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The CSI franchise has a new lead investigator: Special Agent Avery Ryan. Oscar-winning actress Patricia Arquette plays the head of the FBI...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. The black jazz critic, essayist and novelist Albert Murray...

It's been a downward spiral for Paula Deen since news of her deposition testimony as part of a racial discrimination suit went public la...

Wednesday night it was dinner with a small group of Republican lawmakers. Thursday it's lunch with 2012 Republican vice presidential nom...

Based on what we know now, President Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be a lottery pick in next year's NBA draft. Yet it...

When you go to the Dead Sea for a float in its extraordinarily buoyant waters, signs warn you to not drink a drop. "Did you swallow wat...