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The second-oldest colonial city in South Africa, Port Elizabeth, has a new name. It mixes some of the unique linguistics of the Xhosa language, yet many South Africans are struggling to pronounce it.

President Bush was on the road Wednesday touting the $2.77 trillion budget he sent to Congress this week. The president found a receptive audience of business leaders in Manchester, N.H. But an independent survey of state voters at the end of December put Mr. Bush's approval rating at 36 percent.

In a fascinating new study, a group of economists measures the impact of immigrants on American innovation.

Gloria Norris' wrenching, darkly funny memoir of her abusive father has strong parallels to accounts of life in the Soviet Union. How do you respond to tyranny? What would it cost you to rebel?

In Jeff Lemire's latest graphic novel, Jack Joseph maintains an oil rig off the same Nova Scotia coast where his father vanished decades before. The mysterious disappearance plagues Joseph, as past collides with present in this beautifully illustrated work.

Local baseball fans and historians have had new opportunities to learn about a lost part of the history of the sport in the Miami Valley: The Dayton Marcos of the Negro League.

A month after dead pigs washed ashore in a Shanghai river, the city got an even more serious meat problem: A new bird flu appeared at poultry markets. But even a recent rat meat scandal hasn't kept Shanghai's omnivores from enjoying KFC and Kung Pao Chicken.

Before he created one of the most enduring television series, Rod Serling learned to write in Ohio.

Nothing like seeing old friends at the holidays – Bob Hartley, Mary Richards, Laura Ingalls, Hawkeye Pierce, Ben Cartwright, Roseanne Conner, Ralph...

Top Trump administration officials publicly diverge from their boss. A new surprise: Trump invites Vladimir Putin to Washington. And Comic-Con in San Diego brings costumes, cameos and creativity.