A leading psychologist has warned that young men are facing a crisis of masculinity due to excessive use of video games and pornography. Psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University Phillip Zimbardo has made the warnings, which form a m ...

A jeweler says the rapper’s goons beat him up and made off with a watch and gold chain. Rapper-turned-sugar-water-pitchman-turned-overpaid-underwear-model 50 Cent has found himself on the wrong end of a police investigation into the theft of some bli ...

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says the United States should rethink the notion that a president must enforce laws the Supreme Court declares constitutional. Carson said Sunday "we need to discuss" the court's long-held p ...

On Friday, San Francisco became the first American city to ban smokeless tobacco—chewing tobacco and “moist inhalable snuff”—at sports venues. The new ordinance, signed by Mayor Ed Lee, goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2016. Violators will be asked to lea ...

The World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola on Saturday, making it the first of the three hardest-hit West African countries to bring a formal end to the epidemic. “The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over,” the W.H.O. ...

It started innocently enough. Ken Jennings, a baby-faced computer engineer, printed the phrase “Who is Jones?” onto his Final Jeopardy lightbox. Jennings, who had bet $17,201 of the $20,000 he had earned during the first two rounds, clenched his teet ...

The US government is offering rewards totalling $20m (£13m) for information on what it says are four leaders of the Islamic State (IS) militant group. It named the four as Abdul Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, Tarkhan Tayumurazovich ...

What's funnier than a straight anti-gay bigot named "Breda" (Brēd-ä)? A closeted gay Republican elected official named "Randy Boehning." Grand Forks Herald: A North Dakota lawmaker who sent an explicit photo of himself to ano ...

One of the media business’s best-kept secrets isn’t entirely confidential after all: Netflix audience ratings. Select content companies have been turning to San Diego-based Luth Research, which has assembled a sizable panel of Netflix subscribers in ...

Amongst the wider public, video gamers do not have the best reputation. They are perceived, somewhat unfairly, as socially awkward, bespectacled, pimply-faced geeks. However, new research provides them something of a "Revenge-of-the-Nerds moment ...

An estranged brother and sister were reunited - after reportedly matching with each other on Tinder. Erik de Vries and Josephine Egberts had not seen each other since their parents split up in 1999, when Erik and his twin brother moved to Belgium wit ...

Two Vermont lawmakers fed up with delays to legalize marijuana in the state introduced a headline-grabbing measure this week designed to move things along: one that would outlaw alcohol.

An Indiana school is giving third graders an inspiring early look at higher education with a series of field trips to local colleges — but the excursions are for black students only, which has angered some district parents. “I just think it breeds in ...

Law enforcement groups and private security companies around the world said they have taken down a botnet that enslaved more than 770,000 computers in 190 countries, stealing owners' banking credentials and establishing a backdoor to install sti ...

Controversial laws designed to leave Ukraine's Soviet past behind stoked tension in the war-divided country Friday and prompted an angry reaction from Russia which called the ban on communist-era symbols "totalitarian". "Kiev used ...

The National Rifle Association released the required financial information for the most profitable year for donations and gun sales ever recorded. Often referred to as a “surge year,” 2013 afforded the NRA a total revenue of $347,968,789, according t ...

It's not quite a Tesla in your living room, but Elon Musk is working on porting the electric car's advanced battery for home use. Production may begin within the next six months. Similar batteries (like that used in the Toyota Mirai) use fu ...

My husband Brad and I like to spend our holidays in the White Mountains of Arizona. There’s a small town called Show Low where we’ve passed many a merry Christmas. We’ve been regulars at the July 4th parades there, entertained friends and family over ...

Regime parades pair and says they operated from Chinese base but South Korea calls claims ‘groundless’

Everyone who partied in college knows that Jello shots are tasty—but they take a frustratingly long time to set up. That’s why you typically make a big batch ahead of time, then accept the fact that you will run out. But what if there was a machine t ...