Why some 2016 candidates are ditching the staid pre-presidential book for a new format...

Archaeologists say the rusted Winchester Model 1873 rifle may have been left at the same spot more than a century...

By lionizing Charlie Hebdo, Europe is empowering Al Qaeda...

The French authorities are moving aggressively to rein in speech supporting terrorism, employing a new law to mete out tough prison sentences in a crackdown that is stoking a free-speech debate after last week’s attacks in Paris...

Luz, the cartoonist who drew the cover, explained his intentions, even though he really didn't want to...

The world’s largest bridge. The biggest airport. The longest gas pipeline. An $80 billion effort to divert water from the south of the country, where it is abundant, to a parched section of the north, along a route that covers more than 1,500 miles...

Like a scientist cataloging the last of an endangered species, the Dutch photographer wandered the New York City subway system for weeks, snapping pictures of readers of printed books among an increasingly dominant population of iPhone and Kindle readers...

Robert Stone, the award-winning novelist who spun out tales worldwide of seekers, frauds and other misbegotten American dreamers in such works as A Flag for Sunrise and Dog Soldiers, died Saturday at age 77...

Dorothy Parker and Edna Ferber were the only women sitting at the Algonquin Round Table, correct?...

Never mind the headlines. We've never lived in such peaceful times...