In the 1930s swing bands emerged at the forefront of American popular music, evolving from the jazz genre, which was primarily produced and listened to by blacks, into one patronized also by urban whites. Long before baseball was integrated, the big...

The term "swing dance" is commonly used to refer to a group of dances that developed concurrently with the style of jazz music in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. The most well known of which is lindy hop, a popular partner dance the originated in Harlem and is...

MF: How does it feel going from tomboy Samantha on Who's the Boss? to having guys all over the world going gaga for you?AM: I try not to think about it too much. [Laughs] It's obviously very flattering. I'm still blessed to have a career...

Sammy Sosa stepped into the batter's box against live pitching for the first time Sunday. The slugger didn't even swing the bat. Neither did Michael Young, Mark Teixeira or any of the other Texas Rangers hitters.And that's exactly what manager Ron Washington expected."The hitters get...

Bahamian voters elected a new parliament Wednesday as the prime minister sought a second term on his record of growth in a tourism-driven economy while the opposition warned that the island chain has been put up for sale to foreigners.Rallies during the campaign were marked...

NASA's New Horizon's space probe was pointed toward Pluto and the frozen, sunless reaches of the solar system on a nine-year journey after getting a gravity boost Wednesday from Jupiter. The fastest spacecraft ever launched was within a million and a half miles of Jupiter...