Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

MIAMI (AP) — For as intense and down-to-the-wire as Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals was, the Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat shared the same thought on Thursday. In their minds, Game 2 will be better. Sure, Wednesday's 103-102 Heat series-opening win in overtime, with LeBron James...

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

MIAMI (AP) — For as intense and down-to-the-wire as Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals was, the Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat shared the same thought on Thursday. In their minds, Game 2 will be better. Sure, Wednesday's 103-102 Heat series-opening win in overtime, with LeBron James...

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

With Mike Krzyzewski back as coach, the U.S. can turn its attention to players who could suit up for him over the next three years. USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo says the Americans expect about 24 young players in a July minicamp in Las Vegas that will finish with an intrasquad...

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

With Mike Krzyzewski back as coach, the U.S. can turn its attention to players who could suit up for him over the next three years. USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo says the Americans expect about 24 young players in a July minicamp in Las Vegas that will finish with an intrasquad...

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS replaces official who supervised agents involved in targeting tea party groups.

Emily Cary

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Actor Shuler Hensley, who plays the Critic in "The Guardsman" in its run at the Eisenhower Theater for the next month, is one of those rare actors who is never idle. He arrives at the Kennedy Center fresh from a successful Off-Broadway run in "The Whale," for which he won the Lucille Lortel...

Shikha Dalmia

Updated: 22 min ago

President Obama is dealing with revelations about the Justice Department's spying on journalists and other scandals by changing the subject. In a major national security address Thursday, he announced the phaseout of the Guantanamo prison facility and the CIA's oversight of the drone program....

Ron Arnold

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Good news is no news, so the cynics say, especially with news cycles hammering President Obama's scandal headaches from migraines into political skull fractures. But this week something came out of the federal bureaucracy so filled with human decency that it deserves some kind of a headline --...

Kelly Jane Torrance

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

Superman and Shakespeare get modern updates; Will Smith and son go into the future; and Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and too many other actors to name face the apocalypse or its aftermath. Yes, it's that time of year again. Summer brings with it rising mercury and hemlines, beach weekends and...

Updated: 50 min ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama:'Homegrown' terrorist plots difficult to combat because of civil liberties' concerns.