Grist on the information vacuum around fracking, The Atlantic Cities on Google's personalized maps, ABC News on the impact of climate change on human allergies, The Guardian on the threat of flooding in London, CNN on the specter of oil manipulation.
Google chairman Eric Schmidt and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson have arrived.Whether they have any chance of freeing an American citizen named Kenneth Bae, well, they're not getting their hopes up.
After weeks of speculation and before weeks of heated partisan bickering over his appointee's controversial record, President Obama will nominate former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense "as early as Monday."
An arrest at the Minneapolis airport certainly is reminiscent of the Denzel Washington film: a 48-year-old American Eagle pilot was detained after he took a Breathalyzer test.
Mike Crapo, the Republican Senator from Idaho who was arrested in Virginia on December 23 under the suspicion of driving while intoxicated, pled guilty in a Virginia court today.
Newly retired Representative Barney Frank confirmed Friday morning his interest in temporarily filling John Kerry's soon-to-be abandoned Senate Seat — and said that he'd told Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick "I would now like, frankly, to do that."
A new study published is giving astrophysicists a case of existential anxiety.
Elizabeth Warren is in, and Scott Brown wants back in, but someone needs to step in for Kerry when he takes over for Hillary Clinton — and then there's going to be a special election. Here's a field guide as the 113th Congress convenes.
After leaving the hospital where she was already conducting official State Department business, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will return to Foggy Bottom next week, although when, exactly, she will testify on the Benghazi attacks, remains unclear.
The Illinois Senator, who suffered a stroke in January 2012 and spent the last year learning how to walk again, returned to Capitol Hill Thursday for the convening of the 113th Congress, climbing the steps of the Capitol building for his swearing-in.
The backlash continues against the Journal News, but the most notorious local paper of the year doesn't seem to be backing down.
In the midst of a French flap over taxing the rich, Putin publicly offered Depardieu a Russian passport. But that was only the start: According to the Kremlin's official Twitter account, Depardieu is now an actual citizen of Russia.
The contentious fiscal cliff deal struck Tuesday night sent stock markets, here and abroad, "climbing", "surging", "rallying," and "soaring" on Wednesday. Which confirms the importance of striking a deal — any deal! — in the first place.
The New Jersey governor went off on the House leadership in a nuclear press conference Wednesday afternoon, but perhaps more damning than Christie's harsh words for all of Congress was who he blamed for the bill: House Speaker John Boehner.
Much like the nasty fight he started over Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage, Brown is already accusing a potential opponent of exaggerating where he comes from.
The outspoken Republican Congressman from New York, has been blasting his own party's leadership for stalling a bill amidst the fiscal cliff talks that would fund relief for areas affected by Hurricane Sandy
The Putnam County Clerk says the Journal News's feature on where gun permit owners live is "clearly wrong," and won't release more records without a fight.
The heated fiscal cliff negotiations are over — for now — so it's time to assess your wallet: The payroll tax hike cancels out some other tax cuts, but that doesn't necessarily mean your take-home income will decrease.
Because the only thing better than Times Square is Times Square littered with bright pieces of paper.
The issue has caused no neurological damage and the Associated Press says the Secretary of State's doctors expect a full recovery.
A cache of recently declassified spy documents of a long forgotten deep-sea adventure reveals a tale that resembles the plot of Ice Station Zebra, a 1968 film that Roger Ebert called "an embarrassment."
Christian Slater's no-good, very-bad year comes to a depressing end.
How did the commentators who tried to link the Secretary of State's health issues to her Benghazi testimony react to the news that a blood clot had hospitalized her? Well, some apologized. But not all of them. Not nearly.
Looks like no one will be questioning President Obama or Hillary Clinton's popularity again anytime soon.
Making the rounds Friday was Norm Ornstein's updated essay on the horrors of our slow-moving Congress, which still — still! — cannot strike a deal on the impending fiscal cliff.
