Jennifer Harper

Levy suspect’s illegal status stirs media debate

It has become the dreaded "I-word" at many news organizations.

March 6, 2009

Economics threatens to silence radio

When big media companies lose big money, the public gets unnerved.

March 4, 2009

Caps court women

The club is first in NHL to delicately tap into its feminine fan base.

March 3, 2009

Economy affecting sleep, poll finds

It's official: The boardroom has invaded the bedroom. More than 102 million people are losing sleep over the U.S. economy, according to research released Monday by the National Sleep Foundation.

March 3, 2009

Inside Politics Weekend: W. speaks

Former President George W. Bush still has wisdom to share, and share it he will.

March 1, 2009

Pentagon relaxes casket photo ban

The Pentagon announced Thursday that the press is now free to photograph the flag-draped caskets of fallen soldiers as they arrive home from overseas, reversing a ban on the practice initiated by former President George H.W. Bush in 1991 to protect the privacy of mourning families.

February 27, 2009

Live-mike remark creates ruckus

The "Oh, God" moment created as much buzz around the nation as President Obama's oratory, Michelle Obama's right to bare arms or the impending arrival of the First Dog.

February 26, 2009

Activists won’t forgive over ‘toon flap

A third apology may not be enough. Chimpgate continues.

February 25, 2009

Body’s own hydrogen peroxide lightens locks

Mystery solved, perhaps. Gray hair is not rooted in stress, diet, genes, sleep deprivation, fright, endocrine disorders, drug interactions, environmental damage or other causes debated in the scientific and medical communities over the years, according to research released Monday by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).

February 25, 2009

Comet Lulin to arrive tonight

It's green and gassy, it's got two tails and it travels backward. A vintage Cadillac?

February 23, 2009

Inside Politics Weekend: At last

Just so you know, a researcher from the University of California at Los Angeles says he knows, sort of, where Osama bin Laden is hiding.

February 22, 2009

Chimpgate continues to rile

Chimpgate looks like a go.

February 21, 2009

NY Post sort of backs down

The New York Post apologized on Friday — sort of — for publishing an editorial cartoon earlier this week which infuriated critics convinced the image suggested President Obama was a bullet-riddled chimp.

February 20, 2009

Holder’s words draw heated views

The public discourse on race relations rattled with mixed emotions after Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s bold assertion that the U.S. is a "nation of cowards" when addressing the realities of the ethnic melting pot.

February 20, 2009

Obama-as-chimp cartoon blasted

There hasn't been such hubbub since a cheeky New Yorker cover last year depicted presidential hopeful Barack Obama as a robed Muslim in gleeful fist-bump with a gun-toting Michelle Obama in the Oval Office.

February 19, 2009

Obama has new flag frenzy

Oh, say - can you see? Look. It's President Obama, and he's surrounded by American flags.

February 18, 2009

Keep casket photo ban, vets say

Veterans groups are adamant -- the flag-draped caskets of fallen troops should not be turned into yet another photo op.

February 18, 2009

Ties to cell phones run deep as ringtones don’t miss a beat

We were once satisfied with a simple ringy-dingy.

February 17, 2009

Inside Politics Weekend: Dreamocrats

From our oh-for-Gawd's-sake department, the New York Times recently reported that women are already nurturing crushes on poor President Obama — as in, they're fantasizing about him in a no-no way, though the Times framed this phenomenon in much more lascivious terms.

February 15, 2009