A quick look at the history of America's most influential bunny.

The quality of advocacy at the Supreme Court these days is quite high. “We have an extraordinary group of lawyers who appear very regularly before us,” Justice Elena Kagan said in 2014 at a Justice Department event. But there was, she said, one exception.

As people around the world stepped into their backyards or onto rooftops to peer up at the annual spectacle of the Perseid meteor shower early on Friday morning, few of them had a view like Wilson Jarvis and Steve Linderer.

Jacek Malczewski (15 July 1854 – 8 October 1929) is one of the most revered painters of Poland, and is associated with the patriotic Young Poland movement following the century of Partitions. He is regarded as father of Polish Symbolism. In his creative output, Malczewski combined the predominant style of his times, with the historical motifs of Polish martyrdom, the Romantic ideals of independence, the Christian and Greek traditions, folk mythology, as well as his love of natural environment (from Wikipedia).

Volkswagen owners in the United States will receive about $20,000 per car as compensation for the company’s diesel deception. Volkswagen owners in Europe at most get a software update and a short length of plastic tubing.

I was so used to driving and flying, my understanding of North America had become distorted. Then I took a slow boat through four Great Lakes. I saw every mile.

Like clockwork, Sara and James Cook paid $452 a month for life insurance. That is, until a letter arrived last year telling the elderly Georgia couple the premiums on the policy they’d had for 25 years were rising sharply.

Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski has put up for sale the silver medal he won at the Rio Olympics to help raise funds for a boy with a rare cancer, the athlete said on Friday.

In the new Poland, yesterday’s heroes are being turned into today’s villains.

Baltic leaders are not amused by Donald Trump's suggestion he would abandon Baltic states.

Germany's vice-chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel (SPD), has provoked the ire of Ukraine after calling for sanctions against Russia to be gradually lifted. EurActiv’s partner Der Tagesspiegel reports.

Individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) are at twice the risk of others in their age group of progressing to Alzheimer’s disease. Although no conclusive test exists to predict who will develop Alzheimer’s, new research from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas is attempting to identify a potential biomarker that could offer a more complete picture of who is most at risk.

If the answer is yes to one of these questions — or others on a new checklist — and the personality or behavior change has lasted for months, it could indicate a very early stage of dementia, according to a group of neuropsychiatrists and Alzheimer’s experts.

Scientists working in the US and Australia have made progress on a vaccine candidate that could prevent and, in some cases, even reverse, the onset of dementia, Alzheimer's, and other related diseases. This could be a big deal in the treatment of these diseases, seeing as the new drug is able to specifically target the tau proteins and abnormal beta-amyloid that can build up and cause Alzheimer's.

Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that he hoped Russia had hacked Hillary Clinton’s email, essentially sanctioning a foreign power’s cyberspying of a secretary of state’s correspondence.

How an obscure academic and a marginalized philosopher captured the minds of the Kremlin and helped forge the new Russian nationalism.

It was started in the name of forging a greater sense of union among the disparate nations of Europe.

Comedian George Carlin's numerous political routines and social commentaries have long since become classics of American stand-up. Hence why, when the late comedian's daughter Kelly Carlin visited Larry King's Ora TV program, the host decided to ask about what George would say about the 2016 presidential election cycle.

How the divisive legacy of late President Lech Kaczynski still poisons Poland’s politics.

Dark and shrunken microglia cells identified in the brains of people and mice seem to smother brain connections and are associated with age and disease

IN April, Sheila Albert, 78, a retired psychotherapist from Santa Rosa, Calif., and her niece, Terry Pew, who is 60, found themselves standing in front of the ruins of a stone house in Ireland where Ms. Albert believes her great-great-grandmother once lived.

"I photograph people their lives, work, everyday life are most often elderly people tired of life and its hardships often lonely." His work is very haunting and focuses on people who live in the poor, rural regions of Eastern Poland.

Anna Świrszczyńska (also known as Anna Swir) (1909–1984) is an important Polish poet. While her body of work deals with numerous themes, she is especially noted for writing about her experiences during World War II

Author and historian David Silkenat looks at the Confederate defeat at the end of the Civil War and the idea of Southern 'honor.'

When Lori Rifkin asked the opposing lawyer to stop interrupting her while she questioned a potential witness, he replied: “Don’t raise your voice at me. It’s not becoming of a woman.”

The criminal trial ended more than two and a half years ago, but Judge Jesse M. Furman can still vividly recall the case....In his four-plus years on the bench in Federal District Court in Manhattan, it was his only criminal jury trial.

Scientists are trying to systematically decode canine facial expressions.

Everyone knows the movie “The Great Escape.” As noted at the beginning, the movie was based on an actual event that took place on the evening of March 24 – 25, 1944. The prison camp was located just outside the German town of Sagen. After the war, the town became Polish, and the name was changed to Żagań. A museum was established on the site of the camp in 1971 2014 was the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape. In honor of the event, museum officials, along with city officials and members of the Polish Air Force and Royal Air Force held a week–long ceremony. These photographs are a “sample” of the photographs that I took while I was there.

Everyone knows the movie “The Great Escape.” As noted at the beginning, the movie was based on an actual event that took place on the evening of March 24 – 25, 1944. The prison camp was located just outside the German town of Sagen. After the war, the town became Polish, and the name was changed to Żagań. A museum was established on the site of the camp in 1971 2014 was the 70th anniversary of the Great Escape. In honor of the event, museum officials, along with city officials and members of the Polish Air Force and Royal Air Force held a week–long ceremony. These photographs are a “sample” of the photographs that I took while I was there.