A novelist credits Virginia Woolf for showing her how to write historical fiction without being overwhelmed by the facts.

We all know what racism looks like. It’s loud, it’s angry, it’s terrifying. But when it’s hidden in imagery and connotations, ...

Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...

Cardinals set for more talks after black smoke signals no pope chosen on first day - The smoke signals that the 133 cardinals ...

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Young in 1974. It’s the first time in 12 years that Mayor Mike Duggan’s name won’t be on the ballot running for Detroit Mayor, but unless a dark-horse write-in candidate overtakes the field, Detroit ...

Using the 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT) -- India's largest optical telescope --, the team found that gas clouds orbit the black hole at a distance of 125 light-minutes (around 2.25 ...

Black Maternal Health Week is shining a light on a crisis that is putting Black mothers at a higher risk of death from pregnancy-related complications, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

However, one of the recently popular trends is blue light glasses, a type of lens supposedly designed to block out the harmful blue light that all electronic devices, like phones, TVs, and ...

Lights outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will permanently display the colors red, white and blue every night to commemorate the United States, the arts institute announced ...

People on Twitter and Reddit believed they had spotted a plot hole in Black Mirror’s USS Callister: Into Infinity, but as it turns out, Elena Tulaska suddenly being blue again was explained in ...

A New York City program wants to foster student journalism. It’s as vexed by reader engagement as the professionals are.