"Machismo got a bad name starting with the feminist movement, where it was used to label male behavior that women found offensive," the novelist Robert B. Parker once told Amanda Smith in a Publisher's Weekly interview. "But if you called it a commitment...

Beijing accused a U.S. advisory panel on Tuesday of taking "potshots" at China in a report that accuses the government of imprisoning and torturing people for practicing their religion.The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said in its findings last week that every religious community...

The Bureau of Land Management has dumped a plan to expand a rifle-and-pistol ban at a bird preserve, a rule that was originally meant to protect National Guard soldiers who train at the site.Lawmakers had been pressuring the BLM to end the plan for the...

The "Fake Steve" blog won many fans in the technology world, serving up hilarious daily satire of what purported to be a "secret diary" of Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Inc.Trying to figure out the blogger's true identity became a favorite guessing game of...

While the 2008 presidential candidates are taking potshots at each other, some young Americans are taking shots at the entire two-party system.When asked to respond to a YouTube video by Medill News Service that shows young adults shouting the first five words they think of...