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Jacob DeShazer, a bombardier in the storied Doolittle raid over Japan in World War II who endured 40 months of brutality as a prisoner of the Japanese, then became a...

British actor Simon Pegg thinks that "actors become idiots" because they are treated like royalty. "You're driven everywhere, and you're put up in really nice places," he said. "The actors...

For a guy playing Henry VIII, Jonathan Rhys Meyers was looking very skinny in his jeans, relaxing in a trailer on the Irish set of Showtime's steamy drama "The Tudors."...

Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan intensified, the Afghan government has depended on U.S. logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. But to...

You can accuse the disgraced ex-governor Eliot Spitzer of many things in his decision to flout the law by soliciting the services of a pricey prostitute: hypocrisy, egomania, sophomoric impulsiveness...

In October 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College roiled the cancer world with a study saying that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented through...

Glitz doesn't just happen. A Broadway designer has to come up with the look, the gold glow of the dancers in "A Chorus Line," say, or the gluttonous kitsch of...

Gnarls Barkley "THE ODD COUPLE" RATING: 3 EXCLAMATION POINTS "The Odd Couple" is the most-watched sophomore album in a while, and there's enough interest that Gnarls Barkley moved up the...

As part of her argument that she has the best experience and instincts to deal with a sudden crisis as president, Sen. Hillary Clinton recently offered a vivid description of...

The publishing world was shocked to learn that the gang-life memoir "Love and Consequences" was a fake. But even more startling was how that came to light. The author, Margaret...