New Ground Theatre Festival: Writer Quiara Alegria Hudes Finds Inspiration High And Low

Nearly seven months after Hurricane Sandy ravaged New Jersey's shoreline, President Barack Obama and Gov. Chris Christie (R) are set to tour the area together again. The Washington Post reports that a White House official said the two will meet next Tuesday, right after the Memorial Day summer tourism season begins. Obama plans to speak about helping spur economic circumstances for businesses and families affected by the storm, CNN added. Back when Sandy hit, Christie made headlines for his vocal support of Obama's efforts after the storm. He credited the president and his staff for working "tremendously hard" to help New Jersey and other areas. Read More More on New Jersey

Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Chaser, a 9-year-old border collie that gained fame for understanding more than 1,000 English words, now has shown that she can understand sentences. And not just two-word sentences, such as "fetch stick" or "paw ball" -- but sentences containing a prepositional object, verb, and direct object. You go, girl.Read More More on Dogs

CONCORD, N.C. — Denny Hamlin isn't ready to say he's back, even after winning the pole for the Coca-Cola 600 with a record-setting qualifying lap Thursday night.He said it would take a win Sunday night or at another Sprint Cup race later in the season before he's willing to make that declaration.Read More More on Motorsports

Bill O'Reilly described himself as "the fairest guy on the planet" in a heated exchange Thursday with HuffPost Live host and Columbia University professor Marc Lamont Hill over the IRS scandal.Hill said that it's totally plausible Obama may not have known in advance that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups. O'Reilly countered that Lamont-Hill is only giving Obama the benefit of the doubt because he supports the president."I'm a neutral as far as President Obama is concerned, because my job is to be fair and balanced," the Fox News host said, perhaps making a reference to the channel's tagline, "Fair & Balanced." "So I don't know what he knew, and if evidence points to the fact that he did know and he covered it up, then he's through."Read More More on Bill O'Reilly

Amanda Bynes may finally get the help many believe she needs, after she was reportedly arrested in her Manhattan apartment and taken for a psychiatric evaluation on Thursday night. According to NBC News, police officers were responding to reports of a disorderly person, and when they arrived at the 27-year-old's West 47th Street apartment, the former Nickelodeon star allegedly threw a bong out the window. Bynes was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment and taken to Roosevelt Hospital to undergo a psychiatric evaluation before heading to a Midtown precinct to be processed. Read More More on Amanda Bynes