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.
Remember way back in 2010 when you hated watching the Olympics on tape delay and you couldn't figure out why NBC wasn't streaming everything online as it happened? Consider your prayers answered. Everything is going to be streamed this year.
The News Corp. board of directors has approved a plan to split the company into two pieces, one for the company's lucrative entertainment businesses and its not-so-lucrative publishing businesses.
Kofi Annan has a big, new idea on how to save Syria (because his last one worked so well) and it's a unified Syrian government with regime and opposition representatives, but Bashar al-Assad may have to be left out.
A judge has ruled in favor of Apple in its quest to halt the sale of Samsung's Galaxy tablet, so Apple can make arguably its biggest competition go away for $2.6 million dollars.
Savannah Guthrie, who was previously the most likely replacement for Ann Curry, has been officially offered the job of Today Show co-host.
The writer and filmmaker responsible for some of the most popular comedies of the last 25 years passed away on Tuesday.
Rupert Murdoch tweeted his latest complaints with the Romney campaign and said Romney doesn't even look like a challenger to Barack Obama's presidency.
Journalist Anthony Shadid, who was killed by a severe asthma attack while in Syria in February, apparently told his wife before making his final trip abroad that if anything happened to him he wanted his death to be blamed on the New York Times.
The Romney campaign packed up their things for a weekend getaway in Park City, Utah, where top campaign supporters got to mingle with some of the GOP's mast famous faces, including runaway comedy star of the weekend Karl Rove.
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Darrell Issa appeared on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopolous and Fox News Sunday to sell his contempt vote against Attorney General Eric Holder; Rick Perry called President Obama's use of executive privilege "Nixonian;" and Tim Pawlenty shied away from some of his VP hype.
A former Horace Mann professor admitted to having sex with students while he worked for the school, saying, hey, it was a different time and attitudes were more relaxed.
It was announced Sunday that Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi defeated former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik to become Egypt's first elected President.
Everyone's waiting for the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act that's expected to come as early as tomorrow, so here's our guide to how you should be preparing of the Court's decision.
Larry Page, Google's CEO, missed the company's annual meeting last week, and has already announced he's going to miss two upcoming big appointments for the company, prompting many to wonder about the state of his health.
This is slightly embarrassing. Mexican authorities celebrated the arrest of a man they claimed to be the son a powerful drug cartel leader on Thursday, but then admitted they were wrong and had actually arrested a car salesman.
Don't let anyone tell you there's no such thing as bad publicity. The club that hosted the epic brawl between Drake and Chris Brown is facing huge legal obstacles in the wake of the fight, and it's pretty much a guarantee that they're going to have to close.
An excerpt from a new book about Facebook in the Wall Street Journal is shedding more light on how the company got rid of some of the ickier aspects of how women were treated after hiring Sheryl Sandberg.
The backlash over NBC's decision to remove Ann Curry from The Today Show is already starting, and the person leading the charge is an Iraq war veteran.
Turkey and Syria are currently working together to locate the wreckage of the downed Turkish fighter jet shot over Syrian airspace on Friday, but the world is waiting to see how Turkey is going to respond.
Sometime around 10 p.m. Friday night, Jerry Sandusky was found guilty of 45 out of the potential 48 charges being brought against him. The length of Sandusky's jail term hasn't been decided yet, but he's facing potentially hundreds of years behind bars.
The Romney campaign won't like this. The Washington Post is reporting that while Romney was running Bain Capital, he invested in companies that were some of the first to use overseas work to cut down on costs.
Director Robert Rodriguez has tapped Charlie Sheen to play the President of the United States in his new movie Machete Kills in a sickening piece of troll casting.
Twitter apologized and explained why it was down Thursday afternoon, and while the reason is perfectly acceptable, something about their apology unsettled us.
While the President is hosting lavish dinners with Anna Wintour and Sarah Jessica Parker and accepting donations from some of Hollywood's biggest names, Mitt Romney isn't getting any love from right-wing celebrities.
