North Korea fired a short range missile into the sea off its east coast on Sunday. It's the second day in a row the rogue nation fired short range missiles for no apparent reason. Seems a little wasteful, doesn't it?
Now that National Football League executives are asking players about their sexual orientation — not just wondering in the shadows about Manti Te'o but grilling them in job interviews — it may be time for the commissioner to do something. It may even be breaking the law.
What looked like another obstructionist tangle between the ever-competing chambers is now looking more like an unnecessary House debate and another win for Harry Reid over Boehner and Cantor and Co.
A group of new lawsuits contends that Budweiser brands, from Bud Light Platinum to Michelob Ultra, make the beer giant the king of watered down beers. Somewhere, beer snobs are snickering — maybe even to the tune of $15 million.
The tweets were obliquely racist — and even homophobic enough — to chime through the halls of the Capitol and even get potential candidate Ashley Judd to speak up.
Manti Te'o is reportedly raising eyebrows among general managers doing the hiring who "want to know" about his sexuality, even as teams refuse to speak out about gay players and critics charge that GMs still actively recruit players with criminal pasts.
Beck has now "chickened out" of the WWE's challenge to fight in the ring, all of which would be pretty funny, if Beck understood that the WWE didn't "love to hate the Tea Party" so much as love to entertain its Latino audience.
This time around, the man so affectionately referred to as "Diamond Joe" — he is a man for all memes, especially on The Onion's better days — is crossing his arms, smiling like only Joe can smile, and, well, you can't do anything about it. Here's GIF evidence.
If you live in one of the lucky 14 countries selected for a new test, it's now cheaper to use the social network's Messenger app to make a phone call — and it might be spreading.
DC Comics decided it's time to kill Batman-sidekick Robin again which is notable because this incarnation of Robin has actually been popular, unlike the last Robin to be unceremoniously killed off.
The notorious recluse, occasional Simpsons joke, and perhaps America's greatest living writer is releasing a novel in 2013, and the word leaked in pretty reclusive fashion.
Every year, there's a shameless race to win your Super Bowl clicks when blogs and newspapers set up "What Time Does the Super Bowl Start?" posts. It appears a similar race has started up for Hollywood's Super Bowl, the Oscars. Or, the outrage over it has, at least.
Regardless of the outcome of tonight's Oscar ceremony, Quvenzhané Wallis is still walking out of the weekend as a winner. The Beast of the Southern Wild star just got cast as the new lil orphan Annie.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where Bruce Willis came at the Queen but he definitely missed.
Ray LaHood plays sequester town criar; John McCain warns that John Brennan's confirmation could be held up until more Benghazi secrets are handed over.
During the aftermath of yesterday's scary NASCAR crash, a video emerged on Youtube taken mere feet away from where one of the car's tires landed in the grandstand. It was an amazing, fan shot video of what happened. And then Youtube and NASCAR pulled it on copyright grounds.
This is especially distressing considering what we learned yesterday. The U.S. tried to repair their broken relationship with North Korea after Kim Jong-Il died. Spoiler alert: it didn't work.
The Pistorius family are going to be court room regulars before the year is through. Besides little brother Oscar's murder case, another Pistorius sibling is facing murder charges in South Africa. Oscar's big brother Carl is being charged with culpable homicide, too.
It's race weekend in Daytona. It should be a fun weekend! The annual Daytona 500 is on Sunday, and it's the biggest race of the year. But a scary crash at the finish of a Nationwide race on Saturday is hanging a dark cloud over the weekend's festivities.
This weekend is the NFL Combine, where the new crop of rookies run and jump and are analyzed by professional scouts before the annual draft. Among this year's crew is Manti Te'o. You may have heard of him. He dated a girl that didn't exist. The press had some questions for him.
Ted Cruz was so aggressive during Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing that he was reprimanded by fellow Republicans. After it was revealed Cruz sees communists everywhere, the Texas Republican made a defense inspired by his recent foe.
May no Yankee ever complain about being hated ever again. Because, after a lengthy legal war, the Yankees are officially recognized by the courts as Baseball's Evil Empire. They had it copyrighted.
It's rare that our friends from North Korea actually pick up the phone and give the ol' U.S. a call. But according to reports in their local media that's exactly what they did. Oh, and did we mention it was to warn the U.S. they would meet a "miserable destruction"?
Twitter exploded Saturday morning after a gunman wearing body armor was reportedly spotted on the MIT campus, which is terrifying. Except after the smoke cleared and no gunman was found, it appears the whole thing was a hoax.
So, there's this show about people who wear old clothes and fight with swords and stuff, and people say it's pretty popular but there's no evidence to back that up. No one wants to watch a trailer for some show called Game of Thrones first thing Saturday morning, right?
a few days after Anheuser-Busch InBev changed up the terms of the merger, things could be coming to a peaceful resolution with the U.S. Justice Department — and the world could be mixing Bud and Corona after all, technically speaking.
