Some state lawmakers are engaged in a tug-of-war for power with the people who elected them. In several states, lawmakers want to undo voter-approved ballot initiatives or make it harder ...

Britain’s Heathrow Airport will be closed Friday after a fire at an electrical substation knocked out power to the airport and thousands of homes. About 150 people had to be ...

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"To me it's very important for ordinary people to realize the greatness of their own lives. We all have our own stories," Miriam Kurtzig Freedman says of her book telling the story of her mother, Thea ...

A posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Hisham Matar’s novel “My Friends” and a poetry collection by Anne Carson are among the winners of the National Book Critics Circle ...

In this age of social media overload, I confess that I’m addicted to recommendations of excellent books to read during our ...

The empress, like many other rulers at the time, legitimized her reign through Buddhism, portraying herself either as a ...

PLEASE wake up! No matter what cavern idiots tell you in the back of your mind, look at these stones and understand what they ...

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James Whitfield Thomson revisits his sister's death decades later, grappling with his own problematic views about marriage ...

Apart from tributes, personalised postcards, a digital app to connect fans and a biography was announced on the actor’s 50th ...

Svein Tuft’s story starts with his family background. His father was a Norwegian immigrant who came to British Columbia, and ...