'Downton' Forever
Tea and crumpets, it's a time to celebrate! Your favorite English period drama, Downton Abbey, has been renewed for a fourth season by ITV, the British channel that produces it.
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Seattle's KIRO-TV got their hands on surveillance video capturing the very moment when a too-heavy truck starts crossing the I-5 bridge and the supports start to collapse. You can see the next truck start to cross the bridge as the whole thing is coming apart. It is a horrifying — if brief — clip.
Tea and crumpets, it's a time to celebrate! Your favorite English period drama, Downton Abbey, has been renewed for a fourth season by ITV, the British channel that produces it.
Walmart employees were threatening to bring holiday shopping to its knees by striking on the busiest shopping day of the year to show their demand for a better working conditions. So, how did it go?
Oh, no! You were so busy eating and being thankful for family, friends and good health yesterday that you forgot to Instagram your turkey! Don't worry, everyone else remembered. Thanksgiving was the busiest day ever for the upstart social network.
A recently discovered code from World War II found on a pigeon that was dead in some guy's chimney has Britain's top code-breakers completely stumped.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who when elected had to reclaim some executive power from the previous military regime, is in hot water after he gave himself a Thanksgiving present that put him above the courts and led to some Egyptians calling him "Pharaoh."
You might only be vaguely aware of it, especially on this weekend full of football, but the NHL is still locked out and there is no sign of an end. We're thankful for this, and we'll tell you why.
We don't want to jump the gun or anything, but this Black Friday seems to be pretty civil? There's an unsettling lack of mayhem happening on the craziest shopping day of the year.
Oh, boy, are you guys ready for more 2016 speculation? We hope so! The latest obvious rumor says Jeb Bush is quietly debating throwing his name in for the Republican nomination.
Every year the Detroit Lions play the first game of Thanksgiving Day while the rest of America sits at home and eats their delicious turkey dinners and every year for the last nine the city has been left heartbroken by the cold reality of defeat.
There's a movement growing that says we should get rid of the Ames Straw Poll. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad was the first person to say that this thing has got to go, and now other politicians are agreeing with him.
No, this isn't a dirty joke. One of the biggest stories north of the border today revolves around a Toronto's hotel refusal to let a horse walk through their lobby.
The Sesame Street producers were left in quite the pickle when one of their biggest puppeteers, Kevin Clash, resigned, but apparently his Elmo will be a part of the show for the next two years.
Before you yell at us for defying the whole spirit of Thanksgiving, hear us out. Family is great and wonderful and they provide for us and love us unconditionally, but sometimes you need to get away from them. Family, frankly, can be annoying.
We're almost through the first twenty four hours of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Gaza, and besides a few stray rockets in the first couple hours, it seems to be holding. We could be in the clear, folks.
You're watching this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade because that's what you're supposed to do while mom and dad cook, and football hasn't started yet. The floats are a bit unspectacular this year, so we've gone into the archives and assembled our own parade from years past.
The BBC found itself without a director general after a pair of scandals led to the resignation of George Entwistle barely two months after he started the job. So, without a head, and facing questions about the future of the organization, the BBC hired the head of the Royal Opera House.
At the very least, he wants to tell you, via this new Funny or Die animated short, what Thanksgiving was like with his family growing up in Brooklyn. Hint: It's dysfunctional.
If you thought an icky sex scandal would damage the selling power of all those furry, red, loveable Elmo toys this holiday shopping season, you underestimated the selling power of Sesame Street's all-time best-seller.
Just in time for the holiday travel rush, the T.S.A. is facing perhaps its most public pat-down gross-out yet.
You had to know this was coming. ESPN has paid a whopping $6 billion to broadcast the new college-football playoff games — the ones that Obama was so keen to tell you about during the campaign.
The Palestinians and Israelis have brokered a cease fire agreement that went into effect at 9 p.m. Cairo time, but bombs were launched until the last possible minutes and now we're waiting to see if this thing sticks.
The Mars rover has another discovery that might just change everything — but they aren't telling anyone what it is yet. Thanksgiving nerd speculation, of course, is go for launch.
The failed Senate candidate is playing the "deny everything" game after a report that one of her campaign staffers received a cruel kind of severance pay.
John McAfee, the man responsible for the anti-virus software on your computer and currently a murder suspect, has started to blog about life on the run.
