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Senior FBI officials repeatedly approved the use of "blanket" records demands to justify the improper collection of thousands of phone records, according to officials briefed on the practice. The bureau...

The Defense Department is conducting an extensive review of the videotaping of interrogations at military facilities from Iraq to Guantanamo Bay and so far has identified nearly 50 tapes, including...

She left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm-and-blues singer. Now, at 22, she is...

The State Department no longer considers China one of the world's worst human-rights violators, according to its annual rights report, released Tuesday, a decision that immediately earned the ire of...

Snoop Dogg "EGO TRIPPIN' " RATING: 2 1/2 EXCLAMATION POINTS The title of Snoop Dogg's ninth proper album could sum up this sleek but noticeably insecure record, which finds Snoop...

Rabbi Zev Segal, who as president of one of the most influential Orthodox Jewish organizations in the country in the 1960s clashed with leaders of what he called "more liberal...

Producers and idle actors huddle under a flimsy canopy near a dreary office plaza at Wabash Street and the river. A few stories overhead, a stunt double in a familiar...

Two senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee have requested a full accounting of how Iraq is spending its soaring oil revenues, amid conflicting estimates of how much the...

Study after study has failed to show any link between vaccines and autism, but many parents of autistic children remain unconvinced. For the skeptics, the case of 9-year-old Hannah Poling...

Norman Smith, who was the lead recording engineer for every Beatles song through 1965 and who as a producer helped usher in an era of psychedelic rock when he discovered...