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Want a home-cooked meal? It's in the can
There's nothing more satisfying than a home-cooked meal, especially if it comes out of a can or a pouch. As more people try their hand at mimicking ...
Taco Bell to launch Cool Ranch tacos March 7
Taco Bell fans can finally mark their calendars: Doritos Locos Tacos in Cool Ranch flavor will be launched March 7. The chain is rolling out the new ...
Brazil's booming beauty market draws investors
Looking good has always been serious business in Brazil. Now it's big business, too. A flush new middle class and a population strong on working ...
Norway honors Munch with 'The Scream' stamp
Norway is celebrating the 150th anniversary of expressionist painter Edvard Munch's birth with postage stamps of his most famous compositions, ...
California drama cuts into speech coverage
The California standoff involving fugitive Christopher Dorner shortened television's previews of President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday ...
Summertime outdoor pianos returning to NYC
A new player is coming to the city's street scene this summer: everyday New Yorkers. Sing for Hope Pianos will take 88 rehabbed pianos, ask artists ...
Roma couple recreate own struggle in Berlin film
A Bosnian Roma couple re-enact their personal struggle to get treatment after their baby died in the womb, in a tiny-budget movie by an Oscar-winning ...
SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Sitting out the speech
While his colleagues got ready to go to the Capitol, Justice Antonin Scalia sat on a stage across town and held forth about why, for the 16th ...
Body slam for wrestling: Sport cut from Olympics
For wrestling, this may have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings. The vote Tuesday by the IOC's executive board ...
Comcast to buy GE's stake in NBCUniversal early
Comcast is buying the rest of NBCUniversal from General Electric several years ahead of schedule to take advantage of low interest rates and what its ...
AP source: Big East moving on NBC Sports Net deal
The Big East is moving past damage control and toward finally finishing some important business. Two people familiar with the deal say the Big East ...
Friendships bubble up at NY Fashion Week
Rachel Roy was at Vera Wang's NY Fashion Week show Tuesday, in a choice seat next to John Legend. Tory Burch regularly attends the shows of Narciso ...
General Electric gets out of the TV business
General Electric is saying goodbye to 30 Rock — the building and the TV business born there. It's another step in GE's efforts to focus on less ...
Giant-breed owners see having dogs as living large
Life with Suzzane Kelleher-Duckett's dogs has required a few adjustments. Getting rid of the coffee table, for one. Stashing things in the microwave ...
Review: 'Creatures' concocts familiar teen angst
The genders have been reversed but the supernatural, star-crossed teen angst remains firmly intact in "Beautiful Creatures," which clearly aims to ...
Broadcasting pioneer NBC has long, storied history
NBC got its start in 1926 as the nation's first radio network. Its parent company, the Radio Corporation of America, figured people would buy radios ...
AP PHOTOS: Fat Tuesday celebrated around the world
From sequin-drenched samba parades in Rio de Janeiro to cascades of Mardi Gras beads on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, revelers gathered to dance ...
NBC stumbles in deep midwinter freeze, ratings low
NBC, after being heartened by some long-sought success this past fall, has fallen into a deep midwinter freeze. The network has badly stumbled ...
Government seeks changes for malt liquor Four Loko
The makers of a popular carbonated alcoholic drink guzzled on college campuses are going to be changing the look of its Four Loko cans to settle the ...
Report finds some gains for minority actors in NYC
The percentage of minority actors working on Broadway and at the top 16 not-for-profit theater companies in New York City rose to 23 percent during ...
Rio de Janeiro's samba schools vie for title
Carnival revelers danced until dawn on Tuesday as Rio de Janeiro's samba schools held their annual sequin-drenched parade competitions at the city's ...
Mom says Ala boy saw shooting of standoff suspect
The mother of an Alabama boy held hostage in an underground bunker for days said her son witnessed officers fatally shooting his kidnapper.
Intel working on TV set-top box to replace cable
Intel Corp. said Tuesday that it will sell a set-top box that brings Internet-delivered movies and shows to a TV set this year. Erik Huggers, general ...