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President Obama is set to announce a broad new research initiative to map and explore the human brain. (Photo credit MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)

Obama Set To Announce Federal Initiative To Map The Human Brain

President Obama has announced a broad new research initiative to map and explore the human brain.

2013/04/02

File photo of N.J. Sen. Robert Menendez. (credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Report: Menendez Emails Sought To Aid Donor’s Firm

Emails between Sen. Robert Menendez’s office and the Homeland Security Department describe efforts by his staff in January to thwart U.S. donations of cargo-screening equipment to the government of the Dominican Republic. Donated equipment could have jeopardized a port security contract benefiting a close Menendez associate and fundraiser.

2013/02/11

Twitter, Washington Post Targeted By Hackers

Social media giant Twitter is among the latest U.S. companies to report that it is among a growing list of victims of Internet security attacks, saying that hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users. And now, The Washington Post is joining the chorus, revealing the discovery of a sophisticated cyberattack in 2011.

2013/02/02

President Barack Obama presents investor, industrialist and philanthropist Warren Buffett with the 2010 Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 15, 2011 in Washington, D.C. (credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Buffett Prefers Cutoff For Elimination Of Bush Tax Cuts At $500,000

Billionaire Warren Buffett is again calling for higher taxes on the “ultrarich” and he’s urging Congress to compromise on spending cuts and tax increases.

2012/11/26

Photo of Mitt Romney, right, and Vice President Biden. (credit: Saul Loeb/Jewel Samad/Getty Images)

White House Of President Romney And Vice President Biden? It Could Happen

Could the United States see a President Mitt Romney and Vice President Joe Biden following November’s presidential election? It’s not as crazy as it seems.

2012/10/03

Holden & Danny: Ken Belson Startled That Penn State Buried Scandal For 10 Years

Ken Belson of The New York Times joined Holden and Danny Thursday morning to discuss the report by investigator Louis Freeh into the actions of Penn State University surrounding former football coach Jerry Sandusky.

106.7 The Fan–2012/07/13

Could Michelle Obama be campaigning on behalf of herself someday? (credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Experts: Michelle Obama’s Popularity Makes Her Real Political Contender

What if Michelle Obama was interested in eventually pursuing her own political career?

2012/07/11

File photo of President Barack Obama at a campaign rally, shaking hands and greeting enthusiastic supporters. (credit: Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

Bush Official: Obama’s Campaign Of ‘Fear’ Hurting Contributions From ’08 Supporters

Recent data has raised questions of just how enthusiastic Obama’s supporters are now compared to how they were in 2008 and whether a lack of early enthusiasm for the president’s reelection bid among those who supported him in 2008 has resulted in a lack of campaign contributions to this point

2012/06/05

New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks stands on the frontline on March 11, 2011 near Ras Lanuf, Libya. Hicks carried Shadid to Turkey. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Former Washington Post Reporter Anthony Shadid Dies On Assignment In Syria

New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose dispatches captured untold stories from Baghdad under “shock and awe” bombing to Libya wracked by civil war, died Thursday of an apparent asthma attack in Syria while reporting on the uprising against its president.

2012/02/17

A new book about Michelle Obama reveals the first lady's behind-the-scenes in the first term of her husband's administration. (credit: Davis Turner/Getty Images)

Book Depicts Tensions Between First Lady, Aides

First lady Michelle Obama is a behind-the-scenes force in the White House whose opinions on policy and politics drew her into conflict with presidential advisers and who bristled at some of the demands and constraints of life as the president’s wife, according to a detailed account of the first couple’s relationship.

2012/01/07

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