WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Obama reaffirmed his commitment to America’s workers and the middle class. Even b...
4 September 2010, 3:00 am
September 3, 2010
Presidential Determination No. 2010-14
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the...
3 September 2010, 2:59 pm
On September 21, President Barack Obama will award Chief Master Sergeant Richard L. Etchberger, U.S. Air Force, the Medal of Honor for conspicuou...
3 September 2010, 2:41 pm
A PROCLAMATION
Working Americans are the foundation of our Nation's continued economic success and prosperity. From constructing the first ...
3 September 2010, 1:51 pm
President Obama will welcome the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, to the White Hous...
3 September 2010, 1:31 pm
The United States condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the terrorist attacks on a religious procession in Quetta and an Ahmedi worship cent...
3 September 2010, 1:23 pm
The President will host a meeting with leaders of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in New York City on September 24, 2010. &nb...
3 September 2010, 1:19 pm
10:16 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. As we head into Labor Day weekend, I know many people across this country are ...
3 September 2010, 8:27 am
The President today declared an emergency exists in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and ordered Federal aid to supplement Commonwealth and loca...
2 September 2010, 9:05 pm
High levels of cortisol in the hair shaft may increase the risk of heart attack, a study shows.
3 September 2010, 2:46 pm
SAM-e plus prescription antidepressants may spell relief for hard-to-treat depression, according to a new study.
3 September 2010, 12:38 pm
Does depression cause weight gain or weight loss? Does weight gain or weight loss cause depression? WebMD helps to unravel the mystery surroundin...
3 September 2010, 10:57 am
You wake up feeling crummy. Should you drag yourself to work and risk infecting coworkers? Or should you phone in sick, even though your boss des...
3 September 2010, 9:18 am
The long-term use of oral bisphosphonate osteoporosis drugs such as Actonel, Boniva, and Fosamax may be associated with a doubling in esophageal ...
2 September 2010, 5:23 pm
Men with insomnia have a fourfold higher death rate than those who sleep at least 6 hours a night, a 14-year study finds. It's not yet clear whet...
2 September 2010, 4:55 pm
An online quiz rates your hygiene practices with a letter grade -- and gives you the information you need to keep your food safe from bacteria.
2 September 2010, 4:25 pm
Prescription drug use in the U.S. has been rising steadily in the past decade and the trend shows no signs of slowing, the CDC says in a new repo...
2 September 2010, 3:53 pm
New research finds little support for the hypothesis that marijuana is a "gateway" drug leading to the use of harder drugs in adulthood.
2 September 2010, 2:05 pm
PHILADELPHIA For decades, Pennsylvania has perfected a unique politics of ambivalence in its Senate races, sending to Washington nonconformists w...
4 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Whether they're ready or not, Pennsylvania's gubernatorial candidates have reached the national stage.
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Idid not stick around to see Glenn Beck's extravaganza at the Lincoln Memorial, not out of protest but because I had work to do in Philadelphia. ...
28 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Can he steer the GOP away from an experiment in extremism?
25 August 2010, 9:00 pm
'The professional left' has been unusually loud in recent weeks.
21 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Washington needs candidates who can restore faith in principled politics.
18 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Despite the Shirley Sherrod saga, the Agriculture secretary is the man I've always known.
14 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Congress is ready to play politics on budget cuts.
11 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Mitch McConnell thinks the world's greatest deliberative body is doing just fine.
7 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Humor columnist Gene Weingarten ponders once highly valuled things that have really depreciated.
28 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Humor columnist Gene Weingarten and feminist scholar Gina Barreca debate how men and women talk on the phone, especially how they give phone numb...
21 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Humor columnist Weingarten on the pros and cons of outliving your pets, or your pets outliving you.
14 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Humor columnist Gene Weingarten awards a prize for "distinguished ultra-male behavior."
7 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Humor columnist Gene Weingarten talks with four beleageured customer servce representatives.
31 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Humor columnist Weingarten has always known he couldn't get a high government position because he'd never survive the confirmation hearings.
24 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Humor columnist Gene Weingarten laments the changes, especially in headlines, as American newsrooms move from newspapers to online operations. An...
17 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Humor columnist Gene Weingarten responds to a dare and rewrites old jokes in the form of Elizabethan sonnets.
