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RHINEBECK, N.Y. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton made a long-anticipated appearance in the upstate New York village where his daughter is getting married tomorrow, drawing crowds of onlookers Friday afternoon as preparations continued largely out of sight for the grand and secretive occasion.

The former president, looking relaxed in blue ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An apparent natural gas explosion at a welding shop Friday collapsed part of the building and hurled two workers into the street, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, fire officials said.

The two-story wooden building in south Los Angeles was shaken by the ...

 WASHINGTON (AP) — It isn't much of a stretch for Jill Biden when she takes an acting turn in an episode of Lifetime network's "Army Wives."

The second lady, playing herself, visits the show's Fort Marshall to hear about the challenges facing military families and offer them words of encouragement.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. said Friday that it agreed to sell its Miramax Films to an investor group for about $660 million, ending a 17-year association with the studio and a six-month bidding process.

Miramax's Oscar-laden film library has more than 700 titles, including prestigious films ...

The nation's economic recovery lost speed in the spring quarter, growing at a 2.4 percent annual rate after surging by 3.7 percent in the winter, the Commerce Department reported Friday morning.

The slowdown was primarily the result of people buying more imports rather than goods made in the United ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The showdown between Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid has fascinated the American public for nearly 130 years with its classic, Old West storyline of the frontier lawman hunting down the notorious gunslinger.

As it turns out, the feud isn't completely over.

New Mexico Gov. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday implored the website WikiLeaks to stop posting secret Afghanistan war documents and the Pentagon pressed its investigation of the leaks, bringing a soldier charged with handing over classified video back to the U.S. for trial.

Obama administration officials said the investigation into ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former "Fly Girl" Jennifer Lopez is poised to return to television — this time as a judge on "American Idol."

The singer-dancer-actor was close to signing a deal to join Fox TV's hit singing contest, a person familiar with the negotiations said late Thursday. The person, ...

PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters planned an aggressive air attack at first light Friday against a fast-moving wildfire that exploded in northern Los Angeles County, chewing through more than 7 square miles of dry brush, forcing thousands of evacuations and burning at least three structures.

There is zero containment, authorities ...

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — BP's incoming CEO said Friday that it's time for a "scaleback" of the massive effort to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but he added that the commitment to make things right is the same as ever.

Tens of thousands of people — many ...

There's something in the water, if not the Scotch and bourbon, at the House Ways and Means Committee, and a procession of chairmen just couldn't resist taking deep drafts of whatever it is. It's entertaining for the rest of us, but expensive.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel, who has been in ...

Wednesday's ruling on Arizona's immigration law, which went into effect in limited form Thursday, has caused some cities and lawmakers to reconsider their boycotts against the state, but Hispanic and other activist groups say they will continue their protests until the law is entirely struck down.

While hundreds of demonstrators ...

The debate between corporate earnings growth and the economy raged this past week as companies such as FedEx Corp., Equinix Inc. and E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. delivered significant earnings growth year on year and compared with Wall Street's expectations.

A notable characteristic of this earnings period thus ...

Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department employee whose hasty dismissal by the Obama administration sparked a national uproar over race, said Thursday that she will sue the conservative blog mogul who posted the misleading video excerpt that led to her removal.

Mrs. Sherrod made the announcement about legal action against Andrew ...

RICHMOND | Convicted D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo told actor William Shatner on a cable TV special that he and his partner tried to recruit fellow shooters for their 2002 spree and his accomplice killed one man for backing out, according to the program, which aired Thursday.

In a telephone ...

ALASKA

Cargo plane crash kills 4 servicemen

ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE | A military cargo plane on a training mission crashed just about a minute after it took off from a base runway, officials said Thursday.

Three of the men killed in the Wednesday evening accident were in the Alaska ...

NEW YORK | It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in.

So when Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn't take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex-chat services and start hiring ...

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A black Florida juvenile faces hate-crimes charges in a gang attack that police say he committed because the victim was listening to rap music and white people "shouldn't be listening to rap music."

Palm Bay police said the suspect, a 14-year-old who was part of a group ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) | A Canadian company whose pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Michigan river was warned by government regulators in January that its monitoring of corrosion in the pipeline was insufficient.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ...

Jewish influence

"[Author Justin] Vaisse is perhaps a little too careful to minimize the role of Jews, or at least of the Jewishness of Jews, in neoconservative thinking. It is quite true, as he says, that it is not ' "in essence" a Jewish movement': not all neoconservatives are Jews, ...