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Most of the additional U.S. troops arriving in Afghanistan early next year will be deployed near the capital, Kabul, American military commanders here say, in a measure of how precarious...

When it comes to architecture, Los Angeles can sometimes seem like a battlefield of styles. Mixed into the mishmash of nondescript buildings that dominate the city are a large number...

Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, the American heiress who was first married to an Austrian playboy prince and then to a Danish-born man-about-society who was twice tried on charges of attempting...

On the campaign trail, Sen. Barack Obama offered a pledge that electrified and motivated his liberal base, vowing to "end the war" in Iraq. But as he moves closer to...

Oliver Selfridge, an innovator in early computer science and artificial intelligence, died Wednesday in Boston. He was 82. The cause was injuries suffered in a fall on Sunday at his...

With the Bush administration's influence rapidly waning, the United States agreed Tuesday to support a modest reopening of NATO's dialogue with Russia, despite Moscow's continuing occupation of the separatist Georgian...

President-elect Obama called for "a new dawn of American leadership" on Monday as he formally introduced his national security team, led by Sen. Hillary Clinton as his nominee for secretary...

For more than a year, food manufacturers have been shaving package sizes and raising prices, declaring that they had little choice because of unprecedented increases in the cost of raw...

So you booked your flight early. Now, a couple of weeks before you are scheduled to fly, some important meetings at work have come up and you have to change...

V.P. Singh, a former prime minister of India who was considered the father of coalition politics there and who stirred controversy by championing the rights of the country's poorest citizens,...