Eric Brown

Jamie Foxx, star of Quentin Tarantino’s recent hit film “Django Unchained,” is firing back at “Do the Right Thing” director Spike Lee, who recently criticized the violent movie for its racial language.

Al Gore may have just made close to $100 million from the sale of the Current TV network, but it appears the former U.S. vice president is not done pocketing the big bucks quite yet. Gore this week bought roughly $29 million worth of Apple Inc. stock for pennies on the dollar, making him even richer than ever.

The Target Corp. (NYSE:TGT) department-store chain is recalling roughly 560,000 children’s pajama sets due to a flame hazard.

The ‘90s are officially back, everyone. Sure, flannel has been back in fashion for a while and everything, but now that hip hop duo Kriss Kross is reuniting, we can all safely say that it might as well be 1992 all over again.

“Pawn Stars” personality Rick Harrison is typically busy negotiating deals on historical artifacts, but his main responsibility for the time being will be bartering down caterers’ fees. The reality TV star and pawn shop owner has finally set a date for his wedding, and his fiancée has stuck him with all the planning.

This week, actor and uber-badass Samuel L. Jackson made headlines for his cover of Taylor Swift’s catchy pop hit “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” Let’s celebrate that beautiful pairing with a look at some of Jackson’s best viral videos.

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman explained the site’s Local Inspector Value-Entry Specification (LIVES) program in a blog post that went live early Thursday morning. Starting now, Yelp users in San Francisco and New York City will be able to see not only reviews, operating hours, and transit directions for restaraunts in their cities, but also the health scores of those restaurants.

The Russian Space Agency announced on Tuesday that it plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015. This will be Russia’s first unmanned lunar since the Soviet era.

Famed cyclist and steroid-user Lance Armstrong is set to give his first interview since being stripped of his Tour de France titles on Oprah’s OWN network Thursday and Friday nights. In preparation of the event, OWN has released a (very) short preview of the interview.

Following an emergency order from the Federal Aviation Administration issued late Wednesday night, United States airlines are ordered to temporarily ground all Boeing 787 Dreamliners until the planes can be proven to safe. Earlier in the day, a Japanese 787 suffered a battery fire while in the air.

Dennis Kucinich, former congressman and Democratic presidential candidate, has taken a job as an analyst with the cable news network Fox News. Kucinich’s first appearance with the network will be on Thursday night’s episode of “The O’Reilly Factor.”

An Oregon sheriff has sent a letter to Vice President Joe Biden explaining that his office will refuse to enforce any new federal gun laws that he considers unconstitutional.

"Argo," "Les Miserables," Daniel Day-Lewis, and Jessica Chastain were among the big winners at the 70th Golden Globe Awards show Sunday.

“Homeland” may have just won the Golden Globe for best drama on television, but you could be forgiven for missing that during the broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards show on Sunday night, as Paul Rudd and Salma Hayek had an incredibly awkward moment as the teleprompter broke down and they were left with nothing to say onstage.

The 70th Golden Globe Awards show on Sunday night might just have the most perfect pair of hosts in the event's long history.

Astronomers in Chile have just released an amazing new photograph of cosmic “bullets” traveling through the Orion Nebula at super speeds.

Heather Graham learned a hard lesson about fire safety last night: never leave candles unattended. The actress’s swanky Manhattan pad went up in flames on Saturday night after she left several burning candles unattended in the bathroom.

It looks like wedding bells are in the future for “Tron: Legacy” star Olivia Wilde and “SNL” cast member Jason Sudeikis.

Aaron H. Swartz, an activist, computer programmer, and early architect of the popular website Reddit, committed suicide Friday in New York. Swartz was 26.

Action film superstar Jackie Chan may have made millions of dollars at the U.S. box office, but this doesn’t mean he has to like the country that helped make him an international name. In an interview on a Hong Kong television show, Chan expressed some pretty baffling anti-Americanism, calling the U.S. “the most corrupt [country] in the world.”

Things keep getting worse for actor-comedian Katt Williams. After being arrested several times over the past six weeks -- the most recent a Jan. 8 bust for failing to appear in court -- Williams is now being sued for allegedly refusing to pay for a used car.

This is officially the year when celebrity news went completely insane. After 2012 was dominated by accounts of Beyonce’s pregnancy -- before, during, after the big event -- the pop star now is releasing her actual sonogram video to the public.

A team of amateur astronomers has made a fascinating discovery, uncovering evidence of 42 alien planets, one of which is roughly the size of Jupiter and could potentially be habitable by humans.

Sorry, “Star Wars” fans. Despite a wildly popular petition on the White House’s “We the People” website, the U.S. government has officially decided not to create a full-scale Death Star to intimidate its foes across the galaxy.

Brooke Greenberg is 20 years old, but she looks much, much younger. In fact, despite her age, she closely resembles a toddler, both physically and mentally.

David Villalobos, a man who was mauled by a Siberian tiger after leaping into its habitat at the Bronx Zoo in New York, pleaded not guilty to criminal trespassing charges on Friday.

When former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and his partners sold their cable-television network Current TV to Al Jazeera in a deal announced Jan. 2, it made headlines around the world. But it appears the Arabic news organization wasn’t the only media conglomerate to make an offer. According to former Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck, his own company made an offer to buy Current TV, but Gore refused to sell to the conservative pundit.

Although legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix has been dead for almost 43 years, the rock god is about to release a new album, featuring material he recorded in the months before his death. And you can listen to the newest Hendrix track right here.

“Doomsday asteroid” Apophis flew by the Earth on Wednesday, and while there was no chance of the giant asteroid hitting our planet then, for some time, scientists have been worried that the asteroid could hit Earth when it swings by again in 2029 and 2036. Now, after Wednesday’s close encounter, scientists at NASA have ruled out any significant chance of an impact by Asteroid Apophis.