American Airlines is joining Delta, United, Southwest and JetBlue in raising its checked bag fees as the industry deals with high jet fuel prices. American is hiking the fee more for basic economy ...

I was at a trivia night last month when the host asked: "What's the capital of Australia?" I heard half the room confidently whisper, "Sydney." The other half hesitated, second-guessing themselves, ...

In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making. They had a short summer window — November to early ...

North Carolina Republican state Rep. Allen Chesser said he was taken by surprise when a Democratic sheriff who has long opposed cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could ...

For years, I opposed Universal Basic Income, firmly and reflexively. I treated it as a liberal fantasy — an invitation to idleness, a subsidy for stagnation, a sedative administered by a bloated state ...

Asking the older people in your life questions isn’t just about recording a birth location, marriage date, or occupation to flesh out a family tree. It’s far more revealing—and rewarding—to probe the ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

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Well, this sure sounds like a confession that antifa’s designation as a domestic terror group was based on nothing. The FBI’s branch and operations director ...

Two voters read information passed out by a poll worker on the Massachusetts ballot questions on the morning of the 2016 election in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston ...