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Author Leo Braudy on books about the world's movie capital, from its beginnings as a dusty outpost for silent-movie production, through the gaudy century that followed, to the present, when a slow resurrection is underway.

No sitting president facing an unemployment rate more than 8% has won another term since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Rubio Navarrette says a rare bipartisan compromise over granting legal status to children of immigrants should be embraced

President Barack Obama on Friday urged high school students to e-mail, tweet, and teach their parents to tweet a message to Congress to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling on July 1.

Timothy Stanley says there may be little hope for the candidate in 2012, but his influence and political reach have made it impossible for the GOP to ignore the libertarian "fringe" of its party

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A major Yahoo shareholder who exposed a fabrication on the new CEO's academic credentials is demanding that the Internet company fire him for unethical conduct.

In a letter Friday, activist hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb urged Yahoo's board to dump CEO Scott Thompson. Loeb indicated he ...

Dean Obeidallah says the GOP move to criticize Obama as a "celebrity president" may backfire

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The lawyer for a wealthy heiress who provided secret payments intended to help John Edwards testified Friday that the former presidential candidate acknowledged the money had been given for his benefit.

Alex D. Forger said that Edwards' then-lawyer Wade Smith told him in the fall of ...

WASHINGTON — With financial losses mounting, the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is urging the House to quickly pass legislation that would give it wide authority to close thousands of low-revenue post offices, reduce labor costs and end Saturday delivery.

At its meeting Friday, the Postal Service's board of governors ...

By Charles B. Rangel Rep. Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.) on the drug abuse epidemic of the 1980s that led to enhanced criminal penalties for crack cocaine offenses.

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battled each other for months over the Republican presidential nomination but now they're discussing what part Santorum might play in helping Romney's campaign.

A Canadian company has reapplied for a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, the State Department announced Friday.

David Gergen and Nick Kristof discuss what's at stake for the U.S. in dealing with the Chinese activist asking for help.

NEW YORK (AP) — In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history. He reported, a full day ahead of the competition, that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally at a former schoolhouse in Reims, France.

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MIAMI (AP) — Former media mogul Conrad Black was released from a federal prison in Miami early Friday after serving about three years for defrauding investors.

Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke did not give an exact time on when Black was released and said he didn't have any other ...

As the saying goes about political parties and their candidates: Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line. And that's exactly what Republicans are doing, or trying to do.

Most of the provisions in a landmark food safety law which passed 16 months ago still haven't gone into effect and are stuck in a rule-making process at the White House, four months overdue.

Yang Su says the deal was almost made to be broken because it was based on erroneous assumptions on the part of American officials

BOULDER, Colo. — Authorities say a bear tranquilized on a Colorado campus last week and widely viewed in photos as it fell from a tree has been killed by a car.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say the black bear was struck on U.S. 36 around dawn Thursday.

Spokeswoman Jennifer ...

China said Friday that the Chinese activist at the center of a diplomatic storm has the right to apply to study abroad after he told U.S. lawmakers that he wants to leave his homeland for the United States.