All right, enough. While reading these various stories on rival CNN’s travails and what the recent management shakeups mean there, I catch this comment from Teya Ryan, CNN’s executive vice president, commenting on this channel. “I don’t think FOX has an impressive news-gathering operation at all,” she tells the New …

Controversy is already churning over a TV mini-series about PresidentRonald Reagan (search)and his legacy. An article in The New York Times reported that family members and close associates of the former president — who now suffers fromAlzheimer’s disease (search)— have already begun stewing about The Reagans, a two-part series set …

TIKRIT, Iraq – My first impression when I crawled down into Saddam’s “hole,” where he was nabbed Saturday night, was, “Hey, this isn’t all that bad.” It was a bit of a tight, dirty squeeze going down. But once I got to the base compartment, it was relatively well-built, with …

Polanski Interview | Madonna’s Discount |X-Cellent | Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Clark Exclusive: Polanski Will Give Holocaust Interview Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski may become the last person interviewed by the Shoah Foundation, which wasfounded by Steven Spielberg in 1994 with the goal of filming 50,000 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. Polanski, …

TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisian officials have sought to dampen down on worries that the sets from the iconic Star Wars movies are under threat from Islamic State militants. CNN recently suggested that the sets were vulnerable after arrests and discoveries of weapons caches near the town of Tatouine, which lent …

The South Korea-born pastor of a suburban Toronto church has failed to return from a humanitarian trip to North Korea, causing the Canadian government to try to ascertain his whereabouts. Officials at the Light Korean Presbyterian Church, based in Mississauga, Ontario, told Reuters that they had not heard from 60-year-old …

BRUSSELS – The European Union has extended for a year an asset freeze on former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and others in his administration linked to the misuse of state funds. The EU said in a statement Thursday that its measures target “persons subject to initial investigations on the embezzlement …

MAPUTO, Mozambique – Thousands of protesters marched in the Mozambican cities of Maputo and Beira, demanding answers over the killing of a prominent lawyer. Joao Mouzinho, a member of the Defiance Agenda civil society group and a student of slain constitutional lawyer Gilles Cistac, said the march on Saturday was …

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will perform the pre-Easter foot-washing ritual at Rome’s main prison this year. The Vatican said Wednesday that inmates from the Rebibbia prison and a nearby women’s facility will participate in the Holy Thursday service, which is meant to show Francis’ willingness to serve others as …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s foreign minister says authorities have detained 16 Indonesians who were trying to cross the border into Syria to join the Islamic State extremist group. Mevlut Cavusoglu also said Friday that police were looking for another group of 16 Indonesians reported missing in Turkey. Cavusoglu was speaking …