Did you visit The Drudge Report yesterday to get the latest breaking news on the Obamacare decision? We were mainly focused on CNN (big mistake) but if you stopped by Matt Drudge's breaking news site, you were not alone.
Is Barack Obama trying to preempt coverage of the GOP's big Super Tuesday? White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tweeted news of the president holding a press conference tomorrow right in the middle of 11 Republican primaries and caucuses without noting the time or even the topic.
Yes, we once called for a stop to this whole Mitt Romney-strapped-a-dog-atop-his-car story, but we can't help getting giddy over how The New Yorker got Rick Santorum to stand in for Seamus on the cover of its latest issue.
Though he didn't consider it a "great literary moment in my life," that isn't stopping folks today from remembering James Q. Wilson for his seminal 1982 analysis of urban crime for The Atlantic.
Though you wouldn't know it from picking up some British newspapers today, the fact that one-time News Corp. editor Rebekah Brooks was loaned a retired police horse wasn't that a big deal.
Never missing an opportunity to rail on Republicans, Jon Stewart took issue with the GOP-backed contraceptive bill debated (and defeated) in the Senate.
For a respite from the usual way North America's biggest rivalry plays out, today we learn which nation, the United States or Canada, goes on the Internet most.
Egypt set bail for seven detained American NGO workers, allowing them to slip out the country and save itself that $1.55 billion in aid the U.S. was threatening to cut.
Though it's no Greece, fellow EU member Spain also finds itself in dire economic straits, inspiring one Spanish village to propose growing marijuana for some extra cash.
Now that the Costa Allegra, the cruise ship disabled in the Indian Ocean, is safely docked at the island nation of Seychelles, passengers are starting to share their onboard memories. Somehow we doubt Costa Cruises will be putting them on a brochure.
Arizona's and Michigan's primary happened Tuesday night, and like many other political pundits, Jon Stewart is experiencing some pre-Super Tuesday fatigue.
On February 29, 2008, Michelle Birnbaum gave birth on her own birthday, meaning that four years later we would get to read about how unlikely it was for this mother-daughter pair to share a Leap Day birthday.
U.S. diplomats this morning are trumpeting an agreement they reached with North Korea to end its enrichment of uranium and its frightening, chest-thumping long-range missile tests. Does this signal a friendlier regime under Kim Jong-Un?
Egyptian officials and the news outlets got excited this morning with the arrest of man they thought was a top al-Qaeda leader, but it turns out that even though they had the wrong guy, they had reason to hold him anyway.
After running down the latest Mitt Romney flip-flop, Jon Stewart turned to an old frenemy of his last night: Fox, and its less-than-objective coverage of the economic recovery.
Today in depressing statistics, we have the number of meth labs busted in West Virginia so far this year. Unfortunately, it is a lot.
The nuclear power plant at Fukushima was officially declared "stabilized" in December, but maybe the plant's operators should have done a better job at cleaning up for visiting journalists today to avoid reports of how shabby the repairs look, like this one from the AP.
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have one thing in common, according to Jon Stewart: Neither can stop making off-key comments while on the campaign trail.
If you're like us, you saw your Twitter feed blow up on Sunday night with tweets about dresses, acceptance speeches, and French swears as the Oscars were broadcast on ABC.
Just in time for the election filing deadline this week, The Washington Post has word today that former Senator and one-time Democratic presidential candidate Bob Kerrey will be running in Nebraska for his old seat in Congress.
On Sunday, News International launched its shiny new Sunday edition on The Sun (which owner Rupert Murdoch boasted sold 3.2 million copies), but the company still faces serious accusations of bribery that could hurt the company as much as its phone hacking scandal.
By visiting a NASCAR race Sunday, Romney was trying to play the part of a racecar-loving average Joe, but instead by saying "I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners," he yet again manages to out himself as a clueless rich guy.
With one day between us and the much-anticipated 84th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday evening, media outlets are pulling out all the stops to cover the biggest awards show of the year.
We're pretty big Calvin and Hobbes fans here, so if we had the money we think we might have paid more than $107,550 for an original Bill Watterson watercolor of the philosophical six-year-old and stuffed tiger duo.
One way the New York Police Department is trying to deflect blame for this whole Muslim spying story: Tattling on their colleagues in New Jersey.
