Eric Brown

In one of the most bizarre late-night TV moments ever, beloved American icon Tom Hanks appeared on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” to perform slam poetry about the 1990s sitcom “Full House.”

Although President Barack Obama is busy planning his campaign strategy in the final days leading to the Nov. 6 presidential election, it appears he still has time to catch up with an old friend every once in a while, even -- or especially -- when that friend is multiplatinum rap icon and superstar Jay-Z.

The body of the suspected gunman was found after a shooting spree at the Azana Salon & Spa in Brookfield, Wis., that left three females dead Sunday.

A shooting outside a Brookfield, Wis., mall has left at least seven people with gunshot wounds.

Stephen Colbert will make a cameo appearance in Peter Jackson’s upcoming “Hobbit” trilogy, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Only a few months after announcing her pregnancy online, British pop singer Adele has given birth to her first baby, a boy.

Arthur L. Allen, the CEO and president of ASG Software Solutions in Naples, Fla., reportedly sent his U.S.-based employees an email asking each of them not only to vote for Mitt Romney in the presidential election, but also to donate as much as $2,500 to the Romney campaign.

The Orionid meteor shower peaks Saturday night, offering Western Hemisphere skywatchers a spectacular view of one of the most impressive astronomical events of the year. The Orionids are set to peak around 11 p.m. EDT, so make sure to find a good spot outside by then.

As hype builds for the highly anticipated release of “Assassin’s Creed III,” more information on the game is emerging every day. And the latest piece of marketing is a trailer focusing not on the series' assassins but on its often-unseen protagonist Desmond Miles.

While Monday marks the end of the U.S. presidential debates for Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, it won’t be the end of the debate season for everyone. Third-party candidates, including Gary Johnson and Dr. Jill Stein, will be holding their own debate on Tuesday , although major cable networks such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC are refusing to air it.

An electrical fire at the Texas State Fair on Friday destroyed the Dallas landmark Big Tex, a 52-foot tall statue of a Texan that had been a staple at the fair for over 60 years. While it’s understandable that plenty of Texans are upset about the loss of Big Tex, it’s a bit less understandable to compare its destruction to September 11.

An alleged accomplice of the accused New York Fed bomb conspirator has been seized on unrelated child pornography charges.

With the Boy Scouts “perversion files” released by court order, President Wayne Perry is apologizing for how sex abuse was handled.

Chevrolet has announced plans to unveil the 2014 Corvette this coming January at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The 2014 Corvette will be the first of a new generation of Corvettes, the seventh in the line’s history.

After 11 years without new flight attendants, American Airlines is finally hiring. But the new hires will be working for lower wages than those being laid off.

Coming hot on the heels of Apple’s October 23 iPad Mini event and the release of Windows 8, Google has scheduled its own mysterious announcement event on October 29.

Even after addressing both presidential candidates personally in Tuesday night’s debate, 20-year-old Jeremy Epstein appears to be leaning towards Obama, especially after criticizing Romney for his repeated interruptions during the debate.

The day after standup comedian Tig Notaro was diagnosed with breast cancer, she performed a set at Largo in Los Angeles, announcing her illness and launching into an extremely honest and darkly comic 30 minute-routine which quickly became the stuff of comedy legend. Now, one week after Notaro released “Live,” a recording of the August 3 set, exclusively on Louis CK’s website, the standup special has sold over 75,000 copies

Relive Felix Baumgartner's amazing record-breaking Sunday with high-quality photos of the Red Bull Stratos mission.

Alfonso Ribeiro, best known for playing the role of Carlton Banks in the television series “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," tied the knot with his fiancee Angela Unkrich on Saturday.

The space shuttle Endeavour has arrived at its final resting place after being decommissioned: the California Science Center in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park.

Daredevil Felix Baumgartner is currently preparing to break the world record for the highest freefall, jumping from the stratosphere at a height of just over 120,000 feet. But will mechanical problems cause him to cancel the mission?

Gary Collins, actor and television talk-show host, died early Saturday in Biloxi, Miss. Collins may have been best known for his talk show “Hour Magazine,” which ran for eight years in the 1980s. Collins also made many memorable guest appearances on shows such as “Charlie’s Angels,” “Fantasy Island,” and “The Love Boat.” Collins was 74.

While Microsoft has not yet released its latest operating system Windows 8, the company has already added a high-profile application for the new OS to its Windows Store: Digital streaming service Netflix released an app on Saturday.

“Halo 4,” the latest installment in the gargantuan “Halo” series, is set to be released Nov. 6. According to online reports, however, the game has already leaked, with a physical copy of the game being cracked and made available for download via BitTorrent sites.

During the past few months of his presidential-election campaign, Republican candidate Mitt Romney has employed the catchphrase “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose,” which is associated with the television series “Friday Night Lights.” On Friday, Peter Berg, who created the TV series based on H. G. Bissinger's eponymous book, sent Romney a letter requesting that he cease and desist his use of the catchphrase.

A few months after Miley Cyrus first showed her tattoo featuring a quotation of a line by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, her fiance Liam Hemsworth has shown a similar tattoo, bearing an earlier part of the same Roosevelt quote.

Over the past year, the social media site Reddit has taken on an increasingly important role in the political sphere.

Michael Vick, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback convicted of running a dogfighting ring in 2007 has admitted to the press that he now owns a dog after rumors began flying based on a picture from Vick’s Twitter account.