The supporters of the embargo against Cuba speak with heated passion but fall strangely silent when asked how trade with Cuba is so different than trade with Russia or China or Vietnam, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul writes for TIME
President Barack Obama said Sony "made a mistake" in pulling The Interview after a cyberattack the U.S. has linked to North Korea
The photo-sharing service owned by Facebook could be worth a whopping $35 billion, according to a new estimate
The weather outside really is going to be frightful. A major storm is set to hit the East Coast and Midwest and build to a climax on Christmas Eve. While snow may accumulate from Wisconsin to Western Pennsylvania, regions to the east can expect heavy rain
T-Mobile has agreed to pay at least $90 million in customer refunds and fines to settle claims that its customers were the victims of cramming, a once-common tactic in the telecom industry through which third parties hide unwanted charges
A 20-day-old baby who was in a car that was stolen from a Kentucky gas station was reunited with his mother after the vehicle was found hours later about seven miles away, police said. Two women found the sleeping baby in the backseat later
The NBA trade market isn't typically fruitful in December, but the Celtics and Mavericks are reportedly finalizing a deal to send Rajon Rondo to Dallas. And Rondo could change everything for the Mavericks
The reopening of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba doesn't mean the U.S. Navy’s historic base—and new terror prison—is likely to go anywhere anytime soon, TIME's Mark Thompson writes
Google is planning to build the next version of its Android operating system, dubbed Android M, directly into automobiles, according to reports. The technology would allow drivers to access the Internet and use Android apps without the synching their car with a smartphone
Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps on Friday plead guilty in a Baltimore court to his second DUI in a decade. Phelps was given a one-year suspended prison sentence and 18 months of supervised probation, and will not need to serve jail time
A new report has found that Americans aged 13 to 17 who use social media are leaving Facebook faster than ever, with the percentage of those with accounts dropping six points from 94% last year to 88% in 2014. From 2012 to 2013, it only dropped one point
The parents of the man accused of killing 12 people when he opened fire in a Colorado movie theater in 2012 are pleading that their mentally ill son be spared the death penalty. "He is a human being gripped by a severe mental illness," the couple wrote in a letter
Doctors who wouldn’t quit even as their colleagues fell ill and died; nurses comforting patients while standing in slurries of mud, vomit and feces. The Ebola Fighters are the TIME Person of the Year