10 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Humorist Gene Weingarten gets to the bottom of a mystery when he talks with Arlo Guthrie about the song "Alice's Restaurant."
3 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Dear Carolyn: I think I screwed up, but I'm not sure how badly. My wife is pregnant with our first baby -- a girl. Full disclosure, I expressed m...
4 September 2010, 9:00 pm
While I'm away , readers give the advice. On raising a difficult child:
3 September 2010, 9:00 pm
While I'm away, readers give the advice. On being dismayed at a mate's weight gain:
2 September 2010, 9:00 pm
While I'm away, readers give the advice. On saying something to a pregnant woman who is smoking:
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
While I'm away, readers give the advice. On working with someone who is terse, verging on rude, and intimidating: I may be that abrupt person. Wh...
31 August 2010, 9:00 pm
While I'm away, readers give the advice. On working with someone who is terse, verging on rude, and intimidating: I may be that abrupt person. Wh...
31 August 2010, 9:00 pm
While I'm away, readers give the advice. On naming kids:
30 August 2010, 9:00 pm
While I'm away, readers give the advice. On so many topics we discuss here that it transcends categorization: Both of my parents were alcoholics....
29 August 2010, 9:00 pm
While I'm away, readers give the advice. On grandparents who refuse to childproof their homes: For the people who believe you should teach 2- and...
28 August 2010, 9:00 pm
The collapsing crusade for legislation to combat climate change raises a question: Has ever a political movement made so little of so many advant...
4 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Here's why Ken Buck's looking like a promising candidate for Senate.
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Various figures denote vexing social problems. They include 10,000 (the number of new baby boomers eligible for Social Security and Medicare ever...
28 August 2010, 9:00 pm
The biggest threat to Israeli-Palestinian peace might be the peace process itself.
25 August 2010, 9:00 pm
JERUSALEM 'Twas a famous victory for diplomacy when, in 1991 in Madrid, Israelis and Palestinians, orchestrated by the United States, at last eng...
21 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Israelis have no need for patronizing lessons on the risks and benefits of peace.
18 August 2010, 9:00 pm
JERUSALEM When Israel declared independence in 1948, it had to use mostly small arms to repel attacks by six Arab armies. Today, however, Israel ...
14 August 2010, 9:00 pm
The president is trying to soften Binyamin Netanyahu -- in vain.
11 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Through the Commonwealth, the GOP can reach out to Hispanics.
17 July 2010, 9:00 pm
The logic of the economic recovery isn't working -- or, at any rate, not well. By that logic, over-borrowed Americans would repay loans and reple...
29 August 2010, 9:00 pm
The question of what to do about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- the two government-created enterprises that have backed massive loans to the housi...
22 August 2010, 9:00 pm
We are our bumper stickers. They are one way we use to define ourselves and announce our various identities to the outside world: that we voted f...
15 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Among the government's most interesting reports is one -- published by the Agriculture Department -- that estimates what parents spend on their c...
8 August 2010, 9:00 pm
You probably have never heard of oilman George Mitchell, but more than anyone else, he has changed the global energy outlook. In 1981, Mitchell's...
1 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Judging from corporate profits, we should be enjoying a powerful economic recovery. The drop in profits in the recession was about a third, the w...
25 July 2010, 9:00 pm
If you want a preview of President Obama's health-care "reform," take a look at Massachusetts. In 2006, it enacted a "reform" that became a model...
18 July 2010, 9:00 pm
It has been the most egalitarian of all the 11 recessions since World War II. In various ways, it has touched every social class through job loss...
11 July 2010, 9:00 pm
"The reforms making their way through Congress will hold Wall Street accountable so we can help prevent another financial crisis like the one tha...
4 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Americans' refusal to look seriously at the nation's situation is an equal-opportunity scourge.
2 September 2010, 9:00 pm
We didn't lose in Iraq, but we can't claim victory either -- this will be the epitaph in Afghanistan, too.
30 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Glenn Beck cannot diminish Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream.
26 August 2010, 9:00 pm
The brouhaha over Park51 is part of a larger pattern in which the far right stokes fear.
23 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Obama's achievements have been kept quiet, but he is on a winning streak.
19 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Have GOP critics of the 'Ground Zero mosque' forgotten the Bill of Rights?
