A carjacking suspect being chased by police in Phoenix suddenly got out of the car and shot himself on live television, prompting Fox News's Shepard Smith to apologize after the network aired the footage.
The U.S. military doesn't allow women to serve in front-line combat roles, which is not only sexist, it's not realistic, say two women who are suing to get the ban removed.
A couple of commenters touched on a good point tangential to Jen Doll's No Sympathy For the Singles, but we're only featuring the one that taught us a new word.
Colin Powell said on CNN Wednesday that he had "no problem" with gay marriage, but after a week of talk show appearances he's made it clear he's still not ready to back its latest champion, Barack Obama.
Now that the Secret Service agents fired for that whole Colombian prostitution scandal are fighting their terminations, we're learning a lot more about how and where they party.
It was with a pang that we learned that thanks to a copyright complaint, the original RickRoll'D video had been removed from YouTube.
As stunts go, planning to jump out of a helicopter, fall 2,400 feet, and land safely without a parachute seems like just about the craziest.
It sounds a little like Piers Morgan wanted to one-up fellow journalists when his dinner conversation 10 years ago turned into an explanation of how to hack someone's voicemail.
Everyone's a critic, apparently. Displeased by South African artist Brett Murray's controversial semi-nude portrait of President Jacob Zuma, two men, a middle aged white man and a young black man, defaced it with paint Tuesday.
Just when you thought the Secret Service prostitution scandal would fade away, director Mark Sullivan will get to talk to a Senate committee today about his fired agents' new claims that they didn't do anything unusual for the "secret circus."
In this time of big Facebook headlines, today's commenter borrowed wisdom from the movie The Social Network to address another set of fighting tech entrepreneurs.
The Metropolitan Opera learned on Tuesday that censoring the press, even your in-house press, does not lead to good publicity.
Over the White House's denials that any of its people let slip classified information about an operative inside this month's would-be underwear bomb plot, two Republican congressmen have asked the FBI to investigate the White House for the alleged leak.
After North Korea's epic failure of a rocket launch last month, it's hard to get too concerned about the report that it appears to be upgrading its launchpad to handle even bigger rockets than the Unha.
Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes sometimes says regrettable things about other journalists, but not all rise to the level of public apology, and his latest exists in its own strange non-apology netherworld.
If New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells flies in the face of popular sentiment with his low reviews (one star for the Shake Shack?), he's embraced convention with his first four-star review, awarding the paper' top rating to Eric Ripert's already lauded Le Bernardin.
Perhaps the world of opera is just too small. Or maybe the Metropolitan Opera is too big.
Less than 10 minutes into the trading day Tuesday, Facebook's stock fell by nearly 9 percent after Monday's unenthusiastic showing, thanks to a high IPO price and the fact that it's still not clear how much money the company can make.
Gloria Allred loves her some publicity, but the high profile attorney's press generally focuses on her client's drama, not hers. So the fact that she's now fighting off a lawsuit for predatory business practices puts her in a unique position.
Back when the Secret Service's Colombian prostitution scandal was in full swing, there were whispers of similar behavior among DEA agents, and on Monday CBS finally nailed the story that the agency was investigating three agents and had removed them from the country.
Yes, it was a press conference at the NATO summit, nominally about global politics and economics, but in an election year it's no surprise the second question for President Barack Obama was about Newark Mayor Cory Booker's criticism of his campaign's attacks on Mitt Romney.
Somehow it seems less incongruous to hear about a president getting ousted than to hear about one getting beaten up, as happened to Mali's interim chief executive Dioncounda Traore on Monday.
A lawyer representing a Getty photographer arrested during NATO protests in Chicago this weekend says the police have been "incredibly restrained" compared to their New York counterparts, despite the arrest and the injuring of at least one other photographer.
The judge in Dharun Ravi's sentencing hearing says he did not hear Ravi apologize, and called Ravi's note of apology "unimpressive," but he said he would recommend Ravi not be deported as he sentenced him to 30 days in jail.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn may face justice for allegedly raping a woman in the United States after all, even though no U.S. law enforcement agency will pursue it.
The White House makes no secret of its visitor logs, but it doesn't serve them up in an easily searchable database with the information prettily graphed, and that's the value added by The Washington Post's treatment of the logs.
Friday's rally in Chicago, which kicked off a weekend of protests against the NATO summit there, did not rise to the level of chaos seen at past gatherings of world leaders such as the G8 or WTO, but it did portend a rambunctious weekend for the city.
In a rare JPMorgan Chase story that did not mention the bank's own recent losses, DealBook reported Friday that the bank had transferred $168 million to a trustee representing former MF Global customers, to start repaying them.
Here's a "fun" game for your Friday afternoon: What is this anti-abortion heckler yelling at Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the commencement ceremony for Georgetown's Public Policy Institute?
The Associated Press gets credit for actually breaking the recent "underwear bomber" news, but the information that the plot was an inside job by an intelligence operative actually appears to have come accidentally from a White House attempt at damage control.
Gay rights are certainly having a moment, which makes this a good time to revisit the career of Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, who helped change psychiatry's definition of homosexuality away from a "disorder" but also lent his substantial influence to a study supporting a "gay cure."
However much a U.S. defendant might complain about getting railroaded, there's really just no comparison with China, where the nephew of a controversial political activist has been charged with a capital offense and barred from choosing his own lawyers.
Summer started earlier this year and is on track to be hotter than almost any on record. And that means it's going to be expensive, because whatever it is you like to do during the summer, you're going to do more of it and that's going to cost you.
The death of Donna Summer touched a lot of people, many of them our readers, and reminded us of a bygone era not just of musical genre but of technology.
Since 2012 is the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, Israel thought it had leverage in lobbying for a moment of silence, but as in previous years, the The International Olympic Committee rejected that request.
The United States Postal Service would very much like Congress to help it save some money, but since that's not happening, it said on Thursday it would just go ahead and start closing stuff, starting with 140 mail processing centers in the next year.
Sir Harold Evans, onetime editor of the Times of London, has been given a chance to vent about his former boss, Rupert Murdoch, at the Leveson Inquiry and he is pulling no punches, all but blaming the Australian magnate for the death of U.K. journalism.
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.
When he had to fight off competitors within his own party, Mitt Romney's campaign war chest was dwarfed by Barack Obama's, but now that he's the only Republican candidate, his April intake almost matched the president's.
Sometimes the pictures just don't match the words, as with today's breathless reporting of a possible run on Greek banks accompanied by photos of ATM users calmly standing in line.
In a nutshell, here's what happened: A reporter ran a misleading quote in an interview with a boxer, making him sound like a homophobic monster. The boxer got banned from an L.A. mall, and the journalists all blamed each other.
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.
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