A line of severe storms swept across the Southeast on Thursday, damaging homes and businesses in at least four states. One person was killed by a tornado in North Carolina.

A federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial be reworked because it is too "confrontational" and reminiscent of political art in totalitarian states.

The Duggar kids planned a big Mother's Day surprise for their mom this year — but the surprise was on them when Michelle Duggar announced on the TODAY Show that they were soon to welcome an 18th sibling.

The once-formidable fund-raising machine of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun to sputter at the worst possible moment for her presidential campaign, Clinton advisers and donors said Thursday.

Buzzer Beater: Tom Cruise, John Travolta, John Holmes, and 'Entourage' are the pride of Hollywood. Does Salt Lake City have a chance? (NBC Sports)

WashPost: You wouldn't think the compassion extended so lovingly to Derek Fisher and his family that magical night a year ago could be conditionally tied to a jersey. You wouldn't think folks could choose basketball over a family's inspirational fight against its baby girl's cancer. But it came to that just six months later when thousands of Utah Jazz fans booed Fisher because he dared return as a Laker, because a search for the best medical care for his daughter led him from Salt Lake City back to Los Angeles.

It’s still too early for the Patriots and their fans to do victory laps. Even though sticky-fingered Matt Walsh didn’t cough up a videotape of the St. Louis Rams pre-Super Bowl XXXVI walkthrough (an event that Fox’ John Czarnecki attended and called “the most disorganized one ever assembled” that doesn’t mean A) it wasn’t taped or B) Walsh won’t testify that it was when he meets with Roger Goodell on Tuesday.