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The Obama administration’s use of drones for targeted killings has been drawing increasing attention and criticism from some.  In his ...

On Christmas Eve, 1914, in the midst of shelling on the Western Front of World War 1, lower-ranking troops spontaneously created a truce, ...

Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski The Geographical ...

Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer talk with Patrick Stoner about taking a humorous approach to the proliferation of zombie films in “ ...

In the new PBS film “Soul Food Junkies,” Newark, NJ-based filmmaker ...

The Philadelphia School District’s proposed plan to close 37 public schools by the end of the school year has some people worried about ...

Philadelphia Police Commissioner CHARLES RAMSEY ...

Former Vice President AL GORE has a new book out, inspired by his restless quest fo ...

A new report says that outdoor cats are a major thr ...

We all love a good story, and some of the most fascinating ones are conspiracy theories – often full of intrigue and difficult to debun ...

Today is Clyde Tombaugh’s 107th birth anniversary. Born in 1906 , he was an American astronomer, rocket scientist and telescope bui ...

In his new book, After the Music Stopped ...