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This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it's also the season of spirited shopdropping. Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things...

Bill Strauss, a founder of the singing satirical troupe Capitol Steps, whose response to any political disaster of the last quarter- century was to find out whether it rhymed with...

Bill Strauss, a founder of the singing satirical troupe Capitol Steps, whose response to any political disaster of the last quarter-century was to find out whether it rhymed with anything,...

A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the FBI, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans that he suspected...

Homeowners across the nation are looking to county governments to reassess the values of their homes in the face of flattening and falling prices that have befallen scores of markets...

There was the period last spring when Mitt Romney claimed while campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire that he had been a hunter "pretty much all my life," only to...

A federal judge said Friday that he would not rule immediately on whether to hold a judicial inquiry into the destruction of CIA videotapes that showed the harsh interrogation of...

A review of classified documents by former members of the Sept. 11 commission shows that the panel made repeated and detailed requests to the Central Intelligence Agency in 2003 and...

Growing up here, Oscar Ayala-Cornejo recalls, he played chess and devoured comics, hung out at the mall and joined the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. After high school, he realized...

The speculation was that he would be here, that Fidel Castro was ready to leave his hospital bed after 17 months of convalescence and that he would come to inaugurate...