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Fox show brings messy workplaces to television
NEW YORK (AP) -- This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week....

Publisher: Sen. Warren book coming out in 2014
NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a favorite among liberals for her forceful advocacy for consumers and criticisms of the financial industry, has a book deal....

Photographer and forester Wayne Miller dies at 94
ORINDA, Calif. (AP) -- Photographer Wayne F. Miller, who created a ground-breaking series of portraits chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago after serving with an elite Navy unit that produced some of the most indelible combat images of World War II, died Wednesday at his home of six decades in Orinda, Calif. He was 94....

Dallas exhibit reunites art JFK saw before death
DALLAS (AP) -- Artist Jack Zajac said learning earlier this year that his bronze sculpture was among the last works of art ever seen by President John F. Kennedy left him feeling "reverential."...

Restaurant learns online reviews can make or break
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- It was the customer service disaster heard around the Internet....

Talk of lies, pride as Trump case goes to jury
CHICAGO (AP) -- The lawyer for an 87-year-old woman who accuses Donald Trump of cheating her in a skyscraper condo deal told jurors in Chicago on Wednesday that he was personally repulsed because he felt the "Apprentice" star conned his client and lied about it on the witness stand....

Douglas, Damon dramatize a steamy showbiz affair
NEW YORK (AP) -- The idea of Michael Douglas playing Liberace might seem nearly as outrageous as Liberace himself....

Jennifer Lopez to open cellphone stores
NEW YORK (AP) -- "Jenny from the Block" wants the block to buy Verizon phones from her....

Pop songwriters find excitement in stage musicals
NEW YORK (AP) -- There was a time when most of the songs played on the radio came from Broadway. Now some popular hit makers like Cyndi Lauper and Sting are finding it still feels like home....

Blake Shelton putting together Okla. benefit show
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Blake Shelton and NBC are putting together a benefit for Oklahoma tornado victims....

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