Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the legendary designer duo whose billion-dollar fashion empire has been embroiled in a $1.3-billion tax evasion case, were sentenced to almost two years in ...
Welp, here's hoping you didn't have anything important stored on Megaupload's mostly dormant servers. Megaupload owner and maniacal super villain Kim Dotcom says a huge amount of ...
After a Rolling Stone interview with Serena Williams surfaced yesterday in which the tennis star said that the Steubenville rape case's 16-year-old victim "shouldn't have put herself in ...
Ben Smith at BuzzFeed on the legacy of Michael Hastings The late journalist Michael Hastings, unlike so many other political reporters, refused to align himself with power, writes his former ...
FBI director Robert Mueller said the government has used surveillance drones in the U.S. — though "in a very, very minimal way, very seldom" — at a Senate hearing on Wednesday ...
This post is from staff writer Honey Smith.
On Saturday, Jake woke up restless. Despite the fact that it was 112 degrees outside (argh) he really wanted to leave the ...
This post is from staff writer Kristin Wong.
When I think of lifestyle inflation, I think of going to my favorite sushi restaurant every weekend. I think of buying the ...
This post is from staff writer Sarah Gilbert.
I told the checker at the grocery co-op where I shop that I didn’t need a receipt. “I don’t want ...
This reader story is by a longtime GRS reader Sumitha from afineparent.com, a blog founded on the simple belief that “Good Parents Are Made, Not Born.”
Some reader stories ...
Newish GRS reader Jennifer is beginning her financial journey, and she shared her strategy so far.
So here I am, mid-30s, buried in an obscene amount of credit card debt ...
A third Republican senator has come out in favor of gay marriage, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) announcing her support Wednesday morning.
"I am a life-long Republican because I believe ...
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended negotiations with Washington over a security agreement that would regulate the presence of U.S. troops here beyond 2014, apparently angered by ...
Rand Paul seems to be crossing over to the mainstream — or maybe, it’s the other way around.
When Kentucky’s junior senator arrived in Washington just over two years ...
TPM Reader MB on the new GOP abortion ban bill ...
I just wanted to underscore how horrific the Republicans' abortion bill was, and how it's sent shockwaves through my ...There were supposedly two takeaways from the 2012 election. First, the GOP had a difficult time polling the new American electorate, a shortcoming tied to the second takeaway, which was ...
Japanese politicians apparently have a really hard time not embarrassing themselves on theTwitter.
Like quantum theory and relativity, who can really explain why they still let lazy and permanently and embarrassingly wrong 'historian' Niall Ferguson on TV? All I can figure is that ...
In case you missed the news last night, a big shock and a big loss in the world of journalism. Michael Hastings died yesterday in a car crash in Los ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and U.S. President Barack Obama at the G8 Summit, at Lough Erne, near Enniskillen, in Northern Ireland on June 18 ...
U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he arrives to deliver remarks in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany on June 19, 2013. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)In 1948 ...
A banner depicting Mohammed Assaf, a contestant in the TV talent show 'Arab Idol', is seen on a building in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 13, 2013 ...
President Obama landed in Berlin Tuesday evening for his first official visit to the German capital, but his reception in the privacy-loving nation might have been warmer if not for ...
Activists, accused of working for unlicensed non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and receiving illegal foreign funds, stand in a cage during the opening of their trial in Cairo on March 8, 2012 ...
NEW YORK -- Fire authorities say eight people have been hurt, several of them seriously, in a Manhattan vehicle crash.
A car jumped the curb and hit a store in the ...
NEW YORK -- Lil Wayne says he wasn't intentionally stepping on the American flag when shooting his latest video.
Video of the rapper from his music video shoot for the ...
"Today" replaced its longtime director on Tuesday in one of what is becoming a lengthy series of changes for the struggling NBC morning show.
Joe Michaels, who has been the ...
STOCKHOLM -- The World Bank says it will increasingly view its efforts to help developing countries fight poverty through a "climate lens."
In a report released Wednesday, the international lending institution ...
SAO PAULO -- Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament – people are weighed down ...
