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The Tribune's White Sox beat writer answers reader questions throughout the season. This week, Joe Crede's durability and whether the Sox will re-sign him, the disappearance of Ozzie Ball and a struggling Paul Konerko. Do I have this correct: the White...

U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that international pressure has compelled the Islamic Republic to back away from its pursuit of the bomb. The new findings represent a retreat from a...

A major porn producer filed a lawsuit Monday against an X-rated knockoff of YouTube, alleging that it profited from piracy by allowing its users to post videos that include copyrighted material. Vivid Entertainment Group filed the lawsuit in Los...

AFTER PURSUING atomic weaponry for the better part of a generation, it now appears that North Korea has finally clawed its way into the "nuclear club." And that means that the global strategic game has changed forever. North Korea, which was barely...

WASHINGTON - Seven weeks after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush and the leaders of Israel and the Arab world face both rewards and risks as they turn their attention from war to peace at a pair of summits near the Red Sea this week. On his first...

Even before terrorists attacked on Sept. 11, the Pentagon and the defense industry were gearing up for a new kind of warfare taking shape in Afghanistan and elsewhere, designing spy equipment and weapons that could pinpoint moving targets and knock them...

Hey there, Mr. Producer! Wanna follow "The Producers" into Chicago? "I am always pleased when another show does well," said Jon B. Platt, the main American producer of the national tour of "Saturday Night Fever," kicking off in Chicago on Saturday,...

The nominations for the annual Joseph Jefferson Awards honoring excellence in the Chicago area's professional theaters are out, an occasion for celebration and, this year, for considerable consternation. The celebratory part comes for the nominees in...