In a big shake-up of the President's inner circle (and a big thumb in the eye of Senate Republicans) National Security Adviser Tom Donilon is resigning his post ... and it's going to Susan Rice.
A report from ESPN late Tuesday indicates that 20 Major League Baseball players, including Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, could end up suspended from the league — for up to 100 games — in what might be some of the biggest doping scandal punishments in professional sports history.
Michelle Obama isn't quite as tolerant of hecklers as her husband is, if a late Tuesday confrontation is any indication.
Republican Representative Trent Franks wanted this May to be the sequel to America's "Newtown moment" on gun control But instead of pushing for background checks, Frank is trying to pass a nationwide ban on abortions after 20 weeks.
For the first time since the Apple-Samsung patent war began, Apple could face a ban on U.S. sales of some of its products.
And just like that, one of the most enticing political scandals in quite some time potentially goes up in smoke.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who everyone expects to run for president in 2016, has proposed a bill that would amend the Constitution of the United States to prevent the government from enacting Obamacare. It will never, ever happen.
Today in show business news: Warner Bros. is reworking a classic, Justin Theroux gets a big TV role, and a Game of Thrones actress lands on her feet.
Another Romneyesque figure has been spotted in President Obama's administration. Michael Froman, nominated to be the U.S. trade representative, has about $500,000 in a Cayman Islands account.
The deadly cyclone that struck on Friday in El Reno, Oklahoma, was the second EF5 tornado in less than two weeks to strike the state. It was also the largest twister ever recorded.
Gordon Gee — longtime academic, enemy of Catholic people, devil to Michigan grads everywhere, ruffler of SEC feathers, and soon-to-be-former president of (The) Ohio State University — has announced his retirement. But that's not stopping football fans across the country from laughing all the way to the AARP.
Following Monday's announcement by Zynga that it had fired 520 of its employees — and completely shut down the office of OMGPOP, the startup behind Draw Something that Zynga had acquired for $200 million last year — the laid-off OMG staff immediately threw a boozy, joyous party that involved what sounds like a primal, 2001: A Space Odyssey-style session full of shredding Zynga swag.
Military commanders made it very clear, in a Senate hearing on sexual assault in the armed forces on Tuesday, that they do not want a bunch of senators taking away their power to discipline their own troops. The question now is how much power they'll lose.
Journal editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz has become the most blogged-about nemesis of New York's new bike-sharing program yet, with media critics, liberal opinionators, and regular old bike-riders jumping on her comments about transportation "totalitarians." What gives?
After all the very scary privacy stories about very real developer projects, Google updated its developer policies for its wearable computer to include 11 new rules, the company confirmed to The Atlantic Wire. And breaking down through the refreshed list, Google covers pretty much every terrible thing we've heard since Glass hit faces in April. Porn and facial recognition included.
Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense under Bush, jokingly suggests in an interview that he "can't tell" if maybe President Obama now wants the terrorists to win the War on Terror. We assess how Obama can prove his loyalty.
The overlapping comeback episodes of Arrested Development didn't live up to the comeback hopes of some of the show's rabid fans. So the rabid fans at Reddit are trying to fix things with a controversial re-editing.
English literary nerds, ahoy! A treasure only the bookish could love has arrived on the web. The inmate case files for the two murderers convicted in the infamous killings that inspired Truman Capote's In Cold Blood have been uploaded for the public's viewing for the first time.
The expenses detailed in an Inspector General's report are embarrassing, including $50,000 for videos like that Star Trek parody. But in 2011, the president signed an executive order barring such excess. Which would be close to the end of the story if it weren't for the three politically-charged letters on the report's cover: I. R. S.
There was an important conversation on Capitol Hill between the nation's top military officials and the Senate Armed Services committee on Tuesday, but Chambliss, in what was surely the most astonishing moment of a hearing on the sexual assault crisis in the armed forces, essentially blamed military rapes on "the hormone level created by nature."
If you read teen books, or have teenagers who read books, you probably know the name Sarah Dessen. Today marks the release of the author's eleventh novel, The Moon and More, and we spoke with her to learn about how she channels her teenage years over and over again in new ways as she contributes to the wealth of young adult fare.
Nearly seven months after President Obama won reelection by a margin of 4 percentage points, the Gallup Organization, the world's best-known polling firm, identified in a new report four main reasons why their 2012 surveys badly understated Obama's support.
