Christian Slater's no-good, very-bad year comes to a depressing end.
Making the rounds Friday was Norm Ornstein's updated essay on the horrors of our slow-moving Congress, which still — still! — cannot strike a deal on the impending fiscal cliff.
A double-digit jump from last year, when just 44 percent answered likewise, and the highest percentage recorded by Gallup since 2004.
China now has the fastest, longest bullet train in the world. Why don't we?
That covers the "work lost, medical care, insurance, criminal-justice expenses and pain and suffering" associated with gun violence, and might be one to think on over the holidays as the post-Newtown gun debate rages on.
A new study being passed around cites cites significant errors — sewing a sponge into a chest cavity, say, or operating on the wrong patient — but before you freak out, understand the context.
Obama was right. On the same day the president said at a press conference that a "majority of Americans support banning the sale of military-style assault weapons" and "high-capacity ammunition clips" a new CNN/ORC International poll finds just that.
The latest ABC News-Washington Post poll finds a five-year high in Americans who want stricter gun laws. But how high is that, really?
That's the highest gun-ownership rate in the world.
Though Russians are panicking about the upcoming doomsday and Gail Collins is writing her column about zombies, it's important to note this new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute and the Religion News Service.
If you're reading this blog post at work, it probably means you're distracted. Don't worry. You're not alone.
In a poll made for Fox Nation and the ongoing War on Christmas, a survey has found a majority of Americans want Christmas to be less about the man in the Coca-Cola ads and more about the one with the birthday.
As the NFL wrestles with the murder-suicide involving the Kansas City Chiefs' Jovan Belcher, an informal new survey claims that gun ownership in the NFL vastly outnumbers that in the general population.
That's the eye-popping stat in a new LA Weekly investigation, which takes a look at the hit-and-run epidemic and its repercussions.
It's not equal yet, but it's a start. Except for the whole salary thing.
Not that we're sure what that means, really.
A sign of good times? The Wall Street Journal reports that 90 percent of 105 companies surveyed by the firm Battalia Winston will throw parties this holiday season.
It may be a small — or, rather, nonexistent — number, but it's a heartening statistic: there were no shootings, stabbings, slashings, or murders in New York City between around 10:30 p.m. Sunday night and 11:20 a.m. Tuesday morning, the NYPD said.
The latest in childhood-party research seems to indicate that those inflatable moments of joy — apparently more popular than ever — now point to serious moments of injury.
The number of LSAT tests administered dropped from 45,169 last October to 37,780 this October—a decline of 16.4 percent, ad the lowest since 1999.
Drunk drivers are not the biggest problem on California's roads according to a new survey from the California Office of Traffic Safety.
Roughly one in five Japanese companies shaken down by the yakuza ended up paying them off, according to a study released by Japan’s National Police Agency.
We think we may have found the award for the grossest repercussion that Hurricane Sandy has left behind: the damaged New Jersey plant dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of partially-treated human waste water into the New York Harbor.
Some depressing news out of France as the holiday season approaches: this year's champagne harvest was down 40 percent this year as terrible weather including hailstorms, and fungus attacked vineyards.
Obama may have won the female vote in last night's election, but there will also now be a record number of women serving in the Senate next January when one in five members of the upper chamber will be female.
The importance of Ohio to this presidential race has been repeated again and again as Election Day approached, but as voters go to the polls, how important is just one vote in the state?
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said yesterday that its dewatering task force removed more than an Olympic-size swimming pool's worth of water per minute from New York's flooded mass transit tunnels.
Those nifty generators are instead being used for the not-so-dire task of lighting up a media tent 24/7 and that's what has people so angry this morning.
Maybe this is why Romney is so reluctant to go on late night shows: he's been joked about more than twice as much as the president has.
With Ohio now the make it or break it state in the presidential race, its citizens are being inundated with propaganda: in fact, Julie Bykowicz of Bloomberg News reports that watching all of the presidential advertisements that aired in Ohio in the past month would take 80 days nonstop.
No rest for the campaign weary: Obama is traveling about 5,300 miles today with attempts to win over voters in Iowa, Colorado, a stop in California to talk to Jay Leno, then a stop in Las Vegas before an overnight trip to Florida.
More New York City voters would rather see Eliot Spitzer, driven from the governor's mansion over a prostitution scandal, and, Anthony Weiner, driven from Congress by sending gross pictures on Twitter, enter next year's crowded mayoral race, than see Alec Baldwin, hilarious star of 30 Rock and Words With Friends plane outbursts jump into politics.
Gas prices are so high and the federal minimum wage is so low that working for one hour at the federal rate can't buy two gallons of gas at the nationwide average price.
Even though what happened in Vegas didn't stay there, Prince Harry's nude photo incident did some good for the city.
Even Big Bird has to make some money. The Sesame Workshop's 990 form for the 2010 tax year reveals that Caroll Spinney, the man behind the newsworthy avian creature and other Muppets, including Oscar the Grouch, made $314,072.
Fifty years ago today the first James Bond film, Dr. No, had its world premiere, so, in honor of 007, let's play a game of FMK.
We've noted the Barack Obama's "intellectual stammer" before, but just how much did it slow him down last night? Well, despite talking four minutes less than Obama, Mitt Romney was able to speak 541 more words.
So much for silver foxes.
Okay, America, it's time for a history lesson. Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
Last month we wrote about a shocking stat reported in some British newspapers: there are just 100 adult cod left in the North Sea. But the BBC News Magazine reports on just how wrong that information was. The number is more like 21 million.
The financial burden of rising tuition costs is hitting more households in this country than ever before.
The only thing equal is the job title. Even though there are stories of editors like Anna Wintour and Janice Min pocketing seven-figure salaries, Folio magazine's annual compensation survey found that on average, male editors-in-chief made about $15,000 more than their female counterparts last year.
While adult children moving in with their parents used to be quirky enough to serve as a movie premise (like in Jeff, Who Lives at Home or that one starring Matthew McConaughey), it's pretty common these days: about 25 percent of Americans between 18 and 30 are living with parents.
Well, this makes us never want to go under the knife for any reason whatsoever.
During his epic rant about Fox News titled "Chaos "Bulls**t Mountain," Jon Stewart used the words bulls**t or s**t 14 times, which got us wondering, just what is Comedy Central's limit on profanity for the Daily Show?
Harvard may have the fancy name, but people who go to the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology made more money after graduation this year, with a median starting salary of $56,700 compared to the Cantab median of $54,100.
Maybe call off that order of fish and chips: only about 100 adult cod are left in the North Sea according to recent estimates by marine biologists.
Anna Wintour must like her fund-raising like she likes her magazine: big. While her September issue of Vogue had 916 pages, her fundraising efforts yielded $2,682,001for Barack Obama in 2011 and 2012.
With health care at stake in the presidential race, a new study finds just how much money in the country's medical system gets wasted: for every dollar spent, 30 cents.
A new study finds that an alarming number of homeowners — 800,000 — would not have faced foreclosure had the banks taken full advantage of the government's Home Affordable Modification Program to assist distressed mortgage-holders following the financial meltdown.
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