25 years of Academy Awards hosts

1995-David Letterman "Late Show" host David Letterman is seen as he hosts the Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, March 27, 1995. (AP Photo/Lois Bernstein)

Photos: Dear Abby, thanks for the letters

Mary Ellen Davenport (right), San Angelo reporter, interviews Abigail Van Buren (left), who was famous for her "Dear Abby" column at Austin, Texas on January 31, 1959. Miss Van Buren was in Austin to attend the Headliners Award dinner. (AP Photo).

Letterman says he sees psychiatrist weekly

PASADENA, Calif. — Three years after an extortion scandal that led him to bare his infidelities, David Letterman said he sees a psychiatrist once a week to try to be the person that he believed he was.

Notable passings of 2012

In this Sept. 15, 1987 file photo, Judge Robert Bork, nominated by President Reagan to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court, is sworn before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill at his confirmation hearing. Robert Bork, whose failed Supreme Court nomination made history, di…

Hillary Clinton spars with Pakistanis full of resentment for US

ISLAMABAD — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faced sharp rebukes from Pakistani audiences Friday, including one woman who accused the U.S. of conducting "executions without trial" in aerial drone strikes. Verbally slapping back, Clinton questioned Pakistan's commitment to fighting t…

Survivor sues sweat-lodge organizers, alleging 50 were forced into 'death trap'

A Patagonia woman has sued the organizers of a sweat-lodge ceremony that turned deadly earlier this month near Sedona.

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In '04 FBI interview, Cheney seemed hazy on events surrounding CIA leak

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney told the FBI in 2004 he had no idea who leaked to the news media that Valerie Plame, wife of a Bush administration critic, worked for the CIA.

In '04 FBI interview, Cheney seemed hazy on events surrounding CIA leak

CIA-FBI wrangling noted in interrogations

WASHINGTON — Newly released documents show the FBI interviewed a naked, chained terror suspect back in 2002 as the bureau struggled with the CIA over how to treat high- value prisoners.

German man calls Brazilian airport home

CAMPINAS, Brazil — A German man reportedly dumped by a Brazilian woman he met on the Internet has been living in an airport for 13 days and isn't saying when he will leave.

German man calls Brazilian airport home

Historias que dan esperanza

SAN DIEGO.-Por provenir de una familia que es un poco como un guiso racial y étnico —su madre es afro-cubana, su padre es australiano de origen irlandés— Soledad O'Brien, de CNN, puede optar por identificarse de muchas maneras.

Acid trip inspired Matos to break up Tucson band

For Mark Matos, the decision to break up his popular Tucson band Campo Bravo came in the form of an enlightening acid trip.

Costs of clean-energy plans worry rural areas

Duncan Mayor M.C. Holiday has nothing against renewable energy. But as the state and federal governments look toward reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, he hopes officials will keep in mind that his remote town has a high unemployment rate and many residents on fixed incomes.

Mysterious love letter washes onto British beach

LONDON — A mysterious missive apparently written by a French-speaking woman to her married lover has washed onto a British beach and into the imagination of the U.K. media.