The New York Times goes deep on how Apple's supply chain ties it to factories like Foxconn's colossus in China, and how the success of Apple isn't leading to middle-class job growth here.
Romney had resisted releasing them, handing a populist cudgel to Newt Gingrich, who portrayed him as a job-eliminating plutocrat to great effect in the South Carolina primary. Romney's now had second thoughts.
The Paterno family announced the death of the legendary Penn State University football coach in a statement.
The Republican presidential hopeful and bête noire of gay rights activists was glitter-bombed after he addressed supporters following the South Carolina primary.
Furious over Congress' withdrawal of SOPA and PIPA, the MPAA head takes a swipe at lawmakers who take cash from his clients in Hollywood. So they really do want something in exchange for that money after all.
As Republican voters hit the polls for the Republican presidential primary, we consider the latest acerbic aside from Newt Gingrich, which seems awfully close to outright racism.
A federal appeals court upheld awards for the families of gangster James "Whitey" Bulger's victims.
The Islamist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks on police stations in the city of Kano.
Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are giving Mitt Romney — Mr. Inevitability to you — fits in the south. A win for anyone but Romney could open the Republican race back up.
News outlets in Israel report that a planned military exercise was called off because U.S. officials didn't want to further antagonize countries in the Middle East, especially Iran.
No. No everyone did not. The singer's appearance on Saturday Night Live was mercilessly panned.
Prosecutors are investigating the captain of the Costa Concordia, who reportedly went ashore on a lifeboat before all the passengers on the 950-foot liner had been rescued after it slammed a rock off of Tuscany.
The comedian, already enjoying a run of glowing press, launches — through his totally independent Super PAC — an anti-Romney, pro-corporation attack ad in South Carolina. Spoiler: There will be Lithgow.
The star had already let the secret slip, but AMC confirms it's bringing back its hit series in the spring.
A Russian tanker reached Nome, Alaska, with a shipment of heating oil and fuel for the winter, after an epic ice-breaking journey through the Bering Sea.
The chief official of Qatar suggests Arab nations could send troops into Syria to stop President Bashar al-Assad's violence against his own people.
The legendary Penn State football coach, his legacy forever stained by the Jerry Sandusky sexual assault scandal, opens up for an interview with The Washington Post, even as he struggles through chemo.
A group of evangelical leaders vote to back Rick Santorum as the South Carolina primary looms. But is it too late?
In a White House blog post, the administration comes out hard against measures that would lead to "censorship," signaling Obama's opposition to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act.
Let us all hope that this is the weirdest arrest of the weekend: authorities in Peru have arrested Johnny D. Guillen, aka the Corta Nalgas, wanted for slashing the buttocks of women in shopping malls in Virginia.
The French president reportedly told associates last month, "If we lose the triple-A, I'm dead." Well, France lost the triple-A bond rating, and Sarkozy is scrambling.
The would-be reformer who headed the UN's nuclear monitoring program says the military junta in Egypt is running the country just like in the bad old days.
Passengers of the Costa Concordia describe harrowing scenes as they tried to escape the cruise ship, which slammed an unseen obstacle just off the island of Giglio on Friday night, killing at least six people.
SNL imagines Rick Santorum scavenging for food on a bare-bones death march of a Republican primary campaign. And then there is the acting of Mr. Charles Barkley.
The new leader of North Korea celebrates a birthday by reviewing troops and riding a horse.
The remains found at a royal estate belonged to 17-year-old girl reported missing in August.
The Beyoncé/Jay-Z baby has arrived. Rejoice.
A news agency within the country says it has a new, bomb-proof location from which to improve nuclear fuel.
The Middle Eastern nation has designs on bridging East-West gaps in business, and, with the World Cup, in sports. But permissive Western attitudes toward liquor won't fly with locals.
The horror flick did even better than estimated, and out-performed all others in the domestic box office on Friday.
The former Vice President comes out against the Stop Online Piracy Act.
An American Navy destroyed helped rescue Iranian fishermen who had been captured by pirates off Somalia. It was either a humanitarian gesture or a PR stunt, depending which Iranian official was speaking.
The titular spirit of the comedian's book disappears from the title of the spin-off sitcom, and the explanations seem forced.
The former Prime Minister will return from overseas despite charges he helped assassinate Benazir Bhutto, and amid escalating tensions between government and military leaders.
A former high-ranking insider is the latest to criticize the Church of Scientology's fundraising practices and treatment of its members.
A New Hampshire voter asks Romney if the solution for middle class woes might be sacrifice from Romney and his fellow 1-percenters.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh is planning to seek medical treatment in the U.S. after ceding power to a new unity government, a spokesman says.
Jonathan Ames threw an impromptu wake for "Bored to Death" after his show was canceled. And that is why Jonathan Ames had to pay a $1,600 bar tab at the Brooklyn Inn.
The new Nike Air Jordan is a revival of a previously popular model. It is causing shoppers around the country to lose their minds.
The campaigns of two of the highest-profile alternatives to Mitt Romney failed to submit enough signatures to make the Republican primary ballot in Virginia.
The New York Times goes deep on the testy relationship between the mayor and the governor.
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Moscow, some chanting "Russia without Putin," weeks after parliamentary elections that were marked by allegations of fraud.
The Republican presidential candidate "doubled down" Sunday on his insistence that Congress should be permitted to subpoena judges who issues rulings with which it disagrees.
A bipartisan Senate approved a two-month extension of the current payroll tax cut on Saturday, but House Speaker John Boehner says the House won't go along.
Nicholas K. Peart is a 23-year-old black man living in New York City. He's been stopped and frisked by police at least five times. His account of the corrosive legacy of an invasive police tactic is going viral.
Sully and Denise attempt to crash their old high school dance, Jude Law grows uncomfortable in the Cage, and Jesus of Nazareth asks Tim Tebow to "take it down a notch."
The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof on one of the young victims of Bahrain's crackdown on democracy protests, and why the government's ability to do so is partly in our hands.
Nine years of war draw to a formal close as the final convoy of U.S. troops rolls into Kuwait on Sunday morning. Many U.S. security contractors will remain, however.
The playwright who became a leader of the Velvet Revolution, which brought down Czechoslovakia's Communist rule and signaled the end of the Cold War, died at 75.
As Egypt's first free elections in more than a generation continue, police cracked down viciously on protesters in Cairo.
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