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KABUL, Afghanistan – Aziz Royesh opens the doors to Marefat High School every morning with one eye gazing toward his country’s future — and the other looking warily over his shoulder. One morning three months ago, he says, he was greeted at the school in West Kabul not by students …

Rest assured pop fans, Britney Spears is NOT dead; she’s just the latest celebrity named in a death hoax. The same day that Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died, Internet rumors were flying that Jeff Goldblum fell to his death during an on-set accident in New Zealand (the same rumor …

Nancy Pelosi couldn’t be more clear. These tea party protests couldn’t have been more a waste of time. Rich folks whining so she wouldn’t be obliging. So she wouldn’t. She didn’t. She came not to a one in her native California. I went across the country to see what the …

“Knots Landing,” the ’80s’ version of Wisteria Lane, is the second-longest-running series in TV history (right behind “Gunsmoke”), lasting 14 years and 344 episodes. This past weekend, the “Dallas” spin-off was honored at the TV Land Awards as it celebrated its 30th anniversary. Most of its stars were in attendance, …

I think every administration has its villains. Ronald Reagan had his evil Soviet empire. President Bush his own Axis of Evil. This president? In a word, business. Not all businesses, but it seems most big businesses. The ones who make money — or try to. So creditors who’ve lost billions …

Energy Secretary Steven Chu stunned the audience at a London scientific conference Tuesday with a radical but simple proposal to combat global warming: Paint all the roofs of all the buildings in the world white. If we did so, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist said, and if we also made sure …

Season 8 of “American Idol” has come down to a faceoff on Tuesday night between two very different performers: Kris Allen, the heartthrob with the boy-band looks and John Mayer vibe, and Adam Lambert, the highly dramatic belter with the androgynous sex appeal. Almost every season finale of “Idol” has …

Have you decided what you’re going to do about the swine flu vaccine yet? Have you heard anybody yet talk about it that you trust? Will you take your chances with the swine flu or the vaccine? Will you take the vaccine and give it to your children? How much …

For the last few weeks, there hasn’t been a lot of news in America. The health care debate goes on forever, Afghanistan is not going well, the economy is still stuck in the mud, but those stories have been around for months. So when the White House attacked Fox News, …

The Obama administration is pitching government-run health care to cover 46 million uninsured Americans, despite opposition from the American Medical Association, Republicans and even some members of his own party. Here’s the one thing: The president may give you the headline, but to understand what this plan is really about, …