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More than six months after Benazir Bhutto's assassination, the Pakistani authorities' investigation of her killing appears to have ground to a near halt, with the trail growing colder. The elegant...

A popular pastime in Silicon Valley to show off its collective creativity: Companies encouraging employees to name conference rooms, computer gear, even bathrooms. Nowhere is that more prevalent than at...

Infrared burners are a hot option on gas barbecue grills, but are we merely buying marketing sizzle instead of cooking a better steak? The intense heat of infrared energy, the...

Charles Joffe, a legendary manager of comic talent who helped guide the careers of Dick Cavett, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Woody Allen and co-produced nearly all of Allen's films,...

Dr. Michael DeBakey, the medical pioneer who was the driving force in developing the field of cardiac surgery, operating on more than 65,000 patients and developing medical technology that saved...

Sudanese officials on Friday largely shrugged off news that the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor is seeking the arrest of the country's president for genocide and crimes against humanity, reiterating...

Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent By Ernest Freeberg Harvard University Press, 392 pages, $29.95 It all sounds so familiar: a foreign war,...

Palace Council By Stephen L. Carter Knopf, 514 pages, $26.95 It's no surprise that in "Palace Council," the third of Stephen L. Carter's fables about black America's upper crust, success...

Brett Favre will probably play football this fall, but it won't be for the Green Bay Packers. It will be for the Ravens, or Buccaneers or maybe even the hated...

Just as defense lawyers were hoping to discredit the star witness against him, police confronted Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with new corruption allegations Friday -- that he made duplicate...