American jihadist Omar Hammami just tweeted that he'd been shot in the neck in an attempted assassination. Take the update with a grain of salt, but it may very well move Hammami into the lead for "tweet sent under the most duress."
Rush Limbaugh has struggled mightily to come to grips with why Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev bombed the Boston marathon. Now he and others are reminding us that the Tsarnaevs were possibly aided by the thing liberals apparently love most of all — the bloated welfare state.
We see a man in his garage, rigging the grimly familiar suicide scene of exhaust pumped back into a car. Except the man walks out alive... because Hyundai's new iX35 has 100 percent water emissions. Get it? Neither did anyone else, but Hyundai is just now apologizing.
The final four! We've finally made it. How are your brackets doing? Since there are only four gals left, let's just go gal-by-gal.
Just like the man they carjacked last week said, the Boston Marathon suspects considered attacking a second: New York City.
John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Bob Corker told reporters they believe the presence of the chemical weapons signals that the Assad regime has crossed the so-called "red line" the administration laid out previously that should dictate increased action by the U.S.
The opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library brought together all of the living presidents in his honor. Which prompted us to wonder: At what point were the most presidents alive at once?
The Atlantic on future sources of energy, National Geographic on energy scarcity in South Africa, The New York Times on Canada's power play in Washington, Quartz on solar power in California, and The Guardian on Reuters' climate change skepticism.
After a police scanner blip led journalists on social media to connect their 22-year-old son to the Boston Marathon bombings, a terrible month for a Pennsylvania family just reached the ultimate level of awful.
According to second-hand reports from officials, Tsarnaev stopped speaking with investigators after being read his Miranda rights. But the reading of the rights is largely a procedural issue. Reminding the accused of their right to remain silent is essential.
In a stunning admission, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, as well as the White House and Secretary of State John Kerry, announced today that the U.S. intelligence services have evidence that chemical weapons have been used in the Syrian civil war
Here's the curious thing about the defenses of Bush during his legacy tour: rather than saying he did a good job as president, his allies are emphasizing that he had a really hard job.
Tom McGeveran on the editorship of Jill Abramson, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on the politics of teaching children, Benjamin Todd Jealous on how Republicans can persuade black voters, Ezra Klein on the inevitable GOP embrace of Obamacare, and Noreene Malone on the word "bro."
In a moment that's become almost as big a presidential milestone as the inauguration itself, today George W. Bush celebrates the opening of his presidential library and museum, which is opening the floodgates for historical judgements on his eight years in office.
In the upcoming New York Times Sunday Review, American novelist Amanda Filipacchi writes of a recent discovery that further evinces the issue of sexism as it persists in the literary world. This time, it's happening on Wikipedia.
Today in celebrity news: Gwyneth Paltrow wore an interesting gown, as did the Duchess of Cambridge, and Justin Bieber is acting up.
The business drama behind the New York Times paywall is, at its core, this: can the news organization find new subscription revenue faster than it loses advertising revenue? And, while it has pioneered the paywall, signing up 676,000 subscribers through the end of the fourth quarter, the announcement that it will offer new, cheaper tiers shows that is not enough paying customers.
The big celebrity-politician is almost upon us (only two more days!), and in the celebrity Hunger Games waged by news organizations far and wide (or at least around the Beltway), one news organization has landed the Katniss Everdeen of nerd prom.
All of her new songs have come attached to advertisements that promote Beyoncé's various and lucrative sponsorship deals. And now comes "Standing on the Sun," by way of a commercial for Beyoncé's H&M collection.
After eleven hours, fires have finally been extinguished on two natural gasoline barges that exploded overnight in Mobile. The spectacular accident comes at an inopportune time for an industry pushing for increased shipments overseas.
A potential rapist in Dubai learned the hard way why you shouldn't mess with the U.S. Navy after an attack on an off-duty sailor went horribly wrong... for him.
On The Daily Show last night, he explained how Fox has gone all willy nilly on the Constitution at the beginning of the controversial prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He also peppered his entire opening segment with spot-on pop culture references, Star Wars included.
It's already illegal to sell pornography in India. But the country's Supreme Court is contemplating an all-out ban on the stuff, and police in the city of Patna are preparing to crack down on cyber cafés and so-called "CD parlors" — all because they believe it could help curb India's rape epidemic.
During his annual Q&A media session on Thursday, Vladimir Putin spoke at length about Russia's connection to the Boston Marathon bombing, complaining that the Western media has a double standard when it comes to discussing terrorism in other countries.
