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Harry Potter Fans and J.K. Rowling Win Deal to Get Child Labor Out of Chocolate
After a four-year campaign by the fan activist group the Harry Potter Alliance and its favorite author, J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros. has relented and...
J.K. Rowling Writes New Harry Potter Pages for Halloween
J.K. Rowling handed out a special Halloween treat for her die-hard Harry Potter fans, this time in the form of a profile of one of the most...
JK Rowling Sends Letter and Wand to Young Shooting Survivor
JK Rowling penned a hand-written letter in purple ink to a teenager who found strength in the words of a Harry Potter film after her family...
Fan Wins $25,000 Super Bowl Bet For 2nd Time, Donates It All
Jona Rechnitz, who won $50,000 on the 2012 Superbowl just did it again ... by placing the same exact bet.
He bet last year that...
Super Bowl: Peyton Manning Signing was Denver Broncos’ Gamble that Paid Off Big
The Broncos’ decision to sign Peyton Manning in March 2012 — after he’d had four surgeries on his neck, missed the entire 2011 season...
Slowly, Asia’s Factories Begin to Turn Green
Intel’s new $1 billion chip factory in Vietnam, about 10 miles from downtown Ho Chi Minh City, embraces environmental and sustainability measures far beyond...
The Power of Acknowledgment – Another Reason to Love Thanksgiving
Can you remember how it feels when someone tells you how wonderful you are, or when you receive an unexpected thank-you gift in the...
J.K. Rowling Outed as Writer of Acclaimed Crime Novel
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling secretly posed as a retired military policeman to write a crime novel that has been hailed as one of...
Picked Up for 3 Bucks, Chinese Bowl Goes for $2.2 million at Auction
A Chinese bowl that a New York family picked up for $3 at a garage sale turned out to be a 1,000-year-old ceramic treasure...
Super Bowl: Real Life ‘Blind Side’ Players are Survivors in Life and On Field
Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman Michael Ohre, who was made famous by the movie "Blind Side", will be facing a player on the opposing team...
Super Bowl Hero: Giants’ Rookie Battled Cancer to Live Dream
112 million Americans will watch Mark Herzlich take the field tomorrow, a rookie linebacker and cancer survivor whose story has inspired Super Bowl fans across...
Preview the Funniest Super Bowl Ads of 2012
The Super Bowl TV ads are as much anticipated as the game itself. Humorous commercials have always created buzz with the public in the...
Super Bowl Pizzas Give US Troops a Taste of Home
10,000 Uno’s pizzas will be delivered to U.S. troops overseas in time for Super Bowl Sunday, thanks to the Evans family of Illinois who...
Arctic Snowy Owls Soar South in Rare Mass Migration
Bird enthusiasts are reporting rising numbers of snowy owls from the Arctic winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern...
In Kabul, a Bowling Center Offers Respite From War
In an Afghan capital scarred by years of war, a young Afghan woman has bet $1 million that her countrymen could use a little...
JK Rowling Gives Signed Potter Books to Teen’s Fundraiser in Honor of Fan’s Lost Friend
Harry Potter fan Shona Macleod, 15, decided to contact JK Rowling in her effort to raise £950 for a park bench where she could...
Madam President: Her Knowledge of Global Finance Erased Liberia’s Debt
After an intense three-year campaign, Africa's first woman head of state, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has won international forgiveness of its crushing $4.9 billion...
Boy Uses $8K of College Fund to Acquire Super Bowl Ring and Return it to Player
A 10-year-old Pittsburgh boy took $8,500 out of his college education fund to buy the Super Bowl XX ring that once belonged to former...
First Super Bowl Video Found At Last – in Attic After 37 Years
It seems preposterous now that a telecast like the first Super Bowl -- aired by two major networks -- could have disappeared, but in...
Best Super Bowl Ad: Mini ‘Vader’ Tries to Use the Force Around the House
A Volkswagen commercial won high marks in last night's Super Bowl parade of advertising. The ad features a young boy donning a Star Wars...