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The fashion game at the Summer Olympics continues to heat up. The latest competitor to step forward: Team Nigeria, which will be dressed for the opening ceremony, the closing ceremony,...

Freeze a hot dog until it’s solid. That’s the first step to cooking one, according to a video published last month and now viewed tens of millions of times. The...

The 1998 John Waters film “Pecker” ends with an unlikely crowd carousing in a seedy basement bar/impromptu photo gallery in Baltimore. Strippers and one busty, enthusiastic art collector dance on...

The fear of fiction waxes and wanes, spiking every couple of decades like some kind of hysterical cicada. The current wave of book bans may be the worst since the...

Watermelon is the fruit of summer. In the United States, it’s more popular than cantaloupe, honeydew and all other melons combined. It’s good for your body, too, especially on a...

“The East is a career,” Benjamin Disraeli wrote in his 1847 novel “Tancred,” two decades before he became the prime minister of the United Kingdom. The dictum rang true for...

The alleys are cast in permanent semidarkness, covered by black nylon tarpaulins to hide the Palestinian fighters there from Israeli drones overhead. Green Hamas flags and banners commemorating “martyrs” hang...

A few years ago, Khaled Khaled was envisioning a new world order for renters: “I started telling everyone, ‘No one is going to sign apartment leases anymore.’” He made this...

Good morning. It’s Monday; James Barron is off this week. Today we’ll look at a candidate for State Assembly who received more than $162,000 under the state’s matching-funds program —...

The sun is out, the days are long and it feels like everyone is outside exercising. Building a fitness habit requires commitment and creativity, and summer is the perfect time...