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The First Person and Other Stories By Ali Smith Pantheon, 208 pages, $23.95 Magicians seldom reveal their tricks. Canny cooks make sure a single ingredient is left out so the...

The chief judge at the Guantanamo Bay war crimes court Thursday rejected President Barack Obama's call to halt prosecution of terror suspects, ruling that a delay in the case of...

Sweat was dripping off Andy Roddick's white baseball cap, flying off his sleeves, making puddles at his feet. An occasional expletive burst from his mouth, and he carried on a...

Al Teman has a penchant for salvage, but his home in Los Angeles in no way resembles a salvage yard. A surplus of discarded doors, for example, is neatly stacked...

The suicide rate among U.S. Army soldiers reached its highest level in three decades in 2008, military officials said Thursday in a report that pointed to the inadequacy of anti-suicide...

ABC will yank "Ugly Betty" from its Thursday slot to make way for a new comedy block. Starting March 26, the new comedy "In the Motherhood" will kick off the...

Even as the birth of octuplets at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center drew attention and applause from around the country, questions arose Tuesday about whether the mother's doctors did enough...

Charles Schneer, a film producer best known for his influential collaboration on several movies with special effects genius Ray Harryhausen, has died. He was 88. Mr. Schneer died Jan. 21...

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga dominated American James Blake on Monday night at the Australian Open. The ninth-seeded Blake fell in a fourth-round match that Tsonga won casually 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (3). The...

Moviegoers, beware. A host of masked, murderous slashers, demented fiends and demonic forces are about to converge on the multiplex, but it's not your immortal soul they're after. It's your...