Welp, here's hoping you didn't have anything important stored on Megaupload's mostly dormant servers that you wanted back one day. Mega Upload owner and maniacal super villain Kim Dotcom says a huge amount of their servers have been wiped in a "data massacre" for the ages.
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.
Hide your kids, hide your wife, hide your grow op. Drones are flying across American skies and there's nothing we can do about it. The head of a drone company especially doesn't care about your privacy concerns because you don't have anything to hide, right?
There was a minute where we thought that maybe, just maybe, Hollywood would actually silence itself as some sort of gesture to the victimes of the Aurora shooting. How naive we were.
After the Aurora tragedy, guests debate whether new gun control laws are the answer, or if we should be focusing on expanding our understanding of mental health problems.
Some Iranians are facing the wrath of the country's "morality police" for dressing in ways they deem aren't Islamic enough, usually because they're pairing their traditional hijabs with stylish jeans or a fancy jacket.
Penn State officials finally bent to public pressure on Sunday and removed the Joe Paterno statue from outside their football stadium. While that was happening, the NCAA announced a press conference for Monday morning where they're expected to level the school with "unprecedented" penalties.
News broke Saturday night that Aurora police were sent a message electronically threatening more violence if James Holmes wasn't released from prison. Police found and interviewed him on Saturday, but he hasn't been charged with anything in connection with the crime.
We're beginning to get a clearer picture of who was lost on Friday night in Aurora, Colorado, and the Denver Post has released the most comprehensive biography of the victims we've seen yet.
The world of campaign finance can be confusing, so we've spent our afternoon making sense of breathless summer election reports to explain what, exactly, is happening with the Romney and Obama campaign bank accounts.
Zach Snyder is the master of making an amazing trailer to get you excited and then ultimately disappointing you once your butt is in a theater seat. He's done it again, too, with the latest trailers for Man of Steel. They look like he's taking Clark Kent into Terrence Malick territory.
News International sent out an email on Saturday informing staffers that Rupert Murdoch has resigned as director of News International a string of other companies connected with the company's London-based newspaper holdings.
Alexander Cockburn, a famous leftist writer and journalist, died Friday evening in Germany after going through a two year battle with cancer that was largely kept a secret.
Law enforcement officials are starting the process of defusing booby traps set up in James Holmes apartment, though it could still take a few days to diffuse the massive network of tripwires and explosives he set up before leaving for the Aurora movie theater.
There's believing in your business and then there's buying $17 million worth of your business's stock three months after suffering billions in massive, embarrassing losses. Jamie Dimon apparently believes JPMorgan will come back following the "London Whale" incident.
Warner Brothers very correctly thinks it would be "insensitive" for them to report their box office numbers for The Dark Knight Rises this weekend, so instead they're delaying announcing their returns until Monday out of respect for the victims of the tragedy in Colorado.
Tom Davis was one of the original writers on Saturday Night Live. He worked with the show for over 20 years, finally leaving in 2003. He passed away on Thursday from throat and neck cancer.
Jerry Seinfeld launched a new video series where he gets to show off his collection of very nice cars while sitting down for coffee with some of funniest best friends. His first guest is an old friend, Larry David.
F.B.I. agents arrested two people in Miami on Tuesday in connection with an art heist that sounds exactly like it was executed by Thomas Crown.
You would think after getting picked up for a second season after the first two episodes, Aaron Sorkin and the rest of The Newsroom's writing staff would be on cloud nine. And yet, another two episodes later and almost all of the writing staff are getting their pink slips.
Newt Gingrich and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi both appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this evening, and the two got along quite swimmingly. But the love between the Gingrich family and Snooki started well before the show went to air, and led to one of the best Intsagrams of all time.
The New York Times Magazine took a look at how Chuck Klosterman was doing as their new Ethicist through his first five columns, and so far people are having a hard time with agreeing with him.
Antonin Scalia says he's BFF with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he didn't have a falling out with John Roberts, he doesn't think Roe vs. Wade makes sense and how he thinks SuperPACs bring more free speech on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight.
Everyone gets freaked about technology sometimes, screaming "Skynet is coming! Skynet is coming!" even though we know that's not true. Facial recognition software freaks people out ("The machines can recognize us!" they say), and today Facebook sparred with congress over their new software.
The New Yorker announced an unsurprising purchase on Tuesday evening. The magazine has absorbed the Borowitz Report to be part of a new humor page on their website.
After firing the guy who was running North Korea's military on Monday, Korean State television is reporting that rather than interview a whole new slate of candidates to replace the departed general, Kin Jong-un found a perfectly suitable replacement: himself.
Even the British group responsible for health and safety are mad about concert promoters cutting off the Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney duet on Saturday night in London.
We still don't know who Mitt Romney is going to choose to be his running mate yet, but the one thing we can be pretty sure of is his choice won't inspire the same kind of fundraising spike that Sarah Palin brought the McCain campaign. Bobby Jindal could be the exception, though.
Egyptian protesters were a bunch of schoolyard bullies to Hillary Clinton on Sunday when they threw tomatoes and shoes while chanting "Monica! Monica! Monica!" at her.
You would think, after the Obama campaign debuted their knockout punch yesterday, the Romney campaign would want to come out strong with their next ad. Instead, they've pissed off two out of the three journalists featured in their thirty second spot.
Peter Jackson wants to make three Hobbit movies because he is a modern super-villain that should be stopped; Marvel gives away the plot of the new Captain America movie; Jamie Foxx and Zack Snyder are separately bad at their respective jobs.
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