By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
It started out a stunner: The Heisman Trophy runner-up had told heartbreaking stories about a dead girlfriend who didn't exist. Then it became unreal: The All-American linebacker said he had been duped, and theirs was a relationship that existed only in phone calls and Internet chats.
It started out a stunner: The Heisman Trophy runner-up had told heartbreaking stories about a dead girlfriend who didn't exist. Then it became unreal: The All-American linebacker said he had been duped, and theirs was a relationship that existed only in phone calls and Internet chats.
Britney Spears is out of "The X Factor" after a season in which the pop star failed to deliver a ratings boost for the singing contest, a person familiar with the show's plans said Thursday.
L.A. Reid is leaving "The X Factor."
Tiger Woods was on the ballot when the PGA Tour began voting on its annual awards, but only in one category.
Britney Spears was coolly composed on the first live episode of "The X Factor." The same can't be said for new host Khloe Kardashian Odom and her microphone.
Mario Lopez and Khloe Kardashian Odom are officially joining "The X Factor."
Mario Lopez and Khloe Kardashian Odom are officially joining "The X Factor."
Mario Lopez and Khloe Kardashian Odom are officially joining "The X Factor."
The stakes are high, the tactics are fierce and the rhetoric is heating up.
A peculiar piece of history will be on the line at the British Open.
One of the most famous upsets in golf took place at The Olympic Club. But that wasn't the only one at the U.S. Open.
How well do you know the U.S. Open: Try this trivia quiz:
Don't try to friend MaLi Arwood on Facebook. You won't find her there.
Don't try to friend MaLi Arwood on Facebook. You won't find her there. More than 900 million people worldwide check their Facebook accounts at least once a month, but millions more are Facebook holdouts.
"After a generation of kids growing up with Facebook and decades of online life, you'd think we wouldn't be so easily duped, but I think these people who do the duping are more inventive than people who use the technology," said Steve Jones, a communications professor and online expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
"We've added social networking to our lives. We haven't added any hours to our days," Jones says. "The decision to be online on Facebook is simultaneously a decision not to be doing something else."
