29-Year-Old Obama Campaign Aide Dies After Collapsing at Chicago Headquarters
Alex Okrent, 29-year-old aide for President Obama's reelection campaign, died Friday after collapsing at campaign headquarters in Chicago, USA Today reports.
Mitt Romney said he had no management role at Bain Capital after February 1999 -- and, by the way, he'd release no more than two years of tax returns -- in interviews with five networks Friday night.
Alex Okrent, 29-year-old aide for President Obama's reelection campaign, died Friday after collapsing at campaign headquarters in Chicago, USA Today reports.
Inspired by the sight of actors getting facials in a new Morgan Spurlock documentary and male strippers with waxed chests in Magic Mike, The New York Times' "Room for Debate" feature asks "Are Modern Men Manly Enough?"
Our probing look at the inner workings of the Park Slope Food Coop left commenter k___bee with such an icky taste in her mouth that she even pondered jumping ship for a chain store.
Justin's girl will be putting on a catsuit of some kind and kicking but with Wolverine. Or be kicking Wolverine's butt. It's unclear. Also today: Dianna Agron snags a plum role and Ken Jeong moves up in the world.
Rick Perry — who is still governor of Texas and is soon moving back to the official gubernatorial residence in Austin that was recently rebuilt to the tune of $25 million — is not the first politician to be criticized for spending lots of money for personal comfort. But we wanted to know how it stacked up to previous scandals of extravagance.
Discovered: glial cells play a role in memory formation; you can control a computer with your eyes; we've unearthed a long-lost relative; asteroids brought water to Earth.
Vladimir Putin is a well-documented badass, and badasses don't show up on time to work meetings when they could be drinking with their biker buddies instead.
Richard Zanuck died of a heart attack Friday, Variety's Steve Chagollan reports, and it's a fitting time of year to remember the 77-year-old Oscar-winning producer, since he helped create the phenomenon we all call the summer blockbuster movie.
The summer's most beguiling mystery isn't what those curious Prometheus aliens are up to, it's not Bane's plans for Gotham City. No, the most intriguing question of the season is what happened in a town outside of San Antonio back in the mid-1990s, when a thirteen-year-old boy went missing, only to astonishingly reappear in Europe four years later.
Some poll findings Obama won't be too happy with: Young people don't want to vote as much as they used to and Floridians aren't too fond of health care. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Following reports that News Corp. was putting The Daily "on watch" for its big losses, Jesse Angelo, the iPad newspaper's editor, has lashed out against the rumors and the media organizations making them.
We won't call it cosmic justice but it does make you wonder: On Wednesday, an Egyptian journalist died on live TV while defending Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Today in questions of summer etiquette, we take on guests who expect lodging; the ethics of outdoor boozing; hot, wet hugs; and how to tell a friend you're interested in some summer lovin'.
Irvin Goldman, who oversaw risks at JPMorgan until those risks led to a $2 billion $5.8 billion loss in May, has officially left the firm, all this on a big news day (Friday the 13, indeed) for the bank.
Apple's move to stop paying into EPEAT, taking the green distinction away from 39 of its computers, not only made the hippies of San Francisco mad, but it got enough "loyal customers" on the phone to make the company change its mind.
This weekend's forecast calls for a lot more Mitt Romney on your television, as the presidential candidate has booked three network interviews tonight and hired two new communications staffers.
Today in Ad Watch: Mitt Romney airs his second attack ad on President Obama's attack ads, while Democrats say Republican governors who won't expand Medicaid because it's expensive are liars.
You know how people are always trying to determine the best TV series ever? Like, maybe it's The Sopranos, maybe it's The Wire. We're just gonna come right out and say it: Breaking Bad is The Best Show.
Sure, the White House's reaction to the ongoing controversy over the Chinese-made U.S. Olympics team outfits was a little more tepid than, say, Harry Reid's, Nancy Pelosi's, or, um, Donald Trump's, but it's clear that this issue is not going away any time soon.
Today in Sports: Ticket scalping in London, a soccer star is vindicated, and Team USA's first big injury.
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