The acclaimed filmmaker makes the liberal's case for watching Fox News
The central banks of the U.S., Japan, England, Switzerland, Canada and the eurozone teamed up this morning to prop up the global economy and make it easier for banks to receive dollars when they need it.
In today's tour of the Middle East, Iran finds its own Occupy movement, Israel sends a message about dating to American expats and a mystery explosion remains.... mysterious.
Paul Krugman's views on economics may be entrenched for life but he's still prone to epiphany when it comes to indie rock music.
The host of This Week explains her love of radio and what bothers her about the mainstream media.
As Europe's debt crisis rages on, a collection of financial experts and global institutions are warning European leaders that the Euro Zone could collapse if swift actions aren't taken.
The NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on Saturday is forcing the U.S. to brace for a spate of terrorist attacks, re-route its supply lines and engage in a public shouting match with Pakistan while it simultaneously holds private talks to salvage the shattered relationship.
When you're President Obama's persona assistant, your assignments aren't glamorous but you're doing them for the president of the United States, so even handing him a bottle of water is kind of a big deal.
Now that there's nothing left to be secretive about, Super Committee Democrats and Republicans are sharing details about the deficit-reduction panel's fabulous collapse with members of the press.
With the Super Committee officially dead, lobbyists, politicians and Pentagon officials are racing to repeal the $600 billion in defense cuts scheduled to begin in 2013.
Debt worries across Europe and the U.S. have triggered a broad sell-off on Wall Street today, gaining momentum well into the afternoon.
The Super Committee's failure to reach a deficit-reduction deal leaves a host of problems in its wake, including the expiration of tax breaks and unemployment benefits and tremors of uncertainty in the stock market.
The Super Committee's official deadline for a deficit deal is technically on Wednesday, but because of the necessary behind-the-scenes work at the Congressional Budget Office, the real deadline is Monday at midnight.
Super Committee Democrats blasted a smaller $643 billion deficit-reduction plan offered by Republicans Friday, a rejection that leaves nothing on the table ahead of Monday's deadline.
Today's New York Times spotlights a $6.1 million ad campaign by the Mormon Church aimed at bringing new converts to the faith. One group of followers they may not have expected to attract? Hordes of Internet trolls.
The day for making excuses is upon us, as members of Congress begin alerting the Washington press that the 12-member Super Committee will miss its Nov. 23 deadline.
The likelihood of a Super Committee deficit-reduction deal by Nov. 23 depends on a slew of moving parts. But that hasn't prevented banks, politicians and reporters from venturing a guess at the odds of an 11th hour agreement.
We expected a number of uncomfortable questions to be raised during Energy Secretary Stephen Chu's first testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee today and House Republicans did not disappoint.
Despite vociferous claims from leaders in both parties that the Super Committee must not fail, a narrow coalition of actors inside and outside of government are rooting for the deficit-reduction panel to gridlock and fail in its final days of negotiations.
Today, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee will try their best to draw concessions from Energy Secretary Stephen Chu for his department's support of Solyndra, the first renewable energy company to receive a loan under President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, which has since gone belly up.
The new face of the youth-fueled Occupy Wall Street movement is none other than an 84-year-old woman who's spent her life crusading for liberal causes.
Newt Gingrich has so many skeletons in the closet it's not even worth engaging the media on its own terms.
They can't strike a deal so they want to pull a fast one. With only one week left, members of the bipartisan Super Committee are resorting to accounting gimmicks and legislative sleights of hand to magically produce $1.2 trillion in deficit savings without significant tax increases or spending cuts.
Hunting season has begun for journalists and advocacy groups looking to tar the Supreme Court justices with conflict of interest issues involving their future ruling on President Obama's health care bill.
In a rare on-the-record interview, the U.S. military is refuting the revisionist account of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound published this month by former Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer.
The MSNBC host vents on his hatred for Wikipedia and his faith in the staying power of liberal talk radio
The legislators knew it was coming and they came out guns blazing.
