Chen Guangcheng, the blind dissident, spent a "bittersweet" first day of freedom in New York, beginning a new life in America even as the Chinese government continued to his detain friends and relatives. Read more »
Robert Kennedy Jr has insisted that he was not responsible for his wife's suicide as the bitter feud dividing the family led her six siblings to stay away from her funeral. Read more »
The former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie, Scotland, bombing has died, according to reports. He was 59. Read more »
Many Egyptians believe Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister to be corrupt. Yet Ahmed Shafiq, who is running for president in Egypt's historic elections this month, has climbed to second in opinion polls. Experts say his growing popularity highlights many Egyptians' desires for stability, which, as NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports, is something they believe the retired Air Force general can provide. Read more »
NATO leaders are meeting in Chicago with a full agenda.nbsp; It’s the biggest NATO meeting ever, with some 60 governments in attendance.nbsp; But no one is asking the most important question:nbsp; why is America still defending Europe? Read more »
Facebook, for its first post-IPO act--not counting CEO Mark Zuckerberg?s marriage to his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan, on Saturday--acquired social gifting startup Karma for an undisclosed amount. The company doesn?t have the name recognition as Instagram, or hopefully, that deal?s price point. Read more »
On Saturday, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, announced that he had married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan. The announcement was made, of course, on Facebook.
A movie date for Timothy Busfield went terribly awry ... a woman is now accusing the famed actor of sexual battery ... TMZ has learned.Law enforcement sources tell us ... Busfield took a date to the ArcLight theaters in Sherman Oaks Wednesday night.…
Research shows that more than half of office workers are dissatisfied with the level of “speech privacy” in their offices, and managers are hearing their complaints.