Google’s Chrome browser has overtaking Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to become the most used browser in the world.

The private office is quickly becoming a relic, despite the loss of morale and productivity that comes from open floorplans.

Robin Gibb, who along with his older brother Barry and twin brother Maurice, comprised the Bee Gees died today in England after a long battle with cancer: Robin Gibb, one of the three singing brothers of the Bee Gees, the long-running Anglo-Australian pop group whose chirping falsettos and hook-laden disco hits like “Jive Talkin” and [...]

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man ever convicted in the terrorist attack that took down Pan Am Flight 103, has died in Libya: BENGHAZI, Libya — Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years after he was released from [...]

It’s been 34 years since the world of Thoroughbred horse racing had a Triple Crown winner, since then 11 horses have won the first two legs of the test only to fall short at the Belmont. This year, a horse with a name that  appeals to bar patrons everywhere has a chance: The 2012 Preakness [...]

Well, to be more precise, his official portrait: George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, are expected to return to the White House later this month to be honored by President Barack Obama with the unveiling of their official portraits that will hang at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The White House confirmed on Friday that the [...]

One of those things you learning in history class that isn’t necessarily true: It is a little-known but undisputed historical fact that Johannes Gutenberg did not invent the printing press. Though the Gutenberg Bible was certainly the first mass produced printed work, it was hardly the first printed book — nor was it even the [...]

The blind Chinese dissident who set off a diplomatic broohaha after seeking refuge at the U.S. Embassy in Bejing is headed to the United States: BEIJING — Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal defender who made a dramatic escape from house arrest and whose decision to seek refuge in the American Embassy here jolted American-Sino relations, [...]

Uni-watch is holding a contest for a redesign of the uniforms for the NFL’s Washington Redskins.

The Romney campaign is out with it’s first ad of the General Election season, and it essentially stands as a statement of what a President Romney would do on his first day in office: It’s no mistake that the Keystone Pipeline gets prominent mention here, because we’ve seen several polls showing that approval of the [...]

HappyPlace posts the above photo under the headline, “Little kid completely half-asses his letter to a soldier in combat.” via Sky Gerrond, who claims “I got at least a dozen letters like this.”

The Arizona Secretary of State is apparently a birther: Arizona’s top election official said in a radio interview Thursday that it’s “possible” President Obama may not make the state’s November ballot due to unanswered questions about his birth certificate. Ken Bennett, a Republican who is eyeing a bid to succeed Gov. Jan Brewer (R) in [...]

For years, I’ve used Loretta Lynn as an example of how fast societal mores have changed. It turns out that her marriage at age 13 may be a bit of myth making.

Since Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón began an all-out assault on drug cartels in 2006, more than 50,000 people have lost their lives across the country in a nearly-continuous string of shootouts, bombings, and ever-bloodier murders.

Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Biden has just inserted himself into another news cycle: Look, I come from a household where whenever there’s a recession, somebody around my grand-pop or my dad’s table lost a job. “A brother, a sister a friend, a neighbor. When you’re out of work, man, it’s a depression. And a lot [...]

House Republicans yesterday rejected an effort to limit the authority of the President, military, and law enforcement to indefinitely detain terror suspects captured on United States soil: In two votes Friday morning, the House backed the president’s powers to indefinitely detain terror suspects captured on U.S. soil. Lawmakers rejected an amendment that would have barred [...]

During yesterday’s controversy over the Fred Davis proposal to bring Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Mitt Romney was asked about comments that he himself had made about Wright on Sean Hannity’s show back in February: “Without question, the legal code in this country is based upon Judeo-Christian values and teachings, Biblical teachings, and for the president not [...]

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin denies that his motivation for renouncing his US citizenship was tax avoidance.

With Facebook’s huge IPO in the news, Megan Garber takes a look at how much the Internet has evolved since Thefacebook came on the scene.

A man is picketing a Wisconsin restaurant for failure to live up to its “All You Can Eat” sign. The two sides offer wildly different accountings of the facts here. If, in fact, Whitt was sharing his food with a buddy, then he’s clearly violated the terms of the arrangement. If, on the other hand, [...]

Politico reports that Joe Ricketts has released the following statement: Joe Ricketts is a registered independent, a fiscal conservative, and an outspoken critic of the Obama Administration, but he is neither the author nor the funder of the so-called “Ricketts Plan” to defeat Mr. Obama that The New York Times wrote about this morning. Not [...]

One of the biggest stars of the Disco era, if not the biggest of them all, died today at the age of 63: Donna Summer died Thursday morning after a battle with lung cancer. Lovingly named the “Queen of Disco,” the 63-year-old was in Florida at the time of her death, according to TMZ. Born [...]

The Romney campaign is, not surprisingly, distancing itself from the purported SuperPAC plan to revive the Rev. Wright story in a series of ads: Mitt Romney’s campaign says it wants no part of a plan by Republican strategists to attack President Obama by highlighting his ties to pastor Jeremiah Wright. “It’s clear President Obama’s team [...]

After he lost the primary to hold on to his re-districted Ohio Congressional seat to fellow Democrat Marcy Kaptur, there was some speculation that Dennis Kucinich would move to Washington State and run for office there. As it turns out, we’ve seen the Last Hurrah of Dennis Kucinich: Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) will not seek [...]

Before last month’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner Jimmy Kimmel apparently ran a few of his jokes by regular attendees, one of them smartly advised him to skip a joke that likely would have caused some serious embarrassment: Jimmy Kimmel delivered a barrage of edgy jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (WHCD) late last [...]

