It’s that time of year again: trees losing leaves as the nights grow longer and chillier, the holidays lying sleepily just around the corner as the seductively-sweet scent of pumpkin spice fills the ...

Washington — The U.S. government shut down Wednesday morning after President Trump and congressional Republicans at odds with Democrats over the path forward were unable to avert a lapse in federal ...

During the first basketball game played in 1891, players dunked balls and scored points in a basket normally used to collect peaches. To keep his students engaged, James Naismith, a 31-year-old ...

Minnesota's 48-10 win over the Bengals on Sunday wound up tied for the fifth-largest margin of victory in franchise history. When it was 48-3, the Vikings had the Bengals buried in deepest hole in ...

Taylor Tepper covered banking, investing and pretty much everything else in personal finance for more than a decade, with his work appearing in the New York Times, Fortune and MONEY magazine, as well ...

Prisoners across history have devised surprising, often cinematic, escapes from the confines that hold them. Whether it be a 17th-century Robin Hood staging a series of folklore-inspiring prison ...

In Bengaluru, 41 members of a pro-Kannada group were arrested. They disrupted a Hindi Diwas meeting at a five-star hotel. The meeting was organised by the ministry of home affairs. The protestors ...

The pyramid-building Maya reigned over much of Central America. Today, descendants keep Maya history alive—a sign of resilience. This sculpture of the head of a Mayan warrior found in the Temple of ...

With their 10th straight win Aug. 11, the Milwaukee Brewers are two victories shy of the hallowed mark of 12 consecutive wins, a benchmark that triggers one of the most famous promotions in Milwaukee ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...