Allan West demanded a recount after the initial results showed him losing his Florida congressional seat to Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy, but the recount did the opposite of what West wished. It made the distance between Murphy and West even wider.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we will forever support RPatz and KStew because we remember how heartbroken everyone was when Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams broke up. No one should suffer that kind of heartbreak, not even teenagers on Tumblr.
Lindsey Graham and Bobby Jindal both threw Mitt Romney under the Republican bus for his controversial "gifts" comments; John McCain said he'll go easier on Susan Rice if she admits she was wrong and advocated for Bill Clinton to lead the peace talks between Israel and Gaza.
Paula Broadwell had ambitions beyond being the lady who wrote David Petraeus' biography. According to a report in the New York Post's Page 6, Broadwell was trying to leverage her book fame into becoming a TV regular, or an elected official.
The fighting between Israel and Hamas continued Sunday night with rocket attacks on both sides, while in the background the efforts to work out a ceasefire have begun to ramp up.
Sorry, Jeremy Renner, but New Jersey Governor Chris Christie stole the spotlight from you on last night's Saturday Night Live. That's no knock on you. We just can't resist the fleece jokes.
For the first time in five years, Formula 1 is holding a race in the U.S. on Sunday. The "Circuit of the Americas" will run in Austin, Texas.
As inspectors finish up their post-Sandy assessments, we're reminded again of the overall effects Sandy had on New York.
There are signs, however small, that an end to the most recent conflict between Israel and Gaza is coming to a close.
Caught red handed, the White House admitted to copy-editing part of the CIA's talking points on the Benghazi attack given to Susan Rice. The only thing they changed, though, was a reference to the building that was attacked.
He wasn't just keeping the seat warm. Ron Barber, Gabrielle Giffords' hand-picked successor, officially won the race for her old House seat in Arizona's District 8 on Saturday when the Associated Press finally called it, almost two weeks after election day.
Gaza's Prime Minister no longer has an office. The latest Israeli offensive took out his headquarters along with the headquarters for the police and homeland security.
This is not a tale about a porn star with a heart of gold. Instead, it's about one who went on to become a prosecutor in Upstate New York after a pretty successful career of doing the deed back in the heady days of the 1970s.
This is a picture of the President with Olympic hero and living meme McKayla Maroney imitating her now famous facial expression from this summer's Olympics.
While the fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians continued Thursday evening with the two countries exchanging rocket fire, life for many citizens continued as normal. It can be easy to forget that life has to continue, even during war time.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is facing a strange bit of criticism while on the slow path to recovery since Hurricane Sandy: he isn't really a hugger. We've decided to give him some help.
We're pretty confident when we declare Joe Biden's guest spot on Thursday night's episode of Parks and Recreation the most anticipated cameo by a politician on a television show of all time.
Math has taken over every other aspect of baseball, from the way general managers put teams together to the way fans watch the game, but it still can't affect the outcome of baseball's biggest solo award.
President Obama passionately defended U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice's record during his first press conference with the White House press pool since wining re-election. In fact, it was the first time he spoke to White House reporters in over eight months.
The man who accused Kevin Clash, the beloved voice of Sesame Street's Elmo, of having sex with him while he was still underage has gone back on his story. It's safe to like Elmo again!
Time is gearing up to name it's annual Person of the Year in December and based on the discussion at the annual celebrity nomination debate luncheon it's probably going to be another non-person winning this year.
Nate Silver is a really boring drunk and might be a witch but only on his off days when he's not feeling quite like himself. At least that's what he said in a new interview where he debunked some of the fun memes that popped up after the election.
You might now know this but a lot of people expect Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic nominee in 2016. Even she knows this, but she doesn't care, and she's taking a year off to relax and watch guilty pleasure TV while she figures out what she's going to next.
Yesterday we found out Paula Broadwell was reported to the FBI for harassing a mystery female friend of David Petraeus and that led the FBI to discover the affair while investigating her inbox. We now know the identity of the mystery woman.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we will fight anyone who says Timothy Dalton is the best James Bond. Heretics aren't welcome here.
Dianne Feinstein was shocked to find out David Petraeus was having an affair despite being the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee; Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol doesn't see a problem with raising taxes on the wealthy.
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