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Grappling with the deepening recession, Walt Disney Co. plans to shake up its parks and resorts operation, setting the stage for job cuts in the coming weeks. Under the new...

Even before "The Dark Night" was released last summer, fellow actors, movie critics and others were predicting, and endorsing, an Oscar nomination for Health Ledger's chilling portrayal. Sunday night, his...

Public health officials have long warned that there's no magic bullet to stop another influenza pandemic such as the one in 1918 that killed an estimated 50 million people. Pandemics...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday entreated the Chinese to continue their economic support for America, saying, "We are truly going to rise and fall together." Closing her...

A bomb exploded Sunday in a bazaar near the historic Hussein mosque in Cairo, killing a French woman, wounding 18 others and raising fears that Islamic militants may be targeting...

What makes one soldier stay and fight on a brutal battlefield and another desert and flee? That question intrigued Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn, a wife-and-husband research team of economists...

Janna Levenstein tells first-time visitors that they can't miss her home here. It's the only modern one on the street: a bright, sleek, indoor-outdoor living space, a tree-cloistered mini-greenbelt where...

After five years as governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger has come full circle: The film star who promised to rescue California from its fiscal wreckage without raising taxes signed into law $12.5...

Police believe they have finally solved the slaying of congressional intern Chandra Levy, nearly eight years after her disappearance transfixed Washington and much of the nation and ended the political...

Dale Earnhardt Jr. said Friday he regretted clipping Brian Vickers' car and triggering a huge wreck in last weekend's Daytona 500, but NASCAR's most popular figure also defended his aggressive...