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.
He's on a mission with the Harlem Globetrotters for "basketball diplomacy," but North Korea claimed its nuclear weapons were "within the range" of the United States the morning after he arrived.
Today in viral videos: the Oscars have come and gone but everyone's just getting started on bad lip reads and odd mashups, and perhaps the coolest pizza delivery on earth.
Even though Republicans have made a big stink about liberals coming for their fatty food and soda, well, Republicans like their soda calorie-free, according to a new poll.
"He encouraged me to run at night" and his porn collection saw "dead" and severed people, Kathleen Mangan-Valle said during chilling opening testimony in the trial of her husband — a trial that is already sending shivers to anyone who thinks their ex might have been the least bit creepy.
Someone's not telling the truth about the detainment of director Emad Burnat, and for now, Buzzfeed is on the losing end of this one — burned by an anonymous source at Los Angeles International Airport.
After an Oscar night uproar over a tweet that used the c-word to describe Quvenzhané Wallis, The Onion's new CEO is attempting to put the incident behind the paper of satirical record. But beyond the offensiveness, can The Onion still be The Onion now?
Three months ago DKNY offered the blogger behind Humans of New York a deal to display his photos in store windows, but he wanted more, and the deal fell through. And then on Monday morning, Brandon Stanton spotted his popular photos in DKNY windows anyway — and took to Facebook to rally support.
Before you get all worked up about what "degrading" porn looks like or make a free-speech argument, here's an outline of Iceland's would-be policy, and why it might not work anyway.
The routinely funny, usually quick-witted satirical newspaper called the 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis the c-word, and needless to say that did not go over well. The Onion offered an apology.
"The kids who are opting out are getting teased and bullied ... We have one little girl whose classmates told her her parents are stupid because she opted out. That’s not supposed to happen in our schools," argues attorney Dean Broyles while explaining why yoga should be kept out of public schools.
The gun lobby's task force of "trained security officials" are putting together a new rubric, all in the name of "safety standards," according to Asa Hutchinson, the man tapped by the NRA to develop its proposal of putting an armed guard in every school in America.
Christmas has come early for early adopters today. Google has finally given us a release date and price point for their nerdy (and potentially sort of stylish) augmented reality glasses.
According to the Italian paper La Repubblica, the real reason Pope Benedict XVI resigned lies in a 300-page Vatican dossier that allegedly found an underground network of high-ranking gay clergy, complete with sex parties and shady dealings with the Vatican bank. Here's what we know.
Guatemalan officials are still trying to confirm if Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzman, one of the world's most powerful drug lords, died during a gunfight in Peten, Guatemala near the Mexican border, but there's a curious Wikileaks wrinkle to this case.
An internal disciplinary report obtained by CNN shows how the FBI has had to either suspend or fire numerous employees for things like sexting, spying on their bosses, and getting "happy endings" at a massage parlor.
America's friskiest government agency offered an apology to 3-year-old Lucy Forck on Wednesday, which, like so much of the TSA's second guessing in the last decade — at least when it comes to disabled child passengers — arrived only after an airport screening went viral.
In order to assuage a constituent's worries about the government implanting microchips into its workers and school children, the decidedly pro-life Senator found himself clinging to the right-to-privacy tenet in one of the Supreme Court rulings he hates the most.
The former First Lady is taking issue with Respect for Marriage's $1 million ad campaign, insisting that her name and image be removed because, well, because she says so.
Health officials in Los Angeles have issued a do-not-drink order on the water at Los Angeles's Cecil Hotel after a missing tourist was found dead inside the building's water tank.
Just one day after Russia and the Arab League proposed to facilitate talks between President Bashar al Assad's government and Syrian opposition forces, a massive car bomb has detonated in the heart of Damascus—right where the Russian embassy is located.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: the link between video games and Korea's propaganda factory, how the end of Olympic wrestling brought Iran and the U.S. together, and China cracks down on food — not hackers.
Those with an eye on President Obama's targeted killing program say that the U.S. Justice Department's recently leaked "white paper" justifying drone targets would have allowed for China, if it used America's new legal boundaries with its own killer technology, to execute a wanted kingpin from the sky.
It looks like one of CNN's most liked stars won't fit at the burgeoning home of poop-cruise story torture and soft morning news — this is new president Jeff Zucker's CNN, and Soledad O'Brien is not it.
After 174 days, a bone marrow transplant, and a fight against a life-threatening illness Robin Roberts finally made her return to Good Morning America this morning, capping one of the most inspirational and emotional comeback stories of the past two years.
Days after cybersecurity firm Mandiant published an eye-popping report of state-sponsored cyber espionage by the China's People’s Liberation Army, the Chinese have fired back.
