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SPILLVILLE, IA—Following the widespread acclaim and media adulation over his latest album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, multimillion-selling recording artist Kanye West announced Wednesday that he had finally received the exact amount of approval he needed to attain and had therefore retired from the entertainment industry to live on a small farm in Iowa.
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ATLANTA—Twenty-two-year-old bank teller Paul Branocek told reporters Wednesday he is clueless as to why the militant Palestinian organization Hamas began sending e-mails to his personal account urging him to raise the banner of jihad and eradicate t…
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The sheer talent of this dual-threat Auburn quarterback is only eclipsed by everything else in his life. That aside, is he any good?
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Last month, the Department of Homeland Security announced it was working with retailer Wal-Mart to help protect American towns. What policies is Wal-Mart instituting to make our communities safer?
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RENTON, WA—Just a day after Seattle became the first team with a losing record to make the playoffs, a jubilant and confident head coach Pete Carroll announced that the Seahawks were only three losses away from reaching the Super Bowl."Not onl…
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According to a study published in the Journal Of Personality And Social Psychology, two out of three people become angry with God following traumatic events, such as a cancer diagnosis.
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I decided to check out a Miami Heat game this week. I went with reporter’s credentials so I could get in for free and then write about it for this blog.
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While House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced he would be leaving his position as White House press secretary to work as a political adviser.
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NEW YORK—In yet another setback for the $65 million dollar Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark—a production plagued by multiple delays, poor early reviews, and severe injuries to its cast and crew—a thermonuclear device detona…
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INDIANAPOLIS—Indianapolis Colts head coach Jim Caldwell told reporters Thursday he has decided to start 13-year veteran and 11-time Pro Bowler Peyton Manning at quarterback for Saturday’s wild-card matchup against the New York Jets.
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A new edition of the Mark Twain classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, forthcoming next month from NewSouth Books, will replace every use of the word "nigger" with the word "slave." What do you think?
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WASHINGTON, DC —”He broke free from the straps that secured him to the bed as he normally does after heart surgery. But then he hugged me,” Cheney’s cardiologist said.
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First of all: How dare all of us. It’s very easy to pass judgement from our ivory pulpits with our platinum gavels. We see a team finish 7-9 and we immediately think that they are somehow undeserving of entry into a tournament meant to find the very best …
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EUGENE, OR—Oregon Ducks center Jordan Holmes expressed concern Saturday that he may have said or done something to make sophomore quarterback Darron Thomas call so many shotgun formations in the Ducks’ 37-20 win over Oregon State.
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This April, when she signed into law Arizona’s tough new anti-immigration policy, Gov. Jan Brewer bravely showed the nation that if the federal government wouldn’t take the most draconian measures imaginable to deal with illegal aliens, then she would do it on her own.
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Emulating the gallantry, adaptability, and dedication to duty displayed by English gentlemen in such shining moments as the Imperial occupation of India and adventurism in darkest Africa, BP CEO Tony Hayward’s flip, and often arogant, response to the Deep…
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As the first Sikh elected to India’s highest office, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has helped change the face of…okay, just so we don’t get too ahead of ourselves here, we should probably explain what a Sikh is.
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When she became the fourth woman to join the highest court in the land last August, it was a significant moment in American history. But for newly minted Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan, it meant something so much more: a steady paycheck.
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It would be impossible to list the most influential people of 2010 without recognizing the individual who made the biggest splash in technology this year: the iPad.
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NEW YORK—Only a few weeks away from running out of its last batch, the NBA finally received on Monday the 40-pound crate of ankles it had been waiting for.
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Not all of them garnered the attention or the acclaim of LeBron and Landon, but it wouldn’t be fair to talk about the year in sports without mentioning these athletes.
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For his tireless crusade against single-party rule, writer, activist, and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, making it pretty tough for Chinese leaders to surreptitiously kill him now.
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WASHINGTON—Head coach Mike Shanahan attempted but failed to address his players regarding the Redskins’ future Monday, repeatedly trailing off during what he evidently had planned as an encouraging talk about the future of the franchise.
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Few will be able to forget when 16-year-old California native Abby Sunderland set out this year to become the youngest person ever to circumnavigate the globe solo and avoid having to work a summer job just like everyone else her age.
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"Come in," Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said as I was ushered by an assistant into his study. "I just opened this bottle of wine. Won’t you join me for a glass?"
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Publishing magnate Bob Guccione died of cancer on Oct. 20. He was laid to rest several days later following a soft-lit, full-frontal open-casket funeral service.
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