As a teacher of English literature in Gaza, I’ve seen my relationship to books be overturned by the violence around me.

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For decades, the Heritage Foundation was a conservative powerhouse. Can it stay relevant in the influencer age?

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A man was arrested after police said he broke into a family's home and stabbed the parents while they slept, killing a doctor and injuring his wife in Edgewood.

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Declaring himself the reincarnated spirit of a famous Egyptian pharaoh, Elijah Hemingway swore he meant no harm to himself or anyone else in a Deltona, FL, parking lot in April 2025.

An appreciation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most personal novel, in which a marriage’s collapse becomes a searching exploration ...

It can be easy to forget that the creators of some of the world's greatest works of art and literature were plagued by relentless self-doubt. Yet from Leonardo Da Vinci to Vincent van Gogh, some of ...

Dr. Idris Evans, a 46-year-old doctor with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's (UPMC) children's hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was killed in a stabbing attack at his home Thursday.

One of the 19 million specimens in the Academy of Natural Sciences collections is an orange fish with a big head, spiky fins and rows of teeth. It was first described by Henry Fowler, an ichthyologist ...