LOS ANGELES - Isaiah Washington's Dr. Preston Burke packed his bags on the season finale of "Grey's Anatomy" but that doesn't mean the actor is being dumped by the show, his publicist said Friday.

A sitcom star, film actor and now late-night talk show host, George Lopez is also (according to his website, georgelopez.com) one of the five highest-grossing comedians in the world. The star, named one of “The Top 25 Hispanics in America” by TIME magazine in 2005, has also served as a spokesman for the National Kidney Foundation, after undergoing a kidney transplant himself.

WASHINGTON - CIA Director George Tenet, buffeted by controversies over intelligence lapses about suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has resigned. President Bush said Thursday that Tenet was leaving for personal reasons and "I will miss him."

Get Nicolas Cage on the phone — writers for the third “National Treasure” movie have more fuel for their historical fantasy fires.

So what exactly is this holiday we celebrate, in the loosest sense of that word, on Monday? It is popularly, widely and wrongly called Presidents Day, but the certainty of that designation is belied by the fact that sometimes it is Presidents’ plural and sometimes President’s singular. It is neither. It is Washington’s Birthday, although unless the holiday falls on Feb. 22 it isn’t really that either.

NEW YORK - "Clint Eastwood's my hero," Denzel Washington says. "That's the model. He's the guy." At this stage of his career, the two-time Oscar winner is most interested in going the actor-turned-director route, citing George Clooney, Sean Penn and Ben Affleck as examples. "There's a generation of us now that are moving in that direction."

NEW YORK - "Clint Eastwood's my hero," Denzel Washington says. "That's the model. He's the guy." At this stage of his career, the two-time Oscar winner is most interested in going the actor-turned-director route, citing George Clooney, Sean Penn and Ben Affleck as examples. "There's a generation of us now that are moving in that direction."

Comedian George Lopez performs 8 p.m. June 12 and 13 at Dodge Theatre, 400 W. Washington St. Phoenix.

WASHINGTON - "Star Wars" director George Lucas has donated $1 million to build a memorial to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall, backers of the project announced.

WASHINGTON - George Mason's players stood on the press table, waving their jerseys to the crowd. Coach Jim Larranaga walked around with the nylon net around his neck. It won't be the same old schools from the same old conferences at this year's Final Four - certainly not top-seeded Connecticut.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Acerbic standup comedian and satirist George Carlin, whose staunch defense of free speech in his most famous routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died.

WASHINGTON - Air defenses around the nation’s capital have been strengthened amid a heightened terrorism alert and a warning from CIA director George Tenet that al-Qaida attacks could occur as early as this week, defense officials said Wednesday.

"George Washington Slept Here"?

WASHINGTON - Air defenses around the nation’s capital have been strengthened amid a heightened terrorism alert and a warning from CIA director George Tenet that al-Qaida attacks could occur as early as this week, defense officials said Wednesday.

Let’s get this straight. The White House Office of Management and Budget, the final arbiter of these matters, says the holiday is Washington’s Birthday, not Presidents’ Day, and it says so right there in section 6103(a) of Title 5 of the United States Code.

NEWPORT, R.I. -- The Touro Synagogue was barely 25 years old when George Washington offered a vision of religious tolerance in a letter he sent its congregants.

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney believes his old boss, President George W. Bush, gradually turned away from his advice during their second term in the White House, showing a surprising independence as he started taking more flexible positions on a range of issues, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department says Attorney General Michael Mukasey is "conscious, conversant and alert" after collapsing during a speech in Washington.