Madison, Wisconsin just claimed the top spot on Milken Institute’s Best Cities For Successful Aging list for large metros. Yes, Madison, with its annual average snowfall of more than 50…
Hollywood’s racial and gender diversity is increasing. But it’s not increasing quickly enough, says Darnell Hunt, lead author of the second annual Hollywood Diversity Report by UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche…
ESPN announced Tuesday that it will keep host Keith Olbermann off the air for the rest of the week following tweets that the network called “completely inappropriate.” Olbermann got himself…
French president Francois Hollande said that the country must offer its protection and affection to the Jewish community as anti-Semitism is on the rise in France. “Jewish are at home…
Other Facts:”The Great American Race” is 200 laps and covers 500 miles. On average, the annual global TV audience for the Daytona 500 is 20 million. February 22, 1959 –…
“Dear White People” writer-director Justin Simien won Best First Screenplay at Saturday’s 30th annual Independent Spirit Awards, and used his acceptance speech to call out the importance of having more…
Security guards entered South Africa’s parliament on Thursday to remove opposition lawmakers who disrupted an annual address by President Jacob Zuma to demand that he answer questions about a spending…
Beck’s win for Album of the Year at the 57th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night is the perfect excuse to revisit his 1994 MTV interview with Sonic Youth’s Thurston…
The Best Comedy Album category was a tough race at the 57th annual Grammy Awards, but thanks to his first ever comedy record to debut at No. 1 on the…
But some analysts are saying North Korea’s touted missiles appear to be Russian designs. The announcement of the tests also occurs just weeks before the annual joint U.S.-South Korea military…
Humans express their faith in a multitude of ways. These photos capture the incredible diversity within faith practices that happen in our world in the span of just one week….
Merkel and French President Francois Hollande met with the Russian President in Moscow on Friday. On Saturday, at the annual Munich Security Conference, she said it is uncertain whether their…
ESSENCE magazine kicked off the Grammy Awards weekend on Thursday with the 6th annual Black Women in Music event. The star-studded affair, which took place at Los Angeles’ historic Avalon…
“Violent extremism and an evolving terrorist threat raise a persistent risk of attacks on America and our allies,” Obama writes in the report’s introduction. “Escalating challenges to cybersecurity, aggression by…
Dogs aren’t the only animals that vie for best in show. Hundreds of breeds of pigeons compete in their own version of the Westminster show, strutting on long, thick legs…
www.washingtonpost.com: Each year, 100,000 people die from infections they picked up in the hospital. These are completely preventable diseases, caused by human error. But they result in as many annual deaths as AIDS,…
When you have the quarterback of one of the Super Bowl teams talking at length about squeezing and handling balls, you know this is one game you won’t want to…
Even if the term “Deflategate” means nothing to you or you would much rather tune into the second annual Kitten Bowl, chances are you’ll be spending at least a little…
This weekend will be a significant one to sports fans everywhere as the NFL’s annual Super Bowl will air Sunday — but it also marks another historic moment worth honoring….
FRANKFURT — Inflation in the eurozone has fallen to its lowest level since 2009, according to official data released on Friday, while unemployment remains in the double digits, reinforcing fears…
Standing before a conservative audience at the first annual Iowa Freedom Summit, in an auditorium usually reserved for the Des Moines ballet, the firebrand Senator from Texas distilled the state’s…
On Sunday, sports fans in the U.S. will be glued to TV screens for the Super Bowl, the annual championship of the American football league NFL. The game, this year…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee on Thursday endorsed continuing the federally required annual testing of students under the No Child Left Behind…
A long list of print, digital and broadcast news outlets have been nominated for GLAAD’s 26th annual Media Awards, the organization announced on its website Wednesday. – For the full…
“Game of Thrones” star Maisie Williams is fighting a new battle: the annual brutal dolphin hunt in Taiji, Japan. Read the whole story at The Dodo
Technological advances will drastically change life in the developing world by 2030. Bill Gates is betting on it. In the 2015 Gates Annual Letter, published by the Bill & Melinda…
Democrat Sheldon Silver, speaker of the New York State Assembly, was arrested Thursday by the FBI on charges of corruption. Sheldon turned himself in to FBI agents Thursday morning as…
President Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union address will take place Tuesday evening. Obama will give his speech in front of a joint session of Congress. See live updates…
President Barack Obama is delivering his annual State of the Union address tonight in front of a joint session of Congress. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) formally invited Obama to…
The 2015 State of the Union address will begin at approximately 9 p.m. ET. President Barack Obama will give his annual address in front of a joint session of Congress…