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Shane MacGowan was a famously hard-drinking but brilliant musician who shot to fame in the 1980s with the folk punk band The Pogues.

The new CBS show about two very mismatched investigative partners plays like a comedy. The characters are complicated and surprising, and the dialogue is crisp and quick. It's "a lot of fun to watch."

The revered critic Greg Tate, an early and influential hip hop writer, has died. Tate grew up around intellectuals and developed a rabid curiosity about music, film, literature, theory and politics.

The nation's unemployment rate soared in March as employers slashed 663,000 jobs. Government figures show the jobless rate is at 8.5 percent — the highest level since 1983. It is one more sign of the toll that the recession is taking on the U.S. economy.

At a White House briefing, the president referred to the Affordable Care Act, saying "this thing is working," and urged Republicans to stop trying to repeal the law.

James Earl Jones was one of America's most distinguished stage actors and recognizable film actors. His voice seemed to be everywhere, from Star Wars' Darth Vader to The Lion King to CNN.

Nagin, who became the face of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, was convicted Feb. 12 of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.

A Northern Arizona University professor emeritus says he’s never seen anything like a recent find in the Utah desert. This, despite 25 years spent…

With the arrival of spring across Arizona’s high country, lengthening daylight triggers hormonal changes in elk bulls. In March they lose their old…

Indian marathon runner Fauja Singh was 114 years old when he was killed in a hit-and-run.