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There were conflicting accounts Monday of a possible incursion by U.S. forces into Pakistani territory. Local residents and a Pakistani government official said two American helicopters were repulsed in South...

Maurice Sendak's 80th year -- which ended with his birthday earlier this summer and was celebrated Monday night with a benefit at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan -- was...

It would be easy to assume that the first month of Cameron Chase's life followed the monotonous cycle of eat-sleep-eat again familiar to any new parent. But anyone who has...

As sisters only four months apart, Julie and Sara Curry grew up being peppered with questions from confused classmates. Your mom was in labor for four months? asked one friend,...

As sisters only four months apart, Julie and Sara Curry grew up being peppered with questions from confused classmates. Your mom was in labor for four months? asked one friend,...

Martin Tytell, whose unmatched knowledge of typewriters was a boon to American spies during World War II and a necessity for literary luminaries and perhaps tens of thousands of everyday...

Gareth and Barbara Genner assumed they would buy a vacation home in Italy. They had family in Milan and enjoyed touring some of their favorite wineries. It was a good...

After days of sharp attacks against each other, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama suspended political combat on Thursday, including TV commercials, and instead made joint visits to Ground Zero...

If YouTube is meant to be a place where worker drones kill time while on the job by watching movie trailers and hilarious videos of people doing incredibly stupid things,...

Sarah Obama, the elderly Kenyan step-grandmother of Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, does not have much, but what little she has was nearly stolen Wednesday. She woke up...