-- The FDA will work with foodmakers to make labels more "customer friendly." The beverage industry will start putting calorie information on the front of its products.

DEAR AMY: My husband of five years died suddenly in 2004. He was 46 years old; I was 43.

Dear Heloise: I have a large JAR OF HONEY that has congealed. How can I save the honey or get it out of the jar?

The story of Matt and Dana starts on a summer evening next to an airfield outside of Lincoln, Neb., during a game of Spud. Eight-year-old Matt has the ball. He throws it up in the air. He calls his own number, just to be rebellious. He runs onto the airfield, laughing, and wakes up in a hospital...

In front of a packed audience in the State Dining Room at the White House on Tuesday, first lady Michelle Obama rolled out her national initiative to combat childhood obesity with a show of force that included medical, business and government leaders, grassroots activists, celebrity public service...

The White House has played host to scores of musicians since President Obama took office last year, but the talent assembled at snowy 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. on Tuesday night delivered the most stirring concert there yet.

UNION ATLANTIC By Adam Haslett Doubleday. 304 pp. $26 Since housing prices peaked in 2006, we've been in a bull market for nonfiction about the Great Recession. From Andrew Sorkin's "Too Big to Fail" to William Cohan's "House of Cards," journalists, historians and economists have spent millions o...

Some idiot was sliding around near Arlington's Court House Metro station in a tiny BMW with pathetic rear-wheel drive, spinning his tires uselessly as he tried again and again to climb an unplowed street. "He kept trying to get up the hill, and I kept encouraging him to park," says a dumbfounded ...

POOR LITTLE BITCH GIRL By Jackie Collins St. Martin's. 472 pp. $26.99

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Dear Miss Manners: I took the father of a young lady I would like to pursue to lunch a few months ago, seeking his permission and approval to date his daughter. After an encouraging lunch and conversation about our relationship, we decided that it would be best to wait until she was done with sch...

Sunday's Super Bowl made a star of the New Orleans Saints -- and Jay Leno.

Dear Carolyn: We recently found out that my wife is pregnant. It will be our first child. This is usually joyous news, and while I'm elated, I'm also terrified. This is her third pregnancy; the last two ended in miscarriage. Both times, we were devastated, and while it's unspoken, I think this is...

New York Gov. David A. Paterson (D) appears on "Imus in the Morning" (Fox Business Network at 7:30 a.m.) to discuss rumors surrounding his personal life.

Gotta admit: We've never really seen the appeal of watching NASCAR on TV. But the Daytona 500 Viewing Party at McFadden's, hosted by DC101's Elliot in the Morning, could keep us interested. Every 20 laps, the station gives out a new prize: a year's supply of Chipotle burritos, six months of free...

Gotta admit: We've never really seen the appeal of watching NASCAR on TV. But the Daytona 500 Viewing Party at McFadden's, hosted by DC101's Elliot in the Morning, could keep us interested. Every 20 laps, the station gives out a new prize: a year's supply of Chipotle burritos, six months of free...

Second City, the comedy troupe with a list of alums that reads like a who's who of hilarity (Ed Asner, Dan Aykroyd, Chris Farley and Tina Fey are among the standouts), returns to D.C. with "Barack Stars: The Wrath of Rahm." The comics have mined the headlines for this mix of sketch comedy, musical...

There's a new record holder for world's tallest building -- and it's more than half a mile high.

-- The space shuttle Endeavour is due to hook up with the international space station Wednesday as part of a mission to complete a major renovation of the station.