For weeks, newspapers around the globe have been pouring barrels of ink to tell the story of Julian Assange. Now he plans to spill some of his own.

Not exactly known for keeping secrets, the WikiLeaks founder is working on an autobiography. The book deal is estimated to be in...

If the Christmas shopping season can start before Thanksgiving, so can "bah humbug" season.

Rush Limbaugh tried to rain on Barack Obama's Thanksgiving Day parade, lashing out against a proclamation issued by the president to honor the national holiday and the story behind it.

He also went on the war...

What do you get when you combine soda pop with pop art?

An eye-popping auction for $35.36 million.

Andy Warhol's "Coca-Cola (4) (Large Coca-Cola)" easily exceeded expectations at Sotheby's on Tuesday. BBC reports that the black-and-white canvas painting was expected to fetch a mere $25 million. That would...

Arnold Schwarzenegger has an answer for an age old question: What are you smoking?

His response: Who cares? At least if it's pot.

The outgoing California Governor appeared on NBC's "Tonight Show" on Monday for a wide-ranging discussion about politics, including a law he recently signed to reduce the state's...

Keith Olbermann will return to the air on Tuesday after being suspended without pay for two shows (this past Friday and the upcoming episode on Monday).

The host of MSNBC's "Countdown" was given an indefinite suspension last week after his boss, network president Phil Griffin, discovered that Olbermann had

If you're looking for a bowling partner, here's a hot prospect.

He'll never throw it in the gutter, go over the line, nor eat the last of your nachos. If you're making customized shirts, one could say "MY NAME IS EARL."

So far, so good.

EARL is an automated bowling...

Talk about awkward family reunions.

Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are related, according to research done by genealogists at Ancestry.com.

Odds are against them running into each other at a picnic, but Obama could technically be joined by Rush Limbaugh and George W. Bush, too. Yup, they're one...

A smoldering rage may be all that remains after Gene Cranick's home burned to the ground last week in Obion County, Tennessee.

Firefighters are usually the bold "veni, vidi, vici" sort, but those from neighboring South Fulton could only say "veni, vidi." They came. They watched. That's it.

The San Bruno explosion of 2010 didn't set off a fire that will be remembered like the one following the 1906 earthquake in nearby San Francisco, nor the one that consumed much of Chicago in 1871. Emergency responders and modern fire fighting techniques were, thankfully, too good for that.

But...

As a controversial pastor prepares to burn copies of the Quran in Florida, he might be able to use some advice from the people of Tennessee. They know a thing or two about fires.

The burning crosses of the Ku Klux Klan trace their heritage to Pulaski. Arson...

Jed Rakoff has been called many things: a maverick, a prosecutor, a hero, and acerbic. As a judge on cases involving high finance, his rulings have often been described as blunt and sometimes wry. When asked if he's anti-Wall Street, he once suggested that some prosecutors

Sarah Palin has used Twitter to share some advice with Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the talk radio host who apologized and decided to retire from her highly-rated program after using the N-word on the air 11 times in 5 minutes.

Palin's advice: "don't retreat...reload!"

It's a breathtakingly tone-deaf bit of provocation...

The era of the $35 cup of coffee has come to an end, for most.

Unless a consumer chooses to opt-in for overdraft protection, their ATM and debit purchases will be declined if an account has insufficient funds. Prior to Sunday, banks could automatically enroll their customers in the service,...

***Scroll down for videos, including a complete version of Shirley Sherrod's speech that started the controversy.***

Shirley Sherrod has accomplished a number of things in her career, but she had never planned on uniting Glenn Beck and the NAACP.

The former USDA official was allegedly forced out of her job...

***UPDATED*** 7/20/10, 6:49PM

Shirley Sherrod says that she was forced to resign from her position at the USDA after her comments were taken out of context.

The NAACP has retracted its initial statement condemning those comments and says they were "snookered." They are calling for the administration to reconsider Sherrod's...

Nothing seemed certain about Terri Schiavo's death. Now there are questions about a tax exempt organization formed in her honor.

Once America's most public and bitter family feud, a new round of finger-pointing includes a claim that surviving relatives are illegally using her name to make money.

Schiavo's personal tragedy...

UPDATE, April 11:

The KFC Double Down: One Sandwich To Kill You All (PHOTOS, VIDEO, Plus Patton Oswalt)

Earlier:

For Americans worried about what fast food restaurants are doing to their buns, KFC has a solution -- eliminate them.

Those would be sandwich...

President Barack Obama's bracket is busted, but the nation's first fan isn't done with March Madness.

The next chapter in Obama's basketball diary will unfold this week, when the president takes on CBS hoops analyst Clark Kellogg and newsman Harry Smith on the White House court.

Clips from...

Let's talk about sex.

But first, it might be useful to define it.

More than a decade after Bill Clinton raised questions over the definition of the word "is," a new study is raising questions over the definition of the term "had sex." If you ask men near the same...

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times updated its original item and debunked several online reports about Sarah Palin's behavior at the Oscar gifting suite:

As in, oh no, Palin and company didn't do all those "grabby 'n' whiny" things that were reported by an entertainment gossip site Wednesday evening and spread...