Pop culture critic Linda Holmes has been making this annual list since 2010. Big, small, inspirational, silly — what these ...

Only about 300 to 400 people a year give a kidney to someone they never met. It's an act of generosity so unusual, a ...

Azerbaijan observed a day of mourning for the victims of the plane crash that killed 38 people and left all 29 survivors ...

The burst of new laws follows a landmark Supreme Court ruling, and reflects public frustration with record-high homelessness.

An Israeli strike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip overnight, according to the Health ...

The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them ...

Devon Strolovitch studied medieval Judeo-Portuguese manuscripts and earned a PhD in Linguistics from Cornell University ...

Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and ...

David Mas Masumoto's new book tells the story of his aunt, who was taken as a "ward of the state" in 1942. Seventy years ...

If your New Year's resolution is to drink less alcohol, Life Kit is here to help. Sign up for our Dry January newsletter ...

They make their living off the sea, but their catch is dwindling. So these traditional fisherfolk are taking steps to ...

Triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the catastrophic event was the ...