By CHRIS JENKINSAP Sports WriterINDIANAPOLISRon Howard got to drive the pace car that led the field to the green flag of last Sunday’s Brickyard 400. He wasn’t just visiting the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to enjoy the thrill of racing, though.
Excerpts from the Los Angeles Times’ profile of Breitbart News by James Rainey: Andrew Breitbart loathed the “institutional left,” and what he called “the Democrat media complex.” A son of Brentwood who cut his sharp online incisors working alongside blogging pioneers Matt
A Somali comedian known for mocking Al-Qaeda-based insurgents was shot Tuesday night after leaving a Mogadishu radio station. He was later pronounced dead from his injuries. Abdi Jeylani Malaq Marshale, in his late thirties or early forties, was killed late
(AP) Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, diesBy HILLEL ITALIE and ANDREW DALTONAssociated PressLOS ANGELESGore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday at age
The Romney campaign has just released two new advertisements–one for television and the other for the web–attacking President Barack Obama’s record on General Motors and the economy, respectively. The GM ad, produced for TV, aims directly at one of Obama’s
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has just launched a Twitter account–@RomneyResponse–and a Tumblr page of the same name to push back against hostile mainstream media memes. The move comes after a foreign trip during which Romney repeatedly was faced with
By ROBERT BARRAssociated PressLONDONBestselling Irish author Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland’s most popular writers who sold more than 40 million books worldwide, died in Dublin after a brief illness, Irish media and national leaders said. She was 72 years old.
LOS ANGELES, July 31 (Reuters) – DreamWorks Animation, the studio behind the “Shrek” and “Madagascar”franchises, is talking with distributors about a new cable TV channel it may create with “Casper the Friendly Ghost,” “Bullwinkle” and other characters it recently acquired.
China is set to construct its first icebreaker for polar expeditions, state media said Tuesday, in a move it described as greatly boosting its ability to explore the strategic Arctic. Melting ice sheets in the far north have opened up
By BUSHRA JUHIAssociated PressBAGHDADBritain will help the Iraqi government dispose of what’s left of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons, still stored in two bunkers in north of Baghdad, the British embassy in Baghdad announced Monday. The British Defense
Liberal celebrities like Jason Alexander, John Leguizamo and Piers Morgan used the July 20 theater massacre in Colorado to promote more punitive gun control measures. Forbes.com writer Ralph Benko says new controls might help prevent future atrocities, but not the
Conservatives don’t hate liberal entertainers by default. They simply get grumpy when said folk insult the Right, mock their deeply-held beliefs or describe them in hateful terms. So there probably won’t be a lot of teeth gnashing when Willie Nelson
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The search for documents relating to potential C.I.A. leaks to the folks behind the upcoming film on the killing of Osama bin Laden hit a curious bump recently. It turns out not all the papers sought out by the government
(AP) LONDONDon’t spend it all in one place, Paul. London Olympic organizers say former Beatle Paul McCartney and other star performers who took part in Friday’s opening ceremony essentially donated their time _ receiving a mere pound ($1.57) _ for their
By MICHELLE R. SMITHAssociated Press WriterPROVIDENCE, R.I.A group of hardcore fans of British rock band The Who will finally redeem tickets for a canceled 1979 Rhode Island show. The Who’s 1979 concert in Providence was canceled by then-Mayor Buddy Cianci
By LORI HINNANTAssociated PressPARISThe widow of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday formally asked for a French investigation into his death, bringing a complaint of assassination weeks after raising new suspicions that the former Palestinian leader was poisoned before his 2004 death
(AP) Fed could be moving to more bond buyingBy MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics WriterWASHINGTONThe Federal Reserve appears to be moving toward announcing some new step to try to energize the troubled U.S. economy. The question is whether it will do so
The discovery of a suspected bomb triggered the evacuation of the area around the US embassy in downtown Oslo on Tuesday but it turned out to be a fake, police said. Police said earlier that it resembled a bomb and
(AP) Dems pick first Hispanic for convention keynoteBy JULIE PACEAssociated PressWASHINGTONMarking a first for Hispanics, the Democratic party has chosen the mayor of San Antonio to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. The party announced Tuesday that
ATHENS, July 31 (Reuters) – Near-bankrupt Greece is fastrunning out of cash while it waits for its next installment ofaid from international lenders, a deputy finance minister saidon Tuesday, sounding the alarm on the country’s precariousfinancial position.
(AP) Eurozone unemployment at record high in JuneBy PAN PYLASLONDONThe number of people unemployed across the 17 countries that use the euro hit a record high in June, official figures showed Tuesday, in a stark reminder that Europe’s debt crisis
Breitbart News’ Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro takes to the Jerusalem Post to further explain the $50,000 reward announced Sunday for the videotape of Barack Obama toasting radical academic Rashid Khalidi: The Times article notes the virulently anti-Israel discussion that took place at the
(AP) Iran bank chief calls sanctions akin to `war’By NASSER KARIMIAssociated PressTEHRAN, IranIran’s central bank chief says tightening of Western sanctions is equal to a “military war” that requires new tactics to overcome economic pressures on Tehran. The official IRNA
(AP) Romney praises Polish spirit, creativity in WarsawBy KASIE HUNTAssociated PressWARSAW, PolandRepublican presidential contender Mitt Romney said Tuesday that Poland’s economy is a model of small government and free enterprise that other nations should emulate as they struggle with recession,
The Hollywood Reporter: New Delhi Television Limited, India’s oldest and largest news network, has lobbed a legal grenade at The Nielsen Co. In a 194-page lawsuit filed in New York court late last week, NDTV accuses Nielsen of violating the
