When you play the “Game of Thrones” RPG, you win or you die. Literally. But somewhere along the way our definition of “winning” seems to have deviated from the one used by the folks over at Cyanide Studio. The game’s got everything hardcore “A Song of Ice and Fire” fans would want. There’s political intrigue, [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Knicks star Amare Stoudemire scored 20 points in an NBA playoff win Sunday, but the bandage on his left hand reminded fans that he’d recently made headlines in quite a different way: smashing the glass of a fire extinguisher case after losing in Miami six days earlier. Of course, [...]

WASHINGTON –  For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., but demographers believe the Latino population boom may have peaked thanks to a longer-term decline in immigration. The growth is rooted in large part to decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing. [...]

Jonathan Frid, left, as the original Barnabas Collins, and Johnny Depp as Barnabas in 2012. “Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood”by Kathryn Leigh Scott and Jim Pierson; Pomegranate Press ($ 24.95) Perhaps there’s never an “opportune” time to die — but Jonathan Frid’s death in April could certainly be called an inopportune one. Just as the [...]

Michael Becker/Fox Hollie Cavanagh did not get good reviews this week from the ‘American Idol’ judges, and was booted by voters on Thursday night. To the surprise of nobody with ears to hear, Hollie Cavanagh got the shaft on Thursday’s “American Idol.” While the other three remaining contestants performed to great acclaim on Wednesday’s show, [...]