Tesla no longer owns the federal government a dime. On Wednesday the company announced it had repaid the outsanding balance of $451.8 million, with interest, on its 2009 Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing loan from the Department of Defense. That means taxpayers earned a very, very small $12 million profit on the loan.
Russell Crowe, who played Rear-Admiral Jack Aubrey in Master & Commander: the Far Side of the World, got lost on the far side of Long Island while on a canoe trip on Sunday and had to wait for a Coast Guard boat to pick him up.
Obama is competitive. It's a requirement, one would hope, to run for President. But the New York Times' Jodi Kantor writes that Obama might over competitive. Deep in the story is a juicy anecdote of Obama comparing himself to Lebron and co. in Miami, and Romney to Jeremy Lin.
An SUV transporting U.S. consulate employees in Pakistan was rammed into by a suicide bomber in an SUV packed with explosives on Monday morning, according to reports.
Kanye West decided it was time to have a discussion about profanity in pop music on Sunday, particularly focusing on the way he, and other artists, use the b- and n- words.
Apparently it was all fun and games on the Romney and Ryan press planes on Saturday. When the press was wondering if Rob Portman was going to help Romney with his debate preparations, they resorted to orange bowling to get their answer.
Welcome back to the box office report where two new movies are finally pushing the last of the summer's dreck off our radar.
Martin O'Malley is probably going to face some criticism from other Democrats for saying the country isn't better off than it was four years ago; and Rahm Emmanuel wasn't impressed with Mitt Romney's convention speech.
President Obama wasn't offended by the 12-minute performance art piece Clint Eastwood did at the Republican National Convention. He's still a big fan of the Man with No Name.
According to a forthcoming article from Vanity Fair, before Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes fell head over heels in love with each other, the Church of Scientology went through an internal audition process to find Cruise a new girlfriend.
Comcast cut the operating budget of the once-mighty Tonight Show a few weeks ago, and now the New York Post's Page 6 reports the once-mighty Today Show might soon go under the knife.
Reports out of Syria on Saturday say rebel forces launched attacks on three different air force bases in a fight to control the sky in the Syrian conflict.
Charles Seife, an associate professor in NYU’s science journalism program, was asked by Wired to review a selection of Jonah Lehrer's work after it was revealed he routinely plagiarized or fabricated quotes. What he found was a troubling consistency to Lehrer's mistakes.
After the petitions and the Freedom of Information requests, and a bit of a wait, the White House finally released their official beer recipe. Drink up, home brewers.
North Korea and Iran are now best friends, and they're going to help each other with a wide variety of science and technology projects because they have "common enemies."
Following their $1 billion legal settlement, Apple listed eight Samsung products they want taken off the market. Now, still unsatisfied, Apple's adding two of Samsung's biggest products to their kill list.
Jon Stewart doesn't normally work on Fridays, but the Republican Convention is a special circumstance, and thanks to Clint Eastwood's special conversation "with the President," he doesn't regret working the overtime.
Paul Ryan takes fitness very seriously. He takes it so seriously there is real demand to see him with his shirt off. But when he told a radio host his best marathon time was under three hours, Runner's World went looking for the truth.
Hurricane Isaac's original forecast had the storm going up the East coast through Florida, but it's shifted to the left and now it's going to hit the Gulf of Mexico. The latest predictions have Isaac making landfall in New Orleans early Wednesday, the seven year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
TMZ breathlessly reported that Republican National Convention organizers paid Journey $500,000 to play at "a private fundraising party," on Thursday, but that doesn't appear to be true.
Ron Paul was apparently offered a speaking spot at the Republican National Convention, but he turned it down because the Romney campaign would only let him speak under the stipulation that he would finally endorse Mitt.
Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're shocked -- shocked! -- that no one wanted to see a movie about a bike messenger.
Mitt Romney said he was "very proud" of his health care legislation, and he defended those pesky offshore bank accounts, in an interview on Fox News Sunday; while Reince Priebus downplayed the effects Isaac will have on the Republican convention.
Unconfirmed reports coming out of Syria are saying over 200 people, most of them civilians, were killed in the town of Daraya on Saturday, and most of them were killed by sniper fire or "summarily executed."
The official Twitter account for the Russian punk band Pussy Riot announced that two of their members have left Russia to avoid further persecution from Russian authorities.
There are already two movies coming out this fall about the Bin Laden raid, and now apparently there's going to be a third. The New York Post's Page 6 reports the new book from a Navy SEAL Team 6 member is going to be turned into a movie, and Steven Spielberg is in talks to direct.
