We wouldn't be so disappointed that John Edwards' defense team had rested its case without him or his mistress being called to testify if that possibility hadn't been teased so hard in the news, but as it is, this is such a letdown.
New York's state legislature is notoriously dysfunctional, but its response to a court's finding that viewing child pornography was actually legal in the state shows it can move fast when it wants to.
The Village Voice's lengthy cover story on Hunter Moore's possible hacker connections at his former revenge porn site Is Anyone Up answers one question many of us have had: Yes, the FBI is looking into Moore and his now-shuttered site, something it has denied.
China does not approve of North Korea carrying out nuclear tests, but unlike in the past when the North's economic ally has warned of heightening international tensions, this time China says its worried about damage to its own environment.
Perhaps it shouldn't come as any surprise that the man accused of murdering thousands of civilians in Bosnia is being a complete creep in his war crimes trial, but it's still jarring since you expect someone on trial, even for genocide, to have some sense of basic decorum.
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.
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.
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.
Shadowy, Al-Qaeda-style terrorist groups aren't the only ones ignoring the nominal Syrian cease-fire, at least according to activists there, who said government forces opened fire on a funeral procession right in front of U.N. observers, killing at least 20 people.
Protest at Anders Breivik's trial for mass murder has escalated quite a bit from last week's shoe throwing incident as someone has lit himself on fire Tuesday after being denied entry to the courtroom.
A fascinating report from the Associated Press introduces us to some of the individuals within the tightly choreographed crowds North Korea trots out to celebrate its national solidarity.
He's long been officially ambivalent about the Defense of Marriage Act, but President Barack Obama made it clear in his remarks at a Ricky Martin-hosted fundraiser in New York Monday night that repealing DOMA is now a goal for him.
Covering Ron Paul just wouldn't be the same without the (sometimes vociferous) input from readers loyal to him.
One manufacturer of the beef byproduct that's been dubbed "pink slime" said on Monday it was laying off 86 employees, the start of a planned 650-person layoffs after demand bottomed out as customers decided they just couldn't stomach the "finely textured beef."
You can't marry your same-sex partner in Rhode Island, but as of Monday if you marry him or her in another state, the Ocean State will fully recognize the marriage.
A hunger strike among Palestinian prisoners in Israel has been growing of late, to the point where as many as 2,000 of the more than 4,500 Palestinians being held by Israel have been refusing to eat, but on Monday they agreed to end the strike.
President Barack Obama gave his commencement speech at Barnard College, and rather than make any big news, he mostly kept to the mix of light jokes and advice more typical of graduation speeches.
China won't say why it refused to renew Al Jazeera English correspondent Melissa Chan's visa, but Chan has some guesses, which she shared with The Los Angeles Times in her first interview since leaving Beijing.
Police closed a Washington, D.C. street thanks to a suspicious package at the Saudi embassy, but the package turned out to be "nothing particularly suspicious" after all.
Sometimes it's the simple points that we need to be reminded of most, which commenters demonstrated in their responses to Jen Doll's post on that "attachment child" featured Friday morning on The Today Show.
Any news buff would want to sit down with Washington Post reporter Jason Horowitz to hear how his story of Mitt Romney's high school days came together, but in case you don't have his number the next best thing is his account to Capital New York.
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