Fox News host Bill O’Reilly fired back at former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw on Tuesday, arguing that Brokaw should be happy for the existence of cable shows like The O’Reilly Factor. “Without cable news, Americans would not be...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted that he was drinking again — “a little bit, yeah” — after being filmed late Monday night ranting about his city’s police chief at a local fast-food restaurant, the CBC reported. Ford...

Thirty-one retired US military officers urged President Barack Obama on Tuesday to make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo prison by speeding up efforts to transfer detainees. “We appreciate your leadership this past year in...

Boeing Discovers Promising Biofuel At $3 Per Gallon (via Clean Technica) Originally published on Reviving Gaia. By Roy L Hales. Boeing has identified a commercially viable “green diesel” that emits 50% less carbon dioxide than conventional...

Police in Freeland, Pennsylvania got an online assist in nabbing an assault suspect — from the suspect’ himself. The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader reported that 35-year-old Anthony James Lescowitch brought himself to authorities’...

Executive chairman says search company has ‘complained at great length’ to the US government over intrusion Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has insisted he had no knowledge of the US National Security Agency’s...

Oscar-winning boxing drama “Raging Bull” was at the center of a copyright battle Tuesday as the US Supreme Court heard arguments from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the daughter of a dead screenwriter. Paula Petrella claims the studio owes...

A prominent Ukrainian activist and journalist, Igor Lutsenko, on Tuesday said he was safe and well after being abducted from a hospital by unknown individuals and dumped in a forest outside Kiev. Lutsenko’s sudden disappearance in the...

Two Las Vegas casinos will become the city’s first to accept the Bitcoin virtual currency from this week, their owners announced Tuesday. The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and the Golden Gate Hotel and Casino, which are owned by the same...

Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who became a source of controversy during President Barack Obama’s first election campaign, was criticized by Tea Party conservatives after lambasting them in a speech on Monday in Wilmington, Delaware, the Wilmington...

Consumers may expect that medical treatments approved for the US market are safe and thoroughly tested, but a study out Tuesday said that is not always the case. Some drugs undergo more rigorous testing than others, while most are never compared...

Surging air pollution from China and other fast-growing Asian economies has intensified winter cyclones in the northwest Pacific, scientists said Tuesday. Winter cyclones in latitudes including northwestern China, Korea and Japan have packed...

The number sequence “123456” has overtaken “password” as the most common worst password among Internet users, an online security firm says. Releasing its annual Worst Passwords list, SplashData said it was the first time...

A Florida family intends to take legal action after a local sheriff’s deputy shot and killed the family dog while the family’s 2-year-old child sat dangerously close by. WKMG-TV reported on Monday that a deputy from the Brevard...

President Barack Obama will invite 47 leaders to a landmark US-Africa summit in August, seeking to widen US trade, development and security ties with an increasingly dynamic continent to which he traces part of his ancestry. Obama will send out...