Nancy Reagan is recovering from a number of broken ribs sustained in a fall in March, a representative for the former first lady said.
In 2007, former first lady Nancy Reagan talked to CNN's Larry King about her lifelong love affair with President Reagan.
Dinner invitations, decorating notes and a congratulatory telegram were among the first batch of personal papers from former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis released Monday.
Board a bus or a train today and chances are you'll see several people with eReaders in hand. While most probably bought their electronic books on a popular website, you may find a few who borrowed the paperless books from the library.
You're reading CNN.com, so maybe this isn't a stress-inducing worry in your house, but for too many kids in this country, reading is a dirty word. Fortunately, we know exactly whom we have to talk to in order to start a much-needed intervention.
It's an e-book perk that often flies under the radar: Many bricks-and-mortar libraries are now lending out electronic editions.
Amazon is considering a Netflix-like service that would let people pay an annual fee to get book "rentals," according to a published report.
Are you a person who loves to read books? If so, you're set for life.
The casket holding Betty Ford's remains arrived late Wednesday afternoon in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the final of two services will be held for the former first lady. The first service was held Tuesday in California.
A group of supporters encircled the New York Public Library's 42nd Street branch in Manhattan arm-in-arm Saturday to show their love.
Want to check out e-books from the library and read them on your Kindle? That will be possible later this year as Amazon announced Wednesday that it would join a library loan program for electronic books.
Librarians, information specialists, knowledge managers or whatever title a librarian might have -- their skills are in high demand. And, though you might not know it, they are everywhere.
When Jane McGonigal was 21 and a bit listless, she went to the New York Public Library to reinvent herself. She read up on computer science and physics and used that knowledge to apply to a graduate program in game design in California.
The latest release of White House tapes from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library shows how Watergate increasingly consumed Nixon as his second term was getting underway, the library's director said Thursday.
Unauthorized federal workers and contractors have been warned not to attempt to read the classified documents on WikiLeaks on either government or personal computers.
Politics is serious business -- but not all of the time. From the halls of Congress to the campaign trail to the international stage, there's always something that gets a laugh or a second glance. Here are some of the things you might have missed.
Digitally preserved copies of 10 silent films previously thought to be lost forever are now at the Library of Congress.
There weren't any starlets or red carpet, but the Library of Congress had a blockbuster day at the movies on Thursday.
One of the many unfortunate effects of the Great Recession was felt by longtime professionals who found themselves looking for a job for the first time in decades. These skilled and experienced workers discovered that the job market was significantly different than it was 20 years ago, or in some cases, even just five years ago.
Researchers discover that a document, untouched in a vault for more than 40 years, was actually penned by Honest Abe. KOVR reports.
Researchers have made an unexpected discovery among the items a member of the Donner Party kept in a carpetbag on the group's ill-fated journey to California: a military document with Abraham Lincoln's handwriting on it.
More old documents unveiled are offering more fresh signs that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was an eager, tough-talking political player while working as a lawyer in the Clinton White House.
Paul McCartney wins the Gershwin Prize, then discusses the backstory behind some of the songs he likes performing.
A long and winding road brought Sir Paul McCartney to the White House on Wednesday, where he was honored by the president of the United States and performed some of the most famous songs from his catalogue with the Beatles and after.
He never told a lie, as the story goes. So maybe if he were alive today, President George Washington could tell a New York City library what he did with two books he checked out 221 years ago.
Web sites come and go, but the short bursts of text you publish on one Web site in particular -- Twitter.com --may end up having a longer shelf life than the company itself. The Library of Congress announced this week that it will archive the billions of tweets published since Twitter launched in March 2006.
Every 140-character snippet of info you've ever shared publicly on Twitter will soon have a home next to the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Twitterverse's reaction to the Lehman Brothers collapse? President Obama's election? Now you won't have to wonder.
As a man whose vision of paradise is "some sort of library," Ismail Serageldin must sometimes feel like he works amid the Garden of Eden.
An American woman who was trampled to death by an elephant in Kenya, where she lived with her family, was a librarian who was determined to see that schools and libraries be built in poor villages, a former boss said Wednesday.
Michael Jackson's "Thriller," with its unforgettable zombie graveyard dance, has become a national treasure.
The stereotypical library is dying -- and it's taking its shushing ladies, dank smell and endless shelves of books with it.
The European Union has launched a digital library that offers documents dating to nearly 60 years ago, in 23 languages.
The stereotypical library is dying -- and it's taking its shushing ladies, dank smell and endless shelves of books with it.
As a 53-year-old librarian by day and roller derby player by night, Beth Hollis smashes stereotypes and opponents on and off the track.
She's petite, she's middle-aged, she's bookish, and if she gets a chance, she'll knock you on your keister.
After letting Kindle dominate the e-book reader market for two years, Sony has fired a huge salvo in return.
A fight over books depicting sex and homosexuality has riled up a small Wisconsin city, cost some library board members their positions and prompted a call for a public book burning.
"We have to keep up with the world," said Laurel Selkin, in Rapid City, South Dakota. "This has always been a peaceful, loving haven, a place to sit and reflect and be able to think. That part won't change."
