‘There’s not a better job on the planet than judging a karaoke contest,’ Stern says on his Sirius radio show.By James Montgomery, with additional reporting by Gil Kaufman Howard Stern Photo: Jim Spellman/ WireImage On Monday (February 8), Howard Stern not only...

Photo: Ufberg/WireImage Last week Page Six stoked a rumor that Howard Stern is a possible candidate to replace the departing Simon Cowell on next season’s American Idol. Today the shock jock addressed the reports on his satellite radio show, admitting the job wouldn’t be out of...

Stars are clamoring to replace Simon Cowell at the American Idol judges table, but is America’s favorite “shock jock” really one of them? Howard Stern, 56, is the Idol producers’ top choice to replace Cowell, according to The New York Post. The Sirius radio...

Photo: Devaney/WireImage When Simon Cowell revealed last month that this would in fact be his last season as an American Idol judge, speculation immediately began regarding who would replace the scowling Brit at the judges’ table. Early rumor mongering had Ryan Seacrest doing double duty...

Professor, author and political activist Howard Zinn, whose book A People’s History of the United States sold more than 1 million copies and celebrated the historical contributions of feminists and workers and people of color, died of a heart attack Wednesday. He was 87. » E-Mail...