The president is on the verge of losing his temper; all it took was a wasted Secret Service detail and 11 Colombian prostitutes.
As a Secret Service sex scandal -- alcohol! Colombian prostitutes! -- shocks and titillates a nation, at least one lawmaker is wondering just how "isolated" an incident this really is.
Welcome back to Box Office Report, where we hold a butter-substitute-coated finger to the wind and take a reading on America's moviegoing habits.
Relive the highlights from a Sunday morning's worth of political talk shows.
Steven Spielberg made a cameo on last night's Saturday Night Live -- and brought with him one of his most enjoyable films in years.
Tornadoes kill five in Oklahoma, and more wild winds are expected today.
Employing a small army of suicide bombers and gunmen, the Taliban unleashed a multi-tiered assault today that targeted Afghanistan's foreign embassies, parliament and NATO headquarters.
Colin Farrell takes on the role made iconic by Arnold Schwarzenegger in a remake of the 1990 sci-fi classic about memory manipulation. Just don't expect déjà vu.
The Hunger Games is still the only game at the megaplexes. Elsewhere, Sam Worthington continues to work, and a non-prostitution-related Julia Roberts fairy tale fails to ignite interest. It's the Box Office Report.
In a stunning turn of events for the onetime human rights disaster zone, Nobel Peace Prize-winner and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi has been elected to Burma's parliament.
The weekend has aired out a heaping load of dirty laundry surrounding the dismissal of Current TV personality Keith Olbermann.
The best outtakes from the Sunday morning political talk shows.
An international coalition gathered in Istanbul to address the situation in Syria will offer millions of dollars in aid and communications equipment to help overthrow Bashar al-Assad.
From YouTube on DVD to Google Nigeria to Charlize Theron's leaked sex tape, we gather the best of today's April Fool's pranks online.
The basketball sensation is undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery that will require a six-week recovery, putting the remainder of his season in question.
A bizarre gang war erupted at a funeral in Miami. Two are dead, 12 injured.
As Wisconsin's Tuesday contest approaches, Newt Gingrich concedes on Milwaukee radio that Romney is "clearly the front-runner."
The prospects for a fourth season of Community are looking rosier and rosier, but behind the scenes, Chevy Chase and executive producer Dan Harmon are having a bitter and not-so-private feud.
1,000 marched in Sanford, Florida, today, demanding an arrest of George Zimmerman in connection with the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Elsewhere, anger spilled over on the CNN airwaves, director Spike Lee made amends for a Twitter gaffe, and the vice president offered his own thoughts on the case.
A British teen hacker is back in jail for contacting LulzSec leader-turned-informant Sabu, but so far Anonymous has yet to "kill the Internet" in retaliation.
The biggest lottery jackpot in the history of mankind -- $640 million smackeroos -- has a winner. Rather, it has three winners.
Haven't gotten around to watching the first four seasons of Mad Men in time for tonight's Season 5 premiere? We can get you up to speed in no time.
The president glimpses a "time-warped" North Korea through binoculars, then tells them to knock off their "bad behavior."
A 32-year-old mother of five from San Diego has been taken off life support after being beaten unconscious in her own home by an intruder. The killer left behind a note: "Go back to your own country. You're a terrorist."
It's bigger than Spider-Man. Bigger than Twilight. It's The Hunger Games, and it's making Lionsgate very, very happy.
Every Sunday, we scour the political talk shows for the best parts so you don't have to. Today, Senior Advisor to the President David Plouffe responds to Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann is optimistic, and Paul Ryan hints at a possible vice presidential run.
The candidate scores another victory among evangelical voters.
Victims of the Afghanistan shooting spree were each presented with compensation yesterday, and told it "comes from President Obama."
Dick Cheney is in an intensive care unit, recovering from the heart transplant procedure he underwent today.
A 27-year-old man has been re-crowned America's Memory Champion. He claims anyone can do it.
The man charged with killing 17 Afghan civilians made two trips in the early morning hours, according to a U.S. government investigation. He spent the hour in between at the army base.
The Pope makes his first journey to Latin America with a three-day trip to Mexico. Next stop: Cuba.
The toy has been a thorn in the side of Mitt Romney ever since a senior aide first used its magical erasing properties to describe the campaign. Now the vice president and Ron Paul have joined the pile-on.
The movie is on track to have the fifth-biggest opening weekend ever.
Newt Gingrich says President Obama's comment, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," is "disgraceful ... nonsense dividing this country up." If anyone would know what those kinds of comments sound like, it's Gingrich.
Rick Santorum's slick new attack ad makes a second Obama term seem like the coolest thing ever. We break down its inspirations.
As Israel and Iran continue to up the ante in their nuclear standoff, a campaign for peace between the two countries springs up on Facebook.
Strap on your knapsacks and pack your heat: 21 Jump Street is back.
As the military prepares its case against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a picture continues to emerge of the man as a model soldier and loving husband pushed to the brink by a fourth tour of duty.
Ronald Reagan's artistic handiwork, swiped by Margaret Thatcher herself at the 1981 G7 Summit, has been released online, among other historical curios from her archives.
How to deal with the delicate situation of Mike Daisey and his falsified reports from Apple's Foxconn factory? By simply surgically removing the fabricated passages from his hit one-man show.
We watch the Sunday morning political talk shows so you don't have to.
From Zuccotti Park to Indianapolis to Ontario, St. Patrick's Day was marked by arrests and mayhem.
John Demjanjuk, who was discovered living in Ohio in the 1970s and later found guilty of being a Nazi death camp guard, has died at 91.
Ridley Scott's mind-bending return to the Alien universe is looking more and more to be the cinematic event of the year.
Spill out a little Red Bull in honor of the Thai businessman who invented it.
Two men kiss at a Rick Santorum rally in Illinois, inspiring the crowd to chant, "USA! USA!"
Here's a look at every humiliating video starring Invisible Children proselytizer and musical comedy aficionado Jason Russell to emerge in the past 24 hours. Yes, it includes footage of his naked, public meltdown.
Dharun Ravi was found guilty of all 15 charges leveled against him in connection with digitally spying on Tyler Clementi, including bias intimidation.
A picture is emerging of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 38, as a decorated soldier and family man reluctantly on his fourth deployment to a war zone in the Middle East.
The president called Hamid Karzai from his limousine to offer words of consolation following the tragic massacre in Kandahar.
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