The dogs are barking, the woman’s screaming and the man’s swearing … it’s the kind of scene you see in a park and think: I’m glad that has nothing to do with me ...

Rising geopolitical tensions centering on Iran and the U.S. loomed large over world markets on Wednesday, overshadowing strong U.S. retail sales figures to push Wall Street lower, lift oil prices and ...

The best performing sector in the stock market for the past year has been the unsung financial sector. Its 24% return through May 31 was nearly double the return on the market as a whole. Unlike ...

SAN FRANCISCO A 29-story office building at 123 Mission St. illustrates the policy puzzles that fester because of these facts: For centuries, tobacco has been a widely used legal consumer good that ...

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Advice columnist Carolyn Hax answers your questions about the strange train we call life.

January 10, 2026 • Renee Good won a national prize six years ago for her poem "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs," which muses on science and faith. Good was shot to death by an ICE agent this week in ...

Being jolted awake is only the first requirement; the next is staying awake. And we all know only too well ourselves how easily and quickly we manage to go back to sleep and stay asleep through the ...