More Protesters Have Already Been Arrested in Charlotte Than Tampa
As far as protester arrests go, the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte already has last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa beat.
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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.
As far as protester arrests go, the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte already has last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa beat.
As they often are, the conspiracy theories swirling around the Social Security Administration's request for bids to provide 174,000 bullets were so much more interesting than the explanation.
On Tuesday Al Jazeera became the latest casualty in the online war raging alongside the Syrian conflict as hackers claiming to be Syrian loyalists defaced it with a screed against its coverage, but they weren't terribly thorough.
If you want to taste the White House's fabled honey ale without having to make it, the best way would be to position yourself along President Barack Obama's campaign route, as the president is apparently handing it out to would-be voters on the trail.
On his radio show Tuesday, Glenn Beck told the tale of his harrowing Labor Day visit to New York City, capped by a journey home in he was subjected to "subhuman" treatment by an American Airlines flight attendant who didn't open his soda for him.
The latest conflict over New York City school cafeterias has the city dishing out fewer calories than federal nutrition guidelines recommend, leading critics to argue that the city is more worried about fat kids than starving ones.
After Cambodian police arrested the Swedish founder of the torrent site Pirate Bay, who was convicted of copyright infringement in 2009, the government there said it would deport him, but it's not sure where to send him first.
When Paul Ryan introduced himself to the electorate at the Republican National Convention last week one thing was missing: A jocular Secret Service nickname.
It's easy to laugh at Clint Eastwood's loony speech at the Republican National Convention because he was held up as a serious commentator and then delivered, well, this.
Even before Russian police cracked the case it seemed fairly obvious that the words "Free Pussy Riot" scrawled across the wall at a double murder scene in Kazan were there as a diversion, not an actual political statement.
If you can get past the novelty of the fact that Canada has strategic maple syrup reserve, and the "sticky fingers" jokes leading every single news story about it, the heist in which $30 million of maple syrup was stolen from a warehouse is actually pretty serious.
When the rumors started swirling that Anne Sinclair was planning to leave her then-husband Dominique Strauss-Kahn it didn't come as any surprise, nor could we blame her, and now that she's talking openly about their split, she sounds like she's doing well.
Lots of people hated Niall Ferguson's "Hit the Road Barack" cover story for the August 27 Newsweek, but we learned on Friday it also sold a bundle, so we're getting ready for more front-page trolling from the weekly.
The report by a United Nations watchdog on Friday that North Korea had made "significant progress" on a new nuclear reactor apparently delighted North Korea, which boasted it would expand its nuclear capabilities "far beyond US imagination."
A strong earthquake that hit off the east coast of the Philippines Friday sparked tsunami warnings for much of the Pacific, including Hawaii, but fortunately that's been lifted.
This is one of those times when having an embassy in Damascus would be helpful: Americans are working with Czech diplomats to confirm the status of Austin Tice, the freelance journalist missing in Syria since mid-August, and at least it now appears he's alive.
It hasn't yet been confirmed, but all signs point to a suicide in the death of influential hip-hop manager Chris Lighty, who managed 50 Cent, LL Cool J, Missy Elliot, Mariah Carey, and Diddy.
Under a new law meant to protect kids from on-screen violence, Russian authorities are going to start censoring television shows, including cutting out the fictional kids' show Itchy and Scratchy from episodes of The Simpsons.
The interesting thing about Harvard's big plagiarism scandal, which broke Thursday, is that all 125 students involved came from the same course, and the hilarious thing is that that course was apparently "Introduction to Congress."
The latest "declaration of war" from Anonymous is only notable because of its target, The New York Times, but it's devoid of any specific threat, save to one reporter who sounds like he'll be collateral damage.
The measured reaction by Patricia Carroll, the CNN camerawoman who had peanuts thrown at her at the Republican National Convention, is so depressing because she's not even surprised about the incident, which happened on Tuesday night.
Just when we thought Tropical Storm Isaac was going to dissipate peacefully into much-needed rain for the central United States, news broke on Thursday that a dam was failing and 50,000 people would be evacuated on the Louisiana-Mississippi border.
The actual news value of James Holmes' rejected University of Iowa application is questionable, but one thing it does provide is the first real look at the writing of the man accused of opening fire on a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and that's fascinating.
After Rupert Murdoch threw his News of the World legal chief under the bus during his testimony to the Leveson Inquiry, police in London arrested that lawyer this morning, the 25th arrest in the phone-hacking scandal.
It's getting harder and harder to come up with new, romantic venues for surprise public marriage proposals, and while popping the question during sound-check at the Republican National Convention certainly counts as novel, it's hardly romantic.
