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Was This Powerful Chinese Empress a Feminist Trailblazer?

The Hall of Dispelling Clouds at Empress Cixi’s Summer Palace in Beijing. It was renovated in 1895 for her 60th birthday extravaganza.

The Internet Trolls Have Won. Sorry, There’s Not Much You Can Do.

The Dangerous ‘Bigness’ of the AT&T-Time Warner Merger

Daniel Petrocelli, lead attorney for AT&T and Time Warner, on Tuesday after a federal judge approved a merger of the companies.

Longtime CBS Correspondent Robert Pierpoint Dies

CBS News correspondent Robert C. Pierpoint -- who covered six presidents, the Korean War, the Kennedy assassination and the Iranian hostage crisis in a career that spanned more than four decades -- died Saturday in California, his daughter said. He was 86.

Barry Mills, Brutal Leader of Racist Prison Gang, Dies at 70

Barry Mills in an undated booking photograph. He spent nearly three-quarters of his life behind bars, transforming himself from a teenage misfit into a national crime boss.

Court halts medication of suspect in Giffords case

Federal prison officials must temporarily stop forcing anti-psychotic drugs on the man accused of wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a deadly shooting rampage, an appeals court has ruled.