Yesterday we wrote about Joseph Gordon-Levitt's attempt to promote his directorial debut, which he also wrote, in character on Twitter. His Twitter persona as porn-addicted Jersey guy Jon Martello seemed strained. Now we have the trailer to see if he can pull off the persona on screen.
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo — the TLC reality show about pageant child Alana and her proud redneck family — has become a viral sensation and gained ratings success, but how much is the family actually getting?
The Paralympics. Those got underway last Wednesday and last until this Sunday (Jay Z is joining Coldplay and Rihanna at the closing ceremony on Sunday), but here in the U.S. few have been paying much attention. Since you might not have seen them, here are some great moments you've probably missed.
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With the DNC getting underway in Charlotte, support for Obama is lagging in North Carolina, though polls in Michigan and Colorado are more favorable. Meanwhile, Florida did not give Romney more support after the RNC. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
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One poll shows a convention "bounce" for Romney, while Michigan is close, or not really. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
What's the difference between Paul Ryan and Sarah Palin? 15.3 million viewers. And lipstick.
Now that President Obama has stepped up and participated in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" Q&A, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian has extended an offer to Mitt Romney to face Redditors as well. Ohanian told The Atlantic Wire that he wants Reddit to become an "expected campaign stop."
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Claire McCaskill is leading by a point in the Missouri Senate race, where polling hasn't really produced a clear picture, and Obama is up by a wide margin in his home state of Illinois. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
The National Weather Service reports that 7.86 inches of rain fell yesterday at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, surpassing the record 4.50 inches that the airport saw on that same date in 2005 when the city was facing Katrina.
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President Barack Obama, who has experimented in the past with open forum public question sessions with varied success, is doing an AMA on Reddit, starting right now.
The New Jersey governor may have appeared at the GOP convention last night, but a poll from his state shows Obama with a strong lead. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
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A new survey from USA Today/Gallup finds 9 percent of 1,033 adults surveyed have "never heard of" Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's wife, Ann.
We're in convention season and it looks like Romney is lacking on questions of empathy. Meanwhile the two candidates are tied in North Carolina, DNC territory, while Obama holds leads in Connecticut and Iowa. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
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The boys on the bus are kind of a boys' club, as a new study from the Women's Media Center and the 4th Estate Project found that 72 percent of newspapers articles covering the general election between April 16 and August 25 were written by men.
A new poll shows that registered voters by a small margin think Mitt Romney will do a better job with Medicare, but the same poll shows opposition to Ryan's plan for the program. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
The Republican National Convention is a place for speeches, weather anxiety and... hotties? That's what one might think based on a magazine dropped in gift bags: Alas, the "young delegates" featured in Bay Pop's Fall Issue are just models.
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Post-"legitimate rape" polls are bouncing around in Missouri, while Virginia is tied. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Avert your eyes. The oft-offended Parents Television Council has found something a little less than family friendly when comparing the 2010-2011 television season to this one: 407 percent more naked people.
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Not satisfied with just having one of their staffers merely pose as a naked Prince Harry, as they did for today's paper, the U.K.'s Sun tabloid decided to go with the real-life princely flesh on their Friday frontpage, which, as they point out themselves you've probably "already seen on the Internet."
Voters in three swing states are down on the Republican plans for Medicare, but the race remains tight in a nationwide poll today. Also, Obama's maintaining something of a lead in Ohio and an even bigger one in Pennsylvania. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
In the wake of Todd Akin's comments about pregnancy rarely resulting from "legitimate rape," lawyer Shauna Prewitt highlights a reality for women in that situation in a column on CNN: In a majority of states, attackers are afforded the same rights as other fathers.
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Polls taken nationally and out of two swing states show a nail-biter. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
In a blunder of Homer-sized proportions, the Postal Service spent $1.2 million too much in printing one billion commemorative Simpsons stamps, only 318 million of which sold, Bloomberg's Angela Greiling Keane reports.
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Paul Ryan helps Mitt Romney take a one-point lead in Wisconsin, but another poll shows that more Americans don't like his Medicare proposal than do. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
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Despite all the controversy surrounding NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk, just under half of New Yorkers think the tactic is “acceptable to make New York City safer,” a new poll from The New York Times finds, but they are matched by another 45 percent who think it's "excessive."
In swing states voters don't think they are better off now than they were four years ago, indicating a weak spot for the Obama campaign. Meanwhile, a red state remains strongly red. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
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Ah, remember Facebook's IPO in May? Those were the good old days for the company, which is now worth just half of its IPO-day valuation, according to Bloomberg.
@Horse_ebooks, the inexplicably famous spambot that won the Internet with its nonsensical verbal juxtapositions and random observations (if that's even the right word), has been called poetic before, but one writer is taking the account's "poetry" seriously.
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In three state polls — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Florida — Romney shows signs of gaining on Obama. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Maybe it's the weather up there: Two recent polls show that fewer Canadians than Americans doubt climate change's occurence.
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Obama could have a bigger lead if he convinced more people to vote. Meanwhile, a national poll is showing virtually no bump for Romney following his veep choice. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Should Jane Austen join Ayn Rand among conservatives' favorite writers? A National Review Online article has opened up a debate that touches the literary and political worlds, making us wonder: Can anyone really claim Austen as an ideological heroine?
Today we get a tantalizing glimpse of season three of Downton Abbey.
Big-name politicians are a familiar sight at the Iowa State Fair — this year, President Obama bought people beers and Paul Ryan was heckled; last year, Sarah Palin and the Republican primary pack made a scene — but the true stars are the many foods, which are put on sticks.
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