Cablevision, which serves 3 million customers in the New York area, had objected to the broadcaster's fees, leading to a two-week blackout.

To millions of Brazilians, the man who deserves credit for the country's surging prosperity over the past eight years is President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the charismatic former trade union leader who took office in 2003.

If Republicans take the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will have to hand over her gavel and her title to Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio).

LOS ANGELES - For a good portion of Southern California's game Saturday night against No. 1 Oregon, fans of the No. 24 Trojans were able to turn back the clock.

Improved weather conditions have allowed rescuers to step up their efforts to bring aid to survivors of a deadly tsunami in Indonesia.

The Vikings have a tough task ahead of them if they are to avoid falling to 2-5. By JUDD ZULGAD, Star Tribune Kickoff: 3:15 pm TV: Ch.

CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA today hopes to start the countdown to a 3:52 pm Wednesday launch of Discovery. Repairs to a leaking helium line and pressurization of one of the shuttle's orbital engine pods took ...

Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The US and Japan sought to ease tensions with China fueled by territorial disputes in waters off its coast that have hindered talks on currency and trade policies before a Group of 20 summit ...

The complaints, first reported by Patently Apple, were filed Oct. 29 and cover six patents. In the first complaint, the main document is only 9 pages, but one exhibit--patent 7479949--is broken into two parts and weighs in at a whopping ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Filmmaker George Hickenlooper has died at age 47, just before the premiere of his new film "Casino Jack" at the Starz Denver Film Festival, the Denver Post newspaper reported on Saturday.

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Empathy and sentimentalism effectively disarm any rote zombie tropes the genre might subconsciously trigger in the viewer. If it wasn't for the egregious amount of shoe-gazing vampires flooding pop culture these days - a combination of brooding sex, ...

In the fall of 1994, Bill Clinton suffered a bruising defeat in his first midterm elections. He held a desultory news conference, then left the country for a whirlwind trip to Indonesia.

After reports surfaced that Charlie Sheen tore up his NYC Plaza Hotel room on Tuesday with a porn star in inside, his estranged wife Brooke Mueller spoke out about the incident and seemed indifferent towards his strange actions.

Both national parties spent millions of dollars on the governor's race between incumbent Ted Strickland (D) and former representative John R. Kasich (R) - a sign of the practical and symbolic importance of the Buckeye State contest.

A lack of systematic screening requirements for cargo planes creates a large and easily exploited loophole for terrorists, experts said after international authorities discovered two explosive devices on UPS planes bound for the ...

By Herald wire services Roy Helu Jr. rushed for a school-record 307 yards, and No. 14 Nebraska knocked No. 7 Missouri from the ranks of the unbeatens with a 31-17 victory yesterday in Lincoln, Neb.

HENDERSON, NEV. - The knock on the front door elicited the annoyed yapping of an unseen dog, followed by the appearance of a gray-haired man busily eating chips from a bag.