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Reports are saying Jared Loughner will be declared mentally fit enough to face the charges against him for the mass shooting that killed six and injured Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others, on Tuesday, and he's expected to enter a guilty plea in exchange for life in prison.
Around 100,000 people are being evacuated from the Lollapalooza festival grounds in Chicago right now because of a severe thunderstorm warning, potentially cancelling performances from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Frank Ocean.
Michael Phelps has participated in his last Olympic event, ever; Serena Williams barely broke a sweat beating Maria Sharapova for Women's tennis gold, and then became the first person to ever crip walk on the grass at Wimbledon.
After months of vague statements and unconfirmed rumors, Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, Jesse Jackson Jr.'s wife, has opened up and revealed what exactly is going on with her husband.
GOP-donation machine Sheldon Adelson's casino company is being investigated over its role in two high-profile money laundering cases, according to the Wall Street Journal.
We're three months away from election day and the President is taking the weekend off from the campaign trail. It is for a pretty good reason, though. He's turning 51. Happy Birthday, Mr. President.
Getting hacked is becoming more and more common, especially if you work in media. Gizmodo and Reuters were both hacked on Friday. Thanks to ex-Gizmodo writer Mat Honan, we know what the horror of slowly realizing you've lost control of your entire tech existence feels like.
For a while, it seemed like Mitt Romney couldn't get anyone in Hollywood to give him some love. But he scored a big win at a fundraiser in Idaho on Friday night when he got an endorsement from the "man with no name," Clint Eastwood.
Rob Delaney won't stop picking on Mitt Romney, and it's making his career. The comedian's tweets about the Republican nominee are so popular they're routinely in the top three mentions of Romney on the social network.
The Olympics are a confusing time for everyone with all the obscure sports like dressage, swimming, and gymnastics. It can be especially bad for the copy editors who have to keep track of the obscure terms that come with each sport. Obscure terms like the "breaststroke."
Grab your popcorn, get comfortable and tune in during primetime: Harry Reid and Mitt Romney are in the middle of a war of words and it's not going to end any time soon. Taxerism is officially a thing.
This would be one of the least surprising choices the Academy could make. Apparently charismatic funny man Jimmy Fallon is in talks to host next year's Oscars ceremony, but there's major network and Academy drama that could stop it from happening.
President Obama apparently gave the go-ahead for U.S. intelligence agencies to do everything they can to get Bashar al-Assad out of power in Syria, short of supplying weapons to the rebel forces, according to a new Reuters report.
He did have sex with him; he called him a crypto-Nazi, not crypto-fascist; and he wasn't related to Al Gore. The corrections on the New York Times' Gore Vidal obituary are so perfectly Vidal.
Oh boy, the reports from The Newsroom's TCA presser was this evening and Aaron Sorkin spent the whole time defending himself and being combative with reporters, while Jeff Daniels fell asleep (maybe) waiting to charm the room when he was finally called to speak.
A plane collided with a bird while descending in Denver, which doesn't sound like a big deal, except that the bird tore a huge hole in the nose of the plane, the pilots declared it an emergency, and we're never flying again. The birds won this round, but we'll win the sky war.
Iconic playwright and author Gore Vidal died on Tuesday at the age of 86, his personal website reported Tuesday evening (Note: the website was down early Wednesday morning).
Mitt Romney felt the need to write an op-ed clarifying what he meant when he was talking about, but also not talking about, the differences between Palestinian and Israeli cultures the other day.
Slightly ahead of schedule, the Betaworks/News.me team released the brand new version of Digg on Tuesday evening they built from the ground up.
Yesterday we told you about the New York Times' report that Apple and Twitter had engaged in talks about a potentially huge investment, but as other news organizations looked into it the excitement over the story quickly disappeared.
This billboard got a lot of media attention this weekend for its meme-style juxtaposition of President Obama and Aurora-shooter James Holmes.
Dana Vollmer broke a world record; Michelle Obama hugged Kobe and Lebron; and NBC gets a lot of bad press. Your day in Olympic news.
After a break last weekend, we're back to the regularly scheduled Box Office Report programming. We're going to use the power of dance to help get you through this.
Dick Cheney said John McCain's choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008 election was a mistake in an interview that aired on ABC; Mitt Romney danced around supporting an Israeli attack on Iran after one of his aides said he would be okay with it.
Someone's pulled off an elaborate prank on former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller. They built a replica of the Times' website and took passages of an email Keller sent defending Wikileaks and wrote an entire, completely fake Op-Ed.