The elaborate trap enacted by William Spengler on Christmas Eve — the one that ended with two firefighters dead and two more seriously injured in Webster, New York — just got even more elaborate.
Should you believe the CIA's latest attempt to continue debunking Hollywood? We break down each agency claim with actual details from Zero Dark Thirty and beyond.
As Vladimir Putin signed the bill, heartbreaking mid-adoption stories began to emerge, from New York to Ohio to California, of would-be parents to many of the approximately 1,000 Russian children taken in by U.S. families each year.
An inmate in New Jersey managed to shoot three officers early this morning, and details remain unclear, but the incident has already steered the ongoing gun conversation on Twitter today.
Ten days after the death of Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, the governor of Hawaii named Schatz as Inouye's replacement Wednesday night. By Thursday just after lunchtime, Joe Biden was swearing him into the famous book of Senators.
A rare example of bridge-building for an organization that has blamed the media regarding Newtown and long before that: "I'm not a vindictive guy that wants to go after David Gregory," said NRA President David Keene on CNN Thursday.
As baristas declined to partake and customers complained, the downfall of Howard Schultz's utopian dream continued when AOL's Patch network declared an incredibly strange and possibly unethical partnership with Starbucks.
A double-digit jump from last year, when just 44 percent answered likewise, and the highest percentage recorded by Gallup since 2004.
Employees of the Journal-News, which recently published a map of gun owners in two upstate New York counties, are receiving the same treatment — sort of.
As if the "Where's Hillary?" meme hadn't picked up enough conspiratorial steam, it appears some believe Kerry somehow might not get confirmed as Clinton's successor until GOP Senators successfully drag her to testify about the Benghazi attacks.
China now has the fastest, longest bullet train in the world. Why don't we?
The country's biggest coffee company is getting into its country's politics! But how, exactly, will Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz rid Washington of its woe this time?
The suddenly embattled former Nebraska senator's foes have planted enough doubt to make the confirmation process tenuous, maybe even impossible. It's "fair" to say Obama is now looking at other candidates, National Journal reports. Which ones?
That covers the "work lost, medical care, insurance, criminal-justice expenses and pain and suffering" associated with gun violence, and might be one to think on over the holidays as the post-Newtown gun debate rages on.
The latest storm centers on the would-be Secretary of Defense's comments about would-be ambassador James Hormel 15 years ago — criticism substantive enough that Hagel is now walking it back.
A U.S. Marine imprisoned in Mexico for bringing a banned shotgun into the country will be released from custody today, reports Fox News, which championed his cause back home.
The "We the People" section of the administration web site has been flooded with 32 separate petitions since the Newtown shootings, and early Friday the president released a video response as another vehicle for pushing new legislation.
The trio of senators who led the months-long wave of criticism against U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice are suddenly focusing their attention on Obama's potential pick for Secretary of Defense.
A new study being passed around cites cites significant errors — sewing a sponge into a chest cavity, say, or operating on the wrong patient — but before you freak out, understand the context.
In the (likely) event Kerry is picked to head Foggy Bottom, Massachusetts would hold a special election late next spring or early summer. We dissect the contenders — and their odds.
Speculation had been brewing for weeks, and a report surfaced earlier in the morning that Booker would tweet his intentions, and then came the tweet to the popular (if controversial) mayor's 1.3 million followers late in the morning.
Questioning President Obama's record in an election year beyond "driving us over a fiscal cliff," Sarah Palin went on Fox News last night to blast Time's choice.
The fate of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the American soldier who allegedly murdered nine children and seven adults in March 2012 in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan, may be up to President Obama.
The defense secretary owns a golden retriever — code name: Bravo; real name: Bravo — who, besides witnessing first-paw the CIA's plans to hunt down Osama bin Laden, is way better at keeping secrets than the disgraced former CIA chief.
When someone like Robert Bork dies, the inevitable barrage of obituaries becomes something of an art form. Here are the best attempts to describe the conservative legal icon so far.
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