It’s the year 2154 and humankind has reached out to the stars in director James Cameron’s new science-fiction epic Avatar. The movie takes us to an exotic jungle moon called Pandora where humans are the aliens and a clash is brewing with the natives. Cameron, who has served as an …

The first man to walk on the moon has blasted off at the Obama administration’s stripped-down space plans, describing the president’s proposals as “devastating.” But supporters of the president’s latest plan, which will be unveiled on Thursday, insist all systems are go for an accelerated rocket program that sets new …

Henry Winkler may have hung up Fonzie’s leather jacket over 20 years ago, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been busy. The 66-year-old actor has regularly acted, directed and co-authored 17 children books about a boy named Hank Zipzer who suffers from dyslexia, as Winkler does. And today his schedule …

This article was updated on June 3. See update at the end of the article. The Los Angeles Unified School District school board wants all public school students in the city to be taught that Arizona’s new immigration law is un-American. The school board president made the announcement Tuesday night …

Recent polling suggests that the successful raid on Usama Bin Laden’s compound last month has had at best, a modest and indeed, short-term impact on the president’s standings. To be sure, President Obama garners justifiably high ratings for leadership generally and on the War on Terror. But there is no …

Republicans rejoice! That sound you hear is the Tea Party brewing; you can thank the Supreme Court for turning up the heat. Three different issues, all critical to conservatives: all went the wrong way. The Court not only gave ObamaCare new life, it also decided in favor of allowing dangerous …

The owners of an Oregon bakery learned Friday that there is a severe price to pay for following their Christian faith. A judge for the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) recommended a lesbian couple should receive $135,000 in damages for their emotional suffering after Sweet Cakes by Melissa …

I was in the East Room of the White House on August 9, 1974, standing along the wall while Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, said farewell to the staff. After his maudlin and rambling remarks, I shuffled, zombie-like,with the rest of the White House staffers, just behind …

What is it about those North Koreans? They always manage to stage a crisis to coincide with the American holidays to get maximum press coverage. But the unexpected death of the country’s “Dear Leader” a week before Christmas? That’s quite an event to arrange — even for North Korea. Kim …

MEXICO CITY – Mexico says one of its citizens died after a boat carrying Mexican migrants capsized in U.S. waters off Southern California. The Foreign Relations Department said the boat collided with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vessel early Thursday near Encinitas, California. A statement said one woman died, …