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The Knicks will not match the Rockets' offer and Jeremy Lin will go to Houston.

The Boy Scouts of America reaffirmed Tuesday its policy to exclude gays from joining or being leaders.

For fans of the DreamWorks Animation brand, there is a certain somber irony in its bid to acquire a catalog of pop-culture relics. The company, founded in 1994 out of a merger between DreamWorks SKG and Pacific Data Images, built its name on inventive storytelling and original offerings such as Antz, Shark Tale and Kung Fu Panda.

On Tuesday, The National Geographic Channel will premiere American Gypsies, which purportedly aims to refute common myths about gypsies.

With last week's hubbub over Condoleezza Rice as possible veep, you may have missed how a House Republican group took legislative action to increase government subsidies to the one percent.

Closely following earlier reports that Syria had started moving some parts of its huge stockpile of chemical weapons out of storage, the most senior Syrian official to defect to the opposition has said that the Syrian regime will not hesitate to use chemical weapons in a last-ditch effort at survival.

Taliban militants have threatened aid workers trying to administer the polio vaccine in Pakistan, putting the lives of 250,000 children in the remote regions of South and North Waziristan at immediate risk.

Margaret Sullivan, outgoing editor of the Warren Buffett-owned Buffalo News, brings 32 years of journalism experience to her new role as public editor of the New York Times (NYSE: NYT), as the Sulzberger family-controlled paper faces unprecedented financial challenges.

With more TV audiences viewing shows online, it makes sense creators are bypassing the traditional distribution medium and developing content expressly for the Web. Yet some might be surprised to find that film icon and veteran A-lister Tom Hanks is jumping on the bandwagon.

The internal memo, written by outgoing Executive Chairman Marcus Agius, added that customers, clients, shareholders and regulators all have a right to feel let down.

NBC News announced Sunday night that it had officially severed its online relationship with the Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) with respect to their joint news site MSNBC.com. NBC has acquired the MSNBC domain, paying Microsoft about $300 million for its stake in the site.

While plenty of lesser-known tech blogs have been reporting on the recent developments in the Apple world, major publications have been less enthusiastic about the news. On Sunday, however, the New York Times threw its weight behind rumors of a coming iPad with a 7.85-inch screen.

La Jolla Playhouse on Thursday set off a social-media firestorm over the casting of its upcoming production of The Nightingale. Although the Hans Christian Andersen tale is set in Feudal China, the cast contains few Asian actors.

Gannett Co. Inc., publisher of USA Today and 81 local daily newspapers, is expected to have slightly lower revenue in the second quarter this year versus last year, as print advertising continues to weaken and the broader economy sputters at stall speed.

Launched just over a year ago, and touted by the newspaper-loving Murdoch as a savior for print media, The Daily boasts is drowning in estimated losses of $30 million a year.

Why is it that when a guy tells a joke, everyone laughs, but if a woman tells that same joke, she is looked down upon as (1) unladylike, (2) desperately seeking attention, or (3) still not over the pain of childbirth?

Recent polls have public opinion at a virtual standoff but House Republicans might be better off focusing on other issues instead of the empty symbolism of another repeal.

DNA taken from a chain used in an Occupy Wall Street protest has been linked to the unsolved murder of Sarah Fox, a 21-year-old Julliard student who was killed in New York City in May 2004. But just how significant will the development be in determining who murdered Sarah Fox in Inwood Hill Park?

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, and NBC will announce deal to collaborate on Olympics coverage, starting July 27, the New York Times reported.

In long forgotten days, before most bank profits came from risky speculation and taxpayer bailouts and those institutions still lived or died by their ability to attract depositors, customers who opened new checking accounts were often given toasters as tokens of appreciation.

In another triumph of digital medial over legacy media, Buzzmedia said Tuesday that it would buy Spin Media LLC, the 27-year-old music magazine that chronicled the rise of alternative rock in the 1990s.

Some members of a Miami school board said Michelle Obama, who is looking to recruit volunteers Tuesday, isn't supposed to use a school for political gain.

A recently ordained Chinese bishop has been detained after he resigned from his post at the government-run Catholic Patriotic Association, which oversees the state-sanctioned Catholic church in China.

The highly anticipated film version of Fifty Shades of Grey now has two notable producers attached.

One major consequence of finding the Higgs boson? Stephen Hawking loses another bet.

Russia isn't the first place that comes to mind when thinking of free speech, but that's exactly where the second World Media Summit was held. Attendees including BBC and CNN heard about a free press from Vladimir Putin, and about world harmony from the North Koreans.

U.N. envoy Kofi Annan said he and President Bashar al-Assad agreed on Monday on an approach to Syria's conflict that he would now take to the opposition, as Russia, Assad's main protector, distanced itself further from him.

With his divorce from Katie Holmes putting Tom Cruise and his Scientologist beliefs back in the spotlight, a review of the actor's greatest YouTube hits shows his growing reputation for eccentricity, at best.

Robert Nkemdiche's attempt to land scholarships for his teammates could set a precedent.