Amanda Moore

Boston Celtics and L.A. Lakers face off as the NBA finals head in to Game 7 tonight at the Los Angeles Staples Center. The two teams have been matched against each other in the finals 12 times, only reaching Game 7 four times. Can Kobe Bryant lead his team to victory?

In the wake of the BP oil disaster, the relationship between big corporations and the U.S. government has become more than an academic curiosity.  It sometimes seems that the two are so entwined that major corporations, such as BP, have more influence over the government than vice versa. Even before this most recent disaster, however, the U.S. has had a long history of tension between big corporations and the nation's government.

The BP oil leak on the Deepwater Horizon has passed the six-week mark and continues to gush oil into the Gulf of Mexico.  Many are now asking how the company continually received permission to drill with 760 safety violations.

No one can deny that President Obama’s current “to do” list has grown dramatically of late, with each new item seemingly demanding higher precedence than the item before it. With two wars, unemployment, the Middle East Crisis and the oil spill, how does one person manage this kind of agenda?

Ten workers at Foxconn, a Taiwanese-owned iPad factory referred to by some as a "sweatshop" have recently committed suicide, prompting tech journalists and industry watchers to ask: is it time for a Fair Trade Tech company? (Apple CEO Steve Jobs says Foxconn is "not a sweatshop," and that the suicides are troubling, but Apple is "trying to understand right now, before we go in and say we know the solution.")

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is in court today for the first day of his political corruption trial.

Blagojevich faces a handful of charges including perhaps the most salacious one – the charge that he allegedly tried to sell President Obama’s old Senate seat.  If Blagojevich is convicted, he could be the fourth Illinois governor to head to federal prison in the past 40 years.

As we learn more about the BP oil leak, there's more that doesn't make sense. It's been almost six weeks since the explosion, which caused the disastrous gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, and many of the public's questions are still unanswered.

Author Mark Twain once wrote, “It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.”  Twain, whose given name was Samuel Clemens, will finally show off his most private information 100 years after his death, with the publication of his autobiography.

We join with The Week Magazine to take a look back at the best and the worst of  the past week. It was a bad week for cyclist, Floyd Landis, who admitted to using performance enhancing drugs. But our "bad week" nod goes to Todd Davis, the CEO of LifeLock, an identity theft protection service. Todd Davis revealed his social security number on TV to prove that his company could protect anything, but the plan backfired when his identity was stolen multiple times. But there's good news for couples, who can now buy a new blanket that absorbs odors in bed, putting an end to that "silent, but deadly" problem.

Which creatures have just one eye and are made from drops of steel? Wenlock and Mandeville, the 2012 Olympics mascots, unveiled earlier this week in London. They are magical, androgynous figures, fashioned from materials used to build London's Olympic stadium.

The devastating floods that hit the South earlier this month are responsible for dozens of deaths and billions of dollars in financial damage. But musicians in Nashville are experiencing a unique loss. Not only were classic music venues, such as the Grand Ole Opry, damaged by the rising water, many of the instruments used to give Music City its reputation were also destroyed.