16 August 2010, 9:00 pm
What's worked -- and what hasn't -- in responding to the oil spill.
9 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Judge Walker used some mighty arguments for marriage equality.
5 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Without clear goals in Afghanistan, we'll never emerge victorious.
2 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Obama needs to acknowledge how power elites have betrayed Main Street America.
31 August 2010, 9:00 pm
On egg-safety, America's become so industry friendly that it's forgotten to protect the public.
25 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Here's how Democrats could have a better shot at winning voters in November.
17 August 2010, 9:00 pm
The real reason people are talking about the 14th Amendment has to do with electoral politics.
10 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Obama: Nominate Elizabeth Warren to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
3 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Corporate America isn't the jobs machine it used to be.
27 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Germany and China won the recession battle. Here is how they did it.
30 June 2010, 9:00 pm
The Blue Dogs don't really know what they favor.
22 June 2010, 9:00 pm
But it and the U.S. are still among the worst to labor.
15 June 2010, 9:00 pm
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN Under a scorching sun, Defense Secretary Bob Gates tells soldiers from the first U.S. combat brigade deployed inside this c...
4 September 2010, 9:00 pm
We've spent so much blood in Iraq that it would be wrong to walk away completely.
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Here's a simple proposal that would help get America past its recent traumas about Islamophobia: Let's embrace Pakistan in its hour of need after...
28 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Do cybersecurity officials recognize the dangers of militarizing the global highway?
25 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Last January, President Obama made a tellingly unpolitical comment to ABC's Diane Sawyer : "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a...
21 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Obama ought to consider the 'patience plus' approach.
18 August 2010, 9:00 pm
The time is right for U.S. engagement, and here's why.
4 August 2010, 9:00 pm
How can it be possible that after 18 months in office, President Obama still has not appointed a director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fir...
31 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Can we count on the nation to close its Taliban safe havens?
27 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Say what you will about the Arab world, it's hard to earn its gratitude. President Obama went to Egypt and not Israel. He demanded that Israel ce...
30 August 2010, 9:00 pm
When it comes to the mosque that's neither too close to Ground Zero for its proponents nor far enough away for its opponents, the disturbing word...
23 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Last Friday, at the start of Ramadan, President Obama presided over the White House's annual iftar dinner and made some rather bland remarks abou...
16 August 2010, 9:00 pm
I always read the Economist magazine. I like many things about it, but I particularly cherish its book reviews. They are cogent and snappily writ...
9 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Newt Gingrich, his doctorate notwithstanding, has offered us an illogical and ahistorical context to the ugly dispute about building an Islamic c...
2 August 2010, 9:00 pm
The news in that massive data dump provided by the dauntingly mysterious Wikileaks (who? what?) to one American and two European publications is ...
26 July 2010, 9:00 pm
On Sunday, both The Post and the New York Times assembled more than 20 savants and asked them, as the Times put it, "How Can Obama Rebound?" Good...
19 July 2010, 9:00 pm
"Facts are the enemy of truth," Don Quixote tweeted so very long ago -- and as if to prove his point, the Democratic Party in all its tawdry glor...
12 July 2010, 9:00 pm
For a time earlier this year, I thought Sen. Michael Bennet had to be the biggest jerk in Washington. I had been spending some time in Colorado, ...
5 July 2010, 9:00 pm
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On Tuesday, Barack Obama will make a speech about Iraq. With 50,000 troops still in the country in an "advisory capacity" he can't declare victor...
29 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Why do we care about presidential holidays? I don't know for certain, but I'm blaming the Kennedys, whose photogenic touch football games and ele...
16 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Everyone remembers the whitewashing scene in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." But how many recall the scene that precedes it? Having escaped from ...
9 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Historical amnesia is at once the most endearing and the most frustrating of American qualities. On the one hand, it means that -- F. Scott Fitzg...
2 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Thank you, WikiLeaks.
28 July 2010, 9:00 pm
I've listened to Sarah Palin's "Mama Grizzlies" video. I've watched the Tea Party movement evolve from a joke into a political force. I've read u...
19 July 2010, 9:00 pm
I was awed by the complexity of "l'affaire Bettencourt" the first time it was explained to me, with much rolling of eyes, in Paris in April. It s...