The Fox News anchor talks Twitter and how she snagged the first post-scandal Herman Cain interview
There's a subtle divide between what Super Committee members are saying publicly and what's going on behind closed doors as the deadline looms to trim the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the next nine days.
House Energy and Commerce ranking member Rep. Henry Waxman says the Republican-led investigation of Solyndra has been "politically-rigged" since it began this summer, citing yesterday's release of emails between Obama fundraiser George Kaiser and his associates as just the latest example of political gamesmanship.
Global markets breathed a sigh of relief this morning, as Greece's new Prime Minister was sworn into office on a mandate to implement a $177 billion European bailout and impose austerity measures on Greek society.
Today, a new report out of London that Israel will launch a military attack against Iran as early as December to halt the development of its nuclear program seized parts of the blogosphere.
The outrage over the gross mismanagement of the remains of U.S. troops at Dover Air Force base is centering on two unfortunate aspects: dishonor for America's war dead and the way the mortuary's well-meaning whistle-blowers were treated.
According to new emails released by House Republicans, George Kaiser, a billionaire investor and bundler for President Obama 2008 campaign, says he discussed the now-bankrupt solar company Solyndra with White House officials.
Maybe it's a coincidence that the same year Facebook's lobbying presence in Washington ballooned, legislators introduced a bill that would re-write securities law in the social network's favor.
The community organizing collective ACORN may be disbanded but that doesn't mean Republicans are finished crusading against its former employees and tying them to the left-wing-tinged Occupy Wall Street movement.
It has been a little over a month since the White House launched an outreach program promising official responses to policy ideas submitted by everyday Americans. The result? A whole lot of arguing over space aliens, marijuana legalization, and Casey Anthony, followed by vague, bureaucratic answers.
A series of tactical blunders, a coziness with Wall Street and a shifting re-election strategy have made White House chief of staff Bill Daley the wrong man to serve as gatekeeper to the president.
A perfect storm of economic forces has caused the net worth of of people under 35 to fall by 68 percent between 1984 and 2009 according to the Pew Research Center.
It's time to forget everything you thought you knew about the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound—again.
Whether it's front-runner Lucas Papademos or another leading contender, the next prime minister of Greece's soon-to-be-formed unity government will have a mountain of problems to tackle starting on day one.
Good news! Today's jobs report shows we're not spiraling head-first into a double-dip recession. On the downside, the economy's not really growing much either.
Nuclear bombs capable of pulverizing entire cities should probably be kept in a safe place. According to The Atlantic's new cover story, in Pakistan, they're transported in civilian-style vans through busy traffic.
Hell hath no fury like a journalist who can't freely retweet. The Associated Press is facing a wave of backlash today following the release of its new guidelines for Twitter usage.
The quirky developers over at Google headquarters are obsessed with implanting inside jokes or "Easter eggs" in a range of its free software, from Google Earth to Google search to Google Reader.
The plan to hold a referendum on the $178 billion European bailout package has been scrapped, according to Greek officials speaking with The Associated Press.
In a series of new reports on MF Global's bankruptcy, Jon Corzine's colleagues are attesting to the former New Jersey governor's deep involvement crafting the strategy that lead to the firm's collapse
The stunning decision by Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou to hold a referendum on the $178 billion European bailout package has laid bare the miserable economic options the country has in front of it.
In a mere 24-hours, MF Global has gone from being a bankrupt brokerage firm with a famous CEO to a federal investigation soon involving the FBI.
The last best hope to salvage a $1.2 trillion deficit-reduction deal in the Super Committee rests on the shoulders of three Republicans: Michigan Congressman Dave Camp, Ohio Senator Rob Portman and Michigan Congressman Fred Upton.
The 72-day-long marriage between Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries was chronicled on 61 (so far) magazine covers appearances in gossip weeklies between December 2010 when rumors of an engagement began and today, when the reality TV marriage came crashing apart.
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