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LOS ANGELES – The new comedy “Guess Who” is only loosely inspired by the 1967 Sidney Poitier classic “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” But star Ashton Kutcher (search) said the cores of the classic and the update are the same. “We share the heart, we share the soul and we …

WASHINGTON – A key gauge of future U.S. economic growth rose 0.1 percent in February, in line with expectations, suggesting a continuation of economic growth, the Conference Board (search) said Thursday. The New York-based Conference Board, a private research firm, said its index of leading indicators (search) climbed last month …

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A 15-year-old boy who had shown strong interest in the Columbine (search) school shootings has been arrested for allegedly plotting to blow up his high school, authorities said Thursday. The high school sophomore had assembled bomb-making materials including gunpowder and fuses, and a search of his home …

Taking very high doses of a drug to push cholesterol (search) to very low levels can help people with heart disease avoid strokes and heart attacks, but also can cause liver problems that limit the ability to tolerate such intensive treatment, doctors report. A very large international study tested this …

BOSTON – His decision came late at night, with his laptop propped in front of him in bed. Instructions on a Web site promised business school applicants like him an early online peek at whether they’d been accepted. Intrigued, he began typing. A minute later he’d accessed the Harvard Business …

BEDFORD, Iowa – Assigned to put President Bush’s Social Security ideas into a bill that can pass Congress, Charles Grassley is finding little clamor for it among the people who have kept him in the Senate for 25 years. “What I need to hear people say is, ‘We expect you …

CASTRIES, St. Lucia – “American Idol” winner Fantasia Barrino (search) will be among the performers at St. Lucia’s annual jazz festival held throughout the Caribbean island, with the main stage in Castries. Barrino, winner of the 2004 “American Idol” (search) singing contest, will join the Isley Brothers and saxophonist-composer Dave …

If more teens and young adults with cancer took part in clinical trials, it might improve that age group’s chances of survival. Recent years have seen significant improvement in cancer survival. But researchers say that young adults have had less improvement than children or older adults. To test this further …

BOSTON – Joan Kennedy (search), the former wife of U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, was hospitalized with a concussion and a broken shoulder early Tuesday morning after a passer-by found her lying in a Boston street, said her son, U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy, 68, was taken to Tufts New …

KATONAH, N.Y. – Ambling the grounds of her 153-acre estate after five months in prison, Martha Stewart (search) said it felt good to be home, but she also reminisced somewhat wistfully about her time behind bars. “I didn’t really miss material things at all,” she said to reporters gathered at …