Representatives of a handful of organizations targeted by the IRS appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee today at Congress' fifth hearing on the scandal, offering more anecdotes and quotes than insight into the IRS' behavior. This is where the investigation is: If you've got an interpretation of how the IRS acted badly, the president's opponents are all ears.
Less than a day after the web noticed that Swiffer had drafted Rosie the Riveter for its Steam Boost mop advertising campaign with a glammed up version of the feminist icon, the company has already taken down the product's splash page.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has set the special election to replace Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died on Monday, for October. The primary will be in August. So we now have a little window into how Christie's making his calculations — and getting the love of New Jersey voters is pretty clearly his priority over the love of conservative presidential primary voters.
A judge approved James Holmes's plea of not guilty by insanity on Tuesday, setting off a series of motions that could take months before Holmes will actually go to trial for shooting and killing 12 people and injuring at least 58 others in a movie theater last summer in Aurora, Colorado.
China's censors are blocking words like "today" and "June 4" from social media as part of the country's yearly chore to block any reference to the anniversary to the Tiananmen Square massacre 24 years ago. And though the Chinese are running a sophisticated and tight censorship ship, they're having a bit harder time blocking memes. Yes memes.
Word began to spread in the fashion world that shamed designer John Galliano was preparing a media offensive, and here's his first (profanity-laced, still not very successful) shot at public redemption.
You get one phone call when you're arrested, even if you're accused of blowing up the Boston Marathon. That's why today the world gets to listen to the first public tape of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev since last month's terror attack.
Now that our hip nation's capital, already so incapable of being hip, has up and built its own donut/croissant hybrid, the "doissant" — New York's Dominique Ansel actually trademarked the cronut name — it's safe to call this the end of the end of the cross-pollinated pastry trend, or at least Washington has brought us disgustingly close.
X-Men: First Class re-imagined the Cuban Missile Crisis as a conflict manipulated by mutants. In the sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past we can now expect Richard Nixon and Vietnam.
Bob Woodward is perhaps the country's only official validator of political scandal. For months, Republicans and sympathetic parties in the media have been enticing Woodward to apply the stamp to Obama. So far, they've had no success.
With Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan out of the country, Turkey's Deputy PM was left trying to pick up the pieces (and mend fences) after a week of violent protests.
Today in celebrity gossip: Sean Parker had to pay the state of California a bunch of money, Justin Bieber gets even more absurd at the Heat game, and Channing Tatum's baby has a name.
The Associated Press filed Freedom of Information Act requests for the secret email addresses of appointed administration employees, and a Labor Department spokesman came back with an offer: you can have the emails if you give us a million bucks.
In these progressive times in which women and men are delaying marriage and children, too, the topic of female fertility — and how it's not going to be there forever, ladies! — seems to come up again and again. But what really are we supposed to do with this information?
Çağlar Keyder on the demonstrations in Turkey, Emily Bazelon on the Supreme Court's DNA decision, Kirby Dick on the Pentagon's handling of rape, Conor Friedersdorf on bike-sharing paranoia, Jenny Davis on Facebook's teenage exiles.
While pundits wonder why President Obama won't impose his will on House Republicans, the mystical manipulation mystery for GOP Congressional leaders is why they won't impose their will on House conservatives.
President Obama Tuesday introduced executive orders to combat the very patent trollery described in this week's This American Life, which detailed how a so-called patent protectors buy up patents only to profit from lawsuits against inventors.
China doesn't have any patience for North Korea's bloviating anymore, and it seems the DPRK may be falling out of favor with its biggest ally — just in time for President Obama's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Six months after the deadly gang rape of a 23-year-old in New Delhi set off a wave of protests, multiple reports out of the Indian mountain escape of Manali say a 30-year-old female American was hitchhiking home late Monday night when she was allegedly driven to a secluded area and gang-raped by three men. Yes, it appears that India's rape crisis is still out of control.
The White House Rose Garden is rarely a scene of insurrection. But the president used the setting this morning for phase one of a strategy that could end with Senate Democrats exercising the "nuclear option" to reset rules around the use of the filibuster. All by simply saying three names.
The Daily Show returned from a week off last night, and Jon Stewart decided to tackle John McCain's trip to Syria, where the senator may have taken a picture with two men who may have kidnapped Shiite Muslims last year.
As the Syrian civil war drags on into its third summer, the conflict only grows larger and more vicious, with Hezbollah, Israel, Turkey, Russia, and even the North Koreans joining in the fight.
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