12 July 2010, 9:00 pm
KRAKOW, POLAND
5 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Along with many other things, the spy novel did not survive the end of the Cold War. There are still thrillers, of course, but it isn't the same:...
30 June 2010, 9:00 pm
I was traveling last week to cover Apple's iPod and Apple TV event Wednesday (and writing an extra column based on that). So this week, I offer q...
4 September 2010, 9:00 pm
SAN FRANCISCO -- The slow-moving struggle to unplug TV viewing from its traditional business model just got more interesting -- and messier.
1 September 2010, 9:00 pm
What's a phone call worth these days? A Verizon phone booth in a Metro station suggests one answer: 50 cents. Another comes from Verizon's cheape...
28 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Have Google and Verizon got a deal for you! The nation's leading Web firm and one of its biggest telecom firms teamed up two weeks ago to offer a...
21 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Twice this year, I've had a chance to review the Phone of the Month, then failed to take advantage of the opportunity.
24 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Microsoft has been having a lousy year. And the worst part of it may be that people aren't interested in its misery -- certainly not in this week...
17 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Apple still doesn't think there's anything really wrong with its new iPhone 4 and says it has the data to back that claim. But just in case, it w...
16 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Apple has a reception problem. No, not the one some users of its new iPhone 4 have complained about, in which holding the phone with your hand ov...
13 July 2010, 9:00 pm
In much of the United States, ordering broadband Internet access is a binary decision.
10 July 2010, 9:00 pm
One of the great misconceptions in this country is that what happens in Washington determines what happens in the financial markets. It's so simp...
17 August 2010, 9:00 pm
There's real money, then there's funny money -- stuff that looks real but isn't.
9 August 2010, 9:00 pm
It's human nature to want to pay as little in taxes as possible and to have someone else pick up the tab for the taxes we do have to pay. For mos...
27 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Since George Steinbrenner died last week, the Boss has gotten a lot of press -- for returning the Yankees to their winning ways, for ushering in ...
19 July 2010, 9:00 pm
12 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Financial markets can make you look really foolish, even if you thought your analysis was right, and still do. Today's humbling example: The best...
5 July 2010, 9:00 pm
28 June 2010, 9:00 pm
If you're searching for yet another reason to hate BP and distrust Washington, here it is. No, I'm not talking about the dead birds, befouled bea...
21 June 2010, 9:00 pm
There's some good news for those who worry that Wall Street hasn't paid a big enough price for being bailed out by the government: The people wit...
1 June 2010, 9:00 pm
The president's first problem was that the timing was off.
1 September 2010, 6:09 am
When I interviewed Glenn Beck two years ago, I told him that I found his remarks about the first Muslim member of Congress "horribly offensive."
31 August 2010, 8:39 am
Rick Stengel may have his shoulder in a sling, but when it comes to the newsmagazine wars, he's the last man standing.
30 August 2010, 6:50 am
Rick Stengel may have his shoulder in a sling, but when it comes to the newsmagazine wars, he's the last man standing.
29 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Marc Ambinder, the political junkie who writes for the Atlantic, says he suspected, like lots of insiders, that Ken Mehlman was gay.
27 August 2010, 7:09 am
The press is gobsmacked to find Lisa Murkowski trailing some guy named Joe in the battle to hang onto her Senate seat.
26 August 2010, 4:33 am
The chilling chunk of people who believe Barack Obama is a Muslim has caused some serious soul-searching in the news business.
25 August 2010, 6:33 am
Bill Clinton, we are told, is the most popular Democrat out on the campaign trail.
24 August 2010, 4:34 am
When the New York Times published a story last December about plans for a Muslim prayer space near the World Trade Center site, there was little ...
23 August 2010, 6:12 am
Due to the many parameters involved in compiling a Google map, URLs for Google Maps tend to be very long; too long in fact to add to a tweet on T...
Although it might seem silly for someone to pretend that they're a little less into you than they really are, this type of restraint is one of th...
Priority Inbox is a new feature in Gmail that finds the messages of importance and sorts them for you, to prevent email overload. It does this by...
Ping is a music social network that was introduced with release of iTunes 10 on September 1, 2010. As with Twitter, you can follow others and be ...
Perfectionism and parenting can be a recipe for exhaustion and a life filled with stress. Being a "slacker mom" is not a negative; it's a way of ...
