McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Not all of the best singer-songwriters are women. It only seems that way. So many female solo artists have released worthwhile albums the last several months that it's hard to...

Those who have wrapped themselves in a lush, thick towel after a shower know that fluffy towels are worth it. But finding a towel with the perfect amount of fluff...

X Games superstars Little-known athletes such as Shaun White and Gretchen Bleiler turned into household names. Two sports lacking credibility became part of the Olympics. Millions of people found another...

True story: A colleague notorious for the mounds of paper piled high on his desk was sifting through years of piled-up press releases and interview notes when he left the...

Q: I read a newspaper story about new energy standards for home furnaces and wonder how this affects me. Does this mean that I need to replace my current furnace...

About 100 retired senior military officers issued a blunt open letter Tuesday exhorting President Pervez Musharraf to resign, as an attack on an army fort in a troubled tribal zone...

A top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Sunday that the use of a type of lethal roadside bomb thought to come from Iran declined last week after a sharp...

The Stephenville UFOs have gone beyond North Texas. Thanks to dozens of reports of a strange, silent object over the town about 70 miles southwest of Ft. Worth, UFO stories...

Two decades' worth of U.S. economic sanctions against Iran appear to have had little effect, Congress' investigative arm said Wednesday, calling into question a pillar of President Bush's strategy to...

Q:A local heating company did an inspection of our system recently and it said we had some holes and rips in our ductwork. When I told the inspectors that my...