05/08/2015 - 11:28
After a frigid winter, the economy bounced back in April, adding 223,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly report.
05/07/2015 - 10:24
In the end, the conclusion surprised no one: It is “more probable than not” that New England Patriots personnel deliberately released air from footballs used in a championship game, according to an investigation released May 6.
04/27/2015 - 11:00
A sea of humanity lives under the stars. Rescuers race to pull victims from the rubble in Kathmandu. Misery is everywhere in Nepal.
04/23/2015 - 21:00
Among the few good movies about World War I,
Gallipoli (1981), starring Mel Gibson, stands out. Now, another movie,
The Water Diviner, focuses on the infamous Gallipoli Peninsula campaign.
04/21/2015 - 22:26
In 1970, as angry American students protested the Vietnam War, a U.S. senator decided that all this young energy could help another cause -- the environment. And so Earth Day was born.
04/17/2015 - 06:30
The number of middle and high school students using e-cigarettes has tripled in one year -- a finding that a public health official termed "astounding."
04/10/2015 - 08:00
It’s official. Your teenager is attached to his or her cell phone.
04/06/2015 - 15:00
No mutant superheroes or alien spacecraft appear in the movie ’71. It is all about gritty realities -- but with a compelling narrative that offers a glimpse into an ugly history.
04/03/2015 - 08:00
The U.S. Labor Department’s
monthly jobs report begins with a conundrum. The unemployment rate has not changed – it remains 5.5 percent. But employers added only 126,000 positions.
03/31/2015 - 11:14
It’s that time of year again – April Fools' Day. Prepare for photos of “flying” penguins, maps of fictional islands in the Pacific and reports that NASA has decided to land on the sun at night. (It’s too hot during the day.)