College (or university) is a time in your life when you are learning many things. Outside your academic studies, college may be when you learn to...
A search for "UFO" on YouTube brings over 500,000 returns.[1] And, after you've managed to sort through that lot to find your favorite, if you're...
Are you tired of that Facebook friend who annoys you with their posts and app updates? Or do you and a friend just not have much to talk about an...
Invented by Van Alen in 1965, and introduced to the US Open in 1970, the tie-breaker has helped to reduce what had sometimes resulted in monument...
In the federal government, there are inside people and outside people, those who work in the bowels of the bureaucracy and others who seek out th...
31 August 2010, 6:56 pm
A State Department contractor was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in the District, becoming the latest target of a series of investigatio...
27 August 2010, 8:55 pm
A long-standing battle between the FBI and the ATF over who controls investigations of bombings is a serious problem that has caused law enforcem...
26 August 2010, 3:29 pm
Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a ...
24 August 2010, 8:16 pm
Three $100 million air base expansions in southern and northern Afghanistan illustrate Pentagon plans to continue building multimillion-dollar fa...
22 August 2010, 9:00 pm
When Rose Gottemoeller began negotiating the new nuclear treaty with Moscow, the U.S. diplomat got questions on the usual topics: missile defense...
21 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Let no one accuse the nation's new director of national intelligence of lacking a sense of humor.
20 August 2010, 9:00 pm
The interrogation of Ramzi Binalshibh , a key figure in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was recorded several times while he was being questioned in ...
17 August 2010, 8:54 pm
TOKYO -- Amid threats from North Korea, 86,000 U.S. and South Korean troops on Monday launched their latest round of joint military exercises, de...
16 August 2010, 6:58 am
So maybe Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), 62, can't be as hip as Senate colleague and Lady Gaga fan Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), 86. Doesn't mean he can't rai...
17 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Hurry! It's an event absolutely not to be missed. And, according to an e-mail invite we received Wednesday afternoon, there are "ONLY 3 Tickets L...
12 August 2010, 9:00 pm
As Loop Fans know, many jaunts by congressional delegations (codels) overseas are not much more than taxpayer-paid vacations. But many others are...
10 August 2010, 9:00 pm
The half-century-old Cuban trade embargo has seen better days. For its first 30 years, when the Castro crowd was in cahoots with the Soviets -- e...
5 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Some new members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors were most upset by a column item last Wednesday noting that the IT and security folks at ...
3 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Al Kamen is away. The In the Loop column will resume when he returns.
29 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Christmas in July for Santa? Tucked away in the fiscal 2011 appropriations bill for the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agen...
27 July 2010, 9:00 pm
The ever-evolving English language is expanding at warp speed these days.
22 July 2010, 9:00 pm
A Loop Fan called attention to an article Friday in the "Greater Homes" section of the New York Times that began:
20 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Sampling a few episodes from the archetypal newsreel "The March of Time," a viewer might think to himself, "I could watch this stuff all night." ...
3 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Improvement in the Emmy Awards? Good glory, what next? A complete and sudden cessation of the recession, maybe. Peace in the Middle East. Oilless...
30 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Although skillfully scripted TV programs do have to compete against grungy reality TV shows for Emmy Awards -- a fairly recent, 21st-century deve...
23 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Johnny Carson had what he called "hills" and "valleys" in his nightly monologues -- the great topical ritual with which he opened "The Tonight Sh...
16 August 2010, 9:00 pm
With pomp and panoply befitting a visit from a foreign dignitary, ABC raised the curtain on its newly revamped "This Week" program and introduced...
1 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Maybe the recession has trashed your dreams. Maybe your marriage or other relationship is suffering from the aftershocks. Maybe you feel that eve...
26 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Billed in advertising as "the Epic Event of the Summer" (how many candidates are there, really?), "The Pillars of the Earth," adapted from a hist...
22 July 2010, 9:00 pm
"Children of the Harvest" is, arguably, the third generation of the documentary that has been called the greatest in television history: Edward R...
16 July 2010, 9:00 pm
It floors me that credit card companies are still running costly, lavishly produced commercials on network television and cable channels even as ...
12 July 2010, 9:00 pm
It started with Linda Singer . Her appointment as D.C. attorney general in January 2007 was the first decision by incoming Mayor Adrian Fenty to ...