In in the next day scramble to figure out what exactly caused two Marine helicopters to collide on the California-Arizona border, at least one theory has emerged, and it involves dust.
After 19 debates, one may think that there's nothing new that any of the four remaining candidates could say. But as Jon Stewart noted of Tuesday's second-to-last one, they can still surprise us.
Though it's certainly a small subset of the Internet, the roughly 43,000 folks who follow @horse_ebooks are probably pretty interested to know that the creator of their much-loved Twitter spambot has at long last been outed by Adrien Chen at Gawker.
Yet again, we're shown that gay marriage is one of those topics on which social and fiscal conservatives don't quite align.
After watching the slow-motion death of snail mail for months, we should know by now that any headline about the U.S. Postal Service is bound to be bad.
For Harry Potter fans, the long, cold, and Dark five-year publishing hiatus of J.K. Rowling has been tough, but today we learn it will soon end.
Though reports of the 130,000-strong pro-Putin rally in a Moscow soccer stadium today make it sound like the once-and-future president has the support of all of Russia, the fact tht many of the attendees were coerced into attending suggests otherwise.
In 2008, TV talking heads made all sorts of dubious predictions about the socialist/Muslim/liberal things Barack Obama might do in office if elected president, Jon Stewart pointed out last night.
Of all economic indicators, this is the one that best illustrates to little kids just how "great" the Great Recession was.
If you follow Washington politics, something you've likely suspected can now be confirmed. According to a new analysis, most ex-staffers of U.S. representatives going lobbying worked for corporations.
In news that ought to give pause to mass transit commuters everywhere, 49 are reportedly dead and 550 injured in a gruesome-looking (and sadly not unusual) train crash this morning in Buenos Aires.
It's official: The United Nations nuclear inspections many thought Iran wouldn't let happen, didn't happen.
Continuing with his "Punanny State" segment, Jon Stewart last night turned his attention to Virginia, which is set to require pregnant women to undergo "trans-vaginal ultrasounds" if they want abortions.
Today in questions you didn't ask but are damn well getting the answers to, a Public Policy Polling survey ranked the 50 U.S. states by popularity among voters nationwide. And while Hawaii placing No. 1 in this little popularity contest wasn't a shock, that the Golden State ranked last was.
Proving yet again that the Internet offers free alternatives for things one used to have to pay for (see: the newspaper), a new report today says that cell phone networks lost $13.9 billion worth of revenue to free social media apps in 2011.
Yes, 13,000 points is an arbitrary threshold, but the fact this morning that the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached that mark for the first time since May 2008 lets Obama paint a rosier economic picture just in time for reelection, doesn't it?
The good news for Rick Santorum is that the latest poll numbers from Gallup have him leading Mitt Romney by 10 points; the bad news is that respondents also think Romney, not Santorum, is the GOP's best shot at beating Barack Obama.
"While little data on the phenomenon exists, venture capitalists say they are funding more chief executives under age 21 than ever before," reports Reuters' Sarah McBride.
If Sheldon Adelson is to be believed, expect Newt Gingrich to stay an advertising feature in the race for a long time with up to $100 million in super PAC donations, even though Adelson himself says he doesn't like the influence of rich donors.
Rep. Darrell Issa's all male debate on contraception raised plenty of eyebrows (including our own) and on Monday night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart weighed in as well.
How much would you pay to spend time with Samuel L. Jackson? Jeremy Lin? Snoop Dogg? Karl Rove? These don't have to be hypothetical questions. You actually can pay to meet them and other marquee names. For charity, of course.
Though it took some teeth-pulling, House Republicans made official the deal reached Monday to extend unemployment benefits and the payroll tax cut by another 10 months with a 293-132 vote today.
Though it seemed like he might be wavering, casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson has decided to let another $10 million ride on Newt Gingrich's flailing bid for president.
If this were a fun-loving cartoon bear breaking into campers' cabins and stealing food, we'd laugh. But it isn't funny when a well-armed and apparently deranged mountain man does it as one is in southwestern Utah.
The Daily Show host promised several episodes ago to permanently shelf jokes on the other meaning of the word "Santorum," but recent coverage of the candidate made that awfully difficult last night.
Visitors to the White House know that their tours rarely bring them into contact with its famous residents, but today, First Lady Michelle Obama (and First Dog Bo) surprised visitors with a hug-filled meet-and-greet.
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