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Fox show brings messy workplaces to television

This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week. The network on Thursday will begin airing "Does Someone Have to Go?" a series where cameras go into small businesses and employees ...

  • Updated: 1:20 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Several dozen tea party activists and other concerned citizens, wave signs and small American flags as they march outside the main Internal Revenue Service office on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Phoenix. The rally was one of many around the country after IRS officials acknowledged that some conservative groups received inappropriate attention and questioning. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

IRS official Lerner: 'I did nothing wrong'

The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency's targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional right to refuse to answer lawmakers' questions. In one of the most electric moments ...

  • Updated: 1:10 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
In this Wednesday, May. 27, 2009 photo, Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Rex W. Tillerson speaks at a news conference following the annual shareholders meeting in Dallas. One after another, major U.S. corporations have updated anti-discrimination policies to protect gay, lesbian and transgender workers. There's one prominent exception: Exxon Mobil Corp. On Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in the latest attempt to pressure the company into change, a gay-rights group called Freedom to Work teamed with a high-powered Washington law firm to file what they described as a groundbreaking discrimination complaint against Exxon in Illinois. (AP Photo/Mike Stone)

Complaint accuses Exxon Mobil of anti-gay bias

One after another, major U.S. corporations have updated anti-discrimination policies to protect gay, lesbian and transgender workers, drawing plaudits from gay-rights groups. There's one prominent exception: Exxon Mobil Corp. In the latest rankings of such corporate policies by the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay-rights group, many of Exxon's Fortune ...

  • Updated: 1:12 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Kevin Metz shows holds up a stopped clock he found in the rubble of his father's home in Moore, Okla., on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Monday's EF5 tornado destroyed Wayne Osmus' home and much of the Oklahoma City suburb. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)

One block: How neighbors saw twister's deadly path

Dan Garland could feel the latch on the shelter door begin to turn in his hand. It was as if the storm outside were a living, breathing thing — and it was trying desperately to get in. Huddled beside him in the darkened 5-foot-by-6-foot hole were not just his wife ...

  • Updated: 12:59 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
This undated publicity image released by Fox shows employees of Velocity Merchant Services (VMS) in Downers Grove, Ill., in a scene from the reality workplace series, "Does Someone Have to Go?" The network will begin airing a nonfiction show where employees of small businesses are compelled to rat out underperforming colleagues and put their jobs at risk. The series premieres Thursday, May 23 at 8 p.m. EST on Fox. (AP Photo/Fox

Fox show brings messy workplaces to television

This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week. The network on Thursday will begin airing "Does Someone Have to Go?" a series where cameras go into small businesses and employees ...

  • Updated: 12:47 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Spain's Sergio Garcia at a Press Conference during the PRO/AM tournament at the Wentworth Club, Surrey, England, Wednesday May 22, 2013. Tiger Woods says the "fried chicken" comment from Sergio Garcia was hurtful and inappropriate. Two weeks after they verbally sparred at The Players Championship, Woods say it's time to move on. Garcia was at a European Tour awards dinner Tuesday night when he was jokingly asked if he would have Woods over for dinner during the U.S. Open. The Spaniard replied, "We'll have him round every night. We will serve fried chicken." (AP Photo/Adam Davy/PA ) UNITED KINGDOM OUT PHOTOGRAPH

Woods: Garcia comment hurtful, time to move on

Sergio Garcia apologized to Tiger Woods for saying he would have "fried chicken" at dinner with his rival, a comment that Woods described as hurtful and inappropriate. "I want to send an unreserved apology. I did not want to offend anyone," Garcia said Wednesday. "My answer was totally stupid and ...

  • Updated: 12:43 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

2 infants among 10 kids killed in Oklahoma tornado

Two infants were among the 24 people killed by the tornado that ripped across the Oklahoma City area this week, the Oklahoma medical examiner's office said Wednesday. The office said it has identified 23 of the 24 victims and that 10 of them were children, including seven who were killed ...

  • Updated: 3:12 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
In this photo provided by China's official Xinhua News Agency, Wang Jiarui, right, the head of the Chinese leadership's international affairs office, meets with North Korea's Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, a senior Workers’ Party official and the military’s top political officer, left, in Beijing, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un veered from threats of nuclear war to tentative diplomacy by sending a trusted confidant to China on Wednesday, a high-profile outreach to Beijing’s new leadership at a time of strained ties between the allies. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Ding Lin) NO SALES

North Korean leader sends special envoy to China

After months of ignoring Chinese warnings to give up nuclear weapons, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a high-level confidant to Beijing on Wednesday, in a possible effort to mend strained ties with his country's most important ally and a sign that he may be giving diplomacy a chance. ...

  • Updated: 12:26 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Director Guillaume Canet, left, and actress Marion Cotillard leave following the screening of Blood Ties at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Canet seeks gritty New York in 'Blood Ties'

The problem with New York these days is there's just not enough litter. At least, that's French director Guillaume Canet's experience. He had to supply his own garbage to recreate the grubby streets of 1970s Brooklyn for his debut English-language feature "Blood Ties." "Every day," the director laughed during an ...

  • Updated: 12:14 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Coalition for Life of Iowa president Sue Martinek holds a sign in her home, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. When the Coalition applied for tax-exempt status in 2008, the tiny group thought getting IRS approval would be easy. But the group faced months of delay, was ordered to provide details about its prayer events outside the local Planned Parenthood clinic, and even directed to sign a sworn statement pledging it would not organize protests there. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groups

When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the Internal Revenue Service asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and protest signs were educational. Although the Coalition for Life of Iowa's application was ultimately approved ...

  • Updated: 12:13 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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