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Rick Santorum’s attempt to rally Michigan Democrats to his cause via a robocall makes strategic sense—he needs to do something to overcome Romney’s presumably already banked lead among early voters—but it could backfire, and “give Romney an opportunity to argue that the Michigan result should come with an…

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Occupy London Camp Is Evicted

Encamped outside St. Paul’s Cathedral since October, protesters lost their fight against eviction in the High Court last week.

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A third boy has died in yesterday’s shooting at Ohio’s Chardon High School . Demetrius Hewlin, a junior at the school, was one of three students airlifted yesterday to Cleveland’s MetroHealth Medical Center, reports the Plain Dealer . Daniel Parmertor, 16, and Russell King Jr., 17, died earlier of their injuries. Suspected…

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A weird detail from coverage of the News of the World phone hacking scandal : The year after NotW royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed, Scotland Yard loaned out a retired police horse to Rebekah Brooks, who was at that time the editor of the Sun…

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Google+ launched with ambitions of competing with Facebook, and if you listen to CEO Larry Page, it’s on pace to do just that, with 90 million users registering since June. But there’s one big problem, the Wall Street Journal observes: Those 90 million users aren’t actually doing anything once they’ve…

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If you’ve fallen behind on your mortgage payments, here’s hoping you live in a million-dollar home, because odds are the bank will wait a lot longer to kick you out. Borrowers who default on loans of $1 million or more get to stay in their homes an average six months…

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A Florida elementary school wants its students to perform better on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test … so it’s feeding them “placebos.” Hagen Road Elementary students will be given an “FCAT PowerBar”—aka an apple-flavored cereal bar with a label reading, “Warning: Improves Writing Power!”—before testing this week, and…

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Twice now, Rick Santorum has said that the idea of absolute separation of church and state makes him feel like vomiting . But could he literally be provoked to throw up just by thinking about something? Yes, writes Will Oremus in a particularly gross Explainer column on Slate . Both the gut…

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What was initially reported as a tragic gang-related shooting in Detroit may in fact be something else entirely: Hundreds of people visited a funeral home last night to mourn a 9-month-old who was sleeping on a couch in the wee hours of Feb. 20 when he was killed by a…

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Jennifer Hudson didn’t approve of the relationship between her sister Julia and William Balfour, the man accused of killing Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew in 2008, according to newly filed court documents. Hudson grew up near Balfour and the two attended the same elementary school. She told detectives there was…

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