As Tropical Storm Isaac inches closer and closer to the Florida coast, Republican National Convention organizers are debating cancelling all of Monday's events and spreading them across the other four days.
Mitt Romney is but a man. He is no better than you or I, despite his much larger checking account. He falls victim to human perils from time to time, like leaving his homework to the last minute. Yes, Mitt Romney is a procrastinator.
NBC News were the first to report the death of astronaut Neil Armstrong, which is obviously a huge story, but in the frenzy to get the first full story up on their website they made a mistake in their headline. They originally reported the death of 'Astronaut Neil Young'.
Neil Armstrong, one of the astronauts on Apollo 11 and the first man to ever step foot on the moon, has died at the age of 82, according to NBC News.
Everyone talks about how Congress can't accomplish anything anymore. It's become a punchline, for goodness' sake. You might like the one about Congress not fixing over 1,000 holes in the roof of the Capitol building. Wait, that's not a joke at all. That's real life.
Yesterday there were rumors swirling that Apple was planning on hosting not one, but two (!) events this fall. Now we know it's true, and why. We're getting an iPad mini.
It's official. The NYPD have admitted that all nine people wounded yesterday in the Empire State Building shootout were from bullets they fired at Jeffrey Johnson.
Late last night the NYPD released graphic security camera footage of their confrontation with Jeffrey Johnson in front of the Empire State Building.
The Republican National Committee had a bad start to their Friday night when, just around supper time, Politico's James Hohmann and Tony Romm discovered a draft of the party platform on the RNC's website.
Capitol Police are investigating threats made against Todd Akin, his family, and staff of rape and violence ever since he made his opinion on rape and abortion known on Sunday.
Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from cycling for life by the USADA on Thursday night, but not because of new incriminating evidence, or a scandalous confession. He was banned because he's retired and wants to stop fighting their charges.
Mitt Romney's been getting hammered for his time as the head of Bain Capital for months, and he's sick and tired and not taking it anymore. It prepared him for the Presidency, he says, and he's making his case in a new Wall Street Journal editorial.
Obama held a fundraiser with some of his personal heroes in New York on Wednesday night, but that didn't stop him from joking that Todd Akin played hookie during science class, or from making a bunch of basketball analogies about November's election.
Twitter's been kind of distant lately, what with all their new rules and everything, and now they're sort-of breaking up with Tumblr. But Tumblr doesn't want them to break up because they've been together for so long, and this was so out of the blue, and it's all very complicated right now.
Rosie Larsen was finally able to rest in peace after The Killing's second season finale, and for a moment it seemed like the show had met its maker, too. AMC cancelled it, but Fox Television Studios decided to shop it around, and now we know who's in the market.
The initial deadline for Todd Akin came and went Tuesday evening, and Akin stuck to his guns and stayed in the race. But Akin can still go to court and get out of the race before September 25, and now we know how far in the polls Akin has to fall before he'll pull the plug.
A Washington man was arrested on Tuesday for threatening President Obama in emails sent to the F.B.I. When Secret Service agents went to his house to arrest him, he charged at them with a shotgun in hand.
It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you Avril Lavigne, post-grunge valkyrie and lover of Sk8er Bois, is going to marry Chad Kroeger, possessor of wavy hair and lead singer of "rock band" Nickelback.
Months of planning go into the Republican National Convention, but, unless you're a witch, you can't predict the weather. When you have an event in Florida at the end of August, you run the risk of having a hurricane rain on your parade. Republicans, meet Isaac.
Like promised, Todd Akin let the 5 p.m. local deadline pass. Now that he's officially still around, Akin is trying to use his website and social media to get support. Instead, he's only managing to further alienate himself from the rest of the Republican party and make himself look silly.
Rep. Todd Akin is facing a huge amount of criticism for remarks he made on Sunday while clarifying his opposition to abortion. Akin said pregnancy doesn't often occur in "a legitimate rape," because "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
Welcome to another Box Office Report where we're wondering if Sylvester Stallone uses his senior's discount when he takes his kids to see The Expendables 2.
Obama's deputy campaign manager Stephanie cutter defended the interviews he's done with Entertainment Tonight and People; Rick Santorum doesn't like the tone of the campaign; and Bill Kristol channels his inner Johnny Carson.
Ann Romney is going to be named the headlining speaker for the first night of the Republican National Convention on Monday, according to a new report from CNN's Mark Preston.
Julian Assange made his first public appearance since seeking asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London almost two months ago. Assange called for the U.S. to end the "witch hunt" against Wikleaks from an embassy balcony.
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