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Could this be an episode of "Family Feud," New York style? The contestants are: Clintons, Kennedys and Cuomos, America's most famous Democratic dynasties. The prize they're sniffing around is a...

I'm beginning to think Larry Mark and Bill Condon, the producers of this year's Academy Awards telecast, have a few tricks up their sleeves. More important, I think they're determined...

California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to invalidate the voter-approved ban on gay marriage, declaring that "the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish...

For a very literal example of Robert Mugabe's staying power, look no further than a recent crisis summit of southern African leaders designed to settle the political impasse that has...

Squat, bull-necked and sullen-looking, Enrique Portocarrero hardly seems a dashing character out of a Jules Verne science fiction novel. But law enforcement officers here have dubbed him "Capt. Nemo," after...

Once upon a time, pro wrestling helped save UPN. And now it's serving largely the same function for its successor network, MyNetworkTV. A couple of years ago, Rupert Murdoch's News...

Earthquakes and hurricanes strike fear as menacing killers. But those really are among the lesser natural threats to Americans, researchers said this week in releasing a disaster map of the...

The ringleader of the 1994 Rwanda genocide was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for his role in the early days of an ethnic slaughter that eventually killed an estimated...

Sam Bottoms, a film and television actor who played the role of California surfer-turned-soldier Lance Johnson in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now," has died. He was...

The uproar over Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi's tossing of his shoes at President George W. Bush continued Wednesday in the Iraqi parliament, where the body's speaker erupted in anger at...