Three dozen winners highlighting enormous changes in the communication media were announced Wednesday in the 2008 Peabody Awards. ...more

April 1, 2009

When an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at George W. Bush in December at a Baghdad news conference, the attack spawned a flood of Web quips, political satire and street rallies across the Arab world. ...more

January 30, 2009

Zack Turner, a University of South Florida senior, says most of his friends don't follow political news, but they watch shows like "Saturday Night Live," "The Late Show with David Letterman" and "The Daily Show" religiously. ...more

October 9, 2008

Sen. Barack Hussein Obama and his campaign colleagues have to grow a much thicker skin if they intend to weather this year's presidential race. ...more

July 23, 2008

LOS ANGELES - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86. ...more

May 25, 2008

U Par Par Lay goes to India to have his toothache treated. The Indian dentist wonders why the Burmese man has come all the way to India. ...more

November 4, 2007

Garry Trudeau says topics in his 'Doonesbury' comic strip that were at first shocking to some readers aren't so anymore, such as one character's revelation 30 years ago that he was gay. ...more

October 25, 2007