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News broke recently that Nicolas Cage is suing his business manager, Samuel J. Levin, for incompetence that caused him huge tax liabilities and “catastrophic financial losses.” Contributing to Cage’s financial woes, the IRS has filed more than $6.3 million in liens against Cage for back taxes owed from 2002, 2004, …

Twenty-two years, I can’t believe it’s been 22 years. The great stock market crash of 1987 — when, in a single day, the Dow lost nearly a quarter of its value. Think about that: That would be like the Dow crashing 2,500 points today. Scary stuff. I was a reporter …

Extremophile bacteria can tough it out in the Siberian permafrost, but the environment of Mars may still be too hostile for such hardy life. That’s the finding of a recent study conducted by Andrew C. Schuerger, a microbiologist at the University of Florida and the Space Life Sciences Lab at …

Eva La Rue has a pretty bangin’ bikini body herself, but when it comes to comparing other stars, it seems the “CSI Miami” starl thinks Brad Pitt should have stuck to his first wife – at least when it comes to aesthetics. “Angelina hasn’t really been out in a swimsuit, …

Perhaps had it not been in Washington. Had it not involved a shooting there — at the Holocaust Museum, no less, there — and all the chaos and confusion that ensued there, it wouldn’t have been such a big deal. Perhaps had this been Wichita today, rather than Washington today, …

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 …