At the Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon, journalists and cameramen waiting at the finish line expecting to capture the jubilance of the runners soon found themselves covering a tragedy instead. Videos of the twin explosions that rocked the spectator area [...]
Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday at 87, was a hard-charging, outspoken leader who spent 11 years as Britain’s Prime Minister, serving in the post longer than any other figure of the 20th century. The conservative politician proved a divisive but [...]
April 8, 2013
Breaking Fresh
The First Lady is living her “Let’s Move” motto to its finest. On Friday, Michelle Obama visited Jimmy Fallon’s late-night show to bust some serious moves. To honor the third anniversary of her children’s-fitness campaign, she joined Fallon — who [...]
February 23, 2013
Breaking Fresh
This week in the world of late-night television, Jimmy Kimmel picks up a hitchhiker — and who ever said you can’t teach an old iron new tricks?
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February 15, 2013
Breaking Fresh, Video
On Feb. 28, he’ll be the Holy Father of the Roman Catholic Church, his prayers and benedictions craved and coveted by more than a billion faithful around the world. But come March 1, Pope Benedict XVI will settle back into [...]
February 13, 2013
Breaking Fresh
They stood knee-high, even waist-high, but in the end, top honors went to the tiniest of the bunch. Coming in at shin-high was Banana Joe the Affenpinscher. The small, black wiry-haired pup from the toy group beat out his six [...]
February 13, 2013
Breaking Fresh
In 1982, a government employee named Lenny Skutnick leaped into the Potomac river to rescue passengers of a downed airliner — and for his bravery was invited to attend Ronald Reagan’s State of the Union address as a guest of [...]
As the northeast dug out from a major blizzard Monday morning, the southeast started to clean up after a tornado struck Sunday afternoon. Hattiesburg, Miss., a city of 50,000 and home to the University of Southern Mississippi, was in the [...]
February 11, 2013
Breaking Fresh
This week in the world of late-night television, Conan was replaced by a furry doppelganger and Chris Christie lampooned himself. [...]
February 8, 2013
Breaking Fresh, Video
The Japanese want to put pants on David. A replica of Michelangelo’s famous statue was installed without much warning last summer in Okuizumo, Japan. But the famously nude biblical hero is raising eyebrows – and reportedly scaring children — in [...]
February 6, 2013
Breaking Fresh, Japan