There's a spectre haunting ABC, or something. We called this yesterday. The kids on Modern Family are expected to start their own contract dispute on Monday and demand more money, just like their parents did, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Olympics are off to a great start. There's already been high profile match-ups, down-to-the-wire competition, and athletes taking things too personally. The only problem is the huge amount of empty seats left by the organizers and sponsors in the stadiums. They're kind of a bummer.
We're going to go against the grain here and say we were disappointed with the new teaser for Skyfall, the new James Bond movie coming out in the fall, that debuted during the Olympics last night.
Michael Phelps failed to medal for the first time in over a decade; Hope Solo went on a Twitter rampage after one of her teammates was criticized by commentator and former Olympic gold medal winner Brandi Chastain
Chick-fil-A is the most talked about restaurant in America right now, if you only count politicians. New York City Councillor Christine Quinn has gone a step further than saying "we don't want you here." Quinn's written a letter and started a petition asking Chick-fil-A be kicked out of New York.
Apple and Twitter have a great relationship. Their relationship is so great, in fact, that Apple executives have spoken with Twitter about making an investment somewhere in the hundreds of millions of dollars range.
Apparently NBC's controversial tape-delay strategy is working. The Olympics opening ceremony drew the largest audience ever for an opening ceremony that didn't take place in the U.S., NBC announced on Saturday.
The Olympics have a Pete Rose scandal on their hands. An Irish athlete's been accused of placing bets on an opponent in an event they were also competing in. To make matters weirder, their longshot bet came through.
Rejoice, America! You can stop worrying. All the adults from Modern Family have finally reached a deal with ABC that will pay them way more money.
A few weeks ago there was a lot of coverage surrounding the mysterious, unexplained disappearance of Jesse Jackson Jr. There were reports he was in rehab for alcoholism, for depression, and even a rumor he attempted suicide. We finally know where he really is.
Rumors have been plaguing Usain Bolt since he's turned in lackluster performances leading up to the Olympics, but upon arriving in the Olympic village on Thursday he assured everyone he's ready to defend his 100 meter world record.
In the wake of the Aurora shootings, there's a conversation emerging over the amount of violence in the movie industry, and the industry's newest pacifist is also one of its most unlikely: Harvey Weinstein.
The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are apparently planning a wide spread investigation of retail operations in America to make sure your favorite stores are complying with an anti-foreign bribery law. (We realize Wal-Mart probably isn't your favorite store.)
Maybe you don't know, but there's a storm happening in New York City. There's probably going to be a lot of rain, a lot of wind, and there might even be some hail. If we're lucky there won't be a tornado. If we're not lucky, there will be a tornado. Yes, a tornado is in play.
It was supposed to be an easy policy debate for Romney's foreign policy aide, Richard Williamson. Instead, he found a way to make news two ways. First, by latching onto Tom Donilon as the White House leaker, and then by referring to Russia as the Soviet Union.
Obama spoke out about gun control for the first time since the Aurora shootings at a National Urban League convention on Wednesday night, and it seems like he's going to lobby for the ban on assault weapons to return.
Zynga's second-quarter earnings report didn't go very well today, and now the stock is plummeting in after hours trading. It's having an interesting side effect, though: Facebook's stock is going down with it.
When he's not making weird claymation videos with Charlie Kaufman, Dan Harmon supposedly spends most of his time writing episodes of comedic television, and the latest rumors say he's taking his comedic writing talents to a new pilot for Fox.
If you didn't get invited to U.S. Rep. Barney Frank's wedding earlier this month, you missed a fun-sounding party, which the congressman and his husband Jim Ready planned themselves, Frank said in a NewsBeast video Wednesday.
Mitt Romney isn't expected to land in Britain until Wednesday morning, but he'll have plenty to talk about once he gets there. A campaign advisor told the U.K.'s Telegraph Romney has a special bond with Englanders because of "an Anglo-Saxon heritage."
Blogs have been speculating all day what the mystery animal that washed up on the shores of New York's East River over the weekend could be, but the carcass doesn't fit the description of one animal, so now some are worried it was a monster that came to eat us all.
We are days away from the Olympics, and we'll be seeing a lot of at least one Presidential candidate's face while we watch the pole vault. The other's getting in his time with the public before the opening ceremony starts.
The crackdown on marijuana dispensaries in California reached a new level on Tuesday when the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. There's still hope, though. Not all of the pot stores are closing.
A new study estimates that the "global super-rich elite" are hiding at least $21 trillion in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. And that number is just cash, like real dollars, and doesn't account for real estate or property that would bolster a rich person's net worth.
Huma Abedin's week got a bit scarier on Sunday when federal officials ordered extra security to her house after a New Jersey man threatened her.
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