A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually ...

Naturally, the Senate is debating none of those things. Instead, Republicans in Congress’s upper chamber are spending this ...

Eighteenth-­century mental institutions employed a tactic called the bain de surprise, suddenly dunking their patients in ...

When the Stanford biologist and science writer Paul Ehrlich died last week at 93, the obituaries that followed were a fascinating exercise in editorial balance. As usual, most hesitated to speak too ...

After a decade of trashing American allies as freeloaders, President Trump is begging for their help in opening the Strait of ...

Like, doubting your reporting? After all, you’re making those calls based on other witnesses and videos online. Fabian: I went and checked again with the military. It was a short item, but I reviewed ...

They measure the buildup of solids on the bottom of the pipe with sonar and try to estimate the corrosion on the top, where ...

Fame famously lasts for only 15 minutes, as the Andy Warhol axiom goes, and then it’s off to the land of pub-quiz deep cuts.

Etched into the facade of the Internal Revenue Service’s headquarters, just above a trio of limestone arches, is a quote from Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: “Taxes are what we pay ...

The party still refuses to prioritize the most important parts of its agenda and make the case that they’re worth paying for.

We are roasting out here. This is not normal. Or at least it wasn’t normal in the past. The heat wave is happening because of a bizarrely strong ridge of high pressure in Earth’s atmosphere. The ridge ...

But Kozmo.com, just one of many examples, shows how likely the first mover in a sector is to founder or fail or fall out of favor: Friendster and Myspace were first in social networking, but Facebook ...