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Selection Sunday – Providence (17 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them as a long shot, ranked 13 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN and Palm/CBS give them no chance. As great as Bryce Cotton is, Providence fell badly at

Selection Sunday – St. Mary’s (23 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them solidly in, ranked 4 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN has them strongly in as an 11-seed, and Palm/CBS has them a little weaker than as as

Selection Sunday – Temple (18 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them in on a close call, ranked 5 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN and Palm/CBS both are even stronger on them – both saying 10-seeds. Temple is one of the hottest teams, improving

Selection Sunday – Tennessee (18 of 50 points) Bid Status: We have them just missing,ranked 10 in Middle 20 rankings. Lunardi/ESPN has them one spot behind us as the third team OUT, while Palm/CBS has them next to last team

Below is an alphabetical list of the 78 teams who will be listening for their names to be called on the NCAA Selection Sunday show at 6 p.m. ET. We included any team that was listed as a tournament lock

CBS New York: Republican Gov. Chris Christie is fielding criticism after speaking at a recent church-hosted meeting. Christie has been asked to apologize for referring to the first black female leader of the state Assembly by race and gender, not

According to Newsmax, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, said that the election of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina as the new pontiff “marks a great milestone in our church.” Dolan said that the new pope, a Jesuit, told

The NCAA men’s college basketball tournament–known as “March Madness”–is the most lucrative postseason tournament in all of sports when it comes to advertising revenue, surpassing even the NFL and college football’s BCS bowl games.  According to AdWeek, a new report

***2ND UPDATE: A second vote early Wednesday morning resulted in more black smoke. Reports say the Cardinals will break for lunch and that there will be a third round of balloting late this afternoon or tonight. ***UPDATE: At 7:43pm Vatican

Unlike 98% of the mainstream media, Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News is more interested in reporting the truth about Libya than she is protecting the Obama Administration from that truth. While almost all of the media have done everything in

CBS: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pushes for universal background checks and says he thinks there’s a lot of momentum in Washington and around the country for passing new gun control laws.

Jim Messina, President Obama’s campaign manager, is now heading up the non-profit group Organizing for Action. He talks to Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell about the goals of the group.

NOTE: The title and text of this story have been corrected. CBS News also corrected the story upon which this story was originally based, but failed to note the correction. In his last State of the City address, New York City

Did Bob Woodward’s noble decision to bolt from the Narrative Plantation prove to a brave few in media that you could indeed report honestly about Barack Obama and survive? Obama’s serial sequester lies haven’t become The National Narrative yet, but

Since CBS News learned that the Obama administration delivered Benghazi documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee last Thursday, a source who has viewed the documents is telling the network that someone “in a federal agency ‘press shop’ was involved in

Former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush spoke to the “CBS This Morning” co-hosts about the health of his father, George H.W. Bush, and how his brother, George W. Bush is spending his time out of office.

According to a new report from the Media Research Center, 66 percent of mainstream media news stories about sequestration mirrored the Obama administration’s chief talking point that cutting 2.4% from future spending would destroy humanity. “Deadline day,” said Josh Elliot

On Monday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said he misspoke when he tried to scare the American people a week before the sequester hit last Friday by claiming the across-the-board cuts would force school districts to give teachers “pink slips.”  “There

Comic actress Melissa McCarthy offended plenty of film reviewers with her R-rated comedy Identity Thief. The film just crossed the $100 million mark at the domestic box office all the same, as audiences essentially ignored what most critics had to

CBS Local Denver4: A pump or semi-automatic shotgun is the gun most hunters in Colorado use. It’s a gun state Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray, says could be banned under a bill that’s already passed the House and Gov. John Hickenlooper

CBS: House Speaker John Boehner tells Scott Pelley it’s “outrageous” that detained immigrants are being released from U.S. detention centers because of budget cuts from the pending sequester. For more on the interview, watch “The CBS Evening News.”

By FRAZIER MOOREAP Television WriterNEW YORKBonnie Franklin, the pert, redheaded actress whom millions came to identify with for her role as divorced mom Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom “One Day at a Time,” has died. She died Friday at

It’s been a year since we lost Andrew Breitbart.  In sorrow, we’ll reflect upon what was, what wasn’t, and what is: specifically, the fate of Andrew’s “Pop-Cultural Conservatism.” In a Republic where the consent of the governed and their delegation

A new study by the Culture and Media Institute of network coverage of Pope Benedict’s retirement reveals constant attacks, ridicule, and repeated allusions to scandals as ABC, CBS, and NBC reported on Benedict’s final days. The study reveals that the Catholic

To say that Jesse Jackson, Jr. is in a world of trouble is an understatement. As you may recall, JW identified Jackson as one of Washington’s Ten Most Wanted corrupt politicians earlier this year.  But now, with his guilty plea

Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

CBS: VATICAN CITY The Vatican lashed out Saturday at the media for what it said has been a run of defamatory and false reports before the conclave to elect Pope Benedict XVI’s successor, saying they were an attempt to influence

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (UPI) —President Barack Obama made his first call to Republican leaders in weeks to discuss $85 billion in looming U.S. spending cuts, the White House said. Obama spoke with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House

Alex Demetrick of CBS Baltimore reported there may be a possibility that the state of Maryland will raise its gasoline tax.  Governor Martin O’Malley said, “We’re not going to solve that problem by investing less. We have a flat tax on gasoline

LARRY KUDLOW, CNBC HOST: Welcome back, Joel. Are they the footstool? Is he the puppet master? Why is that Politico, which is the heart of the media establishment, all of a sudden complaining? What’s going on here? JOEL POLLAK, BREITBART

Last night’s episode of CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles offered a veritable smorgasbord of liberal tropes–Tea Party types portrayed as terrorists, private healthcare insurance companies slammed and a potpouri of anti-capitalist themes. The episode started off in an interesting direction when

(Reuters) – The man who shot dead 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school wanted to kill more people than the 77 slain by a Norwegian man in a 2011 rampage, CBS News reported on Monday, citing

CBS News can confirm that the FBI is looking in to the claims, including one that the Senator solicited prostitutes while on a trip to the Dominican Republic – a country where prostitution is legal. So far the investigations have

(AP) Mother Jones reporter wins Polk for Romney storyNEW YORK The reporter for Mother Jones magazine who broke the story of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s remarks that 47 percent of Americans “believe they are victims” is among the winners