Newt Gingrich has pledged to formally end his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination next week, a spokesman confirms. It's kind of like a straggling party guest creeping into your bedroom to let you know they're leaving now, even though you've been in bed for an hour.

According to today's Reuters story about eagle inspections by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, if there's one thing the U.S. needs, it's more dead-but-not-rotten eagles.

Burger King today became the largest restaurant chain to put a time frame on their pledge to purchase only cage-free chicken and pork products.

Stopping off somewhat spontaneously at popular University Hill hangout The Sink, President Obama was greeted with cheers from surprised patrons who hastily picked their teeth clean before the CIC stopped by their table to make small talk.

A new psych study out of Wake Forest University has found that everyone's best side is their left side. Really.

Two men whose parents did not raise them well have been arrested in Utah after allegedly setting up potentially deadly homemade booby traps to ensnare travelers along a popular hiking trail.

Teens, the adolescent versions of Baby Geniuses, are known for having great ideas.

E! Entertainment Television announced today it has signed the Kardashian Klan to an unprecedented three-year, $40 million contract that guarantees at least three more season of the reality TV show family's flagship series, Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

Former Spice Girl and longtime car passenger Victoria Beckham is trying her hand at a new pursuit: luxury car design.

The first two traceable pieces of debris to arrive on US shores following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami are a soccer ball and a volleyball belonging to two teenagers from the Japanese city of Rikuzentakata and the village of Tanohata, respectively.

On Friday, we heard about the nonsensical question involving a talking pineapple that was featured on the New York State English Language Arts test, which was recently administered to grades three through eight. But according to a letter that one angry New York City principal sent to the state education commissioner last week, the whole ELA test is chock full of weird questions that no one understands. Maybe a teacher will leak it to us?

Last night, Cher presented her son Chaz Bono with GLAAD's Stephen F. Kolzak Award, and it was kind of amazing. Bono was also honored for the documentary Becoming Chaz, which chronicled his transition from female to male. In the film, Cher admitted some difficulty thinking of Chaz as a man after watching him grow up as a woman. This delightful picture of Cher (and her hair) embracing Bono is a nice reflection of how far they've come.

Unemployment is down in swing states, which means support for Barack Obama is up. Recent polls show the president has an advantage over Republican candidate Mitt Romney. And it's still the economy, stupid.

If you were looking for good news to jumpstart your Sunday morning or at least distract you from your hangover, Bee Gees co-founder Robin Gibb has woken up from his coma. Last weekend, it was reported that Gibb's condition was very serious, and that "his family [was] keeping vigil at his bedside in a London hospital."

While some will likely lament the passing of Chuck Colson, who died today at age 80, his legacy does not exactly inspire mourning. While he devoted much of his later life to Christianity, Colson went to prison for his involvement in Watergate. To ensure Richard Nixon's reelection, Colson once said he would "walk over my own grandmother."

The "Painter of Light" might be dead, but his legacy lives on in kitschy paintings of Jesus kicking it with bald eagles. (No idea if this is an actual Kinkade piece. Would not be surprised.)

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George Zimmerman, now charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin, could soon be released from custody after a judge set a $150,000 bond for his release. Zimmerman's family will need $15,000, 10 percent of the total bond amount, to have him let out.

Early yesterday morning, Arianna Huffington's AOL email address sent a spam hyperlink to numerous people in her address book. It was an email virus, the apparent product of a hack on the AOL News headmistress' personal account.

Excessive consumption of Coca-Cola likely contributed to the death of a New Zealand woman who suffered a fatal heart attack two years ago.