Romney Jokes: 'Nobody Asked to See My Birth Certificate'
He might not officially be a birther, but Mitt Romney knows how to play into that crowd's conspiracies, as he showed at a rally in Michigan on Friday.
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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.
He might not officially be a birther, but Mitt Romney knows how to play into that crowd's conspiracies, as he showed at a rally in Michigan on Friday.
It's nice to get an atta-boy, especially after a tough week, especially from the president, so the tweet from President Barack Obama reaffirming his support for Vice President Joe Biden had to feel good.
Congressman Kevin Yoder might be embarrassed about skinny dipping in the sea of Galilee, but based on the latest reporting it sounds like neither he nor the other Republicans in his group are responsible for religious or financial transgressions.
The day after Fox News outed the former Navy SEAL Team 6 member who wrote an account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, 60 Minutes announced it had interviewed him, military officials confirmed his identity, and The New York Post ran his picture.
On Thursday the prosecution in the case against alleged Colorado theater shooter James Holmes gave its most detailed picture yet about what was happening in Holmes' life when he allegedly burst into a theater and opened fire on July 20.
Another foreign journalist is missing in Syria, this time it's Austin Tice, an American who hasn't been heard from in more than a week, though we're hopeful his silence just signals a lapse in communication and not something worse.
The news from a Denver CBS reporter's interview with Mitt Romney wasn't what he said, but rather what the reporter was prohibited from asking.
Journalists in Sacramento are not happy about a Thursday report that its NBA team, The Kings, were in talks to move to Virginia Beach, which comes through in the local media's immediate, en masse takedown of the story in the Virginia-based Inside Business.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said on Thursday that the latest predictions show Tropical Storm Isaac moving on a western path, missing Tampa (and the Republican National Convention), but Haiti, where 400,000 people still live in tents, likely won't be so lucky.
Embattled Republican Todd Akin flogged a $100,000 fundraising windfall on Thursday, but Sen. Claire McCaskill, his incumbent opponent in the Missouri Senate race, has a much more impressive number to show off: A 10-point lead in the latest Rasmussen poll.
The FBI is worried about anarchist protesters disrupting Tampa during the Republican National Convention, which may be a valid concern if St. Paul in 2008 is any guide, but the warnings sound borderline ridiculous.
The massive drug ring run from Indiana prisons, revealed in a federal indictment on Wednesday, is amazing for the sheer level of connectivity between the prisoners, traffickers, and guards allegedly involved.
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins called the shooting attack on FRC's office last week an act of terrorism, but on Wednesday a federal grand jury showed it didn't agree with him, indicting Floyd Corkins on weapons and assault charges.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that this year's west nile virus outbreak was the nation's largest ever, and suddenly it does seem pretty serious, if not downright scary.
Thanks to an apparent mix-up on Iran's part, a tantalizing story started circulating on Tuesday night that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un would be taking his first state visit to Tehran this weekend, but South Korean media reported on Wednesday that it wasn't true.
A Washington State senator running for the U.S. Senate wants to make it very clear that he is not flip-flopping when it comes to totally cursing out a reporter.
It's been a rough year for CNN, what with its awful ratings, the departure of its president, and that whole Supreme Court health-care slip-up, but the network got a break in its competition with MSNBC and Fox News as President Obama agreed to an exclusive interview.
The final few seconds of the last footage shot by Japanese reporter Mika Yamamoto in Syria show gunfire breaking out as the camera falls to the ground.
Releasing the names of all 600 alleged News of the World hacking victims, as The Independent's Martin Hickman reports U.K. prosecutors intend to do soon, will make for a bevy of embarrassing headlines, but it should also have the effect of ripping off a Band-Aid.
The quandary of Julian Assange's situation, with diplomatic asylum granted by Ecuador but no way to leave its London embassy without arrest, is just too tantalizing for news organizations not to weigh in on, even if it means suggesting some goofy theories.
Nothing overtly suggests Peace Corps director Aaron Williams, whose resignation the agency announced on Tuesday, is leaving for any reason other than his stated "personal and family considerations."
To mark the deaths of 2,000 U.S. service members in Afghanistan, The New York Times has a large-scale and quite moving look at how, where, and when they died, and who they are, including an elegantly produced photo series of all who have been identified.
After a mass cast exodus in spring, capped by the departure of B.J. Novak, Variety has word that The Office will finally end after this season.
ABC announced a power move for Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday, saying it would reschedule Jimmy Kimmel Live! to 11:30 p.m., in what sounds like a plan to take on the cable stars of that time slot as well as the old network guys.
