JP Morgan's Wrong Turn
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on JPMorgan's $2 billion loss.
WFTV in Orlando reports that the autopsy report on Travyon Martin shows broken skin on his knuckles, suggesting that he was involved in a fight before being shot and killed by George Zimmerman.
More and better weaponry is being funneled to Syria rebels by neighboring Gulf states, which much of the support effort being organized by U.S. forces
Today: Get ready to see all your old favorites hoofing it once more, Alexander Payne plots his next move, and we find the catchphrase of the summer.
Discovered: Many of our mammal brethren will not survive climate change, high fructose corn syrup keeps getting better, finally a plastic bag solution that works for the environment, and America will get a lot warmer over the next sixty years.
Nothing has been cut and dry in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, especially Strauss-Kahn's claim his encounter with Nafissatou Diallo was entirely consensual and he was set up, and at this point our readers readily mock suggestions his version could be the truth.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
Google Alerts didn't exist in 1997, but is it really possible Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren didn't know Harvard Law School was calling her the "first woman of color" it hired?
No, we don't think Barack Obama praised Jamie Dimon Tuesday simply because the president banks with him, but that's still where our mind went upon learning the president has a JPMorgan Chase checking account worth $500,000 to $1 million.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
In a strongly worded opinion, US District Judge Denise Cote strongly rejected requests by Apple and book publishers to throw out a class action suit that accuses them of price-fixing.
Even as there are slow but steady steps forward in the way women's magazines talk to women, there are setbacks, like a recent offering from Glamour which we can add to the list of articles we wish journalists (female ones, at that) would stop writing for women.
It's the second biggest George W. Bush endorsement of the day: The former president is now a cat person.
If Occupy Wall Street activists were worried about the Department of Homeland Security monitoring their activities, wait unilt they get a load of this.
Amid the ongoing debate over President Obama's support of gay marriage and following of North Carolina's recent ban of it, Virginia's House of Delegates voted today to deny a judicial nomination to Tracy Thorne-Begland, who would have become the state's first openly gay judge.
Sacre blech! Reformed celebrity shamer Perez Hilton has tracked down some really grainy footage — someone filmed something off of a computer — that appears to be an early trailer for the Hugh Jackman/Russell Crowe/Anne Hathaway movie version of the big, bombastic musical Les Misérables.
Once upon a time a big tech company bought a smaller photo sharing tech start-up and ruined both.
General Motors is ending their $10 million ad campaign with Facebook, reports The Wall Street Journal, because the automaker determined their ads "had little impact on consumers."
Today in sports: St. Louis and the Rams settle in for vicious stadium sniping, Democrats may have lost the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world over gay marriage, and assessing the hypothetical market for Josh Hamilton.
What does Ina Drew, former J.P. Morgan executive at the center of the bank's recent loss, have in common with Rebekah Brooks?
Good Morning America has a new technique for beating The Today Show in the morning ratings wars, and it's very simple: Interview the president and get him to take a side on a divisive issue on which he's been hedging for years.
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