NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez touched on a variety of topics from Christianity to assassination and revealed a deeply personal side in a lengthy interview.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The capture of Phillip Garrido for kidnapping an 11-year-old girl in 1991 helped provide closure for a rape victim of his, the woman said.

WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- A large segment of the U.S. population believes President Obama is a card-carrying socialist who was not born in the United States and is now plotting the revenge of those defeated in the Cold War. They also love the extremes of conservative talk shows, liberal talk shows, from one extreme to another to the anything-goes Internet.

LOS ANGELES, July 23 (UPI) -- A California judge has given the go-ahead to try a 15-year-old as an adult in the death of a gay student who wore makeup, earrings and high heels to school.

LOS ANGELES, June 19 (UPI) -- Carrie Prejean's attorney said he will sue the Miss California USA pageant's executive director if he doesn't retract remarks he made about Prejean.

LOS ANGELES, May 24 (UPI) -- Singer Kris Allen, who defeated Adam Lambert to win the eighth season of "American Idol," says Lambert was one of the U.S. TV series' best contestants ever.

LOS ANGELES, April 30 (UPI) -- Sumner Redstone, the executive chairman of Viacom and CBS, said he thinks Jay Leno's upcoming NBC prime time chat show will fail.

LOS ANGELES, April 1 (UPI) -- Singer Natalie Cole received dozens of e-mails from prospective kidney donors after she said on U.S. television that she is on a long list for a transplant.

NEW YORK, March 25 (UPI) -- David Letterman joked about his recent wedding via a "Late Show Top 10 Reasons I Got Married" list Tuesday night.