Bachmann Thinks the ACLU Runs the CIA (It Doesn't)
Rep. Michele Bachmann doubled down on her claim that the ACLU dictates CIA policy on Sunday morning talk show appearances. Commentators would beg to differ.
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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.
Rep. Michele Bachmann doubled down on her claim that the ACLU dictates CIA policy on Sunday morning talk show appearances. Commentators would beg to differ.
Rick Perry didn't repeat his memory lapse gaffe in this weekend's debate, but it lives on as irresistible fodder for comedians.
The comic artist behind Sin City, 300, and The Dark Knight Returns unloaded on the Wall Street protesters, and plenty of his fans are firing back.
If he had, the Egyptian dictator might have noticed the simmering rage that eventually drove him from power.
A new prenatal test for Down Syndrome arrives, and with it, the possible end of the condition. But do we have the stomach for it?
The New York Times examines the ethic of Mitt Romney, businessman, through the lens of a private equity deal from the early 1990s.
The government of Brazil sent 3,000 troops into Rocinha, the hillside shanty town overlooking Rio de Janeiro, in an effort to drive out crime and violence in advance of the 2014 World Cup.
Republican Presidential contenders vied for the title of most hawkish in their foreign policy debate. Rick Perry failed to self-immolate, Mitt Romney chugged competently along, and more.
Take it away, @DrSamuelJohnson: "Politickal Priapus Signor Silvio BERLUSCONI does tender his Resignation, doubtless in order to spend Time with other People's FAMILIES."
At Penn State University's football game since its head coach and president were fired for failing to stop a child predator, the usual drama felt "beside the point."
George Will ripped Mitt Romney in the Washington Post the other day, not for the first time. Should he have mentioned that his wife tried and failed to get hired by Romney, and now works for a competitor?
Just a few months ago, the giant retailer was filing lawsuits and dropping affiliates to combat states trying to charge online sales tax. Now, Amazon is on board.
An EPA study found cancerous compounds, including one used in hydraulic fracturing to harvest natural gas, in an aquifer in Wyoming, ProPublica reports.
The Italian Parliament votes for an austerity plan, clearing the way for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's resignation, expected Saturday.
The Arab League is trying to be delicate, intervening to stop killing of anti-government protesters in Syria, without raising the specter of another European or American intervention.
The former IMF head and French presidential hopeful is implicated in a prostitution inquiry, but he proclaims his innocence.
Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos was freed by Venezuelan commandos, two days after being kidnapped by a group of gunmen in front of his home.
George Papandreou will resign as prime minister, and talks about the makeup of the new coalition government will continue Monday.
The proposed pipeline would ship oil derived from Canadian tar sands all the way to the Gulf Coast, unless a opponents sway Obama to block it.
Ezra Klein says Ron Suskind didn't prove his anti-Larry Summers thesis in Confidence Men. The real confidence man: Barack Obama.
Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya set a course record in winning the marathon Sunday. So did the two guys who finished right behind him.
Boko Haram, which seeks to institute strict Islamic law in Nigeria, attacked civilians and police in coordinated attacks in the city of Damaturu on Sunday.
Opponents of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad say 12 people were killed in the military's most recent attacks on protesters.
The former defense coordinator for Penn State's football team is charged with sexually abusing eight boys through a charity he ran — and university officials are charged with covering it up.
The largest quake struck Saturday night, a magnitude 5.6 that was the largest in state history.
A death row inmate in Texas has sought DNA testing that he says will exonerate him, but he is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday.
Before his adventures in self-portraiture ended his Congressional term, Anthony Weiner frequently denounced Goldline for their marketing claims. If he can still laugh, the last one's his.
If the Supercommittee can't come up with a deal to slash the deficit, automatic reductions to defense spending would take place. But is that really likely?
Barack Obama said he'd call the World Series-winning manager, but he didn't. But the manager doesn't seem too miffed about the snub.
The former president is so fed up with the current one's inability to sell his economic message, he wrote a book to do it for him.
Nearly four years after former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in Rawalpindi, police and Taliban are charged with her killing.
A glimpse at the correspondence — and one awkward dinner — of the iconic Jewish comedian and the brilliant, anti-Semitic poet.
The curmudgeonly essayist of CBS' 60 Minutes died just weeks after his final broadcast.
The Washington Post ran a big takeout Sunday on Social Security, its longterm solvency, and budget policy. Dean Baker, Paul Krugman, et al, went bananas.
The actress has fired her manager and a pair of publicists after stories about her controversial appearance at the birthday party of Ramzan Kadyrof, the president of Chechnya.
The businessman and Republican presidential hopeful gets his own Bad Lip Reading video.
The al-Qaeda-linked group says a bomber who carried the attack in Mogadishu was American-born, and released a tape of him calling for jihad in the west.
Clearing out an encampment in a central city park, police fired pepper spray and pepper balls into an unruly crowd, and used batons to clear out others.
Chain pizza restaurant managers! Please do not set fire to competing establishments, even if it would be good for business.
Trees still loaded with leaves in New England snapped under the burdens of heavy snow and wind, taking down power lines and blocking roads.
So much for the risk of major media-market teams missing the World Series. Twenty-five million people watched Game Seven between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Texas Rangers.
The car-bombing that killed 13 Americans in Kabul is the worst attack in months, and part of a trend toward showy, high-profile attacks as Taliban influence dwindles.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the dynamic, populist former president of Brazil, will undergo chemotherapy to treat throat cancer.
The administration will review the procedures for almost $36 billion in loans for renewable energy projects, conceding flaws in the program that brought about the Solyndra debacle.
Power outages are starting to spike as a band of wet, heavy snow smacks the northeast. In case you've forgotten, it's not Halloween yet.
New York City officials took fuel and generators away from demonstrators in Zuccotti Park. It must have been a chilly night.
The entire Qantas fleet is grounded as the Australian airline battles with labor unions.
A virus that devastated farm-raised salmon populations in the Atlantic may be appearing among wild fish in the Pacific, a potentially devastating threat to fisheries there.
The country where a single act of protest sparked region-wide revolution is choosing its new leaders, and struggling to balance Islamist ideals with secular tradition.
The patron saint of grizzle has a new record out, and his own unique approach to self-promotion.
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