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  • Who's landing the big interviews after Oprah?

    Since Oprah Winfrey packed up the couch that Tom Cruise jumped on and ended her daytime talk show last year, no one has truly filled her role as the top go-to person in television for major celebrity and news interviews.


  • SGT. SHAFT: Veteran's widow seeks citizenship information

    Dear Sgt. Shaft: May you please help me find information on my status. I am from Lithuania and a resident of the United States since July 9, 2010. My husband, a U.S. citizen and veteran, died recently. We had been married for 10 years. Do you have any information on when and how I might apply for U.S citizenship and how is this impacted by my husband's death.


  • OWN shakeup tests Winfrey, Discovery relationship

    Oprah Winfrey is used to running the show, whether it was her hit daytime TV program or the fledgling cable channel named for her and which she rules as chairman and chief executive.


  • Oprah Winfrey Network lays off one-fifth of staff

    Oprah Winfrey's struggling television network, OWN, said Monday it is laying off one-fifth of its workers and restructuring its operations in New York and Los Angeles.


  • Oprah Winfrey, whose OWN venture stumbled in its first year, said, "I don't worry about failure. I worry about, 'Did I do all I could do?' (George Burns, OWN via Associated Press)

    Oprah learns from her own trouble

    Oprah Winfrey earned the rare opportunity to convert her media charisma into a monogrammed TV channel. Now she's the one tasked with rescuing OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, after a disappointing first year.


  • Winfrey: Dedicated to OWN despite rocky first year

    Oprah Winfrey earned the rare opportunity to convert her media charisma into a monogramed TV channel. Now she's the one tasked with rescuing OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, after a disappointing first year.


  • Winfrey to host series recycling her old show

    Oprah Winfrey is repackaging her now-ended daytime talk show to make it a key part of the lineup for OWN, her struggling cable channel.


  • Oprah Winfrey launches her OWN cable network

    Oprah Winfrey's network has begun not with a bang but with redeclared purpose by the Queen of Daytime for her new round-the-clock cable channel venture.


  • FILE - In this May 3, 2010 file photo, Oprah Winfrey arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala in New York.  The Oprah Winfrey Network launching Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011 is wary of promising too much of a good thing _ Winfrey herself.(AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

    Oprah keeps hand in media with OWN, snubs politics

    Oprah Winfrey wants to better the world in her own way, and that absolutely, positively excludes a political career.


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