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The faces of the audience members leaving "My Sister's Keeper" have gone all Monet: Their features are blurred by a dewy sheen of tears smeared over cheeks and noses; they...

Chaim Hanfling knows a lot about this settlement's population boom. Six of his 11 siblings have moved here from Jerusalem in recent years to take advantage of the lower land...

Billy Mays, the bearded, boisterous pitchman who, as the undisputed king of TV yell and sell, became an unlikely pop culture icon, died at his home in Tampa on Sunday....

The storm of protests over the disputed election in Iran may have raised the prospect of a weakened regime, but it has done little to curb Israeli concerns about Iran's...

New York has become the first state to allow taxpayer-funded researchers to pay women for giving their eggs for embryonic stem cell research. It's a move welcomed by many scientists...

U.S. military officials fear that the closure of inner-city bases and restrictive guidelines that go into effect this week will leave American troops and civilians in Iraq more vulnerable. Of...

Alec Gallup, 81, former chairman of his family's business, the Gallup Poll, which was started by his father and is considered among the most-trusted political polls in the United States,...

The authoritarian governments of China, Cuba and Myanmar have been selectively censoring or limiting the news out of Iran in recent days. In China, political commentators tinted their blogs and...

The House narrowly passed an ambitious climate bill Friday that would establish national limits on greenhouse gases, create a complex trading system for emission permits and provide incentives to alter...

What this country needs is another great pinup. We've lost it, haven't we? We don't do pinups anymore. The day when millions of kids tacked the same poster to their...