The year ahead promises new books from George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Ann Patchett, Ruth Ozeki, Jesmyn Ward and more ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida made a Facebook post showing a wildlife wearing a Santa hat with Burmese python on his shoulder.

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS, the youth wing of Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party, do not have any MPs in parliament, but they know how to make a stir. On November 30th the country held a referendum on ...

Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Skylar Clarine is a fact-checker and expert in personal finance ...

Can paying attention establish a new field? Learn about Thomas Hunt Morgan, the first person to definitively link trait inheritance to a specific chromosome and his white-eyed flies. Table 1 provides ...

When Carmen Thomas was growing up in Boston, her mom told her that her absent dad’s name was Joe Brown. So when she sent a saliva sample to 23andMe in her 20s and got a match with a Brown, she was ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder have seen the No. 12 pick in the 2024 NBA Draft, Nikola Topic, deal with a lot to start his NBA journey. After tearing his ACL pre-draft and spending the entire 2024-25 ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine brings a revised 20-point peace proposal, as well as doubts about whether Russia is serious about pursuing peace. By Cassandra Vinograd New details of ...

While trust in government has been low for decades, the current measure is one of the lowest in the nearly seven decades since the question was first asked by the National Election Study, and it is ...

Jane Meacham has 40 years' experience researching, writing, and editing financial content. She previously worked at Dow Jones & Co. in the U.S. and Asia, and is certified in Global Reporting ...

Overall, 53% of Americans say it is extremely or very important for the U.S. to take an active role in world affairs. Overall, 50% of adults disapprove of the Trump administration’s approach to ...

Managing your taxes can be one of the most complex aspects of estate planning and a new IRS rule change continues that trend. The rule, published at the end of March, changes how the step-up in basis ...