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Delivering on the first of two parts in a controversial federal aid package, the House of Representatives passed a $9.7 billion Hurricane Sandy relief bill Friday by a large margin — 354 to 67. And yet, we can't help but ask: Who are those 67 jerks?
Discovered: Scary numbers about sleeping while driving; our moon might get its own moon; decoding the malware genome; fighting HIV with HIV.
In a final vote of 118 to 99 in a runoff against marriage equality (winner of "Most Likely to Succeed"), at the annual Word of the Year event held by the American Dialect Society, hashtag took it home.
Today in show business news: CBS has an ever-growing monster hit on its hands, Anna Faris heads to the small screen, and Bates Motel is not what you think it is.
The Oscar people have had plenty of trouble with the technology behind their nominations this year, but the Academy did not leak one of the nominees in the costume design category, a spokesperson told The Atlantic Wire late Friday.
After much delay, and much not-so-secret disgust, the Food and Drug Administration came out with rules aimed at curbing food-borne illness Friday. Here's how the proposed new rules will affect what you eat... finally.
Blame it on hipsters? This chart from Digital Music News shows how vinyl hit another "modern-era record" in 2012, selling 4.6 million units, according to data from Nielsen Soundscan.
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After weeks of speculation and before weeks of heated partisan bickering over his appointee's controversial record, President Obama will nominate former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense "as early as Monday."
We've been eagerly awaiting Sunday's premiere, consuming the media build-up in its entirety while also hoping to stay free from too many clues — they've already aired the entire third "series" over there.
The former head of the Tea Party group said FreedomWorks paid Beck about $1 million to say "nice things" about it, and that it got a negative return on that investment, in an interview — with the liberal group Media Matters, of all places.
Steubenville High's famed football coach may resign as soon as Monday, and the recent graduate whose shocking video confession was leaked by hackers who took the case national may be in trouble with his college.
As Amazon and Barnes & Noble are quickly discovering this year, the highbrow ideal all too often gives way to the mass-market realities. From tablets to TV shows and everything in between, the most high-minded of ideas for cultural consumption always seem to devolve toward mindless entertainment.
After flirting with Marissa Mayer's Yahoo job, the Silicon Valley star, who fought bitterly with the media conglomerates he helped make relevant online, has announced his departure.
Yet another one of those silly petitions has popped up in the White House's online "We the People" suggestion box, though this one actual entertainment value. You see, the people now want a Joe Biden reality show. Yes! Let's make some pitches.
Ken Kurson is a political consultant, longtime professional associate of Rudy Giuliani and close friend of Jared Kushner, who owns the paper, and his father Charles.
Reports are criss-crossing the usually hush-hush country nation that Kim Jong-un's wife may have given birth to a future supreme leader. Not that anything's been confirmed, because this is North Korea, after all.
The show rings remarkably false — even for an MTV reality show, even for the supposed successor to Jersey Shore — especially in contrast to the show's supposed mission, which is to shed a light on backwoods kids who just don't give a good god darn.
An arrest at the Minneapolis airport certainly is reminiscent of the Denzel Washington film: a 48-year-old American Eagle pilot was detained after he took a Breathalyzer test.
Hostage-takers, in most movies, are bad guys. So it's curious conservatives are fully embracing the liberal talking point that House Republicans took the U.S. economy hostage during the debt limit fight of 2011, and plan to make hostage-taking the cause célèbre before the U.S. defaults in March.
We're sure R. Kelly meant well. But his new tribute song for the children of Newtown, Connecticut... well, it just can't help but bring back all kinds of icky memories about his history with minors.
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