A lawyer defending an accused 9/11 planner has announced that the men wouldn’t deny their role in the attacks, but “would explain what happened and why they did it.” So basically, it’s not going to be a trial, but an episode of “Inside the Actor’s Studio” for terrorists, where finally …

CHICAGO – A disturbing video released exclusively to Fox News by the animal rights group Mercy for Animals (MFA) shows a string of alleged abuses at one of the nation’s largest pig farms, including footage of employees picking up baby pigs and tossing them like footballs. Additional scenes from the …

NEW YORK – Facebook, MySpace and similar Web sites were created as social networks. Now they are being used to try to change societies. “We are seeing communications technology as a powerful force for social and political change,” said Matthew Waxman, an associate Professor at Columbia University who until recently …

LOS ANGELES – There is no business like show business, but it looks as though more mayhem went down away from the lights and camera in 2008 as some of our greatest stars and starlets took turns for the worse. It was a year of sex scandals, scuffles, shot guns, …

So now Congress is angry. Dick Gephardt’s appalled. Tom Daschle’s chagrined. Congress, in general, is at wit’s end. It’s time for us to do something, they say. WorldCom. Enron. Global Crossing. Enough. Here’s what I say: not so fast. Before you start policing other peoples’ books, police your own. You …

Denzel Washington|Ally Sheedy Denzel: Stranger orCandidate? Even though Paramount announced last week that Oscar-winner Denzel Washington was going to star in a remake of The Manchurian Candidate,the dealmay not be all signed and sealed. Last week, when I spoke to Denzel, he was also considering a remake of Alfred Hitchcock‘s …

I know I don’t operate to the best of my ability when my spiritual state is off — could the same be true for our nation? Seems more and more we’re trying to discuss religion and spirituality less and less in the public forum — unless of course it’s about …

Jacko: Book Shopped by Insider|Paris Hilton: More ‘Ghosts’|Julia Fordham Jacko: Bombshell Book Shopped by Insider Michael Jackson‘s shady past of being too close to small boys may be catching up with him. Jackson’s longtime public relations man, Bob Jones, whom Jackson fired several weeks ago, is now said to be …

Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. John Kerry’s dilemma, that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points” memo. A new “Newsweek (search)” poll says President Bush’s job approval rating has slipped to 42 percent, the lowest of his tenure in office. However, the same poll …

Beware of snapshots. They often fade. I guess what’s got me waxing poetic is perusing some old newspapers I kept around thehouse. One was from April of this year. The baseball season had just begun and the Boston Red Sox had just swept the New York Yankees. Their lead surged …