Calling all aspiring media tycoons: The New York Times is reportedly shopping around The Boston Globe to potential buyers — again — and it won't cost 10 figures this time.
Passing up his final opportunity to cooperate with the investigation from his eternal enemies at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Armstrong unveiled bigger plans for his official, non-Oprah coming-clean party: He'll only talk to a global court that doesn't exist yet.
New bad guys are not-so-loosely inspired by the Tea Party, and that has commentators not-so-quietly complaining about a couple of outwardly racist xenophobes who want to send Mexicans back across the border. Even if that was kind of the whole point.
Now that Hugh Hefner's empire is leaning out of the "smut" business, the real Playboy boss is betting you actually will read it for the articles — or at least buy an iPhone app with lingerie instead of naked ladies.
The Beltway schmoozefest that has become a pretty unfunny snoozefest will be headlined by a man with a good precedent for bringing some brass ones to the White House.
Just about everybody assumed religious groups would be outraged, but just about everybody thought the sketch would offend Christian organizations. But apparently it offended at least one Islamic anti-defamation group a little more.
The mystery novelist was awarded nearly $51 million in a lawsuit against her old financial management team, so she should be able to buy back the personal helicopter she used for book "research."
As the administration continues to draw the ire of the Beltway press, the most White House-friendly network up and hired yet another former White House message man, David Axelrod. And that may all be part of the plan.
If you look at the numbers, the network is missing Sunday Night Football — and Donald Trump — a lot more than anyone thought.
Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich did a Reddit AMA Monday morning, and it shouldn't surprise any of the band's fans to hear that the answers given range from weird to... weirder.
That the New York Post and Alec Baldwin got into another spat is not news, really. But the latest battle between the paper and Baldwin is a little uglier, and a little unsettling, and a little more racist than their normal tiffs.
Florida's Simpsons-like Python Challenge has ended, and the results aren't the greatest. Of the 150,000 Burmese pythons populating the state's Everglades, only 68 pythons were killed during the month long harvest.
On a relatively quiet news weekend, the heavy drinkers populating your social media channels burst out in collective cheers on Sunday when the Kentucky whiskey brand Maker's Mark announced it would not, in fact, water down its own product as planned.
Welcome to the Box Office Report, where Bruce Willie will never age into a period of bad sequels to his old movies like Stallone did, right?
Lindsey Graham and John McCain seem ready to move on from the whole Chuck Hagel debacle; Rand Paul and Paul Ryan talk about the potential of their respective 2016 runs; and there's some chatter over the President's leaked immigration plan.
Christoph Waltz is a very talented actor. No one denies that. He even won an Oscar. But going into his hosting stint on Saturday Night Live, we had reservations. Delivering movie dialogue with wit and timing can easy; doing it live is not. Thankfully, we were so, so wrong.
A bloody cricket bat is at the center of a potential case against Oscar Pistorius in the alleged killing of his girlfriend of four months, Reeva Steenkamp.
Things seemed to escalate quickly there. After a copy of the White House's back-up immigration reform bill leaked, Marco Rubio moved quickly to shoot down the bill's proposals to ensure his bipartisan effort remained the favored method to get this deal done.
In a speech given two weeks ago in Las Vegas, the President gave the first preview of his immigration reform back up plan. If Senate or Congress can't get the job done, he has a bill waiting for them to vote on. We now know what, exactly, makes up a chunk of the President's proposals.
The long road to the conclave is well under way. But who wants to wait until then? The campaigning and quizzing about who should be the next Pope is already going on, behind the scenes, in "phone conversations" and "e-mails." How very 21st Century of the Catholic church.
The 30 year relationship between Vogue and its popular editor Andre Leon Talley is about to come to an end, according to a New York Post Page Six report out Saturday morning.
Marco Rubio has to shadow everything the President does these days. The potential Republican 2016 hopeful was the official State of the Union rebutter earlier this week. On Saturday morning, Rubio announced he is embarking on week long trip to Israel, just like the President.
February really is the cruelest month because, on top of all this snow, one is forced to start contemplating death, or at least filling out one's taxes. You might be left scratching your head, and wishing you had a better accountant, when you hear how Facebook is getting hundreds of millions in a tax refund this year.
The FBI's investigation into New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's potentially shady dealings is still ongoing, but for now it seems like he's going to get off an least one of the charges: they can't find any evidence he solicited any Dominican prostitutes, underage or otherwise.
So, after yesterday's Russian meteor, and the asteroid passing that could have leveled an entire city, we thought the brief "space stuff falling from the sky" trend was over. But that's not the case. The U.S. just needed to have its own meteor sighting.
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