Anti-fat rhetoric is getting nastier than ever. Why our overweight nation hates overweight people.

America's most-maligned dog wants to be sweet and docile, but well-meaning humans mess it all up.

Michael Goldsmith, the baseball fan who penned the NEWSWEEK My Turn column that became a game-changer for major league baseball, died this week at the age of 58.

Goldsmith suffered from and finally succumbed to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, the degenerative condition robbed the Hall of Famer of his life and robs 30,000 Americans at any given time of their ability to walk, speak, and eventually breathe. It's a rare disease—striking two out of 10,000—but a brutal one, agonizing for those who suffer from the disease and those who love them.

Here's a puzzle: The stock markets are doing very well, yet the performance of the underlying economy doesn't seem to justify optimism. The buoyant S&P 500 has risen 53 percent since the March bottom. And while the economy expanded at a 3.5 percent rate in the third quarter, unemployment is high, incomes are stagnant, and consumers are shaky.

The free service to be offered on Android smartphones is likely to be seen as a challenge to yet another industry.

The new indie horror movie has audiences screaming—and Hollywood drooling. How it got from one man's digital camera to the big screen.