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Greta Gerwig's film joins a high-grossing list of mostly male-directed movies, most of them with men leading the casts.

President Barack Obama suffered a big setback Tuesday when two of his nominees withdrew their names from consideration for top administration jobs. Tom Daschle, the former Senate majority leader, pulled his nomination to be secretary of Health and Human Services. Nancy Killefer withdrew her name from consideration as Mr. Obama's chief government performance officer.

Costco is raising pay for most workers as a Friday night deadline looms on a new contract with its unionized employees.

The Rangers won the title in five games — beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 Wednesday night. Rangers shortstop Corey Seager was the series MVP.

The administration says 940,000 people signed up in February for a total enrollment of 4.2 million. The White House is hoping for 6 million by the end of this month.

The universe gets to run the "life" experiment many times, which means the burden falls on the hyper-pessimists to show why Earth is unique, says Adam Frank, who just published a paper on the topic.

The rapper and producer says he's not afraid to make songs about being shy or unsure of himself.

Thousands of children in public pre-K, especially black preschoolers, are suspended each year. The problems are clear. So are some fixes.

Despite the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, Texas still has 6 million uninsured people, low Medicaid reimbursement rates and narrow choices of doctors and hospitals for many who are insured.

Amtrak says it logged an operating revenue of $3.3 billion — a 3.6% increase over the last fiscal year.