ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — Amid the stream of mass shootings that have become chillingly commonplace in America, the reality of the nation’s staggering murder rate can often be seen more…

My Armen­ian grand­fa­ther, JK, was mar­ried to an Armen­ian woman named Haganoush, who dis­cov­ered she couldn’t have chil­dren. For JK, not hav­ing a male heir was com­plete­ly unac­cept­able. But Haganoush had been brought…

Ear­ly in my writ­ing career, I attend­ed an event at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton dis­cussing the pres­ence of Sephardic Jews in Seat­tle. I was prob­a­bly the youngest per­son in the audi­ence. Most…

The UN human rights chief called on Tuesday for a prompt, impartial and “transparent investigation” into the deaths of at least 18 people during clashes at protests in the Uzbek…

Nearly a third of all women in developing countries, start having children at the age of 19 or younger, and nearly half of first births to adolescents, are to children…

Far out in the remote Pacific Ocean, the 2,000 islands of Micronesia were only peopled about 3,500 years ago, archaeological evidence shows. Now we find it didn't happen quite as…

Perhaps the most surprising object in the exhibit "Water Memories," now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is a denim jacket. It's a Wrangler knock-off, with a…

By BILL HUTCHINSON, MATT FOSTER and KIARA ALFONSECA Ohio police officials released officer body-camera footage of a 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of bullets fired by eight officers…

Psychologists are struggling to help stricken locals cope with PTSD while facing their own grief after intense bombing Ludmilla Boiko can’t sleep. Every night, before going to bed, she takes…

Ed Kienholz’s assemblage ‘The Illegal Operation,’ on view at LACMA, muses on back-alley abortions. In 1962, when Edward Kienholz made “The Illegal Operation,” the sculpture gave intense visual form to…