The Times Square incident sent the White House scurrying to examine its options for a counterattack on Pakistan in the event of a successful strike on US soil, reports the Washington Post. The hit would be used only in extreme scenarios or if President Obama loses faith in the CIA's...

Sunscreen may not be the great protector it's cracked up to be: A study of 500 of the most popular sunscreen products found that nearly half may actually promote the growth of skin cancer. That's because they contain some form of vitamin A, which may accelerate the rate at which...

Two days after BP began a risky effort to plug its gushing oil well, company officials said the operation was going as planned but offered few details, leaving it up to the millions glued to its "spillcam" to speculate whether the top kill was working. Most experts saw incremental progress...

An awful lot of celebrities have died over the past yearmaking Bret Michaels surviving an emergency appendectomy, a brain hemorrhage, and a stroke seem especially miraculous. The Frisky lists a dozen other celebrities who have cheated death: Boy George : He was injuredand just inches away from being crushed...

NEW YORK — Ke$ha's former managers say the pop star squeezed them out of her career under pressure from hit songwriter Dr. Luke, but her lawyer said Friday she simply exercised her rights to fire the managers when they didn't perform.

Ke$ha, who had the No. 1 song in the country with "TiK ToK" earlier this year, signed up with ex-managers DAS Communications Inc. when she was an up-and-comer in 2006. Their agreement called for her to pay the New York-based firm 20 percent of her music income, but it gave her the option of ending the relationship if DAS didn't...

BOSTON — The Celtics were supposed to be too old, too hurt, too inconsistent.

Boston coach Doc Rivers knew better.

The team that muddled through its last 54 regular-season games with a 27-27 record is headed to the NBA finals after winning Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals over the Orlando Magic 96-84 Friday night.

"The first thing we said when we got in the locker room is this is where we thought we would be," Rivers said. "So don't be surprised. This is what we talked about before the season started."

An 86-77 win...

NEW YORK (AP)-- It's a wrap for "Tonight Show" bandleader Kevin Eubanks after 18 years backing up host Jay Leno.

"I don't think we've ever had an argument," Leno said, bidding Eubanks farewell on Friday's show. "We've had a lot of fun."

Eubanks, whose duties included comic sidekick to Leno as well as guitarist, had been aboard since Leno took over NBC's "Tonight" in 1992. Eubanks became musical director when Branford Marsalis left in 1995.

The 52-year-old Eubanks joined Leno last fall for the short-lived "The Jay Leno Show" in prime time, then came back to "Tonight" when Leno reclaimed the show from...

The business community and organized labor are fanning out over the country during the Memorial Day recess, attempting to roust grass-roots support for their favorite candidates and legislative priorities in the waning months of the 111th Congress. They are squaring off on controversial issues such as immigration and free trade.

I asked a group of New Radicals to take the Unplug & Recharge Challenge along with me this month - here's the first post. (New Radicals put the skills acquired in their careers to work on the world's greatest challenges - for more about this powerful movement, please see archived articles).

It was an interesting challenge and really stirred things up -- including for me. Reading through the report from a personal branding exercise I did last year (conducted by the clever Spark Ideas), I saw that I'd talked about needing "reverie"...

If nothing else, make sure to check out the awesome puns on band names, as Bill Nye puns equal the best puns.

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As we honor our fallen brothers and sisters on Memorial Day, I'd also like to honor everyone who has ever risked their lives in a war zone in the service of this wonderful country. Let's acknowledge the stark reality that we are now in the ninth year of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that we (the big societal "we") still...

Most celebrities get cleaned up for their court dates, but some decide to enter the courtroom unbuttoned, unkempt or accessorize with an umbrella. Lindsay Lohan drew some criticism for her chesty look at her Monday hearing, and she made another interesting styling choice for a court date in October. Who is the most likely to offend a judge?

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Offering his audience unambiguous evidence that his logic disconnects from even the most convoluted reasoning, Friday morning on his radio show, Glenn Beck likened the BP oil spill to a house fire.

"If a house burnt down, would we stop building houses?"

Sure we would, Glenn...

If the blaze raged on for over a month.

if the burning house caused the worst environmental disaster in history and there were no firemen who had any idea how to put it out.

if 70 miles of coastline had been contaminated by the house fire.

if millions of gallons of oil spilled out of the house.

if...

There is all sorts of tried and true PR tactics you can use during a crisis situation and one of the best is keeping the public buried in the details of the process versus the impacts.

The first step is to give the process an impressive sounding name that looks good in headlines. I would suggest something beginning with the word "Operation," followed by an overly aggressive phrase like "top kill" or "junk shot."

Once you think up some good names, you can then start to roll out impressive looking processes (with fancy graphics) and claim that they...

WASHINGTON — The head of the House Judiciary Committee is asking Google Inc. and Facebook to cooperate with any government inquiries into privacy practices at both companies.

Michigan Democrat John Conyers sent letters to Google and Facebook on Friday amid mounting concern in Congress that the two online companies are not adequately protecting personal privacy on the Internet.

Facebook has come under fire for sharing user information with a handful of other online services as part of its new "instant personalization" program, which is intended to let Facebook members share their interests in everything...

These folks are the business of failure. And business is booming.

Offering his audience unambiguous evidence that his logic disconnects from even the most convoluted reasoning, Friday morning on his radio show, Glenn Beck likened the BP oil spill to a house fire.

"If a house burnt down, would we stop building houses?"

Sure we would, Glenn...

If the blaze raged on for over a month.

if the burning house caused the worst environmental disaster in history and there were no firemen who had any idea how to put it out.

if 70 miles of coastline had been contaminated by the house fire.

if millions of gallons of oil spilled out of the house.

if...

In a law review call and response, a law professor and a sociologist take on the issue of how to address gender discrimination legally.

Duke Law professor Katharine Bartlett argues in the Virginia Law Review that strengthening options for suing employers is not the answer to gender discrimination. Instead, the good intentions of employers and managers should be supported, through

strong, unambiguous norms, trust, teamwork, leadership, positive example, and opportunities to grow and advance. [On the other hand...] Excessive legal control and pressure undermine people's sense of autonomy, competence, and relatedness and thus their commitment to nondiscrimination norms.

In other...

NEW YORK — If only real life for the child stars of "Diff'rent Strokes" was anything like the fictional Park Avenue life of luxury they inhabited on television.

The death of pint-sized star Gary Coleman on Friday at age 42 underscored the troubled lives of the sitcom's stars after the television lights went out in 1986 after eight seasons. Some have even talked about the "curse of `Diff'rent Strokes.'"

Two of the young stars, Coleman and Dana Plato, are dead. The third, Todd Bridges, went through years of drug abuse and was tried and...

Much larger volcano in Iceland showing signs it may erupt...


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