Lena Dunham is taking a page out of actor/activist Brad Pitt’s playbook. Pitt once vowed he wouldn’t get married — again — until gay and lesbian couples had the right to do the same. Now, Dunham’s current beau says Dunham
The Left’s obsession with bullying, at least the kind not aimed at conservatives, might have a new spokesperson. Megan Fox, the lovely star of “Transformers” and “Jennifer’s Body,” has bullying on her mind these days. In a new interview in
The man who helped bring the “Die Hard” franchise to life might not be able to see the fifth installment in the action franchise when it opens next month. John McTiernan, the veteran Hollywood director who shot the first film
The Oxygen reality series “All My Babies’ Mamas” may have sounded like a bad idea from day one, but the show managed to unite the Left and the Right in moral outrage. The show, designed to follow rapper Shawty Lo’s
By MATTHEW LEE and JOSH LEDERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Obama administration on Tuesday gave a blistering review of remarks that Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi made almost three years ago about Jews and called for him to repudiate what it called unacceptable rhetoric.
Actor, activist and “humanist” Matthew Modine says the nation must move past the “archaic” Second Amendment in the current debate over gun violence. Modine, most recently seen in “The Dark Knight Rises” where his character took up arms against an
Legendary performer Jerry Lewis isn’t the retiring type. The man behind “The Nutty Professor” and the fabled Martin & Lewis comedy team may be 86, but he’s signed on to star in a new independent feature to be shot in
In a galaxy not so far away, the makers of a popular “Star Wars” video game are under attack for dipping a digital toe in the culture wars. BioWare’s “Star Wars: The Old Republic” will now feature same-sex flirting, although
(AP) NEW YORK — A new Dan Brown novel is coming in May, and the subject is Dante. Doubleday announced Tuesday that Brown’s book is called “Inferno,” named for Dante’s epic journey in verse. Brown again will feature Harvard symbologist
UPDATE: Ben Shapiro WILL NOT be on ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’ on Wednesday. He arrived late to the CNN studios after his flight from Los Angeles to New York was grounded Tuesday afternoon. *** UPDATE: Ben Shapiro will appear on Piers
(AP) NY seals 1st state gun laws since Newtown massacreBy MICHAEL GORMLEYAssociated PressALBANY, N.Y. New York lawmakers agreed to pass the toughest gun control law in the nation and the first since the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, calling for a
(AP) Sandy aid package moving toward House votesBy ANDREW MIGAAssociated PressWASHINGTONNortheastern lawmakers hoping to push a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package through the House face roadblocks by fiscal conservatives seeking offsetting spending cuts to pay for recovery efforts as
(AP) Gingrich: GOP unwise to pick fight on debt limitWASHINGTONFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich says House Republicans are making a mistake by using the issue of increasing the borrowing limit to challenge President Barack Obama on spending issues. Gingrich tells
(AP) Panetta: No US troops on the ground in MaliBy LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated PressLISBON, PortugalDefense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. has ruled out putting any American troops on the ground in Mali, but officials are hoping the French will
A cleric leading thousands of protesters was set for a showdown with the Pakistani government Tuesday after marching on Islamabad to demand a peaceful “revolution” and the dissolution of parliament. Tahir-ul Qadri, 61, delivered an ultimatum in an overnight address
New York has taken a big step toward becoming the first US state to enact tough new restrictions on assault weapons in the wake of the elementary school massacre in Connecticut exactly a month ago. Lawmakers in the state Senate
France’s President Francois Hollande Tuesday said 750 French troops have joined the Mali offensive and their numbers will be boosted, on a visit to the Gulf overshadowed by the crisis in the African state. French forces have, since Friday, been
Italy temporarily closed its consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday and pulled its staff out of the country following a failed gun attack on the consul in eastern Libya, the foreign ministry said. Consul Guido De Sanctis’s bullet-proof car came under
By ZARAR KHANAssociated PressISLAMABADProtesters at an anti-government rally have clashed with police in the Pakistani capital. Television footage showed police shooting into the air to push back protesters early Tuesday. The demonstration was led by a cleric who recently returned
By VIVIAN SEQUERA and CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKERAssociated PressCARACAS, VenezuelaMireya Bustamante spent most of the day trying in vain to find flour to bake a birthday cake for her 4-year-old son. Like most Venezuelans, the single, 33-year-old officer worker has periodically struggled
(AP) MOSCOWThe Russian Space Agency says it will send a spacecraft to the moon in 2015 from a new launch pad in the country’s Far East. Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin told Russian news agencies on Tuesday that the rocket booster would
(AP) BERLINGermany’s economy grew by 0.7 percent in 2012 _ but the economy shrank in the fourth quarter, government figures showed Tuesday. For 2012, the country’s economy grew at faster pace than the rest of the group of 17 European Union
After President Obama’s big call for “executive action” on gun control at today’s press conference, Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) has threatened to move for impeachment of the president if he insists on harsh gun measures through that mechanism. Said Stockman,
(Reuters) – The silence is broken. For the first time in nearly seven years, Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday spoke to a lawyer presenting a case during oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court. While his utterance was not in
Money proved no object for Leonardo DiCaprio when given a chance for some quality time with former President Bill Clinton. The “Django Unchained” star ponied up $200,000 to spend a day with Clinton during a Haiti fundraiser thrown by Sean
