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If you’re a young man in America today — and especially a young black man — you might want to give law enforcement a wide berth. A new study found that shootings, chokeholds, and other uses of...
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After two mass shootings in two days, in El Paso and Dayton, the focus of political policy continues to swing sharply to gun control. Most of the current presidential candidates have specific...
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Many Americans are glued to their phones, or in front of their PCs or tablets. The number who say they are always online is extraordinarily high according to information from a major research firm....
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God created man as he is today sometime in the last 10,000 years. Four in ten Americans believe that statement, according to Gallup. Most other Americans believe man was created through the process...
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As 100-degree weather spread across much of the U.S. this weekend, and temperatures rose to 70 degrees near the Arctic Circle yesterday, one place is remarkably cold. At this location near the South...
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What stresses us out the most? That depends on a number of factors, including how “stress” is defined. That can be difficult to pin down, because everyone reacts differently to stress factors,...
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Daily consumption of pistachios can reduce oxidative damage to DNA, positively affecting cellular aging and longevity. That was among the conclusions of a new study involving 49 people with...
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We all know that exercise is good for us, both physically and psychologically, but many of us complain that we simply don’t have time to devote a couple of hours a day to staying (or getting) in...
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We tend to think of glaciers as huge, extremely frozen, and very slow-moving. But the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, which has been called both “terrifying” and “the world’s most...
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“Getting old,” actress Bette Davis once remarked, “isn’t for sissies.” Physical disabilities, waning energy levels, mental fog… It’s not a pretty picture. But here’s some good news: A...
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By now, presumably almost everybody knows about the dangers of second-hand tobacco smoke: Even if you don’t smoke, being around others who do can be seriously harmful to your health. And of course...
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The Declaration of Independence is a signed engraving on parchment, displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Or is it? The truth is that there are countless versions of this historic...
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The names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were revealed to the world in 1777 by a woman — Mary Katherine Goddard, printer and postmaster to the Second Continental Congress in...
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The Fourth of July this year will be hot and rainy in Philadelphia — the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence, according to the Weather Channel’s weather.com site. The forecast calls for...
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Europe’s most popular destinations are France, Spain, Italy, and the U.K., but travelers to these vanguard tourist havens realize pretty quickly upon arrival that it isn’t cheap to visit these...
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