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: 6 hr 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: 7 hr ago

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

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama: Journalists should not face legal risks for doing their jobs.

David Freddoso

Updated: 7 hr ago

White House press secretary Jay Carney could only explain his problems on Wednesday by telling reporters, "[T]here are a lot of you, and you're good at your jobs and you're smart." As easy as it might be for Carney to lob such insincere praise at former journalistic colleagues, such posterior...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — CORRECTS: Obama: No drone strikes without 'near certainty' of no civilian casualties.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama says new policy will establish more accountability for use of force against terrorists.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama say threat of terrorism against US is now more diffuse than it was a decade ago.