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A Christmas Eve Powerball drawing could add new meaning to holiday cheer as millions of players hope to cash in on the $1.7 billion prize.

There's a new probe on Mars. After Monday's tricky landing, NASA's InSight spacecraft is to deploy a sensitive seismometer and temperature probe to let scientists explore the planet's interior.

Work will begin soon on a memorial in West Chester created from the sail of the former USS Cincinnati submarine.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello notes that this year's most popular movies are surprisingly womancentric. That's more than at any other time in at least three decades.

Since opening this season, Cedar Point’s new rollercoaster, Siren’s Curse, has stalled several times, leaving riders stranded on top of its 160-foot hill.

"The reality is, she's over there because of a gender issue ― pay inequity," the head of the WNBA's players union said this week about the basketball star who's been detained in Russia since February.

A politically divided America finds little common ground on the environment, according to a national survey by the Pew Research Center.Although 81 percent…

Last year's most popular dog is still top, and the happiest nation is still the most contented. March is still madness and shutdowns still loom.

Set in 1960s New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces centers around Ignatius J. Reilly, a glutton in a city known for its cuisine. A new cookbook looks at the food central to the heralded comedic novel.

Study after study shows women seen as overweight or obese often earn less at the workplace, an unfair bias that's been hard to reverse. However, men don't seem to face that penalty.