In a year when young victims of sexual assault have been shamed on social media by young people siding with accused athletes from Torrington to Steubenville, here is a six-time All-Star (albeit a very strange and estranged one), live-tweeting his self-defense to more than 510,000 Twitter followers and calling into question the judgment of a woman who appears to have accused him of a crime. The cops have nothing to say. But why isn't Twitter doing anything about it?
The Players: Chris Christie, the well-liked Governor of New Jersey Governor and possible VP pick who's also known for his weight struggles; Eugene Robinson, liberal columnist for The Washington Post who's known for writing about Christie's weight struggles.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's new profile in Rolling Stone makes one thing very clear: Assange very much likes the people who like him and he'll remind you there are still plenty of them.
In a Facebook posting today, Florida Senator Marco Rubio withdrew support of the Protect IP Act (PIPA) the Senate's anti-piracy legislation--a bill he had originally co-sponsored.
One point of interest if and when Mitt Romney releases his tax returns, will be his ties to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,, but with news of some recently uncovered Bain transactions might mean we won't have to wait that long.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson gets sick of Obama's waiting game.
George Lucas, Star Wars creator and Indiana Jones visionary, is the subject of a New York Times Magazine profile out this weekend and argues that naïveté can actually be a good thing for movies about race.
A look at visitor logs from The White House has MSNBC's star being cleared to enter The White House seven times and meeting with Obama face-to-face three of those times--a number on par with King Abdullah of Jordan.
If you thought Captain Franscesco Schettino couldn't look any worse after abandoning the capsized Costa Concordia--think again. New transcripts between Schettino and port authorities have surfaced today, painting a cowardly picture of the captain as he tried to direct rescue efforts from a lifeboat.
After becoming the face of diabetes-inducing cuisine, Food Network personality Paula Deen confirmed on Tuesday's Today show that she has known about having Type 2 diabetes for three years and used the occasion to start pitching diabetes drugs for Novo Nordisk.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson on the fall of Rick Perry.
Whether or not Paula Deen announces she has Type 2 diabetes on Tuesday, we've found that it's probably a good idea for her to stay away from some of her own dishes.
Update 5:40 p.m. We received an e-mail from a Novartis spokesperson that denied The Daily's original report that Paula Deen was working with the company.
Just in case you needed a couple more reasons to delete that Nigerian email scam in your inbox, how about about possible kidnapping and the stinging international embarrassment for falling for the scam?
With another warning of a military coup, this time a call this week to British diplomats, Pakistan's Yousuf Reza Gilani is quickly becoming the "Prime Minister Who Cried Coup", when he should really be more worried about the country's Supreme Court.
This is not going to make Leon Panetta very happy. Two men in that widely-condemned "urination" video have been identified and investigated, offering more proof that the video is very real.
Within moments of Vladimir Putin launching his campaign website, calls for him to resign and drop his bid for Russian Presidency were so large that officials had to limit public access and continued to live in denial blame hackers.
Judging by past prank calls on CSPAN, this morning's prank caller doesn't really deliver on the funny part, but we'll give him points for persistence and getting some CSPAN validation.
Jodi Kantor, New York Times correspondent and author of White House behind-the-scenes tome The Obamas, acknowleged that people are out to portray Michelle Obama's as an "Angry Black Woman," but it's just not in her book.
Encouraged by his hypothetical lead in South Carolina over third-place New Hampshire finisher Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney-spurred Republican ennui, Stephen Colbert might just announce his bid for presidency tonight.
Blanketed under 15 feet snow, the small fishing town of Cordova, Alaska is waiting for what sounds like a simple solution.
Cartoonist Tom Toles points out it's not the way you think.
If A.G. Sulzberger wanted a vegetarian option, he could have just asked for one. And no, it's not just because his dad is the powerful publisher of The New York Times--anyone could take this option.
President Obama spoke today after meeting with business leaders to discuss "insourcing," the administration's new buzzword for bringing jobs to America.
By being an on-air crank, the former New Hampshire Governor and White House Chief of Staff actually made the anti-climactic Romney victory last night worth watching.
A weapon probably didn't cause Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft to fail (it's set to enter Earth's orbit next week), but that's a better story than than saying you built space junk.
Pakistan's Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani has fired the country's defense secretary on Wednesday, a bold move considering Gilani was warning of a military coup less than a month ago.
In your infuriating travel story of the day, there's news of dozens of Continental Airlines' supposedly nonstop transatlantic flights stopping for fuel and causing headaches delays for thousands of travelers all because the company wants to save money.
But cartoonist Steve Benson isn't convinced that it's a solution.
The conservative commentator denied being suspended, offered up a contradictory explanation for his MSNBC absence and said that you can't always believe what you read on Drudge Report during a radio show interview Monday night.
If you needed any more confirmation that Jon Huntsman doesn't stand a chance in South Carolina, the latest Public Policy Polling numbers show him trailing Stephen Colbert.
Those little blue checks don't come cheap if you aren't a household name.
Hail to the meme. Rick Santorum is now selling his branded sweater vests for $100 a piece.
It may not sound like it, but the news of someone declining to meet with the FBI might actually mean progress in finding that $1.2 billion dollars.
For many Americans, traveling under TSA's rules are bad enough, and then there's the special kind of torture reserved for those people whose careers make traveling with knives and scissors absolutely necessary.
Cartoonist Tony Auth sees a disconnect between Romney and his message.
Proving that it still doesn't quite have a handle on what's offensive and what isn't, Facebook's latest apology has to do with taking down photos of young girls pantomiming breastfeeding.
Sure he's talking about private health care, but this video is just waiting to be turned into an attack ad.
Ruthlessly manipulative and downright obsessive, Vanity Fair's profile of Rebekah Brooks certainly isn't doing any favors to Murdoch's "Fantasy Daughter."
Want another sign of just how bad Greece's economy is? Its agricultural industry is growing.
Bucking the trend of the currently-escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, the American Navy has rescued a 13-member crew of an Iranian fishing boat who had been held hostage by Somalian pirates for 40 days.
The good news is that it's the first pay increase since President Obama ordered a two-year pay freeze for federal workers. The bad news? That works out to an average of about $375 per employee.
Plastic surgeons say there's an uptick in young patients wanting a to correct their "earlobe stretching" and coupled with the inevitable fact that people get older, it possibly signals the death of the once-popular body modification trend.
Louis Freeh, the former director for the FBI, should be quite good at keeping secrets, right? He's representing MF Global as the firm's appointed bankruptcy trustee, and The Wall Street Journal reports that he's doing just that, stymying regulators' hunt for $1.2 billion in customer money.
Cartoonist Nick Anderson shows us a Romney campaign loophole.
President Barack Obama spoke about the defense cuts announced Thursday, reiterated "strengthening our presence in the Asia Pacific while Defense Secretary Panetta spoke about our smaller, leaner force.
To help the economy, a Japanese restaurateur bought a record-setting $736,000 bluefin tuna today at the first auction of the year at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market.
Even though we haven't quite found MF Global's $1.2 billion that went missing, Vanity Fair did find out he and his wife Sharon were talking about a château they were about to buy in the South of France.
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