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In some fancy hotels, Christmas tea has become a refined respite for harried shoppers. But the tradition's roots are much rowdier: efforts to fight public drunkenness.

Much will be written about Abraham Verghese's latest novel in the coming months and years; it's a literary feat that deserves to be lauded as much as those of the likes of Dickens and Eliot.

The attack on the trucks delivering humanitarian aid in Aleppo was potentially a war crime. But it's not likely anyone will go to jail for it. Is this the new normal?

An epidemiologist and a grad school graduate who'd gone to see family reflect on how tough it was to be cut off — and what they learned from their months-long quarantine.

This year's MacArthur Fellows — recipients of what's commonly called the Genius Grant — include artists, scientists, dancers and more. They'll each receive a no-strings-attached $625,000 award.

Eley Williamsdid her doctoral dissertation on "mountweazels," fake words inserted into dictionaries as copyright traps — and she builds on that in her charming debut novel, about an epic dictionary.

Plans are underway to transform the banks of the Ohio River in Southern Indiana into a massive park.

Here are your morning headlines for Wednesday, Feb. 26: Akron wants protections for workers' hairstyles; Weather delays Rt. 8 work; Progressive to hire...

The Solar Orbiter, a new mission from the European Space Agency and NASA, was designed to give us our first look at the sun's poles and to gather data that might help predict space weather.

President Hassan Rouhani announced that Tehran will start keeping larger amounts of enriched uranium and heavy water. Iran's economy has been damaged by the return of U.S. sanctions.