Tuesday's edition of Buzzfeed's semi-regular Tech Confessional column is a whopper: It's a chat with a guy whose job at Google was to look at all the child porn, beheadings, bestiality, and necrophilia that comes across the company's products. Does that make your job seem a little better?
OK, so the New York Police Department's potentially civil-rights-violating program of spying on Muslims didn't generate any terrorism leads, the deputy chief who ran it testified in June, but it did have some perks.
After the family of Tony Scott denied an ABC News report that the director, who committed suicide on Sunday, had inoperable brain cancer, the pile-on by media reporters has been fierce and unyielding.
Mika Yamamoto, the veteran Japanese war correspondent killed in Syria on Monday, died when gunmen identified by rebels as Syrian soldiers opened fire on a group of journalists in Aleppo, the The AFP reported, as heartbreaking details about her death trickled out.
The U.S. military is playing down the Taliban's dubious claim that attackers had "exact information" about where Gen. Martin Dempsey's plane would be when it was attacked on Monday night.
There's very little information yet available on the Japanese journalist killed in the Syrian city of Aleppo, but it looks like we're seeing another situation similar to the death of American reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik in February.
Part of the reason Gu Kailai wasn't sent directly to death row after being found guilty Monday in the death of Briton Neil Heywood was that he reportedly threatened her son, something his family in Britain has never denied publicly.
An autopsy report out on Monday calling an Arkansas man's gunshot death while in police custody a suicide, is so unlikely, it's no surprise many people don't believe it.
Now that a federal judge has thrown out Lance Armstrong's lawsuit against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the cyclist is going to have to think fast about his next move, as the deadline looms for him to challenge doping allegations.
Apparently not content with the worldwide condemnation they've already received over the conviction of Pussy Riot, Russian authorities are now searching for more band members on more criminal charges.
Shortly before Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, was sentenced to a suspended death sentence on Monday, The Financial Times became the latest news organization to entertain the theory that the woman shown in the trial (above left) wasn't Gu, but a look-alike.
The Romney campaign is distancing itself from Rep. Todd Akin after his comment ahout "legitimate rape" on Sunday, calling it "inexcusable" and saying Romney and Paul Ryan support abortion access for rape victims -- something Ryan, for one, has opposed in the past.
The very act of public protest is unusual in China, but the anti-Japanese demonstrations that have raged there in recent days further the interests of the ruling party, so they're given a pass even though the official media plays down their size and violence.
Ugh, the worst thing about Fridays is that's when people usually get fired or laid off, as happened to several key writers at the Village Voice this afternoon, according to The New York Observer's Foster Kamer.
South African police say they acted out of self-defense when they opened fire on striking miners Thursday, killing 34 and wounding 78, and while the government sets up a commission to investigate, the police chief is not sounding particularly contrite.
The State Department under Hillary Clinton just keeps getting more fun: The memes, the dancing, and now a Dr. Seuss-style rhyme denying rumors Clinton may be talking quietly with the White House about replacing Joe Biden as President Barack Obama's running mate.
The amazing thing about reporter Madeleine Baran's Minnesota Public Radio story about a former Navy SEAL who runs a company that reenacts the Osama bin Laden raid is that he can charge people $325 to play pretend, and it's successful.
After Kofi Annan quit the job in frustration, the United Nations announced Friday it had officially named veteran negotiator and former Algerian foreign minister Lakhdar Brahimi as its new envoy to Syria, a move that sounds like it took some work.
Stuck in the Ecuadorean embassy with an asylum offer but no way to leave, Julian Assange is in sort of a "no-man's land," one commentator told The Associated Press, as details of his de-facto incarceration have started emerging.
The Romney and Obama campaigns appear to be negotiating their way to some kind truce about taxes, as Romney conceded he paid a 13 percent rate over the past 10 years, and President Barack Obama's campaign offered to drop it if he would just release five years of returns.
The prostests around the conviction of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are getting intense, and to top off all the craziness and nudity, Russian chess master and democracy activist Garry Kasparov has been arrested.
Sometimes a story hands headline writers a gift they can't use, which is what happened with the news that a local clown wound up in possession of Steve Jobs's stolen iPad, and just used it to play music during his routine.
In his first public appearances since the shooting at the Family Research Council's office Wednesday, FRC president Tony Perkins blamed the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has labeled FRC a hate group, for giving the shooter a "license" to attack.
The Upper East Side woman dubbed the Mommy Madam for allegations she ran a high-cost escort agency is set to go to court in October, a judge said on Thursday, and unlike her co-defendant, she can't take a plea deal because it would mean she could be deported.
Did you hear the one about the professor who might get fired for joking about the Aurora massacre to his class, which included a student whose father was killed in the shooting?
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