CHICAGO (AP) -- Ms. Winfrey is going to Washington....

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) -- A fire on Thursday burned through the roof of The Body Shop, a landmark West Hollywood strip club mentioned in a Motley Crue hit....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- As the box-office bankroll climbed for "The Dark Knight" last summer, the Hollywood consensus was that a posthumous nomination for Heath Ledger was the Batman blockbuster's best Academy Awards hope....

NEW YORK (AP) -- More bad news from the book industry: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is "streamlining" its educational business, and eliminating jobs in both its education and general divisions....

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- The latest magical tome by J.K. Rowling has started to fly off bookstore shelves....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jazmine Sullivan's first song was a No. 1 hit on the R&B and hip-hop charts, and her raspy voice has drawn her comparisons to Lauryn Hill. Still, the singer-songwriter was struggling for name recognition in a crowded field of music newcomers....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lil Wayne didn't get "A Milli" Grammy nominations, but his total haul was still pretty amazing - eight....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It's hard to be a working mom, even for Christina Aguilera....

CHICAGO (AP) -- The man charged with murdering the mother, brother and nephew of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson was a high-school dropout and street gang member with a long rap sheet for drug offenses and stealing cars....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A family of Hurricane Katrina survivors whose new house was partly built with lumber from last year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree were among tens of thousands who attended this year's lighting ceremony....

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Don't cry Argentina: Madonna has postponed the first of four shows in Buenos Aires....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Barack Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, is writing a book about the historic election victory and has retained Washington attorney Robert Barnett, Obama's literary representative, to shop the proposal to publishers....

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- A publicist for Mark Ruffalo says the actor's brother is fighting for his life after being shot in Beverly Hills....

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard" (Children's High Level Group, $12.99, 111 pages), by J.K. Rowling: Just in time for the holidays, J.K. Rowling has given Harry Potter fans a little gift....

MARSHALL, Texas (AP) -- Actor-screenwriter Tyler Perry testified in a copyright infringement lawsuit Wednesday that he did not steal material from a woman's play for his blockbuster movie "Diary of a Mad Black Woman."...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jon Hamm is temporarily trading the offices of Sterling Cooper for "30 Rock."...

ATLANTA (AP) -- Former President Jimmy Carter has written a new book on the Middle East with a title he hopes will not be as controversial as the last one, which was called, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- In broadcasting the world's first live 3-D football game to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston on Thursday evening, the NFL promises an "up close, personal, visceral" experience that could open a new revenue stream for the league....

CHICAGO (AP) -- The brother-in-law of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson killed three of her relatives - with a gun stolen from one of the victims - because he was angry his estranged wife, the star's sister, was dating another man, prosecutors alleged Wednesday....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Dozens of ancient artifacts stolen by a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot were returned to the Egyptian government on Wednesday during a ceremony in Manhattan....