The Financial Times became the latest news agency to fall prey to the Syrian Electronic Army, the hacking group which has claimed the social media scalps of the AP, The Onion, the BBC, and NPR, perhaps signaling that news outlets should be more like The Onion and come clean about how they're getting hacked.
Sure, he was on-point during the 2012 election, but before you place your bets behind the bespectacled number genie, remember that he predicted that this would be a Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl — and that he's gotten a little better at the politics game than anything else.
A pack of 10 monkeys went on a rampage in the town of Toddang Pulu in Sendenreng Rappang, Indonesia, on Tuesday. In their wake, they've left seven people injured—one critically—and one shaken village.
Today in viral videos: the slow jam that the news really deserves, the power of the jumbotron, and a wave that we won't be catching.
The increasingly toxic smog in Beijing has reached a level somewhere around "choking," and now it's about to make one of China's most eccentric billionaires even richer by allowing him to peddle one of the most eccentric inventions of all time.
As news arrives today that some of its most familiar (and familiarly loud) faces are on the way out and some new (and potentially household-name) anchors may be on the way in, the future of CNN is starting to take shape under its powerful new boss. Here's what that might look like — no Sarah Palin allowed.
President Obama said in an interview published this week that he has, in fact, shot a gun recently, and conservative skeptics are having a field day with the latest in presidential sport shooting.
The first solider to survive after losing all four limbs in the Iraq war has been live-tweeting his recovery from a Baltimore hospital room. Here's what we know about him so far — aside from the fact that he is, you know, amazing.
Today, the U.K. announced that it would be sending around 350 troops to support the French operation in Mali, which means Prime Minister David Cameron has some explaining to do
Thanks to citizen cartographers, Google was able to fill in what was what one of the last blank spaces on earth. And now we can see things like North Korean mass transit routes, the Pyongyang's parks and of course, the country's gigantic gulags.
Today in viral videos: proof that Charles Barkley should stick to his day job, proof that Australia is pretty scary, Manti Te'o gets auto-tuned, and more.
Obama and Biden met with a group of sheriffs and police chiefs this afternoon, calling them a representation of law-enforcement officials across the country. But the truly not gun-shy are these 100-something sheriffs — and counting.
The Boy Scouts of America's decades-long national policy of banning gay scouts and ex-communicating gay scout leaders could be crashing down, set to be replaced by a new policy that would leave admissions decisions to local sponsoring organizations.
Fort Lauderdale police have their hands full figuring out what happened during a shooting early Monday morning that eventually led to a Rolls Royce crashing into an apartment building, but Rick Ross fans have been all too eager to help.
As Brazil and the city of Santa Maria prepare to bury the 233 people who died in a nightclub fire, we are slowly getting more information on what really happened early Saturday morning.
Chris Brown is under police investigation for an alleged assault at a Los Angeles recording studio last night involving six men, one of whom happens to be Frank Ocean.
The Indian Juvenile Justice board ruled Monday that one of the suspects in a fatal gang rape last month will be tried as a juvenile—and if convicted, the worst sentence he can face for the will be three years in a detention facility.
News out of North Korean is notoriously unreliable, but food shortages in the country have gotten so bad and people so desperate that there are now reports of men murdering their own children for food.
Today in viral videos: Jimmy Kimmel proves that the meek shall inherit Twitter, Christian Bale restores our faith in humanity, and the scientific explanation behind the chicken and the egg.
Manti Te'o's interview with Katie Couric is set to air this afternoon, and from the sound of it, Te'o has come prepared.
If you thought the so-called "rape caucus" was fading away, there's new evidence — and we mean evidence — that some Republicans are still going to make a lot of people upset with what they see as legitimate concerns about rape.
She was all smiles before to introduce John Kerry as her replacement today, but according to plenty of still-swirling reactions to Hillary Clinton's appearance before before the the same Senate committee yesterday, Clinton looked like just like an angry, reactionary lady.
It turns out that all those hours were spent talking to Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, whose lawyer admits the alleged mastermind behind the fake-girlfriend hoax was disguising his own voice the whole time.
The good news is that some of the 15,000 crocodiles that escaped after recent South Africa floods have been recaptured. The bad news is that there are at least 7,500 missing crocodiles still out there somewhere.
The world and Venezuela are anxiously awaiting for Hugo Chavez's first public appearance since fleeing to Cuba for cancer treatment last year. That's why the Spanish paper El Pais decided to run a picture of what they thought was an intubated Chavez.
