Benjamin Hart

Tourists cruising near the Upsala Glacier in Argentina recently spied an unusual sight: a massive iceberg flipping over in the middle of the ocean. Luckily for the rest of the world, someone caught the whole thing on film.

In the minute-plus long clip, a huge block of...

Newark mayor Cory Booker sent out a series of impassioned tweets Thursday evening in response to continuing fallout from his appearance on "Meet The Press" last Sunday, in which he expressed discomfort with the Obama campaign's strategy of attacking Mitt Romney over his career in private equity. "Sorry...

At the end of "Real Time" Friday night, Bill Maher lambasted Liberty University, the Virginia religious university that has become a mandatory stop for Republican presidential candidates. (Watch above.)

"You can't expect me to believe anything Mitt Romney said last week at Liberty University, because a) he's a liar and...

The full autopsy of Trayvon Martin, which was made available online Thursday afternoon, states that the 17-year-old was killed by a single gunshot to the chest, fired by George Zimmerman at intermediate range. (See the entire document below.)

CBS News reports that patterns caused by gunpowder wounds near...

An anonymous former high-school classmate of Mitt Romney's told ABC News on Thursday that many fellow students have "really negative memories" of the Republican presidential candidate, and that his behavior during those years was "like 'Lord of the Flies.'"

The interview came on the heels of a

Campaigning in Illinois on Saturday, Rick Santorum declared that if he wins the state's primary on Tuesday, he will capture the GOP nomination, reports NBC News.

"This is a primary, and turnout is everything. You do your job, you do your job, then this is the pledge,"...

On Friday, the blog Joe My God featured a photo of a shirtless Rick Santorum lounging on a pool chair in Puerto Rico. The author claims it was snapped by passengers on an all-gay cruise.

Later in the day, interviewed by Steve Cochran on his...

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll found that super PACs, the political organizations that allow donors to contribute unlimited amounts of money in support of candidates, are extremely unpopular among American voters.

The poll, conducted among registered voters from March 7-10, found that 69 percent of voters want...

At a campaign stop in Birmingham, Ala., where Mitt Romney was attempting to woo Southern voters before next Tuesday's primary, the candidate gave a speech in which he positioned himself as a Beltway outsider.

Standard stuff for the GOP frontrunner -- except that this time, as

Campaigning in Mississippi on Wednesday, Mitt Romney attempted to win over local voters by invoking a beloved regional delicacy.

The former Massachusetts governor said during a speech in Pascagoula, Miss., that he is turning into an "unofficial Southerner." He also joked, "I'm learning to say 'y'all' and...

Speaking at Iowa State University on Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden told students that the first version of the Obama administration's recently announced contraception law was "screwed up," reports Politico. Biden said:

"What is happening now is that, we have been able to provide what was hard to...

Bruce Springsteen said this week that his new album Wrecking Ball was inspired by an "angry patriotism" that drew fuel from the Occupy movement.

Speaking to a group of journalists at the Theatre Marigny in Paris, Springsteen described how the financial crisis, income inequality, and...

Rick Santorum is using his newfound momentum in the Republican presidential primary to mount a vigorous defense against frontrunner Mitt Romney.

After an energetic Oklahoma City rally on Thursday, Santorum told reporters that Romney's negative campaign against him masked a scarcity of ideas.

"Governor Romney's campaign has...

The Elizabeth Warren money train just keeps on rolling.

The Harvard law professor and Democrat, who is running for the Massachusetts senate seat currently held by Republican Scott Brown, raised more than $1 million on Thursday alone in a coordinated "money bomb," the timing of which had...

Rick Perry has a message for skeptics: His story of shooting a coyote during a morning jog is no tall tale.

In an interview with Parade Magazine, the presidential contender was asked whether he really killed the animal, as he claimed last year. Governor Perry responded,...

For 121 years, it has been widely accepted that Vincent Van Gogh killed himself in a field in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, ending a troubled, solitary life on his own terms.

But a new book, along with a '60 Minutes' segment that aired on Sunday night, explores a very...

Mitt Romney doesn't want to talk about religion.

In New Hampshire on Monday, the Republican candidate studiously avoided reporters' questions about his Mormon faith, CNN reports. As reporters shouted questions, Romney remained silent as his aides responded with, "No questions."

Romney's silence comes on the heels of...

As anyone who has played tennis competitively knows, it's among the most mentally taxing sports ever devised by humankind. Yes, technically you're dueling with an adversary across the net -- but oftentimes the real battle is raging between warring circuits inside your addled brain. One bad error, one chink in...

"Mr. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, is not the least troubled by his status as Capitol Hill's master infuriator..." --New York Times, 12/14/09

February 18, 2010:

On the heels of its investigation into the fairness of NCAA sports, the Senate appeared ready to pass a hugely popular college-football reform bill that...

On a recent episode of The Daily Show, Ron Howard, who was on the program to promote his film Frost/Nixon, said something that rankled me. He opined that, were George W. Bush to grant an exhaustive post-presidency interview the way Richard Nixon did in 1977, Jon Stewart would be the...