The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew past their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles. The pilots – Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor, Wash., the captain, and Richard Cole of...

The public option lives. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that the bill he will bring to the Senate floor will include a public health insurance option that individual states could decline to participate in. &quo...

Chicago's failed bid to host the 2016 Olympics in the first round of voting caps a week of conservative attacks against President Obama for personally stumping on his home city's behalf. How the International Olympic Committee's reje...

The Internet celebrated its 40th birthday this week, and Jimmy Kimmel got all all sentimental as a result. He decided to celebrate with a salute to all the World Wide Web has given to us over the years--it's either a loving tribute to our quirkin...

The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana reports that Charlie Gibson is "livid" over the choice of Diane Sawyer as his replacement on ABC's "World News." Dana quotes a source close to Gibson and supports the claim with the evidence that Gibson neither mentioned...

Supermodel Stephanie Seymour, who is embroiled in a bitter divorce with estranged husband Peter Brant, has taken her clothes off for Vanity Fair. Brant is a multimillionaire businessman and polo pony breeder who is seeking sole custody of the...

My friend Stephanie wants to know why I'm so adamant about the Black Hole, the one that swallows resumes the way my dog eats mac and cheese off my seven-year-old's plate when the seven-year-old isn't looking. "I know there are a lot of people applying...

More and more, the titles showing up in movie previews are familiar -- you've seen them on your bookshelf. It's true for both adult books (think The Time Traveler's Wife and The Notebook) and teen reads, but arguably the move from the Young Adult novel...

Back in 2005 Bea Arthur roasted Pamela Anderson by reading the Playmate's book aloud. "I've just finished reading her new novel, 'Star Struck.' Very very...it's a terrific book. The story concerns a blond very large breasted actress, surprisingly named...

Over the past couple weeks, the show took a mini hiatus and so did I. Ashlee Simpson and Auggie's (Colin Egg-something if you care) imminent departure from the show has been tough on all of us. I cried in my room for days, just listening to Ashlee...