And now the most scintillating two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: FOX Fans: Missed the Grapevine? Watch it in the Screening Room! Past Protest Sen. Patrick Leahy has come up with what may be a novel approach when caught in a contradiction: He’s saying he didn’t …

LOS ANGELES – A man who built a tiny house on wheels for a woman who had been sleeping on the streets has raised nearly $60,000 to construct similar shelters for other homeless people in his South Los Angeles neighborhood. Elvis Summers said Thursday he’s humbled by the global response …

With a war against Iraq likely to begin any day, Oscar organizers have said the show will go on this Sunday as planned—but the question is, should it? The public is divided over the answer. “If men are in harm’s way, I don’t think they should have [the Oscars] out …

NEW YORK – Imagine if the Bachelor only had five women to choose from, or if the nextSurvivor (search)were a battle of the fittest between just two people. Though it’s unlikely that reality TV will be that short of contestants, some agents and producers have noticed shrinking casting pools for …

They’ve been billed as the cars of tomorrow, and the early ones looked like futuristic vehicles right out of The Jetsons. The part-fuel, part-electric autos known as hybrids are still just eking out a small niche among today’s car buyers,but that isn’t stopping hopeful industry giants from dreaming up new …

I remember when I was in graduate school, the police busted into this house down the street from me. Apparently they had a warrant and they were looking for drugs of some sort. And they found them. Lots of them, apparently, buried under a crawl space in the basement. The …

MOSCOW – A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, ending the astronauts’ nearly six months aboard the International Space Station. The capsule carried Russians Alexander Samokutayev and Elena Serova and NASA’s Barry Wilmore, who blasted off for the space station on Sept. 26. …

BEIRUT – Syrian activists say that Islamic State extremists have seized almost full control of the ancient town of Palmyra, though it remained unclear how close to the famed archaeological site they have come. The Syrian Observatory for human rights reported that government forces collapsed in the face of IS …

VIENNA – The U.N. crime prevention agency has revised international standards on treatment of prisoners to focus on greater respect for human rights. The revisions were passed Friday by the Vienna-based U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. They update standards in effect for 60 years. The new rules …

Charter Communications announced a $55 billion deal for Time Warner Cable Tuesday, giving mogul John Malone the prize he has been chasing for two years. The acquisition by Charter, which is backed by Malone’s Liberty Broadband, would vault the cable operator into the ranks of the biggest U.S. broadband and …