YouTube Celebrates The Top Videos Of 2013
YouTube has had quite the year. In March, the video giant reached 1 billion unique visitors monthly, who watched over 6 billion hours of video -- a 50% increase in watch time over 2012. To celebrate...
View ArticleTelling Fast Food Workers To 'Get A Better Job' Is Nonsense, In 1 Chart
Critics tell fast-food workers to stop complaining about their extremely low pay because that's just the reality of an entry-level job. Get a better job, the critics say, and you'll make more. The...
View Article5 Foods That Are More Expensive Than Ever
Find out which grocery items have skyrocketed in price lately (plus, a surprising food that has dropped). By Lynn Andriani Bacon Shutterstock Experts began predicting that prices would zoom up last...
View ArticleChanel's Native American Headdress On Runway Raises Eyebrows (PHOTOS)
Chanel hit Dallas yesterday, staging a Texas-centric fashion show for its pre-fall collection -- which included Native American headdresses to accompany the "cowboys and Indians" theme. Cue the...
View ArticleThings Are Getting Better At iPhone Factories, Labor Group Says
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A labor group monitoring three Chinese factories that make iPhones and other Apple products says once-oppressive working conditions have steadily improved in the last 18 months,...
View ArticleFacebook To Join S&P 500 Stock Index
(Reuters) - Standard & Poor's on Wednesday said Facebook Inc will join its S&P 500 stock index after the close of trading on December 20, cementing the social media network's rise into one of...
View Article7 Practical Gift Ideas That Would Actually Be Very Welcome
Practical gifts get a bad rap. While kids and teens probably don't want to find a package of socks in their stocking, a few of us grown-ups would certainly appreciate having a few fresh...
View ArticleFat Jokes In Children's Movies Are A Lot More Common Than You Think
"At least you don't look like some kind of bloated roadside piñata! You really should think about going on a diet!" cries Puss in Boots in "Shrek The Third.""Look at you! This fat butt, flabby arms ......
View ArticleUrooj Khan Poisoning Death: Deceased Illinois Lottery Winner's Wife,...
CHICAGO (AP) — The wife and daughter of a Chicago man who was poisoned with cyanide after winning the Illinois lottery have settled his estate. Urooj Khan died in July, days before he was to collect...
View ArticleAll We Want For Christmas Is A Homemade Twinkie Machine (PHOTO)
Being a grown-up during winter holiday gift-giving season can be a little tough. There comes a certain point where you start to request things you need for practical reasons as gifts. Things like...
View ArticleJack Phillips, Masterpiece Cakeshop Owner, Says He'd Rather Go To Jail Than...
The Colorado baker who was ordered to serve gay couples by a state judge says he'd rather go to jail than prepare a same-sex wedding cake. "I do what I do because I love doing what I do and I believe...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments In EPA Air Pollution Case
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices offered President Barack Obama's administration some encouragement on Tuesday as it weighed the lawfulness of a major...
View ArticleColorado's Anti-Gay Bakery Owner Is A Victim Of 'Secular Inquisition,' Bryan...
The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer is mincing few words in his defense of Jack Phillips, the Colorado baker who was recently ordered by a judge to provide wedding cakes for same-sex...
View ArticleMega Millions Jackpot Now Fourth-Largest In History At $344 Million
Dec 10 (Reuters) - The fourth-largest jackpot in the history of the Mega Millions lottery will be up for grabs on Tuesday, when numbers will be drawn for a top prize of $344 million. No one has won...
View ArticleJohn Podesta Is Recusing Himself From Keystone XL, While The Company That...
WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, the White House appointed John Podesta, the former chief of staff for then-President Bill Clinton, as a special adviser to President Barack Obama. The New York Times reported...
View ArticleMeghan Hope Pacyna, 'Miracle Baby' Born 17 Weeks Early, Goes Home After 5...
WGN Christmas is coming early for one suburban Chicago family and their preemie daughter. After their baby girl was born 17 weeks premature and hospitalized for five months, the Pacyna family of...
View ArticleSecret To Getting Ahead? Try Drinking A Bigger Latte
From Quartz: If you’ve been trying to get noticed in the office, chances are you’ve been following the conventional wisdom: speaking up in meetings, taking on greater responsibility, setting “clear...
View ArticleIf Only All Moms Could Breastfeed Like Gisele
Simply by wearing a white terry cloth robe and sitting still in a make-up chair, Gisele Bündchen has once again entered the breastfeeding wars. Three years after telling Harper’s Bazaar UK that “there...
View ArticleWhat School Lunches Look Like Around the World
Whatever your memories of high school, your lunches may stick out like a sore thumb -- for better or for worse. Whether your school served up "prison food" or heavenly junk food at the cafeteria,...
View ArticleGoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons Pledges Half Of Wealth To Charity
ASSOCIATED PRESS In this photo taken Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, GoDaddy.com CEO & Founder Bob Parsons comments on the production of the 2010 Super Bowl television commercial for "GoDaddy.com" at the...
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