A memo from former CIA Director Leon Panetta, which confirms President Barack Obama's decision to proceed with the mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden, has been released. It notes that the timing, operational decision making and control [of the mission were] in Admiral McRaven's hands.
Each year the event has one comedian serve as a host for the dinner and the sitting president even takes part in a comedy skit. This year the host of the event is late-night host and comedian, Jimmy Kimmel and of course the sitting president is Barack Obama.
The U.S. military will conduct a comprehensive review of its training materials in an effort to eliminate any anti-Islamic content, Wired's Danger Room reported.
Steve Doocy, a Fox News commentator and co-anchor of the hit morning show FOX & Friends, is in hot water for misquoting President Barack Obama during a televised interview with Mitt Romney.
James Murdoch, the son of media magnate Rupert Murdoch, testified on Tuesday in a London courtroom that he had no idea of the illegal practices at the News of the World newspaper - but would have ended them if he had.
The Toronto Star's amateur athletics and Olympics reporter Randy Starkman died at the age of 51 on Monday at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
One hundred years have passed and there have been larger maritime disasters, but for reasons unique to the ship, the tragedy of the RMS Titanic continues to be a part of the popular culture’s consciousness.
Yet another grim development in China's ongoing battle with poor industrial and manufacturing practices -- what do you do if the pills you take make you even sicker than before?
Seven years ago, The Huffington Post was largely considered to be an aggregation blog. This year, the empire and brainchild of Arianna Huffington won its first Pulitzer for David Wood's ten-part series about wounded veterans, Beyond the Battlefield.
Columbia University on Monday announced the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners and there was no winner in the fiction category this year.
The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Monday.
Jorge Fernandez Diaz laid out the draconian plans in Congress on Thursday, which would criminalize those caught organizing street protests on-line that seriously disturb the public peace.
Swiftly and without much hullabaloo, Fox News exterminated The Fox Mole, a Fox News employee who had been feeding anonymous information to Gawker from inside the organization, in less than 24 hours. On Monday, at around 3 p.m. he published his first article. By Tuesday just before 9 p.m., The Fox Mole was fired and he revealed his true identity on Gawker as former Fox News employee Joe Muto.
Nobody knows who Detective Shavedlongcock truly is, but despite a shocking name that might scare some away, the anonymous blogger manages to attract plenty of visitors on a daily basis. On Thursday, the blogger celebrated four years of straight, in-depth, and to the point news, and granted a rare interview with the IBTimes' own Dave Smith.
Anderson Cooper might be one of the most renowned journalists in broadcast journalism but he is not immune to a case of the giggles. The CNN host fell into a fit of giggles while reciting The RidicuList on his show Anderson Cooper 360° which included the festival of Dyngus Day. And it was all caught on video.
India and China are headed for an absolute catastrophe of death and disease because of likely massive jump in asbestos-related diseases in the coming decades, says a report written by Pulitzer winning journalist Gary Cohn.
Over the past decade, much ink has been spilled on the perils of the hook-up culture and the hazards of cohabitation.
If you have the iPhone 4S, or are eagerly awaiting the iPhone 5 release, and also want to buy a car that can maximize your phone's capabilities, BMW AG is hoping that its time and energy will woo you. BMW has a dedicated, Silicon Valley-based division whose job is to create an interface between drivers' iPhones and cars.
Mike Wallace's death robbed TV news of a unique correspondent who can't be replaced.
Legendary newsman Mike Wallace, a mainstay of CBS News' 60 Minutes, died Sunday at age 93.
If the name Next Media Animation, or NMA, doesn't ring a bell, then how about this: crazy Taiwanese animators. Chances are you've come across one of NMA's signature videos.
NBC network has offered an apology for tampering with the tape of the 911 call made by George Zimmerman, the self-confessed killer of the 17-year-old African American teen Trayvon Martin, which misleadingly made him sound racist.