After completing a thrilling come from behind win at the Kentucky Derby, Orb was supposed to walk away with Preakness and charge onto the Belmont Stakes in pursuit of the elusive Triple Crown. Unfortunately a horse named Oxbow had other ideas.
There's a new criminal trend spreading across America and it's producing billions of dollars in profits for the people smart enough to pull it off. People are filing fake tax returns and collecting the checks.
Facebook's messy IPO and the fallout over the following week have left many looking for someone to blame, and apparently inside Morgan Stanley it's falling on one of their star investment bankers, Michael Grimes.
A new report says that Iran has enough uranium on hand that it could build up to five nuclear missiles, if it really wanted to.
Chen Guangcheng's worst fears have been all but realized: a lawyer for Guangcheng's brother, Chen Guangfu, who also escaped house arrest, says he went missing Friday evening.
Violence in a small village in Syria has left around 100 people dead, including a least 25 children, and has put serious doubts on the supposed effectiveness of the U.N. monitors.
Chris Hughes, the Facebook-made millionaire owner of The New Republic, announced he's rehiring an old face to run the magazine and that he's not worried about it making a profit right away.
The NATO summit in Chicago started on Sunday, and while the focus of the summit is supposed to be on withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, a rift between the U.S. and Pakistan is taking center stage.
Welcome back to the Box Office Report where even we're getting a little tired of The Avengers' domination.
Karl Rove thinks the proposed Jeremiah Wright attack ad was a "stupid" idea on Fox News Sunday; Paul Ryan defends his budget and dodges a question over whether or not he's being considered as Mitt's running mate on Meet the Press.
Five journalists covering the NATO protests in Chicago were stopped by police and ordered out of their car at gun point on Saturday night, and weren't given a reason why.
The government in Pakistan banned Twitter for promoting a "blasphemous" cartoon contest on Facebook through Twitter on Sunday.
The season finale of SNL was bittersweet as the show said what's likely its final goodbyes to Kristen Wiig, Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis.
I'll Have Another had to come from way behind around the final turn of Saturday's Preakness to keep its dream of a Triple Crown alive.
Three men loosely connected with the NATO protests have been arrested in Chicago for planning terror attacks on major police stations and businesses downtown, as well as President Obama's campaign headquarters and Mayor Rahm Emanuel's house.
President Obama invited world leaders from France, Germany, the UK, Canada, Italy, Japan and Russia, aka the G8, to a retreat in Camp David for the weekend, and they're coming to agreements on all kinds of big issues.
There's a new insurgent group called the Mullah Dadullah Front in Afghanistan and they're being billed as "more radical" than the Taliban, The New York Times reports.
The historic launch of the first commercial spacecraft set to dock at the International Space Station was shut down at, literally, the last possible second on Saturday morning.
You might remember Joyce Banda from when she was sworn in as Malawi's first female head of state in April, and now from when she's announced she's planning on repealing the country's laws against homosexuality in her first state of the nation address.
In Mitt's first ad for his Presidential campaign, he looks at what the first day of a Romney presidency might look like.
In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, Sony has decided not to renew Dan Harmon's contract as Community's showrunner and decided to replace him for season 4.
The first executive head to roll at JPMorgan Chase will be Ina R. Drew, the chief investment officer responsible for overseeing the trades that led to the $2 billion trading loss that was announced on Thursday.
President Obama and Mitt Romney went head to head on Sunday, but it wasn't in a debate or over a hot-button election issue. They both released videos for Mother's Day.
Welcome back to the Box Office Report, where Johnny Depp's smirk goes head-to-head with Robert Downey Jr.'s smirk, and loses.
A little over four months since starting the job, a fudged resume is forcing Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's to announce will step down from his position for "personal reasons" on Monday.
JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon appeared on NBC's Meet the Press to apologize for how he behaved after the bank's $2 billion loss was revealed; Joe Lieberman announced there will be a congressional hearing over the Colombian Secret Service scandal.
We had fun thinking about what Tina Brown would come up with for her big cover story on Barack Obama's gay marriage endorsement earlier this week, and now we know what she's actually come with. She's calling Obama the first gay president.
Giving mom a day off and treating her to brunch or dinner every year makes Mother's Day one of the busiest day of the year for restaurants.
A top Afghan peace official was killed in a drive-by shooting on Sunday. Arsala Rahmani was a member of the High Peace Council, and was considered one of the countries biggest assets for negotiating peace talks with the Taliban.
A GOP pollster sent out a memo arguing for the Republican party to change its stance on gay marriage at the same time that two of the party's more high profile members made sure to position themselves against it after the President's big week.
Just getting home from his latest round of cancer treatment, the last thing Hugo Chavez probably expected was a crossword puzzle conspiracy that apparently threatened his brother's life.
In his commencement speech at Liberty University on Saturday, Mitt Romney revealed the snack that helped him outlast the rest of the Republican candidates during the primaries: chicken sandwiches from Chick-Fil-A.
We don't cover sports around here too often, but this is special: a Milwaukee Brewers pitcher left an adorable note for reporters after he had to run out of the stadium last night to get to the hospital because his wife is eight months pregnant and was having contractions.
That car you saw at the end of The Avengers? It was actually made in 1992 and had more than 250,000 miles on it.
If anyone is going to lose their job over the Leveson Inquiry, it's looking more and more like it's going to be culture secretary Jeremy Hunt.
After the news of its $2 billion loss, the outlook for JP Morgan Chase's future has taken a slight turn for the worse. Fitch Ratings announced they've changed their Long-term Issuer Default Rating from "AA-" to "A+" and changed their long-term outlook for the company to Ratings Watch Negative.
Between 20,000 and 100,000 people, depending on the report, clashed with police in Moscow on Sunday to protest Vladimir Putin's upcoming presidential inauguration.
Just a few hours after the crowds cleared from the Kentucky Derby, a body was found inside a stable at Churchill Downs racetrack in the early part of Sunday morning.
Francois Hollande has defeated Nicolas Sarkozy to win the French presidential election, BBC reports.
The Hulk (and his cohorts) smashed the all-time box office opening weekend by pulling in over $200 million since opening for midnight shows Friday morning.
Joe Biden said he's "absolutely comfortable" with same-sex marriage on NBC's Meet the Press; Marco Rubio attacked the President's economic policies while deflecting questions over whether or not he'll accept a VP nomination.
Floyd Mayweather lived up to his nickname. The boxer, who sometimes goes by "Money" Mayweather, made $32 million in guaranteed money for his fight against Miguel Cotto last night.
At the annual shareholder's meeting for Berkshire Hathaway on Saturday, Warren Buffett and his business partner, Charlie Munger, both said they won't be investing in Facebook when the tech company finally releases its IPO.
I'll Have Another just won the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby. The horse came from behind to overtake early favorite Bodemeister down the stretch.
President Obama didn't hold back when talking about his opponent, Mitt Romney, during a thirty five minute speech he gave on the Ohio University campus, the first of two major political rallies on Saturday that are meant to be the kickoff of his reelection campaign.
A judge has ruled that "liking" something on Facebook doesn't protect you under the First Amendment, which is bad news for at least one man in Virginia.
After ten hours of debate, the Connecticut senate passed a bill with a vote of 21-13 early Saturday morning that would legalize the sale of medical marijuana.
Old Gmail is (finally) dead. It's time to finally accept that the redesign is here to stay.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind, and four co-conspirators were brought in front of a judge for an arraignment on Saturday, and things went about as well as one would expect.
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