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The Carlsbad City Council has voted to approve a multimillion dollar cost increase for the city's new golf course. The city’s engineer says the construction budget jumped to $55 million from $48 mill

The Bridesmaid marks the second time Chabrol has turned to a novel by British thriller writer Ruth Rendell. In 1995 he successfully adapted La Ceremonie .…

Major media companies are counting on the Federal Communications Commission to ease restrictions on how many TV stations they can own. An FCC analysis from two years ago would have shown that locally owned stations provide significantly more local news.

Fidel Castro's recent illness has again highlighted the animosity between Cuba and the United States. But the relationship between the two neighbors hasn't always been so bitter. Host Liane Hansen speaks to Daniel Erikson, the Director of Caribbean Programs at the Inter-American Dialogue, about the history and evolution of U.S. relations with Cuba.

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The House votes to block credit card companies from sending funds to offshore gambling houses, part of a move to tighten restrictions on Internet gambling. The bill that passed also would allow Internet service providers to block certain gambling Web sites in the United States.

has long been one of Disneyland's most popular rides, and in 2003 the Disney studio hoped to turn its famous ride into a successful film franchise. The first film,

But the Pollocks arrive hours late and Alice is in a foul mood. She's curt with her hosts and when Richard receives a cell phone call, she bluntly asks, 'Is that one of your whores?' That injects a high level of discomfort into an already uncomfortable evening. Then to finish it off, Alice throws a glass of wine in Richard's face. Not exactly behavior that Miss Manners would approve of. The evening sets the two couples in bold contrast: the young Gettys are still in the honeymoon phase of their marriage whereas the Pollocks are in serious self-destruct mode.

Senior English and Russian referees have been cut from the World Cup roster, after their controversial handling of previous matches. Graham Poll, who issued three yellow cards to one player in a match, and Valentin Ivanov, who worked the Portugal-Netherlands second-round match, were omitted.

Jean-Pierre Melville's economical and boldly independent approach to filmmaking laid the groundwork for what was to become the French New Wave of the 1960s. Yet his films -- in terms of both style and content -- were not typical of that film movement. American audiences have recently had the opportunity to rediscover his work thanks to Rialto Pictures' dedicated efforts to reissue and restore his films.