Making your spouse a cup of coffee may be worth a lot more than you think. A study questioned almost 3,000 men and women on the level of generosity in their relationships, and researchers found that those subjects who exhibited the highest levels of generosity were also much more likely to call their married lives […]
Bad news for those of you who were highly amused by Questlove’s choice of walk-on song for Michele Bachmann: It won’t be happening again. The Late Night With Jimmy Fallon drummer tells Rolling Stone he was informed the very next morning that he must now clear every song with three NBC executives. “It was a real bummer,” adds […]
For 27 years, Thomas Haynesworth sat in prison, learning auto mechanics, welding, and masonry … and fighting to clear his name. That fight paid off yesterday, when a Virginia appeals court declared him innocent, acknowledging that he did not commit the three rapes of which he was convicted in 1984. Throughout his ordeal, Haynesworth maintained […]
A plastic surgeon wants smokers to know: If you light up within a month of a breast lift, your nipples could literally drop off. That’s because smoking can reduce blood flow to some parts of the anatomy. If those body parts don’t get blood, they die, writes Anthony Youn at CNN. He had a patient […]
The latest competition aiming to replace your cable box: Xbox Live. Microsoft is ramping up its online entertainment service starting tomorrow, allowing subscribers to watch a variety of television from their Xbox 360. In addition, rather than the tedious process of using a remote control to search for shows listed on a cable box program […]
MILAN — Francesca Schiavone defeated both Venus and Serena Williams in singles on Saturday before they rallied to win the doubles in an exhibition in Milan. Schiavone defeated Venus 7-5, 7-3, then countered a strong comeback from Serena to defeat the younger sibling 7-3, 8-10, 8-6. Flavia Pennetta also beat Venus, whose strap broke on […]
Tiger Woods won the Chevron World Challenge on Sunday, the one-shot triumph in an unofficial 18-man event his first victory since a 2009 sex scandal shattered his iconic image. Woods had gone 26 starts worldwide without a victory as personal turmoil was followed by struggles on the course with swing changes and, this year, injuries […]
Deck the halls with hails of gunfire? It turns out that Black Friday didn’t just set a record for retail sales, it also set a record for the most firearms sold on a single day, reports USA Today. A stunning 129,166 firearms were sold on Nov. 25—that’s 32% higher than the previous record, from Black […]
Jerry Sandusky says he was never confronted by Joe Paterno about his suspected sexual misconduct, denies having his access to children restricted at his charity before becoming the subject of a criminal investigation, and completely denies ever sexually abusing children in an extensive and exclusive interview with the New York Times. Sandusky claims that his […]
A 103-year-old woman and her 83-year-old daughter got a last-minute eviction reprieve when sheriff’s deputies and movers decided they couldn’t uproot the women from their longtime Atlanta home. Fulton County Sheriff’s deputies and a moving company hired by the bank showed up at Vita Lee’s Penelope Road home on Tuesday, according to a report on […]
A hidden piece of software in your Android phone may be watching your every move and sending that information to an unknown recipient, a security researcher has alleged. In a video posted earlier this week, Android researcher Trevor Eckhart shows a program called Carrier IQ logging keystrokes, text messages, and web history—including supposedly secure HTTPS […]
Yikes! A season that started with so much hype and promise now looks to be done after the ninth game of the season. The Eagles fall to the lowly Arizona Cardinals 21-17 in a game that wasn’t just a must win, it was a win-or-your-season-is-over game. The Cardinals were without their starting quarterback, Kevin Kolb, […]
