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America's Foes Are Giddy About Hurricane Sandy
The eye of Hurricane Sandy hasn't hit land yet but state-run news outlets in countries at odds with the U.S. are brimming with apocalyptic coverage of the swirling weather system.
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Syrian 'Ceasefire' Collapses into Chaos
Neither side took the United Nations-backed ceasefire in Syria very seriously and on Monday, the tenuous four-day truce collapsed into all-out fighting.
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CIA Denies Calling Off Backup in Benghazi
Here's something that could alter the discussion on the attacks in Benghazi: According to Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, CIA operators on the scene repeatedly transmitted requests for military backup but were denied by U.S. officials.
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National Geographic Is the Big Winner of the Bin Laden Movie Controversy
If there's no such thing as bad publicity, the National Geographic Channel's decision to premiere an action film about the killing of Osama bin Laden two days before the election was a stroke of marketing genius.
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Obama Breaks the $1 Billion Barrier
The costliest presidential race in U.S. history has a new milestone: President Obama and his allies have cracked the billion-dollar barrier, according to separate analyses of federal campaign filings by Reuters and Politico.
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North Korea Has Invented the iPad!
If techies think Microsoft's new Surface tablet is just an iPad knock off, wait until they see North Korea's.
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Keith Olbermann Is Looking for a Job
When liberal firebrand Keith Olbermann was acrimoniously dismissed from Current TV seven months ago, we pondered the remaining networks he could jump to that didn't already have sour relations with him. Turns out, he's approaching some rather unorthodox venues: Viacom, AMC Networks and at least one broadcast network, according to Forbes' Jeff Bercovici.
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Ceasefire Is Holding Between Israel and Hamas
After a wild week of rocket attacks and reprisals, an Egypt-brokered ceasefire appears to be holding between Israel and Hamas, according to a handful of reports.
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Six Are Arrested for the Attempted Murder of Malala Yousufzai
In positive step in the shooting case of teenage Pakistani blogger Malala Yousufzai, six people accused of facilitating the attack were arrested on Wednesday, though the main suspect remains at large.
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Colin Powell Still Believes in Hope and Change
He broke party lines in 2008 and he's not looking back: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for president this morning, saying he inherited a terrible economy and has only just begun to turn things around.
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Hillary Clinton: The U.S. Doesn't Rely on Facebook for Intelligence
The Obama administration came under fire on Wednesday after Reuters and Fox News reported that internal State Department emails revealed that an Islamic militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the Benghazi attacks on social media platforms, but this afternoon, Hillary Clinton fired back saying U.S. intelligence isn't based on random Facebook posts.
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Congress Seeking a Way to Call the Whole Fiscal Cliff Off
Call it the partial fix to the partial fix to the partial fix. National Journal's Dan Friedman and Billy House report that leading lawmakers are discussing a plan to make a "down payment" of cuts that would amount to half of the $110 billion in sequestration, which is set to go into effect in January.
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Mitt Romney's Orange Glow Looks a Lot Like Spray Tan
It's an activity best associated with dingy strip malls and reality TV stars, but it also happens to be the secret to Mitt Romney's sun-kissed glow, according to BuzzFeed's McKay Coppins and Ruby Cramer.
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How the White House 'Kill List' Became the White House 'Disposition Matrix'
It sounds like the ultimate Washington euphemism but it's the name White House officials are moving toward: The secret list the president uses to order drone strikes on unsuspecting militants is being re-vamped under the name "disposition matrix."
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What Killed Climate Change Legislation?
The presidential debates are over and to the chagrin of earthly-minded individuals, the topic of global warming was roundly ignored by the moderators and both candidates.
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Italy's Top Scientists Resign Their Government Posts After Quake Conviction
If your colleagues were sentenced to jail for failing to predict the future, you'd probably be upset too. On Tuesday, some of Italy's top scientists resigned from the government's disaster agency to protest the manslaughter conviction of seven seismologists for failing to predict the devastating earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009.
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Social Media Led Authorities to a Benghazi Terror Suspect
It may be the biggest break in the international manhunt for the Benghazi killers and it's all thanks to social media.
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Infighting Breaks Out at Breitbart's Media Empire
All is not well at the house that the late Andrew Breitbart built.
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Obama and Romney Want to Out-Tough the Other on Iran
Nuanced policy arguments be dammed! Tonight's foreign policy debate is a battle of who can sound toughest without advocating all-out war.
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World's Oldest Known Auschwitz Survivor Has Died
Antoni Dobrowolski, a former Polish teacher arrested by the Gestapo in 1942 for teaching underground lessons to students, died on Sunday at the age of 108, according to a Polish official speaking with the Associated Press.
