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So the values of the home and the mortgage are converging, the home-equity genie is back in the bottle and the yard needs a complete makeover. What's a recession-sick homeowner...

President Barack Obama has picked Robert Groves, a prominent survey researcher, to lead the Census Bureau, less than a year before the 2010 census begins. The White House made the...

If you have a birdhouse, prepare for guests. Here are some things to keep in mind: Make sure there is a hole for venting hot air, another for draining rainwater...

As a youngster, Frederic Gaynor was the rosy-cheeked boy in rolled-up jeans cradling the popular Daisy air rifle. His all-American image in advertisements on the back covers of Boys' Life...

President Barack Obama's chief climate-change negotiator said Sunday that the U.S. would be "powerfully, fervently engaged" in global talks to reduce carbon emissions but warned of a difficult path ahead....

The global economic meltdown swept into this company town and took down the copper mine in January. It left in its wake a crisis measured in unsold tomatoes at the...

For hundreds of years, Uighur shopkeepers have been selling bread and firewood along the edges of Kashgar's old town to families whose ancestors bought their traditional mud-brick homes with gold...

American and Iraqi forces arrested an influential U.S. ally Saturday, triggering fierce clashes in central Baghdad that threatened to disrupt a key pillar of American efforts to stabilize the capital...

Even the most buzzer beater-obsessed among us sometimes need to take a break from March Madness. And by take a break, we mean watch something basketball-related on DVD. As popular...

Archie Green, 91, a former shipwright and carpenter who became one of the most influential folklorists of the past half-century and who was acknowledged as the founding father of the...