The annual Kennedy Center Gala this year bestowed its recognition on Diamond, actress Meryl Streep, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, singer Barbara Cook and saxophonist Sonny Rollins. It's also a weekend that saw the comeback victory of Tiger Woods, the personally troubled golf great, who finally won a tournament after a two-plus-year drought, the Chevron Challenge and Sherman Oaks, held Sunday in Los Angeles. Why do we hold up athletes as role models so much more often than we do artists?
Investment firm Beacon Capital Partners has closed on an investment in 195 Broadway in Lower Manhattan as part of a $280 million recapitalization of the property, according to city records.
A well-timed insult can boost a publicity whore's profile -- but at what cost?
Michael Mukasey, a former federal judge and attorney general under President George W. Bush, said arguments for Justices Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas to recuse themselves from the Affordable Care Act case are flimsy at best.
Sooner or later, income taxes on upper-income groups in the United States, including the uber-rich, have to be raised to balance the federal budget, and to restore tax fairness.
President Barack Obama and three 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls are all contenders for the award.
The pace of growth in the vast U.S. services sector slowed in November to the lowest level in nearly two years, according to an industry report released on Monday.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his United Russia Party's grip on Russian politics weakened after a State Duma (lower house of parliament) vote on Sunday.
The trial of accused corrupt City Councilman Larry Seabrook will continue on Monday, even though jurors are finding it difficult to come to a decision based on the evidence presented.
Break out the bubbly, Michael Kors is going public, with an IPO valued at $3.6 billion.
Comic actor Alan Sues, best known for his roles on the television series Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In from the late 60s to early 70s, died on Thursday of cardiac arrest according to reports.
Principal Sharron Smalls is under fire after students spread a sexy Facebook photo of her getting drenched in chocolate syrup by a shirtless man.
Police officials believe they are dealing with a single serial killer who will murder again. Without a physical description or any reliable leads, it has become difficult for police to make headway in the case. In situations like these, police officials turn to criminal forensic psychologist and criminal profilers.
Two elderly women claim TSA agents strip searched them at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport last week.
For instance, many among Facebook's 800 million users were interested in a dog mourning the death of a Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan than they were in stories about troops being pulled out of Afghanistan. Anyway, here is the list from Facebook of its 40 most shared articles of 2011.
The economy showed signs it was decelerating, with an index of service activity pointing to slower growth in November while new orders for factory goods declined in October for the second straight month.
Stocks rallied more than one percent on Monday, building on the previous week's gains, as optimism grew an agreement between French and German leaders would break new ground to resolve the Eurozone debt crisis.
Jessica Simpson is impatient to find out the sex of her baby with NFL fiancé Eric Johnson, but the singer turned businesswoman is convinced the baby is a girl. The pair will take a pregnancy test today to confirm (and Johnson thinks it's a boy), but Simpson has already decided to put him in tutus if the baby's sex is male.
Shares of specialty software vendors like MicroStrategy and Qlik Technologies rose sharply early Monday as investors contemplate Oracle’s retaliation for SAP’s $3.4 billion bid for SuccessFactors.
An upstate New York high school suspended an unspecified number of students last week following the police department's closure of the bullying-suicide case of gay teen Jamey Rodemeyer.
Mona Lisa's smile may not be the only enigmatic element to the iconic Leonardo da Vinci portrait.
Boxing great Miguel Cotto peppered his opponent Antonio Margarito's right eye all night long on Saturday.