Today in viral videos: ESPN gets a new chef, ponies wear sweaters, and our faith in the awesomeness of people gets renewed.
After it spent a good portion of last week notably debunking the rise of Newtown conspiracy theories, the editorial team at Salon has come under fire for a decision notable for doing quite the opposite.
The 7th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Chicago has deemed unconstitutional an Indiana law designed to protect children from sexual predators by limiting registered offenders' access to social media. Here's why the fight's not over.
Make fun of iPhone 5s and their terrible maps all you want, but the next time you're in an Algerian hostage situation, remember that Apple phone's native Compass app just may save your life.
For anyone who thought Manti Te'o and his people were beginning to take control of the girlfriend-hoax fallout, well, it's starting to look like Katie Couric still isn't just your average daytime talk-show host.
You'd think the safest place for animals is usually a zoo. That apparently isn't the case in China.
In the past few days, police have been able to piece together what happened early Saturday morning when Nehemiah Griego allegedly killed both his parents and his younger siblings with an AR-15 rifle
Since Michelle Obama and Speaker John Boehner won't exactly tell us what was behind the he-said-she-eye-rolled exchange they had on Inauguration Day, we're now having to rely on the inexact science of lipreading.
Today in viral videos: Kate Upton's Super Bowl commercial "leaks," animal reactions to the Beyoncé lip-sync controversy, Manti Te'o gets an eHarmony profile, and more.
For the last six days the Brattli Tunnel in northern Norway has been closed. The culprit? A 27-ton truckload of a burning brown goat cheese called Brunost and the toxic gasses that emerge when you light the stuff on fire.
Twenty-four hours after she sang pretty much the best version of the national anthem since Whitney Houston, word is emerging that Beyoncé chose to switch to a pre-recorded version of "The Star Spangled Banner" for Monday's inauguration. The reaction has been pure disbelief.
Our newest harrowing tale takes us to Madrid, where one woman fainted and somersaulted below... except she got saved in the nick of time — and there's video of the whole thing.
About that Manhattan apartment where a police raid Monday had people calling it a midtown meth lab: Turns out the place belonged to someone who was just making bath salts, reports NBC New York — the not-so-bad kind of bath salts.
Prince Harry may have humble-bragged his way home from Afghanistan, all full of war stories and gunned-down insurgents, but the Taliban isn't having any of it.
Okay, maybe economist Gareth Morgan doesn't really want to exterminate cats. But he does want owners to keep their felines indoors for the rest of their lives and not replace them they die, because he believes cats will kill off New Zealand's native wildlife.
A series of three car bombs situated around the city of Baghdad exploded one right after another on Tuesday—right on the heels of a string of suicide attacks claiming 30 lives last week. This isn't going to make people feel better either: al Qaeda may be involved.
In her first interview since the bottom of the David Petreaus scandal fell out, Jill Kelley told the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz that Paula Broadwell is one scary cyberbully.
After a five-month tour of duty, Prince Harry is heading home from combat — with a little bragging on his way out of Afghanistan.
The 57th presidential inauguration — Barack Obama's second — has been sealed into history, and we'll no doubt remember President Obama's powerful speech, which seems to have gone over well. But there were other bright spots — moments that weren't in the script — that deserve their own special place.
In 2009 Chief Justice John Roberts flipped some very important words in President Obama's swearing-in. Four years later, it appears the two still haven't figured out how to do get this tradition quite right.
We got word on Friday that an American had died in the Algeria hostage situation, but now the AP reports, by way of a U.S. administration official, that two more Americans were killed in the standoff.
More details are emerging about Nehemiah Griego, and they add up to a gruesome picture of a teenager with a van packed with guns and a plan to shoot up his local Walmart in New Mexico.
Inauguration Day is as good a time as any to look back at four years ago, when a younger Obama officially took over a country that was happy for Chris Brown and Rihanna, rooting for Anne Hathaway, and enduring an otherwise pretty terrible January.
We've all wanted to hear from Manti Te'o's other half—Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, the alleged mastermind who conceived Te'o fake girlfriend Lennay Kekua, her fake fatal leukemia, and her fake car accident. According to Tuiasosopo's family, the hoaxer is ready to talk.
Rapper Lupe Fiasco was the headliner at the StartUp RockOn concert to celebrate President Obama's reelection last night. Fiasco celebrated by spending more than 30 minutes rapping an anti-Obama song, and was eventually booted off stage.
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