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John T. Scott, a New Orleans sculptor whose vibrantly colored kinetic art filtered the spirit of the African diaspora through a modernist lens, died Saturday in Houston. He was 67....

President Bush said Thursday that he has accepted an invitation from President Hu Jintao of China to attend the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, a move that is likely to...

Adam Green's "Hatchet" isn't a horror remake. It isn't opening itself up to the masses via a PG-13 rating, nor is it a sequel. For those reasons, the slasher flick's...

President Bush said Thursday that he has accepted an invitation from President Hu Jintao of China to attend the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, a move that is likely to...

The joys of hiking are very different from the joys of hiking with kids. With little ones in tow, it's important -- make that crucial -- to have the right...

His baton kept a tight but flowing beat as his left hand, at the end of a thin wrist, went its own way, deftly sculpting phrases and so often asking...

Courtney Lloyd can't remember the first time she stole a car. It must have been more than three or four years ago, long before her first arrest for auto theft....

Weight loss may be associated with the onset of dementia in women, but not in men, a new study suggests. There have been conflicting studies on the association between body...

It may be that when adults talk to babies, they use a language that is universally understood. Researchers made recordings of English-speaking mothers talking to babies and to adults, then...

For once -- just once -- Mike Rowe is clean. He's sitting at a lunch table in a somewhat unlikely location: a recycling center on San Francisco's rugged southeastern fringe,...