3 September 2010, 9:00 pm
A mistake has been made in the Oval Office makeover that goes beyond the beige.
3 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Talks this week mark the beginning of new negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. If the parties can devise a compromise to get past the ...
3 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Let's guard against schools that burden students with debt and offer worthless degrees.
2 September 2010, 9:00 pm
In the mosque controversies, some Christians are undermining their own faith.
2 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Americans' refusal to look seriously at the nation's situation is an equal-opportunity scourge.
2 September 2010, 9:00 pm
The administration's program of targeted killings ought to be challenged.
2 September 2010, 9:00 pm
In the Mideast, this option overcomes major obstacles bedeviling the two-state solution.
2 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Let there be no "illusion" about what the Affordable Care Act would provide.
2 September 2010, 9:00 pm
YouTube
Q: I use my HP laptop only in my living room, so it's plugged into a wall outlet all the time. So I've removed the battery and put it back into t...
4 September 2010, 9:00 pm
Q: I thought the Safari browser on my Mac would stop the Flash plug-in from crashing it, but Safari still locks up on me.
28 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Q: What are the right privacy settings for Facebook's "Places" feature?
21 August 2010, 9:00 pm
Q: I've had an unlimited-use data plan with AT&T for years, but now the company is telling me I've gone over a 5-gigabyte usage cap.
24 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Q: Verizon DSL has been up and down for two weeks in the Springfield area. Is it just me, or is there some bigger issue going on here?
17 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Q: When I tried to connect to a secure site, my browser displayed an error warning that "there is a problem with this site's security certificate...
10 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Q: Somebody took over my Web-mail account and locked me out. How do I get back in?
3 July 2010, 9:00 pm
Q: How do I stop Windows 7 from shoving windows against the edge of the screen if I drag them too close?
26 June 2010, 9:00 pm
Q: I just upgraded from a TiVo Series 2 to a high-definition TiVo. How do I transfer my old recordings to the new box?
19 June 2010, 9:00 pm
While there’s plenty of reasons to keep a critical eye focused on Google, Consumer Watchdog’s ad is a dishonest, factually inaccurate joke th...
3 September 2010, 9:52 pm
When the super-Earth COROT-7b was discovered in 2009, it was heralded as the rockiest, most truly Earth-like exoplanet yet. But a new study sugge...
3 September 2010, 1:15 pm
Footage from seven ongoing NASA space missions provide hyper-realistic scenery for the 3-D animated film, while the voices of multiple Captain Ki...
3 September 2010, 1:15 pm
The presumed-dead videogame makes a splash appearance at Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle.
3 September 2010, 12:31 pm
A first look at iOS 4.1 Gold Master, the latest release of Apple's mobile operating system due out next week. A developer sent me a copy and I ha...
3 September 2010, 12:13 pm
Don't you wish there was a way to take notes with a pen and upload them to your computer? And don't you wish that pen had an infrared camera, a b...
3 September 2010, 12:00 pm
As we go backstage at the IndyCar Grand Prix of Sonoma, we ponder what's more important to fans -- the drivers' skill, or the cars' technology?
3 September 2010, 12:00 pm
Don't hit the books without getting the right gear. We've got all the kit you need from taking scrupulous notes, to working off campus, to being ...
3 September 2010, 12:00 pm
The sparkle of starlight off water could be the clincher for finding oceans on extrasolar planets. And it could be observable with the tech that ...
3 September 2010, 12:00 pm
Campbell Soup quarterly profit rose 64% as the company cut costs, but its soup sales continued to decline despite efforts to attract consumers wi...
3 September 2010, 8:41 pm
Samsung introduced its Galaxy Tab to rival Apple's iPad tablet. The device could help the company make up for lost ground in its smartphone busin...
3 September 2010, 12:51 am
Baidu unveiled a platform that lets users run applications through the company's website, beating Google to the punch. Users of the service can r...
2 September 2010, 10:47 pm
Japan is pioneering the use of cameras and sensors to glean more information about who is looking at signs and electronic public displays, and is...
2 September 2010, 7:32 pm
Through the ages, French comics have struggled to be interestingly provocative without risking their livelihoods. Sharp-tongued Stéphane Guillon...
