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The clock is ticking for the University of Virginia's class of 2013. The university's final exercises kick off with valediction on the lawn Saturday morning - depending on Mother Nature.

Stephen Colbert celebrated his birthday on Monday by backing up Fox News' claim that the press at large was President Barack Obama's "scandal condom" against issues like the September 2012 fatal consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya.

Today is the 49th birthday of Stephen Colbert, razor witted television maven of "truthiness," born May 13, 1964.

Stephen Colbert probably shouldn't have dedicated an entire episode of "The Colbert Report" to the book "The Great Gatsby," considering he's never read the book.

Last month, Season 2 of the Starz political drama "Boss," from Lionsgate Television, came out on DVD .

One of the unwritten rules of comedy is to always attack the people in power. Apparently, that concept has mostly eluded Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who have staunchly defended the reaction by President Barack Obama and his administration to the death of four Americans in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept.

Stephen Colbert on Wednesday lamented his sister's loss to Republican Mark Sanford in South Carolina's First Congressional District special election, joking that he got his hopes up even higher after CNN called the race for Sanford.

On last night's THE COLBERT REPORT on Comedy Central , Fox News prepares for the Benghazi whistleblowers, Rep.

On Wednesday, with three whistleblowers set to testify before Congress regarding their knowledge of the government's response to the deadly attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Fox News Channel contributor Peter Johnson Jr.

Folks, I am interrupting tonight's regularly scheduled broadcast to bring you breaking news.

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Tuesday revived his once-dead political career by winning the special election for an open U.S. House seat that he had previously held for three terms, CNN projects.

Jane Chiao was one of more than 46,000 applicants who submitted 30-second videos in a Tourism Australia contest to find a "Chief Funster" to travel and promote events.

"Iron Man 3" and "Man of Steel" got some good-natured ribbing from comedian Stephen Colbert on Thursday's episode of "The Colbert Report." In the summer movie edition of his "Movies That Are Destroying America" segment, the satirist took issue with "Iron Man 3" adding scenes for China audiences, and with Zack Snyder's Superman reboot choosing a ... (more)

During Wednesday's episode of The Colbert Report , host Stephen Colbert mocked the string of conservatives who he said demonized the families of victims of gun violence lobbying for increased gun control laws.

The all-new live show "MythBusters: Behind the Myths," starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series "MythBusters," will debut at The Fox Theatre for one performance only on Friday, August 30 at 8 PM.

New attention to the story comes at a time when deep, automatic, and across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester have begun taking their toll, in the form of long lines at airports , cuts to cancer treatment, and more.

Iggy Pop has certain things in life figured out, and one of them is this: You don't attempt to go joke-for-joke with Stephen Colbert when you're on his show.

Writer Doris Kearns Goodwin arrives at the New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner at the Crimson Club on Monday Jan.

In honor of great speeches and roasts at White House Correspondents dinners, and in light of all of the recent revisionist history of Bush the Lesser, I give you the best one of all time: Stephen Colbert's speech in 2006.

It is somehow fitting that our week of all George W. Bush , all the time is ending with the 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner.