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It's a watershed season for funny girls on TV, with female comedy talent dominating the airwaves in front of and behind the camera.

Double Oscar winner Hilary Swank said on Thursday that she deeply regrets attending a birthday celebration last week in Chechnya for a leader accused of orchestrating torture and other human rights violations.

Handsome leading man Antonio Banderas has starred in major Hollywood films such as Shrek and Zorro, but the Spanish actor's most enduring collaborations have been with fellow countryman Pedro Almodovar.

A month after deadly infected Cantaloupe melons from Colorado were recalled, the listeria outbreak continues to claim lives-now reaching 23-a record for U.S. food-borne listeriosis outbreaks.

Is there revenue fire in that new Kindle tablet? Amazon.com's (AMZN) new Kindle Fire tablet, priced at $199, has created a buzz, due its potential to grab market share from Apple’s (AAPL) iPad. With the latest kindle send Amazon’s stock vectoring higher?

Raj Rajartnam, the former co-founder of Galleon Group hedge fund, was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in an historic case for white collar crimes.

A profile of powerful Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, who have made a name for themselves at home, in the United States and even in Iran.

The Wall Street Journal newspaper has been accused of using a questionable to scheme to inflate its circulation numbers in Europe by permitting sponsor companies to purchase copies in bulk for as little as 1 cent each.

Safeway Inc reported a quarterly profit that beat analysts' low expectations, benefiting from higher fuel sales and cost cuts, and its shares rose nearly 4 percent.

Is Red Sox star slugger David Ortiz so sick of the drama in Boston that he'd consider joining hated rival New York?

JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s third-quarter earnings fell 4 percent as the European debt crisis pushed investment banking clients to the sidelines, but results were helped by an accounting gain the bank can take when markets are in turmoil.

With two more deaths being reported from Lousiana, the listeria outbreak has become the deadliest epidemic in the United States in last 25 years.

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg visited Occupy Wall Street's encampment for the first time on Wednesday night to deliver a message: we need to clean the park.

JPMorgan Chase & Co reported lower third-quarter net income as the European debt crisis set back corporate dealmaking.

As for Cain, he has handled the slings and arrows thrust upon him with humor, charm and aplomb.

When Johnny Depp appears on Thursday at a museum to introduce his movie The Rum Diary, he will be doing what many stars do these days to promote passion projects that are seeing fewer art houses debut their films.

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are on the brink of divorce, but things between them weren't always so hostile. Before recent allegations from 22-year-old Sara Leal and a sex scandal for the Two and a Half Men star, Moore and Kutcher were the paparazzi's sweethearts. What happened between the two lovers between 2003 and 2011?

Week 6 of fantasy football is the second week of byes for NFL teams. And this week, it starts to get annoying. All of a sudden, players with bye weeks start popping up on you.

A security video shows Lisa Irwin’s mother, Deborah Bradley, shopping with an unidentified man hours before baby Lisa went missing. Bradley, accompanied by a mystery man wearing a dark shirt and blue jeans, walked through Festival Foods at about 5 p.m. on Oct. 3. The release of the security video follows the addition of Bill Stanton, a New York-based security consultant, to the search for baby Lisa. Bill Stanton, known as celebrity private investigator “Wild Bill,” claims he will be conducting ...

Fritz Manes, who produced several of his childhood friend Clint Eastwood's films in the 1980s, has died, his wife told The New York Times. He was 79.

The CW is officially three for three as far as new series are concerned.