My father, John Mortimer, brought me up to believe that you can be a good person and kill someone and a perfectly awful person who never gets so much as a parking ticket your whole life. It’s an education I’m proud of. He was an author and a criminal defense barrister — in his words, “the only playwright ever to have defended a murderer in the central criminal court at the Old Bailey” — and his prowess in both professions rode on his ability to see past easy morality and to respect t...

The new design shows a folded corner of blue tape on an Amazon box.

People will always be interested in conspiracy theories. They need a tool kit for discriminating among different fringe ideas.

Former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump received the Covid-19 vaccine at the White House in January, a Trump adviser told CNN on Monday.

As the U.S. Treasury considers putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to honor her role in the northbound underground railroad, new attention is being paid to the often overlooked southbound route.

North Korea is well-practiced at drug smuggling and hacking, and needs as much foreign currency as it can get.

Many of Australia’s coal-fired generators are facing unplanned and early retirements as revenues fall to unsustainable levels, according to a new analysis that finds a surge in wind and solar investment is pushing coal out of the electricity market.

A massive hydroelectric dam in China is providing citizens with clean energy, and the dam's water supply is enough to change the rotation of the Earth.

432 Park, one of the wealthiest addresses in the world, faces some significant design problems, and other luxury high-rises may share its fate.

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Telescopes retrofitted with hundreds of optical fibers dissect the light of stars and galaxies

The conspiracy charges were the first to emerge against members of the extremist group in connection with the assault on Congress.

In an exclusive guest column for Variety, writer and academic Marcus Ryder, co-author of the book “Access All Areas – The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond,” reflects on a recent diversity test introduced in the U.K. and interrogates what’s considered an “authentic” representation.

Emotional dumping is so basic in our lives that the vast majority of us are oblivious to the truth that we take part in it. I realise I was. A large portion of my connections rotated around common emotional dumping. This impermanent felt ‘better’ since it permitted me to feel a misguided feeling of association and closeness.

Scientists are only just starting to unravel why some viruses disappear, while others can linger and cause disease for centuries.

For the first time, the US Dietary Guidelines have been revised to reflect the negative health effects that dairy can pose, thanks to Switch4Good.

When President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law in December, so began the 180-day countdown for US intelligence agencies to tell Congress what they know about UFOs.

Billionaires whose wealth has soared during the coronavirus pandemic should stump up to provide emergency aid to the record numbers of people facing starvation, the head of a US charity supporting the World Food Programme has said.

Trump’s false claims about the election and coronavirus are taking a dangerous toll. Can the divide be healed?