BP Reaches $7.8 Billion Deal With Gulf Spill Victims

BP Plc (BP/) said it reached a $7.8 billion settlement with businesses and individuals over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster, removing one of three major litigation fronts facing the company over the biggest offshore spill in U.S. history. 

24-Year Old On “Coming Out-Live” To His Mom on YouTube (VIDEO)

Last week Dan Brian came out to his mother and to the world on YouTube. Host Shira Lazar Skype chats with the brave young man on this episode of What’s Trending.

Pink and hubby Carey Hart

Pink and hubby Carey Hart put their pedal to the metal Friday, taking their little girl, 9-month-old daughter Willow, for a bike ride around Venice, Calif.

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Will the iPad 3 really cost more? New rumor: Nope

A mysterious pricing sheet that emerged earlier this week suggesting Apple's next tablet will cost more than the iPad 2 is now being countered by another rumor that says otherwise. 

Pointing to parts and pricing information provided by an anonymous source who has proved reliable in the past, 9to5Mac says that Apple's new lineup of iPad models due to be unveiled next week will carry the same capacities and price tags as existing versions. 

175 ways to celebrate Chicago's birthday

Talk about a Herculean task!

Chicago celebrates its 175th birthday on March 4, and that’s a lot of birthday-cake candles to extinguish! (The city invites one and all to Chicago’s 175th birthday party from noon to 5 p.m. March 4 at the Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark.)

Audrey Geisel speaks for Dr. Seuss fans

As anyone who knows his Dr. Seuss lore will tell you, the Lorax is a wee, orange-hued fellow with an oversized walrus mustache who acts as the feisty guardian of the forest. 

Or, as he says in the slim volume that bears his name: “I speak for the trees.”

Stolen NASA Laptop Had Space Station Control Code

NASA had 5,408 computer security lapses in 2010 and 2011, including the March 2011 loss of a laptop computer that contained algorithms used to command and control the International Space Station (ISS), the agency's inspector general told Congress Wednesday.

American Idol: Top 12 Women Take the Stage

It's been five years since the country crowned Jordin Sparks winner of American Idol, and she was the last female contestant to earn the title. Might the fellas' streak end this season? Judging by Wednesday's ladies' night showing, that may be the case.

Former The Monkees Singer Davy Jones Dead At 66

Davy Jones, members of the 1960s television show and pop band the Monkees, died on Wednesday of a heart attack in Florida at the age of 66.