Rebecca Hodges, who's been unemployed for a year, sat down at a computer in a public library in New York.
CNN's Don Lemon reports from the Lincoln Memorial as the country celebrates the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
From Capitol Hill to Springfield, Illinois, President Obama and Congress paid tribute Thursday to Abraham Lincoln on the bicentennial of his birth.
The Library of Congress marks 200 years since the birth of Abraham Lincoln on Thursday by opening a special exhibit featuring his handwritten speeches and artifacts, including the Bible used last month by President Obama during his swearing-in.
The White House may be the official residence of the U.S. president, but it's only a temporary address. The former homes and libraries of presidents offer an inside look into the lives of the select few who served as the nation's leader.
Librarians across the United States are making noise about new federal restrictions on lead that could take books out of the hands of children.
On Inauguration Day, there's one scene at the White House that won't be playing out exactly as it has during past transitions: the traditional moving of the outgoing first family's belongings.
After leaving the White House, the nation's "reader in chief," Laura Bush, plans to continue promoting literacy through the United Nations and the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas
The Alias star helps out the local library and college
A former Army commander who underwent a sex change operation was discriminated against by the U.S. government, a federal judge ruled Friday in an important victory for transgenders claiming bias in the workplace.
A transsexual who was not hired by the Library of Congress because of an upcoming sex change has won a discrimination lawsuit in federal court
Ex-Special Forces Col. David Schroer was up for a desk job with the U.S. government. But when revealed that he would soon be Diane, he was rejected. Was it sex discrimination?
In the nearly two weeks since Sen. John McCain announced his vice presidential nominee to the world, the Internet rumors about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have been flying.
CNN's Randi Kaye reports on the battle over earmarks - and Gov. Sarah Palin's record in seeking them.
The apparent suicide of former government researcher Bruce Ivins is the latest development in the mystery of the anthrax attacks of 2001. Letters laced with the bacteria brought the disease into the forefront, sparking fear across America.
Kay Ryan is the latest pick as the nation's top poet. If her predecessors are any guide, she'll have an exhausting year
The best-selling pop album on planet Earth and a disc sent hurtling
into deep space are among recordings the Library of Congress will
preserve for their cultural significance
It's a battle worthy of Harry Potter himself.
When the English inventor Henry Bessemmer launched his extravagant cure for sea-sickness in 1875 it must have seemed like a sure thing.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton got to work on health care reform within days of her arrival at the White House as first lady in 1993, newly released documents show.
When Mary Ryan's 4-year-old nephew, Nick, landed in the hospital with a serious infection, her brother called her in a panic. Ryan isn't a doctor. She's not a nurse. She's a librarian.
Republican presidential hopefuls will face off Wednesday night without a familiar face now that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has dropped out.
Up to 80,000 items at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library are unaccounted for, probably because of haphazard record-keeping and inventory procedures, officials said Thursday.
Google revealed on Monday that it had acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn, indicating a foray by Google into social networking in the world's second-largest Internet market.
Google Inc revealed on Monday that it had acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn, indicating a foray by the global search leader into social networking in the world's second-largest Internet market.
In a world where third spaces -- the places where we spend time away from work and home -- are increasingly privately owned, how can we make our public spaces outstanding?
"Rehab," the autobiographical top 10 single by Amy Winehouse, won best contemporary song Thursday at Britain's prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting awards.
For Republicans, the Ronald Reagan Library is sacred ground. That's why it's the ideal setting for the first Republican presidential debate of this campaign cycle.
Dennis Hwang may be the most famous unknown artist in the world -- his work doesn't hang in galleries or museums, but it's been viewed hundreds of millions of times.
The old library card catalogue took a step further into cyberspace Tuesday, with Google and the libraries of four universities and the city of New York announcing a partnership with the potential to make millions of books available and searchable online.
The old library card catalogue took a step further into cyberspace Tuesday, with Google and the libraries of four universities and the city of New York announcing a partnership with the potential to make millions of books available and searchable online.
There is some magic in the fraternity of presidents. For the most most part they forgive one another for the insults they have endured on the political battlefield.
President Bush joined Bill Clinton and two other former U.S. presidents Thursday to dedicate Clinton's presidential library, a ceremony that also brought together celebrities from both Washington and Hollywood.
It is home to 1.6 million books, centuries-old manuscripts and the oldest known complete Bible.
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Country singer Loretta Lynn is trying to gain the copyright to "Coal Miner's Daughter" and other of her hit songs.
Following is an outline of funeral events in honor of Ronald Reagan.
Tens of thousands of mourners poured into the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library this week to participate in a public viewing of a casket bearing the body of the 40th president.
Mikhail Gorbachev will take part in memorial services for former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, according to an aide for the former Soviet leader most closely associated with the 40th president and the end of the Cold War.
Thousands of Americans are expected to pay their respects Tuesday to Ronald Reagan, the nation's 40th president, one day after his family emerged from seclusion to attend a brief prayer service.
Former president George H.W. Bush will turn 80 in June, and gifts are definitely requested. Tickets to the bash, billed as 41@80, will cost from $5,000 to $1 million.
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