Rafalca, the Romney's Olympics-bound dressage horse, nets the family a $77,000 tax credit, $2,000 of which is for what they spent on health care for the horse. The average American family only spends $1,557 a year on health care.
Sanford police chief Bill Lee has finally been fired for his handling of the Trayvon Martin case three months after going on administrative leave.
Ann Curry's days as a co-host of NBC's The Today Show are officially numbered, as The New York Times' Brian Stelter is reporting network execs want Curry out of her current role by the London Summer Olympics.
Jonah Lehrer got in piles of trouble on Tuesday when it was revealed he has a history of recycling his own material, and now he's apologized and ended any ethics debate you were already bored of hearing about.
Within the span of a work day, Marco Rubio's name was removed and then re-added to Mitt's list of people being vetted as for the Vice Presidency. So, when exactly did Mitt change his mind?
Vladimir Putin got along swimmingly with reporters at his press conference after Tuesday's G20 meetings. They got along so well, in fact, that some reporters cheered him when the interview was over.
Darrell Issa is going go ahead with holding Eric Holder in contempt of Congress on Wednesday, after the two sides couldn't come to a deal during a last minute meeting Tuesday evening, unless he gets documents relating to the Fast & Furious program by 10 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Reports of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak being "clinically dead," have been debunked, but he's currently being kept alive on life support and some are saying his condition is going downhill. Crowds have gathered in Tahrir Square waiting for updates about his condition.
Radiohead were supposed to play a concert in Toronto's Downsview Park on Saturday, but the show was cancelled after the stage collapsed and killed the band's drum technician.
Pro-bailout parties in Greece have taken a little over 40 percent of the vote in the election on Sunday, calming global fears of a Euro exit, if they can form a government.
Jane Pratt has finally weighed in on Cat Marnell's decision to leave xoJane, and she's justifiably heartbroken.
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Mitt Romney talks immigration, bailing out Europe, health care and tax reform in huge interview with Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation; McCain says he's worried about campaign finance scandals; Santorum talks immigration and his role in a potential Romney administration.
Rodney King, victim of the police brutality that spawned the 1992 L.A. riots, was found dead in his home on Sunday morning. He was 47.
The ratings for ABC's tightrope walk are in, and the stunt pulled huge numbers, proving that people will flock to television we can all talk about.
Democratic party members, rejoice! Lawmakers in North Carolina have come together to make sure your fridges and coolers will stay well-stocked when you visit for the Democratic National Convention on Labor Day weekend.
Mitt Romney had a full day of campaigning in Pennsylvania on Saturday that included a joke, a flub, and some talk about the economy.
Responding to the hubbub yesterday over her exhaustion, Lindsay Lohan joked about how she wishes the paramedics who rushed to her hotel room yesterday when she wouldn't wake up were cute.
Japan's Prime Minister ordered two of the countries nuclear reactors to resume operations on Saturday, the first time the country's used any of its 50 working nuclear reactors since the meltdown in Fukushima.
The Ryan Seacrest media empire convinced CBS to order a pilot for a Draw Something gameshow, which we think is the first iPhone game to be turned into a television gameshow.
Aung San Suu Kyi was award a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her non-violent protests and efforts to support democracy in Bruma. On Saturday, she finally accepted her prize in Norway more than 20 years later.
The U.N. announced they're suspending the activities of their team of monitors tasked with implementing the failing six-point peace plan in Syria on Saturday.
Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk across Niagara Falls on a high wire Friday night, and in the process became the first person to clear customs that way, too.
Just in case you can't afford the $40,000 per plate price tag, or you didn't win the Obama campaign's win-a-trip-to-a-fundraiser contest, we've got you covered. This is everything that went down at Sarah Jessica Parker's big Obama party.
Officials in Britain have seen what's going on with the rest of the Eurozone, and have cut a deal worth an estimated £80 billion to make sure they don't become the next Spain.
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