Eric Garcetti will be the new mayor of Los Angeles after only parts of the city went to the polls last night. The turnout was depressingly low for America's second largest metropolis.
If your complaints about the old Magic Mike trailers were along the lines of "there's not enough nudity for this trailer of a stripper movie," then the new one minute red-band trailer is just for you.
Oliver North is in hot water after attributing a quote in one of his columns to the wrong Vietnam war veteran, and now we know the quote belongs to a Vietnam veteran who's also a journalism professor, and that North lied about how he came across the quotation in the first place.
Bob Schieffer called out the Romney campaign for only doing Fox, and now he gets to do the first interview with Mitt on a Sunday morning show not named Fox News Sunday.
The race to replace Gabrielle Gifford has been called: the Associated Press tweets that Ron Barber has officially been named the winner in the race for Arizona's District 8 seat in the House.
The Wall Street Journal reports the Justice Department is investigating whether cable companies have been unfairly working to regulate Internet consumption to prevent people switching from cable to online video.
Go Daddy announced they've hired an advertising company for the first time in seven years so they can move away from the advertising style that made the company famous, but so many people hated.
Reshoots and personel changes have plagued the production of World War Z, but its $170 million plus budget (so far) has apparently produced a great first half. Now they have to pay for a better ending.
Accusations of mysterious pink bags, bribes and lies are making the Lindsay Lohan car crash story juicier than it originally appeared to be.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy needs to be amended in a speech on Sunday.
Joe Biden spent his Saturday having way more fun than you did. Every year he invites the press and their families for a water fight at his home. He usually loses.
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Woodward and Bernstein talk leaks on CBS; McCain and Axelrod spar over Eric Holder on CNN; Scott Walker and Mitch Daniels think Wisconsin spells the end of public-employee unions. Oh, and two more names can be crossed off the VP watch list.
Three people are dead and more are injured after a fight escalated and someone started shooting in a student neighbourhood in Auburn, Alabama.
Hosni Mubarak may not make it to his appeal. The Associated Press is reporting Mubarak is in critical condition in the military hospital where he's currently serving his life sentence.
The sport of boxing is in critical condition Sunday morning after its biggest star, Manny Pacquiao, was robbed by the judges in his fight against Timothy Bradley.
A horse named Union Rags stepped into the spotlight and win Saturday's Belmont Stakes, but one trainer completed a runner-up's Triple Crown.
The Obama campaign is shedding the traditional campaign model and focusing its advertising efforts on the Internet, a gamble that could cost them dearly, or help them write the book on how candidates engage their base online.
In a conference call on Saturday, Spain's finance minister indicated they will be asking for a bailout from the other Eurozone countries that could amount to €100 billion.
U.N. monitors finally made it into Mazraat al-Qubeir after they were shot at while making their first attempt, and evidence left behind indicates the Syrian army played a heavy role in the massacre there.
If you had the opportunity to sit down and have lunch with Warren Buffett, what would you ask him? Turns out, most don't even ask about investing.
We've finally got our first real look at the financial implications of potential Triple Crown winner I'll Have Another's withdrawal from the Belmont Stakes.
Two U.S. attorneys have been tasked with finding out if there's any truth to rumours the White House leaked classified information to help the President's national security reputation.
Rand Paul endorsed the GOP's last man standing during an appearance on Fox News's Hannity on Thursday night.
We've all been guilty of it at one time or another, but one Massachusetts teen is serving a year in prison after getting into a fatal car accident when he was texting while driving.
The situation in Syria has deteriorated to the point where even the U.N.'s team of monitors can't go anywhere without coming under fire.
Airtime, the new video chat site from the Napster guys, has been out for a few days now, and we decided to see what it's like. Unfortunately, it seems it's already devolving into a bunch of guys looking for boobs. (But, no penises!)
Jeb Bush has always been supportive of Mitt Romney, but comments Bush made in a CBS This Morning interview leave us wondering how he really feels about Mitt Romney.
John Kerry and the New York Times are having a debate about journalism. It all started when Kerry was asked by CNN's Ted Barrett if he thought The Times should have held their story on President Obama's ordering cyberattacks against Iran's nuclear program "for national security reasons."
The Defense of Marriage Act took another hit on Wednesday when a New York federal judge ruled it unconstitutional, this time because it interferes with the states' right to regulate marriage.
The Weinstein Company spent the day taking down leaked versions, but the wait is finally over: the trailer for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is officially, really, legally here.
An appeal of the acquittal verdicts for six Egyptian officials means Mubarak's life sentence is going to be appealed too.
The two candidates running for President are huge dorks, according to the New York Times.
George Zimmerman turned himself over to Orlando police Sunday afternoon, ending any confusion over whether or not he would flee.
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A Romney campaign advisor says the former Governor supports the Paul Ryan budget; Ohio Governor John Kasich is scared unemployment in his state will rise; Krugman and Will make the case for Wisconsin.
While President Obama was attending a series of fundraisers in Minnesota on Friday, he made the unexpected decision to pardon an (adorable) criminal he met at one of the functions.
One person is dead and seven are injured after a gunmen opened fire in the middle of Toronto's Eaton Centre food court on Saturday evening.
A senior official from the Syrian Air Force has defected and sided with opposition forces, and claims he witnessed the Houla massacre first hand.
Thousands of Egyptian citizens descended on Tahrir Square late Saturday to protest the verdict they believe was either too soft, or could leave the door open for Mubarak to walk in an appeal.
The website Humanrights.gov published this before-and-after photo of what they believe is a mass grave dug after last week's massacre in Houla, Syria.
American Apparel could lose the one thing that lets us forgive it for usually being so icky. In an L.A. Times article, Dov Charney conceded the company might have to move its manufacturing operations overseas.
Andy Samberg is leaving Saturday Night Live. It's the right decision. Here's why.
An Orlando judge revoked George Zimmerman's bond yesterday and ordered him to return to jail. ThinkProgress obtained the prosecutors' motion that shows exactly how the Zimmermans deceived the court, and how their phone conversations while he was in jail busted them.
Fans of the New York Mets finally got to see someone on their team pitch a no hitter last night, ending a 50 year drought that plagued the ball club, and drastically altering the life of a website.
Egypt's former ruler Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday morning, but not everyone is satisfied with the ruling
Memorial Day plans rarely change for the President and he didn't spend his afternoon manning a grill. Obama spoke at the Arlington National Cemetery on Monday afternoon.
Players: Donald Trump, billionaire businessman, amateur conservative commentator and champion of the birther movement; George Will, pulitzer-prize winning conservative commentator.
An 11-year-old boy was able to survive the massacres in Houla, and he told the Guardian how pro-regime militia men killed his family, and how he managed to escape.
If you work for RIM, you might want to start polishing off your resume and start slipping your name to other employers. Massive layoffs are on the way.
Facebook is apparently trying to develop their own smartphone again, and they're prompting us to wonder if we really need one, and if a smartphone is really the answer to their problems.
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