Beyond campaigning lies the difficult and often dirty business of governing, which may test some believers’ faith in New York’s first Muslim mayor.

Some actors feel at home in one genre while others seem to reinvent themselves every time they show up on screen. This list spotlights performers who jump from drama to comedy to action without ...

Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died.

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

Throughout the modern era, architects have been drawn to the idea of merging dwellings with the earth itself. Frank Lloyd ...