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.
Daniel Chong, the UC San Diego student who spent five days in a DEA holding cell after agents forgot he was there, unsurprisingly sued the agency, asking for $20 million -- but just as a starting point.
After a month of steady increases, the initial weekly number of people applying for unemployment benefits finally fell again on Thursday, to 365,000 from 392,000, a decline of 27,000.
A lot of people weighed in on John Hudson's post about the "swift-boating" of President Barack Obama, most either to remind us of George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" moment, or to call Obama a socialist, but one take on the ad actually was pretty original.
Newt Gingrich has suspended his campaign for president, but he says he'll continue to work toward more U.S. space exploration, and that Mitt Romney is a conservative compared to Barack Obama.
It was hard to take seriously the news that Chen Guangcheng, the blind activist who's been holed up in the U.S. embassy in Beijing, left "of his own volition," as China's state-run media had reported.
An ancient Myspace page from 2005 does not make George Zimmerman look like a very good guy, and yet as his attorneys have rebranded his Web presence of late, they've apparently found the page is one patch they can't scrub.
This is why media companies have reporting standards: Presumably Reuters will be able to legally prove its claims in an April 2 story about a Greek bank's questionable property deals.
For anybody following the inquest into the death of Gareth Williams, the British spy found inside a duffle bag in his own bathtub, Wednesday's verdict that the death was probably a crime but would never be fully explained will be infinitely frustrating.
The payroll firm Automatic Data Processing likes to scoop the federal government by releasing its own set of employment data early, and this month we hope they're quite wrong, as they've predicted the smallest rise in private-sector job growth since last September.
It was a colorful, tiring, largely peaceful day in New York, where Occupy Wall Street and May Day activists had sprawling marches, massive rallies, and a couple scuffles with police, all to protest corporate greed and money in politics.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been hoping his legal entanglements in the United States would end on Tuesday when a Bronx judge decided whether to accept his argument that diplomatic immunity protected him from a lawsuit, but the judge did no such thing.
Bank of America's plans to trim its workforce are nothing new, but the surprising thing about Tuesday's news of 2,000 layoffs in addition to the 30,000 the bank already announced is who the new cuts target: The bank's own top 1 percent of workers.
There are almost too many Occupy-related plans for May 1 in New York, which Occupy hopes will launch its spring resurgence. To keep it all in order, we've put together a map of the locations where you can expect protest actions on the Tuesday,
As Occupy Wall Street plans big, nationwide demonstrations for Tuesday's "general strike," the City of New York is still dealing with the protesters it rounded up in the biggest single Occupy-related mass arrest: The 732 taken into custody on the Brooklyn Bridge last October.
A decade and six months after the Twin Towers fell in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the World Trade Center site is once again home to New York's tallest building.
It didn't take much for Sen. Jim Inhofe's office to get an official with the Environmental Protection Agency to quit.
The left-leaning magazine The American Prospect needs a benefactor, and quickly: It's short in its funding, according to The Huffington Post's Michael Calderone, and needs $500,000 just to stay open past the end of May.
George Hotz, the hacker who unlocked PS3 and started a war between Sony and Anonymous in the process, told The New Yorker's David Kushner that he was done sharing his exploits online, but he seems to have forgotten that sharing with a print reporter also makes your dirty laundry public.
A few months before Invisible Children released Kony 2012, the U.S. sent about 100 troops to Central Africa to help hunt Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army, and while the video's impact is debatable, it's certainly helping to keep those soldiers on the job.
Somehow a baby going through security at Newark's Liberty International Airport didn't get screened properly on Friday. Surely this kind of thing must happen from time to time, right?
So far, former John Edwards aide Andrew Young has sounded a bit like a spurned lover in his testimony in Edwards' campaign finance trial, but on Friday he sounded more like a scared lackey, saying he covered for Edwards out of fear for his own life.
So far, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has primarily left the job of speculating about whether he was set up on charges of attempted rape to others, but in an interview with The Guardian, he established just how paranoid he is about that.
Don't get too complacent about economic recovery in the United States, because it's not happening as fast as it was last year, nor even as fast as economists had predicted.
It's been a great day for video and snapshots of a historic fly-by, but if you don't happen to be in a part of New York with a great view, you can still watch the Space Shuttle Enterprise fly close over the city on video, and browse the best of the photos Twitter has to offer.
Judge Kenneth Lester did not order Zimmerman back into custody after learning about $200,000 Zimmerman had raised online, saying he would wait to make that decision until he had all the facts about Zimmerman's donations and PayPal accounts.
