Isabel Ruehl, an assistant editor at Harper’s Magazine, started out as a fact checker. In a recent piece for the website Lit ...

Scammers have been trying to get unsuspecting people to part with their money basically forever. That’s especially true for ...

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Phoenix Youth Circus Arts teaches kids stilt-walking, aerial silks and clowning. Jens Larson says its a continuation of his ...

A federal judge has run out of patience over what he said is an "unreasonable delay" by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in ...

For nearly twenty years, most air travelers in the U.S. have been required to remove their shoes when going through security.

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Emergency responders kept hope alive as they combed through fallen trees and other debris that littered the hard-hit central ...

In an unprecedented move, India held the water treaty in abeyance after blaming Pakistan for a deadly attack in April.

Since 1954, a provision in the tax code called the Johnson Amendment says that churches and other nonprofit organizations ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...