Novels may have a lot more power than we think. When you identify with a literary character, like Katniss Everdeen of the "Hunger Games" books, there’s a good chance you’ll become more like her, new study shows. Researchers have found that when you lose yourself in a …
The short-term importance of the budget bill which the House approved this week is that Democrats now have another vote which they can use against Republicans running in tough races this fall.
Something happened this week that made me feel like a real beer snob, and that’s a bad thing. Beer snobs corner people at parties and tell them why the brew they’re enjoying is awful. They give unsolicited advice to fellow shoppers in the beer aisle. I was perusing t …
The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service sought Wednesday to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours. At a news briefing, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the mail agency was back …
Members of a white supremacist skinhead group called American Front trained with AK-47s, shotguns and explosives at a fortified compound in central Florida to prepare for what its reputed leader believed to be an “inevitable race war,” prosecutors said Tuesday.
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