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When you make a poor choice of clothing this holiday season — say, by wearing one of those light-up reindeer sweaters — it’ll cost you nothing more than a little self-esteem. Robert Griffin III? He’s $10,000 lighter in the wallet because of his choice. At last week’s postgame news conference, RG3 wore an Adidas T-shirt […]

The manhunt for two bank robbers who escaped from a downtown Chicago prison this week intensified overnight, with police chasing multiple leads as new footage shows the men getting into a taxi minutes after their brazen escape. Investigators say surveillance cameras captured Joseph “Jose” Banks, 37, and Kenneth Conley, 38, getting into a taxi minutes […]

Three Swedish tourists had a surprise while swimming in a national park in Australia when a crocodile leapt from rocks landing on one of them. Felix Andersson, Jakob Hellberg and Ulrik Bergsland were testing new underwater camera kit when they spotted the creature and moved in for a closer look. The crocodile suddenly launched itself […]

Earlier this year, Donald Trump and his Miss Universe Organization took Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin to court over claims that she knew for a fact the beauty pageant was rigged. An arbitrator is siding with The Donald, so the beauty queen must pay. TMZ reports that the arbitrator appointed on the case ruled that the […]

The National Rifle Association on Tuesday broke its silence on last Friday’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., denouncing the “horrific and senseless murders” and vowing to “help make sure this never happens again.” Facing a fierce push for new restrictions on gun ownership in the tragedy’s aftermath, the group said […]

Men aren’t tough to shop for, but that doesn’t mean you can buy us just anything. We’re not picky, but we certainly don’t want the same things women want. Women like thoughtful gifts from the heart, and men just want stuff that’s a mix of fun and useful. 1. Gym membership What, we’re not fit […]

As gun control advocates and even some gun rights supporters call for renewed focus on gun control, including a ban on assault weapons, following Friday’s shooting in Newtown, Conn., the White House tamped down suggestions Monday that it will act quickly on the issue. When asked at Monday’s press briefing about the gun lobby’s influence […]

The schools of Newtown, which stood empty in the wake of a shooting rampage that took 26 of their own, will again ring with the sounds of students and teachers on Tuesday as the bucolic Connecticut town struggles to return to normal. But among the normal sounds of a school day – teachers reading to […]

It should go without saying that the perfect gift isn’t the same for everyone: There are men hoping for cologne and women longing for power tools. But that doesn’t stop us from having some fun and a contest around truly horrible gifts. Today’s post is about bad gifts for women – tomorrow it will be […]

Rock ‘n’ roll feuds are as storied as the musical genre itself. But when we saw that Oates is accused of biting Hall in the face, it appeared one of the ’80s biggest powerhouse bands would be silenced. But rest assured, the auteurs behind soft rock hits such as “Maneater” have not turned on each […]

President Barack Obama assured the grieving, shell-shocked Newtown community on Sunday that “you are not alone” and vowed sternly to wield “whatever power this office holds” in a quest to prevent future mass shootings. “We can’t tolerate this anymore,” Obama said from behind a podium on the stage of a Newton High School auditorium, as […]