A National Institutes of Health study appears to show that people who drink coffee live longer than people who don’t: Your morning cup of coffee may start to taste even better after a major government study found that frequent coffee drinkers have a lower risk of dying from a variety of diseases, compared with people [...]

Larry Bird has been named NBA Executive of the Year. Is there any basketball-related honor he hasn’t won?

A new poll of the Wisconsin recall race shows Scott Walker and his Lt. Governor leading their Democratic opponents: A new Marquette Law School Poll shows that with three weeks to go until the recall election Governor Scott Walker has taken a six-percentage point lead over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, 50-44 percent, among likely voters. [...]

“Inside the Actors Studio” host James Lipton tells Mitt Romney to stop trying so hard to act like a regular guy. New York Magazine (“How to Act Human: Advice for Mitt Romney From Inside the Actors Studio“) A few months ago, Brian McFadden’s weekly comic strip in the Sunday Timesoffered ways for Mitt Romney to improve his image. [...]

It’s been nearly twenty years now since I read The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 and The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940, the first two volumes of what was supposed to have been historian William Manchester’s planned three-volume biography of England’s iconic war time Prime Minister. They remain among [...]

James Joyner has made note of the fact that the records of the autopsy of Trayvon Martin have been made public, so it seems relevant to note the other story in the news today, which is the release of the medical records of George Zimmerman: A medical report compiled by the family physician of Trayvon [...]

There are still surprises in politics, and we saw one of them last night when Nebraska State Senator Deb Fischer came seemingly out of nowhere to win the Republican Party nomination for Senate despite the fact that the entire race had been a fight between two of her competitors: State Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska [...]

Trayvon Martin’s autopsy shows injuries to his knuckles, which bolsters George Zimmerman’s claim that there was a fight, a Florida television station reports.

This video was created for the annual New Jersey Press Association Legislative Correspondents Club Show: The fact that Christie and Booker could possibly end up facing off together in an election in 2013 makes it amusing. The probability that national conservatives will call Christie a RINO for daring to make a joint appearance with a [...]

“By the way, when I get rid of Obamacare and I get rid of Dodd-Frank and I get rid of Sarbanes-Oxley, it doesn’t mean I don’t want to have any law or any regulation.  It means I want to make sure it’s modern, it’s updated, it goes after the bad guys, but it also encourages [...]

It’s another round of security theater: Seems no one is immune from the tender mercies of the TSA pat-down. First, we learned that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was subjected to a handsy search. And now we learn of the latest high-profile search-ee: former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. [...]

Thomas Friedman is like a goldfish who only sees China, jobs, and the Internet.

Given the number of things one can do with a smartphone, this is perhaps not suprising: In 2009, the United States crossed a digital Rubicon: For the first time, the amount of data sent with mobile devices exceeded the sum of transmitted voice data. The shift was heralded in tech circles with prophetic fury: “The [...]

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.

In office less than a day, Francois Hollande has already been forced to admit he can’t withdraw French forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

Ordinarily, a story about the confirmation of a trial court judge in Virginia wouldn’t get my attention unless it was happening in one of the jurisdictions I usually practice in, but yesterday’s developments in the Virginia House of Delegates are yet another example of what’s wrong with the Republican Party: Virginia’s General Assembly rejected a [...]

Commentary’s Seth Mandel finds that the White House has done some odd things to the Presidential history entries on the White House web site: The Heritage Foundation’s Rory Cooper tweeted that Obama had casually dropped his own name into Ronald Reagan’s official biography on www.whitehouse.gov, claiming credit for taking up the mantle of Reagan’s tax [...]

Following up on the statement his campaign released yesterday that was ending an future campaigning, Ron Paul conceded today that he isn’t going to be the nominee, and appears to be asking his supporters to cease some of the disruptions they’ve been causing at state party conventions: Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R) has conceded that [...]

Not surprisingly, the final efforts to form a workable coalition government in Greece have failed: ATHENS—Greece is heading to new elections after political party leaders failed to reach an agreement to form a coalition government following an inconclusive election May 6 that left the cash-strapped country deeply divided and put its fate in the euro [...]

Buzzfeed’s Zeke Miller reports that many of President Obama’s recent big dollar fundraisers have included a requirement that attendees surrender their cell phones: In the latest attempt to crack down on potentially embarrassing digital leaks from presidential fundraisers, President Barack Obama’s campaign has begun asking donors attending small fundraisers with the president to turn over [...]

Not without surprise, Americans Elect has failed to select a nominee and looks destined to become little more than a footnote in the history books: Americans Elect, the deep-pocketed nonprofit group that set out to nominate a centrist third-party presidential ticket, admitted early Tuesday that its ballyhooed online nominating process had failed. The group had [...]

With the political situation in Greece becoming more unstable by the day and the Franco-German alliance on monetary issues likely at an end, it’s beginning to be hard to see how the Euro survives: Is there any hope for the euro dream? One potential way forward would be to create a European- level fiscal union [...]

Ron Paul announced today that he would not be engaging in any further campaigning in states where primaries are still going to be held: Texas Rep. Ron Paul said on Monday he will no longer be actively campaigning in the GOP presidential primaries but won’t formally suspend his campaign. Instead, the libertarian candidate’s organization will [...]

The Social Security Administration is out with it’s list of the most popular baby names in 2011 and, once again, the list is full of  names that would have been considered non-traditional just a couple decades ago: It’s official — we’re all keeping up with the Kardashians now. Even when it comes to baby names. [...]

Kodak’s latest Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filings reveal that the company had some odd things going on at its Rochester, New York headquarters: For more than 30 years, Kodak Park was home to a little-known underground labyrinth containing a small nuclear research reactor, one of the few of its kind in the world. It wasn’t a [...]