An irreverent chronicle the key events of the past week

A new website condemns, and celebrates, the most arrogant and obnoxious online messages

The chances of a 154-roll craps game are near impossible -- near being the key word, as New Jersey resident Patricia Demauro showed last Saturday at an Atlantic City casino.

How the Defense Secretary helped turn Iraq around, shook up the Pentagon and won over Obama

You wouldn't assemble a car the way the White House auto team cobbled together deals to keep Chrysler and GM going. So why are taxpayers about to foot a $100 billion bill for a vehicle that might not run?

If you're the parent of a teenage boy in Florida, you probably muttered "Not again" while reading your morning newspaper this week

Crowds in Canada turned out to witness a partisan, post-presidential throwdown. They were sorely disappointed

The UAW is now in the driver's seat when it comes to health care for GM and Chrysler retirees -- and it's an uncertain road ahead

President Obama says he'll appoint a new "cyber czar" to address computer attacks from around the world

In selecting Catholic scholar Miguel Diaz to be the new Vatican ambassador, Obama has neutralized a potential controversy and highlighted a potential weakness of the U.S. Catholic Church these days

The Nintendo Wii set fire to sales charts with its motion-sensitive controls. Now Microsoft wants a piece of the action

The man suspected of murdering a Kansas abortion doctor has an antigovernment, antiabortion track record

Pro-life activists fear the act of violence could stain their cause, while pro-choice advocates worry it could intimidate other abortion providers

The lesson to be drawn is not how far Detroit has fallen since its postwar glory days, but how high it has risen

Differing reactions to the killing of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller further emphasize the deep divisions of a deadly debate

The disputed Minnesota Senate race heads to the state supreme court. But even that may not end the standoff

Online social networking has turned one of the most fraught rituals of gay and lesbian life into a breeze. Well, almost.

The new GM is getting billion of dollars and a charged-up CEO. The old GM is getting an undertaker.

Publicizing the number of enemy dead went out of fashion after Vietnam, but in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army is reviving the tally to convince locals that the Taliban isn't winning