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Lionel "Lee" Barrow Jr., 82, a former advertising executive and civil rights activist who retired in 1985 after 10 years as dean of the Howard University School of Communications, died...

How many times have you seen someone hurrying down the street with a Blackberry in one hand and a sugary coffee or donut in the other? Turns out, young professionals...

Infant deaths blamed on accidental strangulation and suffocation in bed have increased sharply in the United States, federal health officials are to report Monday, reigniting a heated debate over the...

Congress is moving to create strong new oversight of the financial sector that would likely give the Federal Reserve authority to examine the workings of a wide range of companies...

Donna Hoover Metcalf, 95, an environmentalist and preservationist who came to Washington in 1952 with her husband, Sen. Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.), died of complications from dementia Jan. 22 at Woodmont...

First Lady Michelle Obama, who has called herself "first and foremost ... Malia and Sasha's mom," has defended her daughters' likeness, saying it is not proper for a company that...

James E. Swett, 88, a Marine Corps ace pilot during World War II who received the Medal of Honor for knocking seven Japanese dive bombers out of the air in...

The miserable stock market has wreaked havoc not only on your portfolio but also on many companies' pension funds. The pension plans of the companies in the Standard and Poor's...

Linda Lichter, 53, a social scientist who helped lead a research institute that studies the news and entertainment media, and whose book "The Media Elite" found a wide audience over...

About now, many of the resolutions made for the new year have been broken or forgotten. If a resolution to eat better was among yours, you need not give up....