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Cigar sommeliers are becoming increasingly popular in fine restaurants and hotels, pairing the nuanced flavor of tobacco with beverages, and using tart candies like Skittles to cleanse the palate.

Austin, relatively unknown outside of entertainment circles, taught and inspired many big names in comedy.

The salaries of California's state lawmakers and constitutional officers weren’t exempt from years of state budget cuts. But some of those cuts were restored Wednesday when a state commission voted to give lawmakers a pay raise.

The Senate voted Tuesday to lift a 2016 ban on certain hunting practices — like trapping and aerial shooting — on national wildlife refuges there. Now the bill heads to President Trump to be signed.

Richard Kahlenberg of The Century Foundation argues that it's time to take a closer look at integration.

Richard Kahlenberg of The Century Foundation argues that it's time to take a closer look at integration.

In her new book, The Trip To Echo Spring, Olivia Laing investigates the role of drinking in the lives of six great American writers: Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Cheever, John Berryman, Tennessee Williams and Raymond Carver.

Leave it to the Italians to take a holiday steeped in women's rights and turn it into Festa Della Donna, when women leave menfolk behind to celebrate each other with flowers, wine and above all, cake.

Word has hit the Internet streets that Saturday Night Live recently hosted special -- some folks are saying "secret!" -- auditions for black women to add to its cast.

Under the Assembly bill, domestic workers would be paid overtime if they worked more than nine hours in a day of 45 hours in a week, but the measure would have to be renewed in 2017.