Weiner's new official campaign website switched up its main logo to a budget version of the New York City skyline late Thursday afternoon, because the background art temporarily adorning AnthonyWeiner.com... was a budget version of the Pittsburgh skyline.
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.
Lost in the thunder of Facebook buying Instagram for $1 billion a few weeks ago was Microsoft buying a portfolio of patents from AOL for the same amount, a portfolio which Microsoft has now parlayed into a $550 million cash deal with Facebook.
It's not a good time to be an incumbent politician in the economically fragile eurozone. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the soon-to-be-former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will tell you firsthand.
Despite what they're telling you, we are pretty sure that The New York Times is reporting and covering the John Edwards trial from Greensboro, North Carolina--not Greensboro, South Carolina.
Even after a virus wiped data from the Iranian oil ministry's servers and forced the ministry to disconnect from the Internet late on Sunday, Iranian oil authorities are already acting like the breach is no big deal.
Part of the fun of reading Steve Fishman's profile of the former News of the World/New York Post editor and current New York Daily News editor Colin Myler, is finding out where he and his former boss draw the line now that they're rivals. Apparently it's at hackers and madams.
For your dose of Monday morning irritation, there's more news coming from the General Services Administration investigation. Meet Coleen Newton-White, a GSA contractor, who made $300,000 between 2008 and 2010 by expensing other people's fuel.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the latest military blunder.
Clearly, we've found someone who didn't vote for American Idol's Colton Dixon last night.
Graydon Carter, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, and Sean Penn were all part of today's celebration in honoring one of the sharpest minds and eloquent writers of a generation.
In Today's New York Times, Brian Stelter uncovers a burgeoning problem in American living rooms: Too much good Sunday night TV. But is this quality television overload a real problem?
Reports are still breaking and information on possible survivors is scant, but CNN is reporting that that an airplane carrying 127 people has crashed near an airport in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
US Airways has filed plans with the SEC to take over American Airlines. [CBS]
We don't blame you if the name Thomas Beatie doesn't ring a bell. He's better known as the man who gave birth (setting off a whole lot of controversy while doing so) and he's now in the news again for separating from his wife.
Add Al Qaeda, Timothy McVeigh, and the Internet to the list of factors Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik cites as influences in his bombing and shooting rampage.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson sees a bigger problem.
The folks at Fast Company Design are mourning the loss of America's oldest teenager the best way they know how: Highlighting the amazing Malibu cave mansion that Dick Clark proudly owned.
If this father-son News Corporation duo's responses during last year's parliamentary hearings are any indication, hack-gate watchers shouldn't expect to learn very much.
In a bit of a flip, The New York Times decided today that being bald, shaving your head is now a hot men's trend and goes through the pros and cons of going smooth. The biggest con, of course, is that If you go bald, there are so many Style section-approved hair trends you'll miss out on.
In news that isn't going to make journalists or the people who pay them very happy, The New York Times lost 7.2 percent in print advertising revenue and 10.3 percent in digital advertising revenue in the past quarter.
Apparently America's nuns are being way too lenient on gay rights, abortion, and women's ordination--which is why the Vatican reprimanded and ordered disciplinary action against the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States.
Cartoonist Tom Toles finds a common thread between two seemingly disparate organizations.
In May, you'll be able to tune in to The Gavin Newsom Show on Current TV and lose yourself in the California Lieutenant Governor's distracting smile on a weekly basis.
Bronchitis, wheezing, possibly cancer and irreparable damage to the lungs of of displaced Katrina victims will cost the people who manufactured FEMA's temporary trailers $14.8 million.
Is it really worth suing Greg Mortenson for a refund?
Making fun of GSA official Jeff Neely is the only thing keeping us from letting scathing rage get the better of us after finding out he not only orchestrated that $800,000 boondoggle in Vegas, but used taxpayer money on a 17-day trip to celebrate his wife's birthday.
This isn't going to help things over there. A soldier has given the Los Angeles Times 18 photos of U.S. soldiers posing with the limbs of Afghan insurgents. Yes, limbs.
Cartoonist Tom Toles thinks there are a few people benefiting from rising gas prices.
Well technically speaking, she still "could" (like you or I "could") go to jail, but it won't be because of the "gun" her driver was brandishing.
If Mitt Romney really wanted his "dog-on-the-roof" controversy to die, he should probably try and get Ann on board.
Dead. Kaput. Dunzo. The Buffett Rule, which would have raised taxes on the U.S. millionaires and was supported by 60 percent of Americans, died in the Senate yesterday. But that won't stop Republicans and Obama from using it as a political tool.
There are more embarrassing things Secret Service officials could do than paying for the services of 11 Colombian prostitutes. You could, like these guys allegedly did, do so while bragging about protecting Obama and then create a ruckus when the bill arrives.
Marco, Chris, Bob, and Allen ... meet Beth Myers. She'll be vetting you.
This must've sounded edgy to Tina Brown: Get Katie Roiphe (the Katie Roiphe) to write about 50 Shades of Grey for a Newsweek cover story and watch the media pull out their hair and keel over. Unfortunately, everyone's too busy laughing to be outraged.
Yes, Hillary Clinton drank and had a lot of fun at a salsa bar in the resort town of Cartagena, Colombia. No, that doesn't mean the Secretary of State is an embarrassment to the United States.
Players: Mel Gibson, actor who will never live down his DUI incident in 2006; Joe Eszterhas, the screenwriting mastermind who brought you Basic Instinct and Showgirls, who will not let Gibson live down his anti-Semitic comments
Well, that didn't last long. Although Syrian forces seemingly respected the U.N.'s ceasefire, there are now reports of protesters being shot dead.
President Obama's Federal income tax rate is 20.5 percent, which is actually higher than Mitt Romney's 15.4 percent despite making around $20 million less than the Republican frontrunner.
Soldiers have arrested Guinea-Bissau's prime minister and interim president, power in the country's capital was shut off, and the country's state radio has been compromised which would be in keeping with the recent history of what The Associated Press refers to as a "tiny, coup-prone African nation." The country has seen six coups or attempted coups since the 1980s.
In your potentially troubling environmental news of the day, there are only two states in the U.S. that aren't experiencing "abnormally dry" or drought conditions, meaning that the country is the driest its been since 2007.
A novelty grenade scanned in a Fed Ex package sent to 2 World Financial Center prompted an evacuation of hundreds on Thursday.
Ann Romney went on Fox News today to set the record straight about her husband's commitment to women and her own hard work as a mother, rebutting Hilary Rosen's CNN comments that she never worked a day in her life.
Sorry, Kanye. The president would like you better if you weren't a jackass.
No, Roger Ailes, Gawker is not a pornographic website. It's that site which, you know, broke the story about how your network's biggest star, Bill O'Reilly, "tried to get his wife's boyfriend investigated by the cops," or more recently, ran that failed mole experiment at Fox.
During his concession suspension speech on Monday, Rick Santorum said he "was winning in a different way," which was right in Jon Stewart's wheelhouse.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the politicization of the Supreme Court.
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