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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...

The diminutive Galapagos finches had a problem: the larvae of a parasitic nest fly was killing off their hatchlings. A scientist, with the h...

From the steam engine to visions of a national high-speed rail system, railroads have made their mark on American culture. In his first term...