that's rocked the Secret Service.Read More ...
Apple wants trial on e-book price-fixing: lawyer
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc wants to go to trial to defend itself against U.S. government allegations that it conspired with publishers to raise prices of electronic books, a lawyer for the Silicon Valley giant said in court on Wednesday. Two publishers took a similar stance in the first hearing in Manhattan federal court since the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice last week accused Apple and five publishers of colluding to break up Amazon.com's low-cost dominance of the digital book market. ...Read More ...
Judge quits Trayvon Martin case
The judge presiding over the Trayvon Martin shooting case on removed herself Wednesday after the attorney for defendant George Zimmerman argued she had a possible conflict of interest that related to her husband.Read More ...
Bloomberg moves toward ban on smoking in apartments
New York City residents who are still smokers are an unloved bunch in the Big Apple. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made it his mission to ban cigarettes from public places, including restaurants, bars, parks, beaches, and even Times Square. And if hizzoner has his way, apartments will be his next smoke-free target. To be clear, [...]
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