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They were some of the most promising medicines of the 1990s -- wonder pills that appeared to fight cancer, heart disease and other ailments. Laboratory tests and initial studies in...

Robert Mulligan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for directing the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Saturday at his home in Lyme, Conn. He was 83. Mr....

If only cars could last so long. A satellite resembling a shiny spinning drum and orbiting 21,156 miles above Earth celebrated its 41st birthday in November, astounding engineers and scientists,...

Gabriel Trejos wasn't a nervous sort of passenger. He enjoyed flying. So when he and his wife, Maria, settled Saturday into their seats on Continental Flight 1404, heading to Houston...

Jeffrey Wright delivers a knockout portrayal of bluesman Muddy Waters in the recently released period drama "Cadillac Records." The actor's vocal dynamics are so striking on "I'm a Man" and...

The truce, flawed and half-formed as it was, has ended. The familiar tit-for-tat of Palestinian rocket launches and retaliatory Israeli airstrikes already has resumed. Israeli politicians on Sunday were again...

Every freshman who enrolls at Albany State University knows the saga of this small, proud school. In a mandatory class, they learn how Joseph Winthrop Holley, a son of slaves,...

Hollywood has already dipped into its sci-fi vault for 21st Century remakes of "The War of the Worlds," "The Planet of the Apes" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still,"...

The signs of discontent are small but unnerving in an authoritarian country where public demonstrations are not permitted. Laid-off toy company workers smash windows and computers and overturn police cars...

When Marine Lance Cpl. Lance Hering returned home to his family in Boulder, Colo., in August 2006 after a combat tour in Iraq, he seemed unusually quiet. His parents, Lloyd...