Listing of the Week: An A-list Hollywood party pad

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) joined a minority of his fellow House Republicans this week in voting for the fiscal cliff deal that allowed tax rates to rise on the top one percent of taxpayers. For the next two days, he took to the conservative talk radio circuit in order to defend that vote.

A converted clock tower penthouse space is by far the most expensive listing in Brooklyn at $23.5 million and our Listing of the Week.

For the fifth consecutive year, DreamWorks Animation has made Fortune Magazine's list of the 100 best employers, and once again it is the only Hollywood studio to make the cut. 

Hollywood's hardest-working businessman, , number 29 on Forbes Celebrity 100, has officially swooped in on??Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi?s former Beverly Hills digs for $37M.??DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi??first listed the property back in October 2011 and shortly thereafter, the duo purchased??Brad Pitt's more private bachelor pad??in Malibu. Hollywood sure does keep it ...

"There are two kinds of pain," House Majority Whip Frank Underwood says in the opening scene of Netflix's original series House of Cards. "The sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pain that's only suffering.

Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican Majority Whip, may have the hardest job in Washington.

Boney M, the 70s disco band behind hits such as "Rasputin" and "By the Rivers of Babylon," will play in Ramallah next week as part of a Palestinian festival, organisers said on Thursday.The band, which shot to global fame with catchy disco numbers, will perform a concert in the West Bank city on July 20 as part of the six-day music and dance festival taking place across the occupied Palestinian territory.