There's a lot we still don't know about what happened in Boston. But new details that surfaced on Wednesday night reveal some key details that stand to change the timeline of the final 24 hours of the manhunt dramatically.
Everybody knew that the collapse of a crowded garment factory in Bangladesh was a tragedy, but based on the latest death toll, it appears we underestimated the historic proportions of this event.
An inspiring story of a five-year-old boy from the suburbs in Illinois caught the Internet's attention this week after the St. Louis Post Dispatch published a profile. It's an impressive story that feels one-of-a-kind, but it's not.
It's not like it's a suprise, but the U.S. intelligence committee is already contradicting itself as the investigation into the Boston bombing unfolds. Turns out the CIA knew about one of the Tsarnaev brothers after all.
Today in show business news: Anne Hathaway may be headed back to the Weimar era, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore team up once again, and Jennifer Garner will have a bad day too.
We see cellphone detonators all the time in the movies and on television, which sometimes seem to stretch the limits of even fictional terrorist technology. But could two brothers living in Massachusetts have learned to make one — and make it work?
One of the new features of charitable giving in America is that we've cut out the middle man, opting instead to give directly to whatever cause we see fit. In the aftermath of Boston, some of the week's victims have had more success than others.
Two women may be in hot water with authorities after TSA officials discovered pieces of human skull in their carry-on luggage. The question separating these voodoo ladies from some very serious charges is whether or not they knew the skulls were in their onboard pottery. And, no, this is not a precedent.
The investigation presses on. A city and a nation mourn. And, slowly, Boston is getting back to normal. But in the hospitals, where there was more good news on Wednesday, there remains one 27-year-old victim of last week's marathon bombings who stands out, and maybe even represents the road to recovery: Jeff Bauman, who transformed from cheering boyfriend to iconic amputee. And Jeff Bauman, a city and a nation will be happy to hear and see, is very well indeed.
Deadline reveals that Fox has snagged the rights to Guys and Dolls, the 1950 musical turned 1955 movie musical. And in the key roles of Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson, Fox wants Tatum and Gordon-Levitt. Who's next?
The National Enquirer, which is a tabloid but occasionally very reliable on marital matters, reported Wednesday that the fiancé of Boehner's daughter, Dominic Lakhan, was pulled over in Florida in 2006 and reportedly charged with a misdemeanor having to do with marijuana. But there's so much more than that — including wedding registries!
Jill Abramson, the executive editor of The New York Times and the first woman to hold that position, is literally a poster child for Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In mantra. And, yet, that doesn't seem to matter to many of her defenders today, who also happen to dislike Sheryl Sandberg and her Lean In movement because it only represents corporate power women just like Abramson.
After his much-discussed arrest on Tuesday, the charges against Adam Savader were unsealed on Wednesday afternoon, and they are disturbing reflections of a young man with access to power, turned very pushy — and very sexually aggressive — with a virtual toolbox of creepiness at his disposal.
General Electric has decided it will no longer help America buy guns. Not that America needs much help.
Rumor has it that Amazon will release a streaming TV box, which will take Amazon's streaming video offerings and funnel them through a television — something a bunch of other streaming TV boxes already do.
Reviews are starting to come in for Iron Man 3, and they are predominantly good. Still, according to one of the reviews, one cameo — by an ABC sitcom star — nearly ruins the whole thing. Who could it be?
Have enough Americans forgiven George W. Bush that they'll vote for his brother for president? Jeb Bush is doing several things that indicate he thinks so — speeches, a book, more speeches... oh, and he just got some potentially embarrassing news out of the way.
He can make all the outrageous claims about wind energy that he wants to on Twitter. In the pages of newspapers in Scotland, however, there are limits. On Tuesday, authorities there decided he exceeded them, and ordered he remove anti-wind ads he'd paid for. The problem, as always with Trump, was hyperbole.
The Anthony Weiner Image Rehab-Apology Tour is picking up more steam, but when asked Wednesday if his sexting scandal was truly over and done with, Weiner didn't exactly shut the door on the idea.
Gonorrhea, one of the the smartest of all the bacterial STDs, is on the rise. And now, doctors who devote their careers to studying The Clap are warning that the disease could be completely untreatable sooner than the U.S. elects a new president.
The Hill on public opinion of fracking, The Washington Post on the economic impact of the energy boom, Energy Biz on the coming electricity crisis, BBC on the question of human extinction, and CNN on our cleaner air,
The executives and backers of Fisker Automotive are being called before Congress today to answer for the failure of the electric car maker that is being called the "Solydra" of the green auto movement. What happened to all that Department of Energy money?
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