Bee Week, an annual series of events leading up to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, takes place from May 25 to May 30. This ...

About 3,000 machinists at jet engine-maker Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut have approved a new four-year contract, ending a ...

MacArthur’s retreat, Paul Gauguin’s wild life, the maritime version of the Underground Railroad and more.

The birth of these pups is new, as is the word de-extinction, the latest example of a neologism required to describe a new concept. As technology has advanced, so has our vocabulary for words to ...

BOOKISH TYPE: It may be the age of digital appointments, but not at Buckingham Palace, where the calendars are still printed — and made by hand — on an island in Essex, England. The bindery is ...

Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my ...

The front page of the Hairenik, published in New York on Monday, May 1, 1899. In 1886, workers in Chicago sparked a movement, demanding the eight-hour workday. Three years later, May 1 was ...

New Delhi: Emphasising that it does not expect an educated person to disparage the judiciary, the Bombay High Court sentenced a woman to one-week imprisonment for issuing ... can take the form of ...

The shadow is simply a lack of reflection of the sunlight. The phrase crepuscular rays comes from the Latin word “crepusculum,” which means twilight. That name was chosen because crepuscular ...

NPR's Word of the Week explores how they got their name. Tariffs are President Trump's favorite word. That's not an exaggeration. "I always say 'tariffs' is the most beautiful word to me in the ...

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