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A total solar eclipse is happening today. It’s the first that mainland Europe has seen in nearly 30 years. For...

Richard Lingeman, a magazine editor who wrote an acclaimed study of small-town America and biographies of Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair...

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The University of Michigan will replace traditional letter grades for some first-semester freshmen with a pass/fail-style grade, to more gently...

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The Trump administration has pulled federal funding for an annual report chronicling the changing environment of the Arctic, where rapid...

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The ad starts off like many others online that feature celebrities demonstrating beauty products. In this case, the pop star...

I went to Pakistan last month to write an article about the country’s electric motorcycle boom. I visited showrooms, toured...

The Justice Department on Monday sued three states — Connecticut, New York and Vermont — over policies that offer in-state...

Arlene Smith, the lead singer and songwriter of the Chantels, a quintet that in the late 1950s helped start the...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to walk away from a plan to build affordable housing on the site of a...

Dear listeners, On Aug. 1, 85-year-old Bob Dylan wrapped up the 35 North American dates of his simply but appropriately...