A N.Y. court ruled Wednesday that Starbucks baristas must share their tips with shift supervisors.
In the shadow of DOMA and Prop 8, the ruling on “Salinas v. Texas” could have serious implications for criminal prosecutions.
Liz Pike, a Republican lawmaker from Washington State, has drawn the ire of teachers after posting an open letter on her Facebook page telling them to stop complaining about cost of living and enjoy their summers off.
Oprah Winfrey made her fifth appearance on Forbes magazine's "Top 100 Most Powerful Celebrities" list for 2013, this time securing the number one spot.
A Florida woman named Zoe Brugger experienced a “bra shake drug search” in Lakeland in May.
"Holler if Ya Hear Me," a musical inspired by the life of rapper Tupac Shakur, has been set to hit the Broadway stage next season.
Kanye West shot straight to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart with "Yeezus," his fifth solo album to debut at No. 1.
Etienne Uzac co-founded International Business Times as a global-news website alternative to the “established business media."
Will Smith will not be returning for the "Independence Day" sequel, says director Roland Emmerich.
Science fiction writer Richard Matheson has passed away at age 87.
Hershey’s chocolate bar served as a the focal point of a key scene in “Mad Men’s” season-six finale, but will Don Draper’s whorehouse confession help or hurt the Hershey brand?
Rachel Rose Hartman, a White House reporter for Yahoo News, incorrectly referred to Kenya as the country of President Barack Obama’s birth. Despite a correction, a mob of angry Twitter users think she should be out of a job.
The stuntwoman who died in a terrifying air show crash on Saturday had planned to marry aboard a wing of the same small plane that burst into flames before thousands of horrified spectators.
"Wing walker" Jane Wicker and pilot Charlie Schwenker died in the crash at the Vectren Dayton Air Show in Dayton, Ohio.
Gossip giant Gawker Media has been hit with a class-action lawsuit by former interns who say they weren't paid for their work.
The recent NSA surveillance scandal signals a major downside to online tracking. Could private search engines be the answer?
With A-listers like James Franco and Zach Braff turning to crowd-funding, SAG-AFTRA said Friday that offering movie roles to backers on Kickstarter and Indiegogo violates union contracts.
Actor Robert Downey Jr. will reprise his most famous role when he plays "Iron Man" in the next two "Avengers" films.
Celebrity stylist and reality star Rachel Zoe is pregnant and expecting her second child with husband Rodger Berman.
Unanswered questions surrounding the reported death of BuzzFeed’s Michael Hastings, 33, have sparked wild conspiracy theories on Reddit and Twitter.
BuzzFeed, Inc. is being sued for $3.6 million by Kai Eiselein, a photographer who says the viral news site violated his copyright.
A shark attacked a teenager Monday afternoon as he swam in waist-deep water at Surfside Beach, along Texas's Gulf coast.
Pro-gay-marriage commentators like Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews discussed gay marriage more often than opponents like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, according to a Pew Research study.
Atlantic Records & parent Warner Music Group are being hit with a suit by a former unpaid intern who said he worked eight months without pay.
One person was injured in an early-morning shooting Sunday at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino, Milwaukee
Gender X. The Australian government is allowing transgender and intersex individuals to choose a third gender in addition to male and female when filling out personal documents.
At a “Media Minds” breakfast discussion on Thursday, Tim Armstrong, chief officer of AOL, gave his thoughts on government surveillance. AOL is one of the tech companies whose data is reportedly tapped into by PRISM.
A building linked to the Rob Ford crack scandal was raided as part of a massive police sweep in greater Toronto on Thursday, but police won't say if they seized the video that inspired Gawker’s Crackstarter.
The man who inspected a building on Market Street before it collapsed last week, killing six people, was found dead in an apparent suicide.
Mercy for Animals is calling on Amazon.com Inc. to stop selling foie gras, a French delicacy that's already been banned in California.
