In the mid-1990s, a cartoon in the New Yorker depicted a woman in a bookshop asking, “What can you recommend that’s not by Michael Crichton?” ...

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Israeli soldiers recovered the body of a 53-year-old hostage in an underground tunnel in southern Gaza, the military said Wednesday, and the army was determining if another set of remains belongs to ...

Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington on Tuesday for state funeral rites that featured the kind of bipartisan ...

RuPaul's Drag Race U.K.' winner the Vivienne has died at 32, her publicist confirmed. Here's how other 'Drag Race' stars are ...

The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both ...

The movie stars Aryè Campos, Katherine Joan Taylor and Matthew Pohlkamp.

Edward Pettifer, 31, died when a pick-up truck rammed into crowds gathered on Bourbon Street in the heart of New Orleans on ...

Britt Allcroft, a British television producer who helped develop 'Thomas the Tank Engine' into a series, has died at 84.

Prior to joining WSB-TV in 1999, Strickland spent 15 years as a reporter for WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa, where he was ...

Wayne Osmond has died aged 73. World-renowned as one of the members of beloved family music act The Osmonds, the singers ...

Deputies confirmed the discovery of a minivan belonging to a woman who vanished 10 years ago in Brevard County. Katya Belaya, a mother of three and a science professor at Eastern Florida State College ...