This Republican primary has seen plenty of drop-outs so far -- five by our count -- and each one came if not by surprise, then at least all of a sudden: The rumor of an announcement, the hastily called press conference, then the "suspension" a few hours later. Not Newt Gingrich.
We thought the lawsuit from activist group Judicial Watch might actually result in the release of at least some of the photos of Osama bin Laden's death, but on Thursday a judge ruled that in fact none of them should be released.
The first Reuters headline on Zynga's first-quarter earnings blared that the company had lost $85 million. The update announced that it had posted a revenue of $321 million. As it turns out, both are true.
The news from a new study on the earth's rainfall isn't the fact that global warming is making it rain more in wet areas and less in dry ones, it's how much scientists had previously underestimated that trend: By half.
Publicity-wise, Bloomberg Businessweek's Thursday report on AIG's financial ill-health and the federal maneuvering to hide it came at a bad time, following a spate of glum financial news and a Frontline documentary that picked at the scabs of 2008's financial collapse.
If it wasn't the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, perhaps the clouds enveloping Moscow would not feel so ominous.
The striking thing about the "Syrian Electronic Army" attack on LinkedIn's blog is that, well, they attacked LinkedIn, which really seems to have very little to do with the conflict in Syria.
The latest piece to fall into place in the Bo Xilai scandal is a big one: The former Chongqing Communist Party secretary apparently wiretapped Chinese President Hu Jintao, which goes a long way toward explaining why the party came down so hard on Bo.
He's the first head of state to be convicted of a war crime in an international court since the Nuremberg trials and while former Liberian President Charles Taylor's fate won't be as gruesome as that of the victims of the atrocities he supported, they're still pretty pleased with it.
Everybody's heard about George Zimmerman, but as a lengthy Reuters feature about him shows, we actually know very little about him and the community he patrolled as neighborhood watch captain.
His fate's been in limbo for nearly three weeks, but on Wednesday, Sgt. Gary Stein was discharged from the Marines without honor for making fun of the president on Facebook.
A day after the fourth-ever U.S. case of mad cow disease was confirmed in a California dairy cow, officials are characterizing it as an example of effective inspections, but from other reports it sounds like it was basically a lucky break.
This week's hot scoops in the Bo Xilai scandal come from The Telegraph, on the China side, reporting that Bo's wife Gu Kailai confessed to murdering Neil Heywood, and from The Harvard Crimson, on the Western side, which got a statement from Bo's son, Bo Guagua.
Reports from Fox News, The Washington Post, Politico, and others are saying that Newt Gingrich will suspend his campaign next Tuesday.
You may have already forgotten about the Fox News mole, but Fox News sure hasn't, and as a crew from the New York District Attorney's Office dropped in on the mole, Joe Muto, at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, it was clear his infamy at the network would last longer than 15 minutes.
As James Murdoch's Tuesday testimony before the Leveson Inquiry gives way to Rupert Murdoch's on Wednesday, the UK press is salivating over the notion that David Cameron coordinated with the Murdochs on their takeover of BSkyB before he became prime minister.
Now that it's been suggested, we can't think of a better rock-n-roll comparison for North Korea.
Hopefully you've already eaten so this little flashback to the early 2000s doesn't put you off your lunch: The USDA has confirmed a case of mad cow disease in Central California, but in the same breath the agency said the disease didn't enter the food supply.
Until recently, the state of New York state has been a leading destination for those who wanted to poach bears and sell their parts, but thanks to a new law this year, which NPR explored on Tuesday morning, that's now illegal. Still, there's money to be made on bears.
The evidence submitted to the Leveson Inquiry about James Murdoch went online Tuesday, and if you're so inclined, you can browse through the PDFs at your leisure. [Leveson Inquiry]
Californians like their death penalty. They tend to vote for it whenever an initiative or supporter hits the ballot. But the latest initiative to end it just might pass not because its proponents argue the death penalty's wrong, but that it's too expensive.
In portraying himself as an innocent party to whatever wrongdoing might have been going on at the newspapers he oversaw at News International, James Murdoch pleaded ignorance of both phone hacking and political influencing during his Leveson testimony.
Well this sounds familiar: The New York Times publishes a damaging story on a (arguably) well-loved and (not arguably) successful brand, their public reputation wanes, and then the investigations surface.
Prosecutors don't have to get a warrant to subpoena your tweets, even if you delete them, because they're public information owned by a third party, a New York judge ruled on Monday.
In the amendment Facebook filed Monday to its S-1 SEC filing, some of the best information about the company is embedded in the infographics it used to illustrate its points.
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