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"Hammerin' Hank" was 86. He shattered Babe Ruth's home run record in 1974, defying the poverty and racism that threatened to diminish him.

Thomas Lane pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in George Floyd's killing. The state is recommending a sentence of three years in prison.

In his latest book, the first in five years, Paul Hollywood decides to share his versions of classic recipes.

Climate change is increasing the risk of dangerous floods. But people often balk at the cost of flood insurance, especially since many doubt they need protection.

Gypsy has been called the best musical of all time. Audra McDonald is starring in a new Broadway revival, and the race-conscious casting gives the production a new frame.

School funding is down in many states, and U.S. teachers earned less last year, on average, than they did back in 1990.

The World Wildlife Fund sees farms in the mid-Mississippi delta as ripe with opportunity to become a new mecca for commercial-scale American produce. California currently grows nearly three-quarters of the nation’s fruits and nuts and more than a third of its vegetables. But as climate change compounds the threats of water scarcity, extreme weather and wildfires on California’s resources, a new WWF report argues that farms in West Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas could profit from embracing the complexity of specialty crop production.

One of the most popular forms of literature today is the memoir. These days, folks with barely three decades under their belt are writing their memoirs,...

Over 800 people have been diagnosed with vaping-related illnesses. Twelve people have died.

The former entertainer is serving a sentence of three to 10 years for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand at his home outside Philadelphia in 2004.