More than 6,500 prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers are vulnerable to environmental disasters nationwide.

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After almost two weeks of vote counting, Democratic Justice Allison Riggs won her election to the North Carolina Supreme ...

I am 20 and I work at a grocery store. My girlfriend’s family struggles a lot because her mom is the only working adult (her ...

I have a little girl who is 7 and a 4-year-old boy. They’ve been bathing together since my 4-year-old could sit up on his own ...

Within the span of less than a week, Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have again shown how their ideology dictates their legal judgments, often in hypocritical directions.

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Our sex life is what I would describe as pretty normal, and on nights when we do it, he sleeps soundly after. Same thing when ...

The gist of it is this: In 1087 two Italian cities, Venice and Bari, raced to be the first to steal the bones of St. Nicholas—known to us as Santa Claus—from a basilica in what is now southern Turkey.

The concept is simple: Build in a full day at the end of your trip, between the vacation and the resumption of normal life.

I believe that my brother’s wife killed him. On Thanksgiving, when they were over for dinner, my brother complained of pain ...