Today in viral videos: Alison Brie raps (poorly), Jimmy Kimmel is an equal opportunity moment ruiner, and a pen that lets you draw on air.
Mike Leara may have finally figured out a way for gun-rights advocates to win the renewed fight on gun-control legislation: introduce a bill on gun-control bills that's too crazy to pass.
Given the increasing acceptance from the Roberts court of the concept of money as free speech, legal watchers are already saying that, yes, there's more than a good chance that McCutcheon vs. FEC could lead to the end of federal limits on campaign-finance contributions.
Virginia Beach pizza-shop owner Jay Laze is offering a 15 percent discount to anyone who brings in a gun — or concealed handgun permit — to his restaurant, which instantly grabbed the attention of gun-rights advocates across the country.
Tourism in North Korea has "steadily increased" over the last decade, according to a report from North Korea's propaganda machine — a report that came on the same day that a North Korean diplomat called for the "final destruction" of South Korea.
South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius was in court today for his first bail hearing, and with an upgraded premeditated murder charge against him, his defense team is sticking to the story that he mistook his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, for an intruder and proceeded to shoot her behind a locked bathroom door.
Today in viral videos: all the foods that taste better with Sriracha, how much Hollywood loves pizza (sans Sriracha), and how people really drive under the influence.
Kim Kardashian went to Nigeria to promote a party. Stop, we can feel your eye roll from here. That said, we were wondering what her reception was like and (surprise?) it appears Nigerians dislike Kardashian as much as most Americans do—but for completely different reasons.
Infallibility. Immunity. Health care. Pope Benedict XVI is expected to only have two of these things upon his retirement next week. If you had any questions about the pope, like if we can still call him a pope or about where his infallibility goes now, we have got you covered.
Hours before Janay Mcfarlane was shot and killed on Friday, her 14-year-old sister was standing behind President Obama during his speech about gun violence and stricter gun legislation.
There's still no video or solid proof that Hugo Chavez is alive and well, but apparently the Venezuelan president (or someone who has access to his account) has started tweeting again after receiving after receiving his fourth cancer surgery in December.
Of course there are space truthers. What, you thought a Friday full of mysterious meteorites crashing into Siberia and and gigantic asteroids speeding by Earth wasn't going to end this way? Come on now.
It seems that Politico reporter Kenneth Vogel has now taken up where fellow tribute Dylan Byers has fallen by — get this — dissing Nate Silver's knowledge of campaign financing!
This is about more than just the cool videos. This is a meteor! Actually, it's a meteorite, and it wasn't the meteorite that hurt all those people, exactly, and, yes, you have meteorite insurance — and, no, this is not all John Kerry's fault. Here are those and other answers you'll need to talk about this cosmically awesome event all weekend long.
If it weren't for a pesky news report, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have had a NIS 10,000 ($2,700) allotment to purchase delicious frozen treats.
A 10-ton meteor blazed through the sky and struck Central Russia this morning, leaving nearly 1,000 people injured along with a goosebump-inducing sonic boom that provided an amazing collection of videos from citizens who caught the whole thing on tape.
Today in viral videos: a romantic "classic" remixed, love and cocaine combined, and goats. Lots of goats.
As double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius prepared for court, it remained unclear whether he was claiming self-defense in mistaking his model girlfriend for an intruder, but lingering questions remain: What did he really tell the cops? How much did he love guns? Could his actions have somehow been excusable?
After they say they were stalked, bound, gagged, and tied up by the most wanted man in America, Jim and Karen Reynolds seem to be doing ... fine. They also have a lot of answers about the last hours of the manhunt.
You'd think that if Kelley would "want to put the controversy behind her" she would stop complaining to one of the nation's biggest media reporters.
Paralympic and Olympic track athlete Oscar Pistorius has been charged with a murder after he allegedly shot and killed his 30-year-old model girlfriend Thursday morning.
After a fiery siege at a cabin near the Big Bear ski resort appears to have brought a week-long, state-wide manhunt to its conclusion, ex-LAPD cop turned cop killer Christopher Dorner appears to be dead, but the conspiracy theories are alive.
The cruise company claims that conditions aren't so bad, even four days after the mid-ocean stall. But reports from some of the 4,000 passengers depict a travel agent's worst nightmare — something like the lawlessness of Somalia but maybe more like a floating Penn Station bathroom.
The Italian magazine Chi, (owned by Silvio Berlusconi) has angered the royal family by publishing photos of a pregnant, bikini-clad Kate Middleton on vacation. Of course, the British tabloids are eating this up, but there's one small problem: the British media have all promised not to run the photos they know everyone wants to see.
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