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Michael Jackson|Whitney and Mariah|Steven Spielberg Jacko Wantsa New Kids Charity Michael Jackson issued a statement to the children of Germany last week. It’s on his fan Web site. He wants to start a new children’s charity. This is what he said: “I look forward to the new year, to working …

CONCORD, N.C. – With its restaurants and retail stores, The Village Shopping Center looks more like a mall than a church. But it is both. The nearby First Assembly Church purchased the 250,000-square-foot mall in March 2001. Since then, familiar commercial businesses, such as Big Lots, Hallmark and Subway operate …

And now the most intriguing two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine: Missed The Grapevine? Watch it! Have to Pay to PlayCBS News now says it, too, paid for the Al Qaeda training tapes it has been airing, which appear to be drawn from the same material …

And now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine: Missed The Grapevine? Watch it! Persistent PoliticianFormer Clinton administration grandee Rahm Emmanuel seems poised to become a congressman from Chicago in the November elections, but not all Chicago land Democrats are rolling out the welcome mat for him. Emanuel has made …

The Bush administration is making one big mistake but standing up strong on another important issue. That’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. Long before this Enron mess unfolded, Congress was asking Vice President Cheney for a list of those who advised him about energy policy. The thinking …

Could I ask you a personal question? What do you look for in a friend? When men and women are polled on this subject, the No. 1 quality that comes through time and time again is a sense of humor. I kid you not. Someone who’ll make you chuckle, or …

NEW YORK – A terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant and the panic that would ensue is a nightmarethat has keptmany Americans up at night since Sept. 11. Particularly concerned are those who live near the plants, fearing they would be trapped in close proximity of a radioactive leak …

A lot of people have trouble with Valentine’s Day. Actor Mel Gibson goes so far as to say he doesn’t buy his wife anything on this day. That it’s all a commercial setup. “I tell her everyday I love her,” he says. “I don’t need a Valentine’s Day to do …

And now the most absorbing two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: Airline Security Bothersome?A veteran Israeli security expert says the United States does not have an airline security system, instead he says we have “a system for bothering people.” Schlomo Dror, a former Israeli government spokesman …

WASHINGTON – The Department of Defense announced late Thursday that it plans to change the charter of a 51-year-old panel of civilian advisors that has been criticized recently as a tool of feminists. Supporters of the panel have seen the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service, known as …