Apple has confirmed the suicide of a worker for Foxconn Corporation in China who was interrogated last week after the components of an iPhone prototype on which he was working went missing.

Sun Danyong (Yong Sun Dan), 25, was reported by multiple sources to have jumped from a window on the… Read full post »

I'm still shaking my head at Serena Williams' dramatic departure from the US Open in a semifinal against Kim Clijsters last night.

The Belgian Clijsters, who is making a powerful return to women's pro tennis after a two-year leave of absence, was up a set and almost to match point when… Read full post »

When the graphic video of a young girl dying on the streets of Tehran was first uploaded to the Internet last Saturday, there was no name attached to it.  All we knew was the face of a young girl struggling for her last breaths after a sniper's bullet exploded in her… Read full post »

I am posting this here because there are a number of conflicting reports circulating in the media, and it seemed well worth getting updated information out to a wider audience.

First, there are a number of photos circulating of a live 'Neda' which have not been verified as being… Read full post »

 In a prophetic interview, Ellen DeGeneres asks Simon Cowell in May 2009 how he feels about having a fourth judge on American Idol.  FOX announced tonight that DeGeneres will become permanent fourth judge in January 2010.

Ellen DeGeneres fans, take heart.  Your favor… Read full post »

I've watched with interest in the months since I  joined Twitter as one news organization after another, and one celebrity after another, has gotten Twitter wrong.

I've seen it characterized as "tweeting one's oatmeal" more often than I've seen it credited for bringing anything ser… Read full post »

24-year-old Orianthi Panagaris, the lead guitarist for Michael Jackson's "This Is It. "

If you found yourself in a theater watching  the much hyped Michael Jackson concert rehearsal film, This Is It, as I did last night in Nashville, you likely found a happy surprise tucked inside… Read full post »

Everyone loves a vacation in the great outdoors, especially when it's somewhere as beautiful as Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies.

Melissa and Jackson Brandts, visiting from Minnesota, loved it so much they decided to stop and take a picture in front of scenic Lake Minnewanka.

They set up t… Read full post »

If you checked the White House's Flickr site early this morning, you found out why famed Vanity Fair photographer Annie Leibovitz has been spending so much time at the White House lately.

President Barack Obama, Sasha Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Malia Obama, in the Green Room… Read full post »

A Utah judge has cleared the way for Elizabeth Smart, now 21, to testify against the man who kidnapped her as a teenager seven years ago.  Smart will testify against Brian David Mitchell Thurday morning in a Utah courtroom.

Elizabeth Smart, the 21-year-old young woman from U… Read full post »

Apple has announced a new operating system for its popular iPhone, OS 3.1, available today.

The news was announced at 10:00 a.m. PDT, with Apple founder Steve Jobs, whose health has been the subject of much speculation since his treatment for pancreatic cancer, delivering the keynote speech.&… Read full post »

 Scene of search and rescue/recovery efforts currently underway on Hudson River following midair crash just before noon today.  A tour helicopter carrying six is said to have collided with a small airplane, with debris falling into the Hudson near Pier 40.

BREAK… Read full post »

Seven years after her abduction at knifepoint from her Salt Lake City home, Elizabeth Smart, 21, took the witness stand Thursday in a Utah courtroom against her accused kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell.

Smart was only fourteen in June 2002 when she was kidnapped by Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee,… Read full post »

Reports have surfaced suggesting that today's denial-of-service (DOS) attack on Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites was actually an attack on a single user, Cyxymu, a pro-Georgian blogger from Tbilisi.

The DOS attack apparently took Twitter's 30+ million users co… Read full post »

If I ever had to cast a movie of my own life, here's how it would go:

James Garner as my dad.  A young James Garner.

A young Deborah Kerr as my mother when she was younger.

My sister would say Doris Roberts… Read full post »

A claim made by Iran's Chief of Police, Brig. Gen. Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, that Interpol was actively seeking the whereabouts of Dr. Arash Hejazi, admitted witness to the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan, has been revealed to be false.

Iran's Press TV earlier reported that Ahmadi-Moqaddam st… Read full post »

She might not be dancing for the coveted mirror ball trophy next Monday night, but newly eliminated Dancing With the Stars contestant Joanna Krupa will be gracing the December 2009 cover of Playboy.  (photo, Playboy)

Model Joanna Krupa was the surprise elimination Tuesday e… Read full post »

The Secret Service got an assist from a Southern California blogger at 'The Political Carnival' on Sunday when she tipped them off to a poll on Facebook asking whether President Obama should be killed.

GottaLaff  broke the story online Sunday when she discovered the 'Obama Death Poll' on Fa… Read full post »

The following letter was penned from a tent in Melun, France (just south of Paris), in early April 1945,  by a young American soldier stationed there during World War II, and sent to his parents back home in Chicago, Illinois.  It details his experience as a C-47 pilot flying in… Read full post »

SLC International Airport, Salt Lake City, Utah, one of the first things I saw the morning Matthew Shepard died. 

It was a route I'd flown countless times.  SLC-MSP.  Salt Lake City to Minneapolis.  I thought nothing of it.  

The day before… Read full post »

Thank God I didn't marry you.

You were too quirky, even though you were smart.  And funny.  And I was never bored.  Your leg wouldn't hold still.  You were a runner.  I can't do runners.  You overthought everything.  Our timing was off.  Yo… Read full post »

Iran's Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei addresses a crowd in Iran in a recent photo from the Supreme Leader's official website.  Reports have been swirling around the media and the Internet in recent days that Khamenei is either gravely ill, or has died, but have not been substan… Read full post »

This is the best thing I've seen all day.  Enjoy:

 Jill and Kevin get married and go viral.