President Barack Obama, who has experimented in the past with open forum public question sessions with varied success, is doing an AMA on Reddit, starting right now.
The irony of ABC News' report that Mitt Romney's campaign held a Tampa fundraiser on a Cayman Island-flagged yacht was absolutely delicious, but it couldn't be that simple.
Anyone clicking on the homepage of the Tampa Bay Times today will find the newspaper's coverage of the Republican National convention nearly entirely squeezed out by two opposing ads, one paid for by Obama Victory Fund 2012 and the other by Romney Victory, Inc.
Matt Taibbi is hardly the first to compare Mitt Romney to Gordon Gekko, and he's not the first to argue that Bain Capital's corporate takeovers were insidious, but he goes further in his latest long-form Rolling Stone takedown by connecting Romney's uncompromising pursuit of profit at Bain with his changing political stances.
As if we needed more racism in politics these days, a South Carolina lawmaker admitted in court on Tuesday that he had replied "amen" to a supporter's not-at-all subtle email comparing black people to "a swarm of bees going after a watermelon."
Vogue's September issue is so legendary they made a movie about the 840-page September 2007 doorstopper and its 727 ad pages, so the fact that this year's 916-page issue includes 658 pages of ads ought to tell us something, right?
After John Sununu formally nominated Mitt Romney to be the Republican nominee for president, the roll call is underway, and Romney has just picked up the 1,144 delegates necessary to secure the party's nomination, with New Jersey putting him over the top.
Hiring Sally Singer away from Vogue was a big coup for The New York Times' T Magazine in 2010, so it must be disappointing to have hear leaving so suddenly, as was announced on Tuesday.
An Al-Jazeera documentary suggesting that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was killed by radioactive polonium was enough for French authorities to open a murder investigation after the late Palestinian leader's family requested one last month.
In an example of the kind of cooperation with sources a New York Times editor encouraged reporters to "push back" against earlier this summer, Times reporter Mark Mazzetti shared a Maureen Dowd column with the CIA to assuage concerns before its publication.
Being the president of Russia sounds awesome: Not only do you get to blow off boring state meetings to go for drinks with your biker buddies, but the perks include four yachts and 43 planes, one with a $75,000 toilet.
Confusion still reigns over Friday's shooting of a U.S. embassy vehicle in Mexico, and while authorities figure out what happened, they're keeping the 12 Mexican federal police officers involved in custody.
Malcolm Browne, the journalist responsible for one of the most iconic images from the early days of the Vietnam War, has died at the age of 81.
Marines who urinated on Afghan corpses and soldiers who burned Korans won't do time or get discharged, but they will probably still lose their jobs after receiving administrative punishments on Monday.
As Tropical Storm Isaac moved west over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday afternoon, the storm warning for Tampa expired, and it looked like Republicans had unnecessarily canceled the first day of their convention. But New Orleans is bracing for a direct hit.
You may have heard about former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's engagement to his longtime Argentine girlfriend, but did you catch the best part?
Details are still sparse, but Baltimore's WJZ television and the Baltimore Sun are reporting that one student at Perry Hall High School is in critical condition after another student apparently shot him in the back in the cafeteria on the first day of school.
The outrageous thing about Buzz Bissinger's Newsweek cover story isn't that he's defending Lance Armstrong against the doping allegations against him, but that, in his defense of Armstrong, he's not necessarily even arguing for the athlete's innocence.
Earlier this month it seemed surprising that Answers.com was willing to pay $270 million for The New York Times Company's struggling About.com, but then along came Barry Diller and IAC with an even higher offer last week, and on Monday The Times confirmed it had sold to the Ask.com owner.
The most substantial piece of news in The New York Times profile of James Holmes, the Aurora, Colorado mass shooting defendant, is that he asked a peer about something called dysphoric mania, then told her he was "bad news."
The most disturbing detail about Friday's fatal shooting in Midtown Manhattan is the fact that the wounded included bystanders shot by police, and the latest news suggests stray police bullets may account for "most or all" of those wounded.
If you happened to check out the homepage of The New York Times around 1 p.m. Friday, you'd have seen a startlingly graphic photo of a victim in this morning's Empire State Building shooting lying next to a vivid, red pool of blood.
As soon as Rush Limbaugh linked Friday's shooting near the Empire State Building with President Barack Obama's policies, he started qualifying the connection as "absurdist," which is the same way he qualified calling Sandra Fluke a slut.
An attack on a U.S. embassy vehicle that reportedly wounded two Americans now appears to be a mix-up by Mexican police who were pursuing kidnappers, and that the car was either targeted by mistake or caught in the crossfire between police and suspects.
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