A federal judge this week dismissedan $800 million lawsuit alleging cell phone use caused a Maryland physician’s brain cancer. Judge Catherine Blake ruled the plaintiff’s scientific evidence wasn’t sufficiently reliable or relevant. If you worry that cell phone use might cause brain cancer, Judge Blake’s ruling should ease your mind. …
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NEW YORK – They made it big in life, and continue to make it big after death. Legends like Albert Einstein, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, and Steve McQueen are resurrected year after year in various advertising campaigns. And someone has to represent these long-dead celebs. For many, that man is …
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It sure feels like everywhere you look, the news is bad. But what if I told you most companies reporting earnings these days are beating — that’s right — beating estimates? They are. What if I told you 150,000 more Americans can qualify for a home mortgage now, thanks to …
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Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. Take the Pepsi challenge. Well, forget it. I am challenging Pepsi over its choice of a paid spokesman. That is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. On the MTV Award program, Pepsi-Cola will run commercials featuring the rapper …
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Strong Beginning for HBO | John Malkovich | Lisa Kudrow A Strong Beginning for HBO Here we go: Sundance 2002, under beautiful blue skies and surrounded by snow-topped mountains. And yet, the talk is of bin Laden and recession as the Friday crowds wonder if there will be fewer people …
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And now the most interesting two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: Missed The Grapevine? Watch it! Bush’s Tactics Like Hitler’s?A member of the German cabinethas beenquoted as comparing President Bush’s handling of the Iraq issue to the tactics of Adolf Hitler. Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin said …
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Click here to watch the memo. Secretary of State Colin Powell is in the Middle East. An atrocity greets him. And this is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. If there was ever a question about Palestinians wanting peace, there is not any longer. The suicide bombing today …
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The Olympics and how we’re perceived abroad. Fair or not, a lot of foreigners do view us that way. I got a good chance to see it. Up close. My wife and I hosted some international exchange students at our home this weekend. One from Brazil, another from Russia and …
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WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s No. 2 man said Wednesday that he is confident the Bush administration will prevail in its battle with Congress over the Crusader weapons system because the Pentagon can put the money for the $11 billion artillery program to better use. “The analysis increasingly said …
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Junk science has united quite the political odd couple – Reps. Diane Watson, D-Calif., and Dan Burton, R-Ind. They recently co-sponsored a bill to end the use of mercury in dental fillings. The bill would: ban dental amalgam containing mercury from children under 18 andpregnant and lactating women; require dentists …
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