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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)--In a historic Oval Office ceremony on Thursday morning, President Barack Obama signed an executive order closing Congress, effective immediately.

Warning: Many will find the language in the screenshots below extremely offensive. Anita Sarkeesian, a blogger and critic, has faced a deluge of online hate on a daily basis ever since she began pointing out sexism in th...

There will be tears -- oh, will there be tears. Tonight we reluctantly say goodbye to the Braverman family after six emotionally turbulent seasons of the NBC drama "Parenthood," a...

Why Tom Brady would sit down with Bob Costas for an interview in the midst of Deflategate is anyone’s guess. Perhaps it’s a contractual thing with NBC? At any rate, he did, on Tuesday. The interview will be shown on ...

Greg Cox names the best restaurants in the Triangle for 2015, including the Restaurant of the Year, Gocciolina in Durham.

The latest numbers from Strategy Analytics reveal that Apple tied Samsung during Q4 2014 to become the world's largest smartphone maker based on global shipments. According to the report, both Apple and Samsung shipped 7...

Of all the shocking elements in Fox's new hit drama "Empire," nothing is more brazen than the show's treatment of homosexuality. Or, more specifically, the poignant-yet-painful relationship between hip-hop record...

Newsweek's provocative cover of a professional woman's skirt being lifted by a web cursor has reignited the decades-old claim that Silicon Valley is an unabashed boys' club. Nina Burleigh, author of the cover story, poin...

Amazon.com, which is gunning for Netflix in the subscription-video space, invested $1.3 billion in its Prime Instant Video last year, according to founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. Netflix, by contrast, spent $3.8 billion in 2...

Ford announced its results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2014 (4QFY14) before the market opened today, beating analysts' estimates for both revenues and earnings.

Sysco looks as though it will have to wait longer for its $8.2 billion US Foods merger to be approved by regulators, if it is at all. The Federal Trade...

ONLOOKERS could be excused for thinking that Christmas had come again to the euro zone this month. On January 22nd the European Central Bank (ECB) said it was ready to buy over €1 trillion ($1.1 trillion) of sovereign ...

The Canon Pixma Pro-100 sells for around half the price of a top-of-the-line model and still delivers luscious color photos.

Business software company Citrix Systems is planning to lay off 900 workers company-wide in a move to boost profitability.

The Danmarks Nationalban, Denmark's central bank, just cut interest rates even further into negative territory.  On Thursday, Danmarks Nationalbank took its main deposit rate to -0.5% from -0.35%.  Two weeks ago, the�...

It is likely that you have seen a photo taken by Brandon Stanton. He is the person behind "Humans Of New York," a massively popular photo project that puts Stanton and his camera on the streets of New York City, snapping...

EU foreign ministers are due to meet in Brussels to discuss imposing further sanctions on Russia amid an upsurge in fighting in Ukraine.

Cressida Bonas has made her London stage debut. The 25-year-old budding actress impressed...

The driver was killed in the crash of a Honda Accord near Houston          

California plans to launch a statewide campaign warning citizens about the health risks of electronic cigarettes.

When it was first suggested that IBM was considering mass layoffs, the company was quick to suggest that the allegations were without substance. In a follow-on post, it was suggested that the 100,000+ figure might not co...

The company's shares spiked following the announcement.