Pets are big business in the United States. Americans spend a staggering $41 billion a year on their cats, dogs, birds, lizards and any other animal you can think of, according to a 2007 report by Business Week. But, as the economy takes a downturn — are our pets suffering …

Claim: Jacko’s Rep Threatened Harm From Nation of Islam | Neverland in ‘Shambles’ | Billy & Christie’s Kid at the Next Level; Judith Owen Comes to NYC Claim: Jacko’s Rep Threatened Harm From Nation of Islam It should be rockin’ at the Hard Rock Café in New York today where …

Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert has been talking up the International Space Station recently, but NASA is iffy on naming a new module at the outpost after the comedian even if he wins the U.S. space agency’s online naming contest. On a recent episode of the “The Colbert Report,” the eponymous …

An uncontrollable, deadly virus ravages America, shutting down civilian institutions and triggering martial law. Vaccinations are compulsory, and there are mass quarantines throughout the country. It’s the stuff of Hollywood — but rumors that it could be real are spreading like the flu in the blogosphere, where some people are …

Talk about a stimulus package. The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night “pervert” revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco. The NEA …

Tonight’s episode of “The Bachelorette” moved to Maui, where the three remaining bachelors got a second shot at making something happen with Jillian in a “fantasy suite.” Reid seemed to rise to the occasion; he and Jillian wound up taking a bubble bath together. Kiptyn’s night with her seemed relatively …

A video posted on a jihadist Web site could help the FBI determine how a group of Somali-Americans was recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group in Somalia. For several months the FBI has been investigating at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area and elsewhere in the …

In the past year we’ve learned a lot from our liberal femmes. From Janeane Garofalo, we learned that if you’re a female Republican, you’re mentally ill. We’ve learned from Sandra Bernhard that if you’re Sarah Palin, you’d be raped in New York. And about Miss California, the pointless E News …

President Obama’s overseas trip is not quite over, but some lessons from it are already clear. The main one is that the world remains an uncooperative place. Mr. Obama can renew the long quest for a world without nuclear weapons, but North Korea will go ahead and test its missile …

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