Learn to prune your trees the right way without calling a pro and you'll not only grow a beautiful, healthy garden — you'll also save money. One challenge when pruning the plants, shrubs, and trees in ...

When you’re young, you expect to be able to remember things fairly easily. Memory problems are traditionally associated with older people, not young adults in their prime. And yet, young people are ...

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Most Americans aren’t getting enough, but experts say these simple changes can help. By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi Are you eating enough fiber? If you live in the United States, the answer is probably ...

New year, new you. Well, maybe not. You don't need a complete life do-over to feel better. Sometimes the smallest changes make the biggest difference. Being truly happy also doesn't mean waiting ...

Robert Copeland was a newly minted 30-year-old lawyer when he was called up for active duty at the outset of World War II. In October of 1944, at Leyte Gulf, he would steer his outgunned destroyer ...

We are living in a moment that prizes ease above almost everything else. We automate, outsource, hit the drive-through, and look for faster, cheaper ways to produce something that looks like the real ...

A relatively mundane middle-aged rite of passage — shingles vaccination — might offer an added benefit: protection against, or even the slowing of the progression of, dementia. Over the past several ...

If you ask people what household cleaning job they hate the most, the details may vary — for some, it’s doing laundry, for others, emptying the dishwasher — but there’s a common thread. There’s always ...

When Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger takes office next month, she will have the chance to make good on her promise to do something about her state’s outdated system of felony disenfranchisement ...

There are dates that people from different generations remember. For some, it could be where they were when President John F. Kennedy was killed; for others it could be where they were on 9/11. For ...

I perform two acts of rebellion every day. The first is resisting the impulse to pull out my phone the moment I step into an elevator. The second is forcing myself to smile and talk to strangers, even ...