Lindsay Lohan has used her blog to do some important stuff, like support Obama and diss her dad. And now she's using it to deny that she and her frequent sparring partner, Samantha Ronson,...

    Apparently Al Franken is good enough and smart enough—and at least 225 people like him more than the other guy. The political humorist and former Saturday Night Live writer-actor...

    Oh, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, you sneaky devil. You always keep us guessing—even from beyond the grave! Even though he is fully dead on Grey's Anatomy, Supernatural and Weeds, that...

    Ghost Whisperer Jennifer Love Hewitt's engagement to Ross McCall has fizzled into silence. "They broke up over the holidays and have ended their engagement," a source close...

    • If it blogs like a crazy blogger and looks like a crazy blogger, it's probably Courtney Love. No doubt, we would blog thousands of words of nonsense if we wore this to...

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The legal battle over gay marriage in California turned on Monday to whether the state's top court could strike down a change in the state constitution that was approved by voters.

    MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democrat Al Franken beat Republican incumbent Norm Coleman to win the U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota, officials conducting a final recount said on Monday, though the loser promised to challenge the result.

    GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops backed by air strikes fought to seize ground from Hamas militants deep inside the Gaza Strip on Monday despite international calls for a ceasefire in a conflict that has killed more than 540 Palestinians in 10 days.

    President-elect Barack Obama took his recovery package to Capitol Hill, working to build a bipartisan coalition to endorse his plan of tax cuts and new spending.

    Gasoline prices have risen by several cents amid indicators that the national average could jump to $2 a gallon or higher this spring.

    Orgasmic isn't exactly the first word most women use to describe childbirth. Yet thanks to a new DVD, 'Orgasmic Birth,' we're learning that birthing has perks beyond the obvious. For some women, this includes actual orgasms during delivery.

    A woman in England received a huge surprise five weeks after doctors told her she was pregnant – she found out she has two reproductive systems and her baby is growing in one of her two wombs, the Daily Mail reported.

    There is a much higher rate of hospitalization for most kinds of accidental injury in rural areas than in cities, a new report indicates.

    A nutrient bonanza available in markets even during the coldest months.

    For most people, hiccups are usually a temporary annoyance. But for a man in England, having the hiccups has been a constant battle for nearly two years.

    CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois House impeachment panel weighing evidence against Gov. Rod Blagojevich may finish its work before getting any tapes of the governor's conversations made secretly by the FBI, attorneys indicated Monday.

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    Coach pitino told Edgar Sosa to think hard about an immediate transfer to another school. • T-Will finds his touch The latest news from the thesouthern.com website! CHICAGO - Just days before a high-stakes showdown in the nation's capital, the man selected to take President-elect Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat sought spiritual and political support on Sunday at a South Side Chicago church.

    Republican Brent Housman was officially sworn in today for Kentucky's State Representative Third District seat.

    Austin Peay leads EKU 7-3 with 15:33 left in the first half in an OVC game in the Dunn Center. The game is at the under 16:00 timeout. A jumper and a 3 by Drake Reed put the Govs up 5-0 with 19:11 left. The Govs made it 7-3 on Caleb Brown's jumper with 16:59 left.

    Among the bacterial species Paenibacillus dendritiformis, sibling colonies take competition to a deadly level.

    New technology may make cell fusion, which is an important tool in biological and biomedical research, more efficient.

    The pink iguana of the Galápagos was seen for the first time in 1986. Now researchers have shown that it is a distinct species.

    A new debate in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine questions whether all African children with fever should be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs, or if treatment should wait until laboratory tests confirm malarial infection.

    Removing user fees for primary health care changed health utilization behavior but did not improve health outcomes among households with children under the age of five in Ghana, says a new study published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine.

    AP - Adam Teague scored four of his 11 points during an 8-0 run in the game's final 1:33 to help Navy to a 66-62 comeback win against Elon on Monday night.

    Reuters - The Green Bay Packers dismissed defensive coordinator Bob Sanders and five other coaches on Monday after a 6-10 season.

    AP - Manny Adako scored 16 points as Northeastern defeated visiting Hofstra, 73-50, on Monday night.

    AP - Michael Vick would have to keep a court official informed about his attempts to be reinstated by the NFL after his release from prison, under a revised bankruptcy plan proposed by his lawyers.

    AP - Add LeBron James' "crab dribble" to the lengthy list of talking points in the Cavaliers-Wizards rivalry.

    In a key symbolic move, Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the promotion of a long-serving senior executive whose division has been arguably Redmond's biggest success story in the past decade.

    Microsoft named Bob Muglia, the head of its server and tools division, as a president.

    From multi-display laptops, HDTVs wired for broadband, to Blu-ray players that can deliver Web content, the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has it all.

    With the market share of Windows and IE slipping, some analysts claim Microsoft may be ready to issue pink slips.

    Researchers say they've found vulnerabilities in Intel's Trusted Execution Technology.

    AP - A whopper about a devious baby and his diapers is the top lie of 2008, an organization of champion fibbers declared Monday.

    AP - The Kansas parents who failed to report their 11-year-old adopted son missing nearly a decade ago are "people of interest" as authorities search for him nationwide, a sheriff said Monday.

    AP - Anthrax mailing suspect Bruce Ivins tormented his wife with rudeness and behaved erratically in the weeks before the Army scientist took his own life by overdosing on Tylenol, according to documents released Monday.

    AP - State legislators weighing evidence against Gov. Rod Blagojevich may finish their work before getting any tapes of the governor's conversations that were made secretly by the FBI, attorneys indicated Monday.

    The Twitter accounts of President-elect Barack Obama, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, Britney Spears, Fox News and 29 others were hacked Monday according to the microblog site, leading to false and inappropriate messages being posted on their accounts.

    Mohammed Abu Hassanin may be a young boy, but he's old enough to know he's scared of the attacks being launched by Israel in Gaza.

    "Listen, listen to this!" shouts Fida Qishta as the crackling of rockets is heard over her phone receiver.

    Hundreds of people in southern Afghanistan have burned Israeli flags and shouted anti-Israel and anti-American slogans to protest Israel's military action in Gaza, according to eyewitness accounts from a CNN stringer.

    Just days after the U.S. military formally handed authority of Baghdad's "Green Zone" over to the Iraqis, the new American Embassy opened in Baghdad.

    As the invasion of Gaza by Israeli troops continues, conditions are getting worse by the day. There's no power and little drinking water, and the main hospital in Gaza City is unable to provide relief, Richard Roth reports.