A New Jersey teenager apparently obsessed with 1 World Trade Center managed to bypass security and sneak onto the roof of the tower early Sunday for an epic photo session, the New York Post reported.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that his friend Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) would be a fine fit for the White House.

President Barack Obama may be a tad sore about having his record for the most-retweeted tweet in history broken by Ellen DeGeneres and a cast of Hollywood stars.

We already know that CNN anchor Don Lemon leaves no "preposterous" conspiracy theory unexamined.

A Virginia state senator who referred to the problem of expanding Medicaid in the state as a "tar baby" said Wednesday that he didn't mean anything "racial" by the term.

As Texas Democrats zero in on Attorney General Greg Abbott's (R) stance toward the gender wage gap, a campaign spokesman said that if Abbott were governor he wouldn't sign legislation making it easier for women to bring a pay discrimination suit.

The New Republic's literary editor Leon Wieseltier ripped Nate Silver's newly relaunched FiveThirtyEight website on Wednesday, urging readers to resist the "intimidation by quantification practiced by Silver and the other data mullahs."

The question of how the U.S. should handle Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans to annex Crimea from Ukraine caused the hosts of Fox News' "The Five" to blow up at each other on Tuesday.

Hold on to your brackets: ESPN revealed Wednesday that President Barack Obama has chosen Michigan State to sweep the NCAA college basketball championship tournament.

The billionaire founder of Home Depot apologized late Tuesday for taking a page from the Tom Perkins playbook in comparing the fight against income inequality to Nazi Germany.