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As my 9-year-old daughter began summer day camp last week, we talked about swimming rules, sunscreen and ... cheese fries. It was at summer camp a few years ago that...

Vanessa Hudgens "IDENTIFIED" RATING: 2 1/2 EXCLAMATION POINTS "Gone With the Wind," a gently aching piano-soul number with echoes of Alicia Keys, is the best vocal performance on "Identified." A...

David Caminer, 92, who as an employee of a legendary chain of British tea shops found the earliest ways to use a computer for business purposes, including standardizing flavorful, cost-effective...

Late last year, top Bush administration officials decided to take a step they had long resisted. They drafted a secret plan to authorize the Pentagon's Special Operations forces to launch...

The United States and the European Union are nearing completion of an agreement allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information -- such as credit card transactions, travel...

In the past two months, Taliban militants have suddenly tightened the noose on this city of 3 million people, establishing bases in surrounding towns and abducting residents for ransom. The...

Charles Parkhurst, a museum director in Baltimore and Washington and one of the "monuments men," an Allied Forces team that chased down leads, pried open crates and snooped around museums,...

Federal health officials will call together on Sunday some of the world's leading experts on an obscure disease to discuss the case of Hannah Poling, a 9-year-old girl from Athens,...

Soon after U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Gen. Tommy Franks surprised senior Army officers by revamping the Baghdad-based military command. The decision reflected the assumption by Franks, the...

Let's face it, carpeted kitty condos, the ones with the stairs, ramps, scratching posts and cubby holes, have all the aesthetic appeal of tires hanging from ropes at a primate...