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Pinterest, the online pin board photo sharing phenomenon, has certainly climbed the Web’s social popularity ladder. The newest craze has put a hiatus on pending membership requests, placing wannabe users on a waiting list because of the spike in its numbers recently.

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum may be surging in the polls ahead of Mitt Romney just a week before the Arizona and Michigan primaries, but that has come along with intense media scrutiny and the discovery of rather controversial comments.

The Knicks' burgeoning star has been subjected to racial comments from broadcasters for being Asian.

Jeremy Lin: The Reason for the Linsanity a new book chronicling the dramatic rise of the New York Knicks point guard is set to be released in May.

About 55 Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner jets may have a recently discovered flaw in the fuselage, the company said on Wednesday, while reiterating that the world's first carbon-plastic passenger plane is safe to fly.

After much speculation, reports have confirmed that Jeremy Lin will be receiving his own signature shoe after signing a contract extension with Nike.

The 345-issue Billy Wright Collection features the first appearances of Superman and Batman, as well as the iconic Captain America cover featuring the hero facing off against Adolf Hitler and the first appearance of Doctor Doom, main villain of the Fantastic Four. But for Michael Rorrer, who discovered his great uncle's collection last year, the revelation that the comics were worth something came as a complete shock.

Tom Martinez, the longtime coach and mentor of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, died of a heart attack on Tuesday in California.

After Jeremy Lin and the Knicks lost to the second-to-last-place Hornets on Friday night, ESPN editor Anthony Federico accidentally employed a racial slur when describing Lin's mistakes on the court. Comedy group Idiot Culture picked up on the news and served ESPN.

On the heels of sulking in shame at the water cooler for epically losing that Super Bowl office pool you were forced to engage in, why not try your luck at an Oscar pool for the 84th Academy Awards? Here is a guide for setting up the betting pool, tips for how to win and a guide for selecting the best of the nominations on the 2012 Oscars ballot.

Celebrated American war reporter Marie Covlin died in a shelling attack in Syria on Wednesday. Known for her ardent willingness to report from the front lines for Britain's Sunday Times, the 55-year-old reporter had covered conflicts in dangerous war zones. Colvin was killed when a shell attack hit a Syrian army building that had been turned into an impromptu press center in the Baba Amr area of the besieged city of Homs, Syria. Take a look at her last dispatches from Syria.

Fitch Ratings downgraded J.C. Penney's debt rating to junk levels, expressing skepticism about the retailer's ability to reverse declining revenue trends with a highly-publicized makeover.

Within three days of returning to London from Los Angeles, Victoria Beckham has been put under the microscope, with critics calling her skinny, gaunt and malnourished.

A fermented concoction made with tea, sugar, bacteria and yeasts might not sound like the most delicious or most beneficial drink, but some believe that is exactly what Kombucha tea is. Some have called it a magical elixir; some have dubbed it the new Red Bull only with healthful properties; some claim it can fight everything from baldness to AIDS. However, other sources cite adverse side effects of and deaths linked to the drink.

UFC president Dana White, who has been known to speak his opinion, addressed Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s comments about Jeremy Lin and Manny Pacquiao, calling the boxer a racist.

A Syrian shelling of the opposition stronghold Homs has left two war journalists, Marie Colvin of British newspaper - The Sunday Times - and French photographer Rémi Ochlik, dead, and several other journalists injured, according to various reports.

Linsanity shows no sign of abating as New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin graces the cover of Sports Illustrated for the second week in a row -- a first for a New York athlete.

Jeremy Lin, the rising New York Knicks star, will rent a condo at the W Downtown Hotel & Residences in Lower Manhattan in addition to his new apartment at Trump Tower in White Plains, N.Y.

Johnson & Johnson Chief Executive William Weldon will step down from his post in April after a series of recalls called into question the quality of the healthcare giant's products, from artificial hips to infant Tylenol.

Bailed-out insurance giant American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG), boosted by a one-time accounting gain, is expected to return to profitability when it reports its fourth-quarter earnings after markets close Thursday. Favorable stock market conditions and less reserve charges may also helped offset large losses stemmed from Thailand floods.

Barrymore and fiance Will Kopelman were recently seen leaving a doctor's office with sonogram.