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Planning on packing your skis or snowboard on your flight out to snow country this year? Be prepared to pay. This is the first ski season that coach-class fliers on...

As the financial crisis jolted the nation in September, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was consumed. He traded telephone calls with bankers, then became one of the first officials to promote...

Lawrence Devlin, who as the CIA's station chief in Congo in 1960 avoided carrying out an order to assassinate the ousted prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, died Dec. 6 at his...

Robin Toner, who was the first woman to be the national political correspondent of The New York Times and who had a significant hand in the coverage of five presidential...

George S. Morrison, who commanded the fleet during the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led to an escalation of the Vietnam War and whose son Jim was the lead singer...

Elmer Valentine, a self-described crooked cop who fled Chicago to start a new life on the Sunset Strip by opening the Whisky a Go Go, one of the most celebrated...

Chickpeas -- also called garbanzos, ceci and chana, among many names -- are among the most widely appreciated legumes, grown on every continent except Antarctica, and cooked and served in...

If you are one of those people who spent January neatly arranging your stuff in see-through plastic boxes and identifying the contents with a Dymo labelmaker, please go do something...

It has remained one of World War II's most enduring mysteries: Who in Washington knew what and when before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941? Specifically, who...

For five years, the Design Challenge at the Los Angeles Auto Show has offered a revealing peek into the fantasies of car designers. The challenge pits corporate teams of West...