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For anyone considering playing hooky from the office this week, Tuesday or Wednesday might be your day. According to the National Weather Service, each of those days should be clear ...

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I walked out at the end of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," shoulders hunched and head shaking. I had such hopes it would validate the months I'd been talking up the novel on which it w...

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The first film from Pixar with a female protagonist is well worth seeing, even if only to celebrate a positive and complex portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship represented in the...

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  Chances are, if the world was coming to an end, you already know who you would spend those last moments with. Not everyone is that lucky.  There will be a contingent of people...

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Forecasters say Thursday temperatures could reach 100, with a heat index of 105 degrees. Temperatures are expected to start cooling down on Friday and through the weekend. Saturday a...

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The idea of Father's Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day...

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Sunday, June 17, 2012, is Father's Day in the United States.

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Five facts about Flag Day and the American Flag: Flag Day was first celebrated in 1877, on the flag's 100th birthday. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the curr...