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Washington - My heart aches for the parents of Phoebe Prince, the 15-year-old Massachusetts high school student who committed suicide in January after being relentlessly bullied at school and …

Laura Wagner, a US anthropologist who survived - barely - Haiti's earthquake in January, writes, "Social scientists who study catastrophes say there are no natural disasters. In every calamity, …

As a columnist who isn't Catholic, I used to feel that whatever happened in the Church was a whole lot of none of my business. It was as if …

A transgender apartment-hunter thought he'd found a perfect place in Baltimore. But when he showed up, the woman raised the rent by $100 over the advertised price, said she …

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Still operating under Bush-era policies that President Barack Obama last year called “a mess,” the Pentagon will resume military commission hearings for accused terrorists Wednesday …

This isn’t the first time that West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine has had safety issues. An explosion Monday that left at least 25 miners dead (four are still …

In my 1950s childhood, Ripley's Believe It or Not was part of everyday life, a syndicated comics page feature where you could stumble upon such mind-boggling facts as: "If …

While being involved in your children's lives and studies is intuitively (and statistically) smart, some techniques are better than others. Despite media fondness for reports of hyper- and helicopter …

Engineers of Technital SpA, the Italian firm that designed the system to save Venice from flooding, are working on the future of Iraq as embodied in their plan for …

The Washington Post reports that rescuers suspended efforts early Tuesday to find four missing coal miners in West Virginia after a mine explosion killed 25 others in the deadliest …