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The nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general encountered resistance on Friday, with Democratic senators suggesting for the first time that they might oppose Mukasey if he did not make...

Tom Murphy, who won a Tony Award for his only Broadway role, as a comically discontented Irishman in "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," died Oct. 6 in Dublin. He was...

Eve Curie Labouisse, a journalist and humanitarian best-known for her biography of her mother, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, died Monday at her home on the Upper East Side...

The human population is living far beyond its means and inflicting damage to the environment that could pass points of no return, according to a major report issued Thursday by...

One day a vandal, the next an artist. That is the story of the baseball-capped culprit who dumped a bottle of dye into the famed Trevi Fountain here Friday, turning...

President Bush is planning to issue a stern warning Wednesday that the United States will not accept a political transition in Cuba in which power changes from one Castro brother...

As children, they read "Choose Your Own Adventure" books and played with Cabbage Patch Kids and Transformers. As adults, they go to the movies to watch the big-screen version of...

Women who go onto their hands and knees while in labor may be able to reduce the pain of childbirth, researchers say. Midwives often recommend the position in the belief...

Lance Bass has faced his share of screaming girls since he joined 'N Sync as a 16-year-old. Fan-boys are sort of new. "He's really cute," said Richie Tran, 35, a...

Justin Timberlake draws the most flak for the breakup of 'N Sync in former bandmate Lance Bass' new memoir, "Out of Sync." Formed in Orlando in 1995 by Lou Pearlman,...