The Detroit Lions suffered their first defeat of the National Football League season on Sunday, their 25-19 loss to the San Francisco 49ers leaving the Green Bay Packers as the only unbeaten team after six weeks of play.
President Barack Obama invoked Dr. Martin Luther King in voicing support for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, who are organizing protests throughout the U.S., adding that protesters do not need to demonize financial industry employees.
Ford (F), which did not accept U.S. Government assistance, has rebounded after a restructuring, and is well-positioned to capitalize on U.S. job growth, when it returns with gusto. Is now a good time to consider Ford's shares?
A New York City McDonald's worker was arrested for brutally beating a customer with a metal rod following an altercation with the entire incident caught on video.
Actor Zachary Quinto, known for portraying Spock in the 2009 blockbuster film Star Trek, has publicly come out as a gay man.
François Hollande has won the Oct. 16 primary election against Martine Aubry, making him the Socialist Party candidate to challenge incumbent Nicholas Sarkozy for the French presidency, but his lack of experience and foreign policy know-how may still be his undoing.
Halloween 2011 already looks like its going to be a smash and NYC looks like it's the place you want to be when it all goes down. As the day draws closer several hotels and bars are putting out information about some of the hottest parties set to rock the city. Here are 29 choices for parties that have been listed on HalloweenNYC.com. Note that all prices are subject to change.
Dan Wheldon, the winner of the 2011 Indianapolis 500, was prounounced dead on Sunday following a crash 11 laps into the IndyCar series season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, pouring in sympathy on Twitter.
Former William Morris agent Sue Mengers, who pioneered behind-the-scenes roles for women in Hollywood, died at her home in Beverly Hills Saturday.
Republican presidential hopefuls Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain had some strong words about illegal immigration this weekend when they campaigned in Iowa and Tennessee, respectively.
When U.S. restrictions on work permits barred Intel from moving nearly 50 Finnish engineers to the United States this year, the microchip maker reluctantly parked them in a new research center in Finland.
The Texas Rangers crushed the Detroit Tigers 15-5 on Saturday to reach the World Series for the second year in a row by winning the best-of-seven American League Championship Series 4-2.
Climate Change has been blamed for many things and add one more to the list: It is stunting the growth of animals and plants because warmer temperatures and lack of water is causing them to shrink, a new study suggests. Researchers also warned that it could affect food production in coming years.
Will microprocessor giant Intel (INTC) benefit from a ripple-effect from the iPhone 4s Wave? Most likely that will be the case, as millions of new customers in this holiday shopping season and in 2012 beyond consider the iPhone 4s and other technology products/gadgets -- and that's good news for Intel's operation.
Zachary Quinto, 34, has for the first time, publicly discussed being gay in an interview with New York.
A representative of actress Julianne Hough has moved to dismiss rumors about the actress being romantically involved with Kenny Wormald. Hough had locked lips, onscreen, with Wormald, in Footloose. However, that was apparently the end of it.
The next time you're in the mood to narrate a murder-mystery, be wary of the words you use. Scientists and language researchers from Cornell University, NY, suggest that psychopaths are more likely to use certain word patterns than others, thereby revealing their killer instincts.
It has been two weeks since Lisa Irwin, a 10-month-old baby from Missouri went missing from her home. The search, so far, has yielded few concrete results. In what must be some good news at long last for the child's parents, investigators have found newly-soiled diapers and a backpack from an abandoned home near the Irwin residence.
A new biography by award-winning authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith has claimed that troubled painter Vincent Van Gogh did not kill himself but died in an accident.
Drivers who smoked marijuana and then got behind the wheel of a vehicle nearly tripled the risk of crashing when compared to others not under the influence, a new study from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health finds.
“Wild Bill” Stanton, a New York private security consultant hired to assist in finding baby Lisa Irwin, announced Friday that an anonymous benefactor has offered a $100,000 reward for the safe return of 10-month-old baby Lisa or a conviction of those involved in the crime. Baby Lisa’s parents also released four videos this week of their daughter when she was 3-months old.
Sonic Youth co-founders Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon have separated after 27 years of marriage and the future of the noise-rock band is uncertain, its label's parent company said on Saturday.
