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In Little Failure, the novelist recounts his emigration from the USSR to the U.S. when he was 7. For the first few years, he says, he would sit alone in the school cafeteria, talking to himself in Russian "in this gigantic fur hat and fur coat." It wasn't long before a teacher advised, "Children won't play with you if you have that much fur on."

"The United States Government will not accept or allow ... Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military," Trump tweeted. Transgender people already serve in the military.

GOP-led legislatures in dozens of states are moving to change election laws in ways that could make it harder to vote, for example, by reducing early voting days or limiting access to voting by mail.

It was a disappointment to many to learn that Janelle Gelfand, longtime cultural reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, is no longer with the paper. After…

The Cleveland Department of Public Health can't provide daily COVID-19 data because of the remarkably high number of coronavirus cases over recent days, said Mayor Frank Jackson. Jackson addressed the issue in a news conference Tuesday. He said there has been an unprecedented surge in coronavirus cases, and staff couldn’t analyze the data in time to release it daily, which is their usual schedule. "This is a reflection of this spike and how severe this spike is, and we are redeploying resources and adding resources,” Jackson said.

A neighborhood resident called 911 on Oregon state Rep. Janelle Bynum, who is a black woman, while she was canvassing. Bynum does not think legislation is the fix for reducing such police encounters.

The humble German fiddler is in demand around the world. His formidable technique and self-effacing style allow the music to speak volumes.

Today, Franklin's recording of "Respect" is definitive. But when she recorded it on Valentine's Day 1967, it was a radical gender-bending of Otis Redding's original.

One in five people getting health care through the Affordable Care Act no longer have a choice of insurers. But those markets don't have significantly higher prices than areas with competition.

The government is struggling to bring all 3 million-plus students back to schools that were shuttered when the pandemic hit. Teachers are ready to resume classes. But obstacles loom.