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The family of the 23-year-old Nigerian man held after a failed Christmas Day attempt to set off an explosive device on a plane en route to Detroit issued its first formal statement Monday, describing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's recent behavior as entirely out of character. But his father told authorities two months ago that his son had cut off contact with his family.

Louie Psihoyos' new film graphically — and movingly — documents the sale and slaughter of dolphins captured by Japanese fishermen. David Edelstein says the movie could be a game-changer for the industry.

A pervasive technology is reshaping the world. And it's not Facebook, or Twitter, or anything else on the Web — it's television, says economist Charles Kenny. From Brazil to India, commercial television makes life better and helps strengthen civil rights, Kenny says.

Vanessa Hudgens, of High School Musical fame, turns in an encore as a raven-haired bookworm in a music-driven comedy about the building of a band-challenge contender. Gaelen Connell co-stars, backed by a cast of young, adorably neurotic creative-kid characters and a pitch-perfect soundtrack.

It started as a banner year for female candidates. More ran in party primaries than ever before, especially Republicans. Some posted big victories Tuesday. But for the first time since the 1970s, the total number of women in the new Congress will likely drop.

ANALYSIS: It's a bipartisan question. Democrats are struggling to decide whether to the support the president's latest stimulus plan. Republicans have a debate brewing in their ranks too.

Vehicle thefts continued to fall in 2009, following a six-year trend, according to the FBI's most recent crime statistics. But the National Insurance Crime Bureau found that the most-stolen car of the year was not the newest thing on the block -- it was the 1994 Honda Accord.

The Republicans who want to replace retiring Sen. Judd Gregg are hearing from voters that even though the state's unemployment rate is well below the national average, they're very worried about how things are going.

In Our Kind of Traitor, former British intelligence officer John le Carre uses his unmatched knowledge of crime and psychology to spin a smooth and satisfying spy thriller about multinational money laundering and greed.

Unemployment is expected to get worse before it gets better, and as the government's controversial stimulus program winds down, Washington shows little sign of mounting another rescue.