2 September 2010, 5:41 am
Carl Icahn raised the price of his hostile tender bid for Lions Gate by 15% as he continued to seek majority control of the film-and-television p...
31 August 2010, 6:51 pm
BP said it successfully replaced a damaged blowout preventer at the well that unleashed the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, so responders can finall...
4 September 2010, 4:08 am
There is a sound scientific explanation for the making of our world—no gods required. An excerpt from the new book by Stephen Hawking and Leona...
4 September 2010, 3:53 am
The Obama administration is moving toward using the revenue from expiring tax cuts for the wealthy to finance about $35 billion of tax cuts for s...
4 September 2010, 3:34 am
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 127.83 points, or 1.24%, to 10447.93, putting the Dow up 2.9% on the week—its first positive weekl...
4 September 2010, 1:23 am
UBS and other investors go to court to try to force U.K. fund manager Reade Griffith to speed up the return of their money.
3 September 2010, 11:06 pm
BP said it has spent around $8 billion in response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and expects to resume its relief-well drilling ...
3 September 2010, 10:37 pm
Gold prices are edging up toward a high, at $1,249.20 an ounce, triggering multibillion-dollar deals by miners doubling down on the staying power...
3 September 2010, 10:23 pm
Faced with austerity programs and health-care reforms around the world, Roche launched a cost-cutting plan that may include job reductions and a ...
3 September 2010, 9:42 pm
A former numbers-cruncher at Ford Motor is now one of the most powerful people on Wall Street, whose opinion can sway fortunes and scuttle empire...
3 September 2010, 9:19 pm
BP said it successfully replaced a damaged blowout preventer at the well that unleashed the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, so responders can finall...
4 September 2010, 4:08 am
South Korea's KT Corp. will start selling Apple's iPhone 4 in the country on Sept. 10.
4 September 2010, 2:19 am
Faced with austerity programs and health-care reforms around the world, Roche launched a cost-cutting plan that may include job reductions and a ...
3 September 2010, 9:42 pm
Campbell Soup quarterly profit rose 64% as the company cut costs, but its soup sales continued to decline despite efforts to attract consumers wi...
3 September 2010, 8:41 pm
Google said the Texas attorney general's office is conducting an antitrust review of the Web giant's core search-engine business, another sign of...
3 September 2010, 7:31 pm
T-Mobile USA is in talks to distribute Huawei Technologies's new Google-powered smartphone this holiday season. The Ideos phone could be priced u...
3 September 2010, 7:23 pm
A UPS cargo plane crashed Friday evening after takeoff near Dubai, killing two pilots in the package delivery giant's first fatal aircraft accide...
3 September 2010, 6:42 pm
TPG sold its remaining stake in Ping An Insurance for $1.16 billion in the latest example of how the U.S. company is reaping profits from its inv...
3 September 2010, 6:38 pm
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced a statewide investigation of credit-card companies marketing to college students through s...
3 September 2010, 6:11 pm
09-04-2010 - Americas not just missing jobs, its missing job makers, demographic shift in New Orleans after Katrina and Craigslist gone wild.
4 September 2010, 5:40 am
09-03-2010 - Tracking Earl up the east coast, another rig burns in the Gulf and test driving the new Nissan Leaf.
3 September 2010, 5:34 am
09-02-2010 - Analyzing Discovery Channel hostage situation, figuring out what Republicans will do if they take control of the house and women enj...
2 September 2010, 5:34 am
09-01-2010 - A new operation begins in Iraq, Hurricane Earl heads towards the coast and how to speed up your Labor Day road trip.
1 September 2010, 5:40 am
08-31-2010 - Lawmakers travel stipends probed, what to expect from President Obama's speech and theaters and airlines among those who will have t...
31 August 2010, 5:34 am
08-30-2010 - The state of the economy, New Orleans, five years later and evade taxes by rolling your own cigarettes.
30 August 2010, 5:34 am
08-28-2010 - Money moves that will always work, what's wrong with journalism and making the best of a bad job.
28 August 2010, 5:40 am
08-27-2010 - Primaries polarize Washington, credit-card issuers scramble for profits and how Ford is changing the car game.
27 August 2010, 5:34 am
08-26-2010 - More info on what happened on the doomed Deepwater Horizon oil rig, should sexting be a felony and the ABC's of e-reading.
26 August 2010, 5:34 am
