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The Rev. James "Guadalupe" Carney, a 58-year-old World War II veteran, formally resigned from the Society of Jesus when he agreed to be a chaplain ...

Fellow New Yorker short story writer Frank O'Connor cited Salinger's case in particular in an anti-censorship speech he gave at Trinity College in ...

"It is alarming that so many fire company closures are even being proposed in the mayor's preliminary budget. Fire companies are critical to adequa...

But President Obama's focus on reform during the lengthy address to both houses of Congress struck many observers as being little more than perfunc...

In one tiny effort to apply a tourniquet to stem the nation's gusher of red ink, the administration targeted Ireland's lower corporate tax structur...

Koner's photographs of Dublin's inner city and docklands reflected his abiding interest in social conditions and portray Dublin at a time when the ...

Repeatedly called an "Irish slut" after she befriended some of the boys at the high school, Phoebe Prince had been bullied at school, on her cell p...

The state director to the Garden State's veteran U.S. Senator, Frank Lautenberg, has taken leave of politics to set out on a new career which will ...

Traditionally, February 1, St. Brigid's Day, marks the end of winter in Ireland. Unlike Groundhog Day, which is also Candlemas Day, there is no att...

We are left wondering because, as the president made clear himself, the many things that need to be done are in the hands of a party that is inclin...

Playwright Donald Margulies seems to see actress Laura Linney in journalistic terms. Her first real success came when she played an aggressive Germ...

The Chicagoan prefers the former, partly he because he doesn't define himself these days as a rocker. And he may not be as well known as childhood ...