Plaintiffs' attorneys took home nearly $1 million in Barack Obama's 1995 class-action discrimination lawsuit against Citibank, but 183 of the 186 plaintiffs did not get a dime.
10:58 AM 08/02/2012
Career officials from the White House Office of Management and Budget warned that saving Solyndra would be more expensive than allowing the flailing energy firm to fail, according to a House Energy and Commerce Committee investigation set to be released this week.
4:01 PM 07/31/2012
The National Guard base in Mansfield, Ohio, where President Barack Obama will land aboard Air Force One Wednesday for a campaign visit is being threatened under the president’s proposed defense budget cuts.
10:55 AM 07/31/2012
Michael Haley, the husband of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, heads to Afghanistan for a year-long deployment with the National Guard in January, The State reports.
11:32 AM 07/30/2012
A Chewbacca headpiece used in the production of the original “Star Wars” trilogy sold at auction this weekend in California's San Fernando Valley for $172,200, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
12:01 PM 07/27/2012
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has thrown his weight behind Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown in his re-election bid against Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren.
10:50 PM 07/25/2012
UCLA gave radical Mexican nationalist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) over $100,000 in funding last year.
11:44 AM 07/20/2012
At famed New Orleans character and Treme Brass Band drummer “Uncle” Lionel Batiste’s wake Thursday afternoon, mourners had a hard time locating the casket.
6:14 PM 07/19/2012

12:23 PM 07/18/2012
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus released a statement Wednesday calling on the Obama administration to come clean on “political payoffs to Obama campaign bundler Steve Westly.”
5:05 PM 07/16/2012
Microsoft refused to confirm speculation that the company’s divestiture from MSNBC.com was a result of the online news source’s perceived bias.
1:49 PM 07/12/2012
In a poll released Thursday by Public Policy Polling, former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz leads Lt. Governor David Dewhurst 49-44 in the Republican primary runoff for the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
2:24 PM 07/06/2012
Yahoo and Facebook reached an agreement Friday to expand the partnership between the tech giants.
11:29 AM 07/06/2012
In early June, Apple quietly dropped the long-standing claim that their Mac line of computers was not “susceptible to the thousands of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers,” but the in-store “Geniuses” continue to proclaim the invulnerability of the computers.
5:30 PM 07/05/2012
After passing a new law allowing fireworks in Michigan, Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and some state lawmakers have drawn the ire of Michigan residents wary of the added noise.
12:09 PM 07/05/2012
A Brazilian university student faked her own kidnapping in order to avoid turning in her dissertation.
12:32 PM 07/02/2012
Long rumored, never confirmed, Anderson Cooper finally revealed that he is, in fact, gay.
11:09 AM 06/28/2012
When President George W. Bush announced John Roberts as his nominee to the Supreme Court in 2005, Bush said Roberts "will strictly apply the Constitution and laws, not legislate from the bench."
12:29 PM 06/26/2012
Possible Mitt VP says Obama has 'become like everyone else in Washington'
11:23 AM 06/26/2012
A Wall Street Journal report shows that the online travel site Orbitz presents different hotel booking options to Mac and PC users.