30 Rock star hits back on social media after wife accused of tweeting during James Gandolfini’s funeral Alec Baldwin has said he’s done with Twitter – and has even threatened to quit acting to remove his family from the public eye –...

A California woman blamed overzealous bloggers for mistakenly putting her at the center of the far-ranging outrage concerning a police encounter that ended with officers shooting and killing a man’s dog. “One asked me if I was HIV...

By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Accused Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro has been found competent to stand trial on rape and murder charges, a judge said at a hearing Wednesday. Castro has been accused of kidnapping three women and...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – International credit card donations to WikiLeaks are flowing again after an Icelandic court ruling forced MasterCard’s and Visa’s local agent to process payments, the companies involved in processing the...

Coca-Cola products have dropped a toxic chemical-containing form of caramel coloring after a 2011 California court order, but most Pepsi products in the U.S. still contain the poison at levels 4 to 8 times the recommended safe amount. According...

A North Carolina state senator on Wednesday blasted fellow lawmakers for attaching draconian anti-abortion provisions to an anti-Sharia law bill and insisted that “the North Carolina Republican General Assembly” is “what we...

A Pennsylvania woman whose infant daughter was taken away from her by state authorities when she was just three days old, all due to a false positive on a drug test, won a $143,500 settlement Tuesday. The lawsuit (PDF), filed in 2010 by the...

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a law banning gay and lesbian couples in foreign countries from adopting Russian children. The measure was one of a series adopted by Russian authorities in recent weeks that have been slammed by...

A Florida woman had to be rescued via airboat after a run-in with three alligators while kayaking in the Everglades, WPBF-TV reported on Tuesday. “I think I went down the wrong trail,” Sarah Boynton told emergency dispatchers during...

Texas state Senator Wendy Davis (D) appeared on Tuesday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show” to discuss Republican overreach and what steps may come next for the re-invigorated Texas Democratic Party. Should the...

Current TV host John Fugelsang joined Frank “TV’s Frank” Conniff in the CLOSET on Tuesday — or at least, a fake activist group they said was taking a stand against “gay cereal.” “Our new non-profit...

Two men who had longstanding HIV infections have been off Aids drugs for several months and have no detectable HIV Two men who became free of HIV infection after bone marrow transplants have been off Aids drugs for several months without any...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson asserted on Tuesday that a black market system where Americans pay cash for health care services would be “far more efficient” than insurance. On Wednesday, the Treasury Department announced that it was...

By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) – Ecuador has found a hidden microphone inside its London embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is living, and will disclose on Wednesday who controls the device, its foreign minister said....

Brazil’s Congress has received a request from President Dilma Rousseff to hold a referendum on political reform in response to the worst social unrest in 20 years. The move, widely supported by the public, came after three weeks of...