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"The Wizard of Oz" has inspired plenty of re-imagination, much of it (see "Wicked") quite wonderful. But the road to reinvention hits a brick wall with "Emerald City," an NBC series that seeks to transform the colorful story into a gritty, half-baked version of "Game of Thrones," yielding some visual splendor but mostly lots of sheer awfulness.

Norway is set to be the first country in the world to phase out FM radio. FM stations will begin to go silent in parts of the country next week and the shutdown process will be complete by the end of 2017, according to the government.

Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway on Friday rejected the intelligence community's assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, saying "conclusive evidence" has not yet been provided to the President-elect.

The feud between Donald Trump and the US intelligence community will play out out behind closed doors Friday when the President-elect is given a briefing on allegations of election-related hacking by Russia.

Apple's sales slump is taking a bite out of Tim Cook's paycheck

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In December, his final full month in office, the U.S. economy added a slightly disappointing 156,000 jobs. It marked the 75th consecutive month of job gains. For all of 2016, the U.S. added over 2 million new jobs.

New Yorkers are about to lose one of their last excuses for not responding to work calls.

The final tally is in: 11.3 million new jobs were created under President Obama.

If it had been only about what was best for him, Bob Ruscoe would have cast his ballot for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But he's a staunch Republican, always has been, and that meant this Obamacare beneficiary struggled over his November vote in a way he never had before.

As day follows day and January 20 approaches, my colleagues and students experience something along the lines of Shakespeare's Sonnet 60: "Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, / So do our minutes hasten to their end." As far as they're concerned, the ascent of Donald Trump spells D-O-O-M.

An elderly woman and her Jeep became unexpected guests of a restaurant in Fowlerville, Michigan. Kicking her daughter's SUV into the wrong gear, the woman plowed through the Fowlerville Farms Family Restaurant earlier this week, missing patrons by mere inches.

Take a look at 26 photos of the week from December 30 through January 5.

Well played, Steve Smith. Well played.

Lobster suppers near the rocky red shores of Prince Edward Island.

Over the past decade, aerial yoga classes with names like "anti-gravity," "flying" and "acrobat" yoga have appeared on studio schedules -- and with names like those, there's an intimidation factor.

Two couples were enjoying a Tuesday evening out at a restaurant in the Silver City Galleria in Taunton, Massachusetts.

Anis Amri, the man who drove a truck into a crowded Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people, was illegally registered under "at least 14 known aliases" in Germany, lawmakers said.

Since 1993, laws in all 50 states put ignition interlock systems in the cars of some drunken driving offenders. If the device detects alcohol on a driver's breath in excess of the legal limit, the vehicle will not start.