Repair crews in Los Angeles cleaned Bill Cosby's Walk of Fame star Friday, removing the word "Rapist," which a vandal had scrawled three times over the comedian's marker.
More than 78 million people in the United States are considered "obese." The life expectancy of that third of the country's population is significantly decreased by their overindulgence, a new study from the McGill University suggests.
In character, Stephen Colbert has compared Barack Obama to a "Black and Decker cordless Dirt Devil vacuum," but that will not keep the president from making an appearance on one of the comedian's last shows as host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," according to the Hollywood Reporter.
In order to teach their children about the true meaning of Christmas, a Utah couple has "canceled" the holiday. John and Lisa Henderson said they were struggling with entitlement in their boys, ages 11, 8 and 5, and are following through on a warning they gave them months earlier.
With the iPhone 6 selling like hotcake, chances are your fancy new Apple device no longer makes you stand out in a crowd. And even if you choose to spice things up and "personalize" your phone with a particularly colorful case, chances are your fellow subway rider (or freeway driver) will have the same one.
President Obama will nominate Ashton Carter as new secretary of Defense on Friday, USA Today reported based on administration sources. The 60-year-old Pentagon veteran already held the department's No. 2 job from 2011 to 2013 and is poised to replace Chuck Hagel, who announced his plans to resign last month.
At least 19 people have been killed in the Chechen capital of Grozny as Russian security forces battled with separatist militants. The fighting, during which troops stormed two buildings, including a school, "punctured the patina of stability" Moscow aims to portray in the North Caucasus republic, the news service noted.
Service stations in Oklahoma City were offering gas below $2 a gallon, though the national average for regular still tops that price by about 75 cents.
A North Korean diplomat on Wednesday firmly denied that his country launched a massive cyber attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment. The attack crippled the company's computer network and may be linked to the appearance of five unreleased movies on pirating websites.
"Grand Theft Auto V," the latest in the legendary series of Rockstar's action-adventure video games, has won praise from fans who had anxiously awaited its 2013 release - which came five years after the fourth installment. IGN Entertainment called it "one of the very best video games ever made," and players took to spending day and night with their consoles before giving "GTA" record-high ratings on review sites such as Metacritic.
Fans of the "Halo" first-person shooter game anxiously await the release of the fifth installment of the series, titled "Guardians," which is expected in 2015. Luckily, gamers have been able to get a pretty good glimpse at what to expect as a number of revelations popped up on the Internet in the last week weeks.
Fans who have dreamed of misbehaving with the Gallaghers of “Shameless,” and, say, crash a holiday party with Fiona might just get a chance to do so. And it is all for a shamelessly good cause.
Live television is less and less popular among viewers, who increasingly prefer time-shifted and streaming content. The newspaper cited a Nielsen report that concludes that the average American's time spent watching live TV decreased by 12 minutes from July through September. The daily average is now 4 hours and 32 minutes.
The National Board of Review has picked "A Most Violent Year" as the "Best Film of 2014." J.C. Chandor's crime drama, which tells the story of some thuggish New Jersey-New York oil cartels, was seen as an underdog in the category, which is decided by the more than one hundred members of the New York-based board.
Californians shopping for Christmas trees may not see the quality they have in past years because of the severe drought the west has been experiencing.
The Supreme Court will hear a case brought by former driver for United Parcel Service who says the shipping company refused to accommodate her during her pregnancy. The justices' verdict could affect many women who continue to work throughout their pregnancies
An American woman who worked as a teacher in Abu Dhabi was stabbed to death at a shopping mall there. The incident occurred Monday afternoon in a public restroom, and the attacker was wearing a black robe and full-face veil, according to police. The shopping mall is located on Reem Island in the affluent United Arab emirate.
Violent crime in the nation's largest city has hit a two-decade low, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday. The number of homicides in the past four months was down 7 percent compared with the same time frame last year; the number of robberies dropped 14 percent.
Qatar has lifted a travel ban that had kept two American citizens from leaving the Mideast nation even though the couple had been cleared in the death of their child. An appellate court had acquitted Matthew and Grace Huang of starving their adopted daughter in 2013, but immigration officials at Hamad International Airport would not allow them to leave Sunday.
House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday pushed a spending bill that would fund most of the federal government through September of 2015. The move comes as some of the Ohio representative's fellow Republicans are preparing for a showdown with President Barack Obama that could lead to another government shutdown.
Gas prices are set to continue their fall and might come in below $2 in some regions of the United States by as early as the end of this week. The bargain prices are fueled by a decision from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to keep oil production at current levels.
