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A majority of House Republicans joined Democrats on Tuesday in escalating a confrontation with President Bush over federal spending as the House overrode Bush's veto of a popular water projects...

As a reporter covering the war in Iraq in 2003, I met them: young American soldiers full of passion and profanity, hellbent on saying "mission accomplished" for themselves, yet angry...

To his upwardly mobile, largely black following, Tyler Perry is Madea, a pistol-packing, weed-puffing matriarch in a flowered housedress, the cantankerous mainstay of several top-grossing films written and produced by...

Salem, Mass., can't decide whether to be serious or silly. Just look at its newest attractions: In 2003, a 200-year-old Chinese merchant's house, disassembled in a remote village southwest of...

Hitler's globe is missing. Wolfram Pobanz, a 68-year-old retired cartographer, is positive that it's not the one in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, with the Russian bullet hole through Germany, and...

Peter A.A. Berle, who spent decades fighting for open space and clean water as a New York state assemblyman, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation and president of...

More than a year after the Parsons Corp., the American contracting giant, promised Congress that it would fix the disastrous plumbing and shoddy construction in barracks that the company built...

Leslie Orgel, a biochemist whose studies of early life on primitive Earth helped lead to the formation of a now widely accepted theory about the development of DNA, died Oct....

Just a few moments into my inaugural trip to an antiques show, I managed to commit a faux pas that would make the most seasoned garage-sale lover wince: I paid...

A senior U.S. commander warned Pakistan's president on Friday not to impose emergency rule, a Western diplomat said. Adm. William Fallon, chief of U.S. Central Command, met here with President...