Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 18:05 ET
Renter undermines Rahm Emanuel residency testimony
Lori Halpin tells Chicago election commissioners that former W.H. chief did not keep personal items at city home
Topics: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago 8 Comments
Administration's take on the Afghan war is thin on specifics and doesn't mention the soaring number of troop deaths
Topics: Afghanistan 0 Comments
John Thune's earmark hypocrisy suggests that it could happen in record time Video
Topics: John Cornyn, R-Texas, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Tea Parties 8 Comments
I thought I was just sleep-deprived. Then one night in December, I began contemplating my suicide
Topics: Life stories 23 Comments
Read John Gimlette and you'll want to go wherever he's talking about -- even frozen, rocky Newfoundland
Topics: Writers and Writing, Air Travel 8 Comments
It's odd watching Democrats turn on Obama as if a two-year compromise over tax policy were the Hitler-Stalin pact
Topics: Barack Obama 115 Comments
Who can deny the adorableness of a pie you hold in your hand? It turns out I can't
Topics: Sacrificial Lam 17 Comments
People are starting to bug me to get married. Why? What's the point? Where's the payoff?
MTV's Amber Portwood has become a favorite tabloid target, thanks to assault charges and a rumored second pregnancy
Topics: Teen Mom, MTV 21 Comments
The cult film gets remade into an inflated super-spectacle and insult to your inner 11-year-old
Topics: Jeff Bridges, Science Fiction and Fantasy 39 Comments
GOP members of a panel investigating the financial crisis vote to ban the words "Wall Street" and "deregulation"
Topics: Wall Street, Mortgage Crisis 31 Comments
The lieutenant colonel who refused orders in protest of President Obama now faces serious prison time
Topics: Birthers, Barack Obama 116 Comments
Lori Halpin tells Chicago election commissioners that former W.H. chief did not keep personal items at city home
Topics: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago 8 Comments
250-175 vote shifts issue to Senate, where Democrats promise a lame-duck vote and Republicans promise opposition
Topics: Don't Ask Don't Tell 13 Comments
Vessel smuggling immigrants crashes into cliffs of Christmas Island after engine failure
Topics: Immigration 4 Comments
Arrests in several cities, including Moscow, follow clashes between racist hooligans and ethnic minorities on Sat.
Topics: Russia 4 Comments
Invoking the holidays, second-ranking GOP senator bemoans heavy schedule, which includes START, budget and taxes
Topics: U.S. Senate 17 Comments
The Senate won't have to spend 12 hours listening to the START treaty, but spending bill fight hasn't even begun
Topics: John Cornyn, R-Texas, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Jim DeMint, R-S.C. 5 Comments
Ruling strikes down 1979 law protecting perpetrators of 62 forced disappearances during military dictatorship
Topics: Brazil 3 Comments
No wonder Jamie Dimon likes Obama's tax deal: He'll get an extra $1.1 million next year because of it
Topics: Wall Street 23 Comments
Two missing women and discovery of four bodies on beachfront Suffolk County highway prompts Wednesday meeting
Topics: New York, Crime 3 Comments
Administration's lawsuit names nine companies, seeking damages and civil penalties under Clean Water Act
House GOPers are stepping up their grumbling, boosting chances that Democrats might have to save a deal they hate
Topics: Taxes, Rush Limbaugh 50 Comments
In advance of a White House review of the war on Thursday and the inevitable spin-fest, some context
Topics: Afghanistan 24 Comments
In the wake of his "cave" on taxes, a new poll finds that among liberals Barack Obama is ... still wildly popular
Topics: Barack Obama 149 Comments
Mark Madoff's wife thanks supporters of her "devastated" family, announces private memorial service
Topics: Suicide 11 Comments
The winner: "In honor of oil-soaked birds, 'tweets' are now 'gurgles'"
Topics: Stephen Colbert, Twitter 1 Comments
D.C. Bureau Chief Bill Sammon tells anchors to question established scientific facts about climate change Video
Topics: Science, Fox News, Global warming 79 Comments
The famously frozen-faced actress gets a Globe nod for "Rabbit Hole" -- and raises new questions about aging
Topics: Celebrity 50 Comments
Clay Duke had circled his calendar for Tuesday school board attack, in which he was the only casualty
Topics: School Violence, Crime 11 Comments
Some estimate that thousands have been sentenced to death for same-sex relationships since 1979
Topics: LGBT, Iran 11 Comments
He plans to explore "the growing difficulty in America of speaking out on sensitive topics"
Topics: Juan Williams 11 Comments
Blinking yuletide bulbs found in trash, making morning commute a real Grinch for some
Topics: Washington, D.C., National security 18 Comments
"My view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks"
Topics: Elizabeth Warren, Wall Street, Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala. 31 Comments
Magazine says the founder of Facebook and subject of "Social Network" most influenced our culture in 2010
Topics: Social Media, Facebook 18 Comments
Psychologists discover that food porn can make you calorie-chaste, if you can stand to stare at it for long enough
Topics: Food Psychology, Nutrition, Obesity 16 Comments
The private -- accused of leaking to WikiLeaks -- endures conditions many would call cruel, and possibly torture
Topics: WikiLeaks 538 Comments
The next Congress will be filled with fringe Republicans all too eager to play the terror card on every issue
Topics: U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Terrorism 35 Comments
Stieg Larsson and Dan Brown novels are riddled with cliches, but for many readers, that's a feature not a bug
Topics: Stieg Larsson, Thrillers, Dan Brown 95 Comments
Salon talks to John Avlon, co-founder of the well-funded "centrist" advocacy group that launched earlier this week
Topics: No Labels, Washington, D.C. 45 Comments
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