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Comedy Central hasn’t announced who will replace Jon Stewart as host of “The Daily Show,” but the network’s sister studio, Paramount Pictures, has one suggestion: Jessica Williams. In “Hot Tub…
Car repair shops say auto insurance companies are coercing them to use cheap parts and sometimes dangerous practices to fix vehicles involved in accidents. Headlights held together by glue, dented…
“I have one friend who has natural hair, and she has to wear a wig to work. They will not even let her inside the building with natural hair,” says…
Birth place: Miami, Florida Birth name: Sidney Poitier Father: Reginald Poitier, tomato farmer Mother: Evelyn (Outten) Poitier Marriages: Joanna Shimkus (January 23, 1976-present); Juanita Marie Hardy (April 29, 1950-July 9,…
Pink would “rather go naked than wear fur” — and that’s not just lip service. – Previously, celebrities like Christy Turlington, Khloe Kardashian and Olivia Munn have stripped down for…
Weiss, the head of investment banking at Lazard and President Barack Obama’s pick for a top spot at the Treasury Department, was forced to withdraw his nomination last month after…
In March 2009, a bookish-looking Russian senator stepped to the podium at the Brookings Institution in Washington. The occasion was the inauguration of a new think tank devoted to United…
Nissan has put some interesting paint on Leaf electric cars before. Recently, it created a Leaf with mess-resistant paint that would almost never need cleaning because dirt, mudand other substanceswon’t…
“Bob was, and I’ll tell you it’s very hard to talk about him in the past tense, but Bob was for the last five decades, simply one of the best,…
It would be hard to find two words that seem so ill-matched as “Afghanistan cricket.” Yet this month, the national team of that war-torn country will begin play in cricket’s…
Senior NBC officials seriously considered firing anchor Brian Williams because he lied to his viewers about riding in a military helicopter hit by a rocket-propelled grenade during the Iraq war,…
A simmering dispute over parking may have provoked Tuesday’s triple homicide in a North Carolina college town, authorities said. But police in Chapel Hill said they had no inkling of…
As both expats and financial institutions rush to understand the new law, some banks have chosen to kick out their Americans clients rather than comply. If a bank mistakenly fails…
An explosion of orange, blue and white lit up the skies over New Zealand Wednesday night, followed by a series of sonic booms. Local experts agree that the blinding explosion…
CBS News’ “60 Minutes” correspondent and foreign reporter Bob Simon died on Wednesday night at the age of 73, the network announced. – This is a developing story. Check back…
WASHINGTON — Republicans who have been so disciplined in their opposition to President Obama are now finding themselves badly splintered over how to keep the Department of Homeland Security operating…
Now the London Underground is being touted as a stylish new subterranean route for pedestrians and cyclists. London Underline — which won the award for best conceptual project at the…
In fact, the Chinese are so committed to the day they celebrate it twice. There’s qixi, China’s equivalent to Valentine’s Day, which takes place in August, as well as the…
David Carr THE MEDIA EQUATION Other than timing, Jon Stewart’s triumphant retirement and Brian Williams’s public and humbling disenfranchisement would seem to have little in common. – “You don’t write…
What do you do when your home is invaded by thousands of crawling crabs? A lonely seahorse living under Port Phillip Bay’s Rye Pier in Melbourne, Australia, is still trying…
“We want to go to work, and they’re blaming us,” said union president Robert McEllrath in a message to his members late Wednesday. He said the shutdown is a management…
The past year has been a whirlwind for Ashley McIntyre and Danny Robinson — a kidney donor and kidney transplant patient, respectively, who started the year as strangers and finished…
Seventeen years ago, The Daily Show was a forgettable late-night lark on a little-watched cable channel. Today, after covering seven elections and countless scandals, controversies, and local quirks, the show…
Farhad Manjoo STATE OF THE ART Technology giants often meet their end not with a bang but a whimper, a slow, imperceptible descent into irrelevancy that may not immediately be…
The soap opera that has become Tiger Woods’s life took another shadowy turn Wednesday when Woods announced he was taking an indefinite leave of absence from competitive golf to…
WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill has been abuzz all week over President Barack Obama’s request for authority to use military force against Islamic State militants. Obama unveiled his proposed Authorization for…
Bridgewater owned about $28 million worth of Microsoft shares at the end of last year, up dramatically from less than $700,000 at the end of the third quarter. – Most…
The mayor of Ferguson said Wednesday that he had tried in vain to urge Gov. Jay Nixon to deploy the National Guard in his town as people burned and looted…
Shortly before he was shot to death by a troubled former Marine at a Texas gun range, legendary Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle texted a buddy, “This dude is straight-up…
“Emerging markets are one of the growth areas for TripAdvisor over the next few years,” says Wasiolek, noting restaurant and activity bookings are important too. While the stock is up…