Donald Trump called Monday for a "total and complete shutdown" of the entry of Muslims to the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." In a statement released by his campaign Monday ...

How would you describe 2018? Was it what you expected? We’d probably say no. From especially devastating natural disasters on the one hand to record numbers of women campaigning for office on the other, 2018 felt to us like a series of surprises. T ...

Hundreds of years before changing the genetic face of Bronze Age Europeans, herders based in western Asia’s steppe grasslands were already mingling and occasionally mating with nearby farmers in southeastern Europe. That surprising finding, published ...

This Indian man says it's wrong to bring children into the world and burden them with expectations.

I hear that Fox and National Geographic will likely postpone the Season 2 premiere, currently slated for March 3. That date was set long before multiple new accusations against the famous astrophysicist/TV personality in late November prompted Fox, N ...

Apple's shutting down all of Facebook's internal apps seemed like a big deal, but it's just business as usual for the social media company —violate agreements and trust, get caught, find another way to do the same thing and move on. Ev ...

Apple has left Facebook’s campus in disarray after the company revoked the social network’s permission to build or run employee-only applications, according to reports. Employees were reportedly left unable to read cafeteria menus, call for inter-off ...

Why one physician took the risk of becoming an F.B.I. informant to expose alleged Medicare fraud.

CBS rejected a Super Bowl ad that makes a case for medical marijuana. Acreage Holdings, which is in the cannabis cultivation, processing and dispensing business, said it produced a 60-second ad that shows three people suffering from varying health is ...

Betty White is one of the most beloved and talented entertainers in America, with a career spanning more than 80s years. Most of us love her work on shows like "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Golden Girls" and "Hot and Clevelan ...

Researchers found evidence that fasting affects circadian clocks in the liver and skeletal muscle, causing them to rewire their metabolism, which can ultimately lead to improved health and protection against aging-associated diseases.

The term ‘narcissist’ gets thrown around easily, but what does it really mean?

Astronomers have revealed details of mysterious signals emanating from a distant galaxy, picked up by a telescope in Canada. The precise nature and origin of the blasts of radio waves is unknown. Among the 13 fast radio bursts, known as FRBs, was a v ...

In 2019, more renewable energy will be added to the grid than fossil fuel-based energy, according to estimates from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). That had been the trend between 2013 and 2017, but last year new natural gas-fired power ...

Often aided and inspired by social media, an increasing number of young Saudi women are taking enormous gambles to escape the country, rights groups say.

The Amazon CEO and novelist wife, MacKenzie, married for 25 years, release the news on Twitter.

Pickles are an integral staple of Turkish cuisine, and a glass of pickle juice is famed as a quick, tasty and natural cure for even the fiercest of headaches.

That is, so long as you don’t ignore the outside world, like the Twitter CEO who blithely tweeted from a meditation retreat in Myanmar, says Holly Rigby, a teacher and union activist.

One man has died from “traumatic” stab wounds after an incident at the Church of Scientology headquarters today. A teenager, 16, has been arrested after two men were allegedly stabbed in the driveway to the church in Sydney’s north at Chatswood, afte ...

The letters began immediately. Dozens at first, then hundreds, each day bringing more: from a Texas man telling her this was why we needed to build the wall. From a New York television producer asking for an interview. From an elderly woman despairin ...