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The Big Rental got his way, again. That no longer should come as a surprise.

Starting at age 4, Sheila Schuller Coleman has held just about every job at her father's Crystal Cathedral, from copying Sunday programs at the kitchen table to launching a private high school on the church grounds.

John Calvin, the Great Reformer, used dictatorial means in making Geneva a "Protestant Rome," but he also planted the seeds of modern democracy.

The New Jersey dad who has waged a five-year battle to regain custody of his only son from a family in Brazil erupted in anger at a video the family made showing the 9-year-old boy saying he wants to stay in Brazil.

As the car bearing the mother he never knew pulled up to his house, Ron Stewart knew for sure — after 43 years — that he wasn’t an orphan any more.

To vote again text your choice (1, 2 or 3) to 622639. Standard text messaging rates apply. Tune in to TODAY to see which was the winning song.

When Heather Thompson learned her ex-husband was about to be released from prison some 15 years after he beat her to within an inch of her life — the prison from which he had written her a letter in which he vowed to finish the job when he was paroled — she faced an agonizing decision: whether to uproot her family out of fear, or stare mortal danger in the eye.

At first, a reality show centering on their sextuplets seemed like a great idea to Bryan and Jenny Masche. But then the gossip magazines exploded with controversy over “Octomom” Nadya Suleman and the marital troubles of Jon and Kate Gosselin, and suddenly Jenny Masche started to have second thoughts.

It’s 9:30 A.M. on Sunday morning, and Jenny and Bryan Masche are frantically getting ready for church at 11. Jenny is pouring milk into sippy cups, holding one toddler in her arms while two others hang onto her pant legs. All three are whining for their “ba-bas.” Meanwhile, the three other toddlers are raiding the kitchen cupboard, looking for pots and pans to bang.

Somewhere in Hollywood there’s a bulletin board covered in note cards describing the very funny gags in “Land of the Lost,” a big-budget remake of the 1970s Sid and Marty Krofft kids’ TV show. Unfortunately, no one bothered to sit down and write a script that would string all these free-floating jokes into a cohesive movie.

The graduates patted each other's backs, and nervously chatted with their families. Some sat quietly, meditating about their future while others wept.

While warm weather often invites fabrics like silk, seersucker and cotton to take center stage, this season denim is in demand. From country-casual dresses to ’80s-style jackets, you’ll find a variety of influences behind these blue-based basics. Even jeans are getting an update, thanks to softer shades that range from retro to preppy. Bobbie Thomas, TODAY style editor and author of the Buzz for In Touch Weekly, highlights the best style for any “blue jean baby!”

Free after 32 years in prison, Sara Jane Moore says she was wrong, “misled” and “mistaken” in trying to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford in September 1975. However, she added: “I still believe if I hadn’t done it, someone else would.”“It was a time people don't remember. We had a war in this country, the Vietnam War,” Moore told Matt Lauer in an exclusive interview on TODAY Thursday. “This is going to sound a little strange, but I really thought that it would trigger a new revolution. We were saying the country needed to change, the only way it was going to change was a violent revolution. I genuinely thought that this might trigger that new revolution in this country.”It was only later, while spending time in solitary confinement, that the only woman ever to fire a shot at a president said she “had begun to realize that I'd been used.”“I think that I was misled, that I was mistaken. I think I made a serious error,

Shrinking mainline Protestant denominations are turning to marketing to help stem decades of membership losses and stay afloat.

The airline says the seat-belt sign was lighted. But the passenger says she didn’t hear anyone say she had to keep her belt fastened. In any event, others were using the bathroom, so she didn’t see any harm in a quick trip.

A Texas woman wasn't planning on two conceptions for the record books.

The scent of a woman is a powerful force. While a spritz of perfume can often perk up your senses, there are a number of other ways to submerge your body in an alluring aroma. Whether you want to layer your locks with a little bit of scent, or carefully perfume all major pressure points, it’s possible to treat your nose to a variety of fresh and flirty notes. Bobbie Thomas, TODAY style editor and author of the Buzz for In Touch Weekly, helps you find the aromatic answer you’ve been looking for!

The protests over the University of Notre Dame's commencement invitation to President Barack Obama will have an impact beyond the South Bend campus and far longer than graduation season.

For the second season in a row, a nice guy won "Survivor."

It's another milestone for NBC's "Today" show: the 700th week in a row as television's most popular morning show.

For toddler Auston Banks, the difference between life and death amounted to the lack of a pencil sharpener.

With Farrah Fawcett drained physically and mentally from a long battle with cancer that may be nearing its tragic end, the love of her life, actor Ryan O’Neal, said that his feelings for her have only deepened. “In the last two years, I loved her more than I’ve ever loved her — ever,” he said in an exclusive interview with Meredith Vieira airing on TODAY Wednesday and Thursday.

They’ve been among Hollywood’s most passionate, yet star-crossed lovers for some 27 years, but Ryan O’Neal says he’s looking at Farrah Fawcett with renewed admiration as he holds her hand through the final days of her brave, two-and-a-half year battle with cancer.

TODAY is calling fans of all ages and all talents to come down to the Plaza on Thursday, May 14, for a last-chance audition for NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.”

Less pay, fewer benefits, lower prestige — and greater job satisfaction.