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Middletown, Ohio, a small city of tree-lined streets surrounding a sprawling steel mill, seems as far from the towering skyscrapers of New York as it gets. But on Monday, they...

Many directors fall in love with scary movies through late-night cable binges or with friends at a drive-in. Osgood Perkins had a leg up: His father was the actor Anthony...

On the evening of Sept. 15, 2007, 18-year-old Giovanni Macedo marched down a crowded sidewalk in the MacArthur Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, pointed a .22-caliber pistol at the head...

Fourteen years ago in Orange County, Calif., Daniel Wozniak killed two people: Sam Herr, a 26-year-old Army veteran and neighbor, and Julie Kibuishi, a 23-year-old student and Herr’s close friend....

Taking home the gold: 105 teenagers from 61 countries are trying to make this dream come true. It’s not they are vying for though, but Olympiade gold. And to win, they have to...

For all of the focus on an energy transition, the American oil industry is booming, extracting more crude than ever from the shale rock that runs beneath the ground in...

Way out, approximately 152 miles from Las Vegas, in Lincoln County, Nev., I meet Ed. He works for the artist Michael Heizer at “City,” Heizer’s megalithic land-art sculpture, which is...

EXCLUSIVE: Singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor will narrate PeaKeeBoo, an animated series from UK creative studio Toikido and kids entertainment firm Cake. Set in the trees of the Flower Meadow Wood, PeaKeeBoo...

Four people were killed and several others injured in a shooting near a mosque in Oman‘s capital, Muscat, in a rare flare of violence in the Middle Eastern Sultanate. The...

Germany’s labour minister has urged Indian scientists to “please stay” in the country as Britain and other English-speaking nations are luring them away with better job offers. Hubertus Heil issued...