According to the Houston Chronicle's Jonathan Feigen, the Rockets are planning to use their amnesty clause on Luis Scola in order to create more room for a potential trade with the Orlando Magic to land Dwight Howard. While the Rockets...Show More Summary
Penn State’s Board of Trustees commissioned former FBI Director Louis Freeh to investigate how child molester Jerry Sandusky—for years one of Paterno’s most trusted and loyal assistants—could have committed his awful crimes under the noses of university officials. The answer is simple and shocking: Those officials simply looked the other way.
Mitt Romney wants you to know that both of these things are true: 1. He was the “controlling person” in a number of Bain Capital investments between 1999 and 2002, when he left to work on the Salt Lake City Olympics. 2. He had no actual personal control over those investments during that time. This is not [...]
Will South Korean taxpayers ever get their money back from the bailout of Woori Finance?
Fresh off his Magic Mike hype, everyone’s favorite golden-hearted stripper is taking his tricks to the next level in a new biopic about Evel Knievel....
(NEW YORK) — JPMorgan Chase says its surprise trading loss grew to $4.4 billion. The bank’s original estimate was $2 billion. The bank made the announcement Friday as it reported its quarterly earnings. CEO Jamie Dimon says the bank has “significantly reduced” the risk involved in the trade. Just three months ago, JPMorgan Chase was [...]
Raise your hand if you're sick of Angry Birds. Yeah, we thought so. Now that Rovio has saturated the market with Angry Birds-branded games, toys, clothing and even fruit snacks, the developer has set its sights on a boy named Alex and his Rube Goldberg-esque shenanigans.
Glorious!! They totes caught us with our pants down last night when Pee-Wee Herman made an unexpected cameo on Late Night!! Who needs the Justice League?! Pee-wee, Jimmy Fallon, and Batman joined forces to give us the most unstoppably excellent trailer EVER! Wa-wa-watch Li-li-listen to Pee-wee connect the plot dots (la la lala) of Dark Knight Rises (above)! And, [...]
A push for same-day delivery by the online mega-retailer may hurt local brick and mortar stores, worrying some in the small business community. However, there’s another side of the story. The trend toward online retail will also benefit...Show More Summary
Cash for Flash Google will not, it seems, be selling its low-cost Nexus 7 Android tablet at a loss, but it's making less money out of the hardware than Amazon is with the Kindle Fire.…
US bank settles claim that it charged Hispanics and blacks higher loan rates, but refuses to admit guilt One-Minute Read LAST UPDATED AT 11:06 ON Fri 13 Jul 2012 THE US bank Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $175m to settle a legal caseShow More Summary
Uniforms for U.S. Olympic athletes are American red, white and blue - but made in China. Members of Congress are fuming over the matter with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid demanding that the Olympic committee 'burn them and startShow More Summary
Vice President Joe Biden was greeted with cheers at the NAACP convention in Houston. In the keynote address of the five-day gathering, Biden delivered a forceful defense of President Obama's health-care reform law and slammed Republicans...Show More Summary
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warned the Bank of England about Libor rate failures in 2008, four years before Barclays was fined over the scandal, it has been claimed. An email from Mr Geithner was sent on June 1, 2008 to Sir...Show More Summary
Jamal Crawford looking forward to playing for the Los Angeles Clippers next season – NBA News Jamal Crawford is excited about playing for the Los Angeles Clippers next season. After considering offers from the Minnesota TimberwolvesShow More Summary
Our guest blogger is Jessica Arons, the Director of the Women’s Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress. In the Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, an important question before the Court was whether it was coercive for the federal government to threaten to withhold [...]
The Financial Times is running a good series this week on Amazon, one of the country's most fascinating and frustrating companies. This piece on how Amazon has transformed itself from an online book retailer into a retail and outsourcing giant is particularly interesting. The Wall Street Journal reported a couple of weeks ago that some of Amazon's...
By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter Now that he has taken over Tim Tebow's job as the quarterback of the Denver Broncos, NFL star Peyton Manning has moved west from Indianapolis to Colorado and purchased an opulent estate near the MileShow More Summary
Here's the official video trailer of Oz The Great and Powerful starring James Franco and directed by Sam Raimi. It's a "prequel" to the Wizard of Oz! Wait, isn't that Wicked? The movie opens in March 2013. Watch the video here: Oz The Great and Powerful – Official Trailer Video is a post from: Rickey.org
There is little that I agree with Jesse Jackson Jr on with regards to the role of government in the lives of free people.While I don't mean to make light of his purported emotional problems I am made to empathize with him based on how...Show More Summary