Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a "Freedom to Read" bill that would protect books on race, gender, and identity from being banned in schools and libraries. Proponents of the bill argue that ...

Senate committee will consider “Freedom to Read Act,” which would shield librarians from criminal charges and standardize reviews of book challenges PROVIDENCE — In Westerly, a right-wing ...

Sunrise on the Reaping, the new novel from Suzanne Collins about the cockeyed and roguish tribute Haymitch Abernathy (played ...

Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates ...

Senators voted to advance the House-passed stopgap spending bill on Friday as the deadline for a government shutdown inches closer. By a margin of 62-38, senators voted to advance the measure.

The Senate will take a key procedural vote on Friday afternoon to potentially tee up final passage of a crucial stopgap government spending bill to avoid a shutdown as time runs out. After tense ...

Bill Simmons, five years after Spotify bought his media startup The Ringer for about $250 million in cash, is staying on with the streaming giant. Simmons has renewed his contract with Spotify and ...

Congress averted a government shutdown Friday just hours before the funding deadline, after the Senate approved a House-passed spending bill that exposed deep rifts within the Democratic Party.

The 217-213 vote to approve Republicans’ stopgap bill saw just one GOP defection, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and now amplifies pressure on Senate Democrats to decide whether to back the ...

Jordan Hudson, the 24-year-old girlfriend of NFL icon Bill Belichick, let slip an affectionate nickname for the legendary coach. On Thursday, March 13, Hudson posted on Instagram Stories about a ...

A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better. See how many works of prose and poetry by popular Irish ...

For almost four decades, Michael Connelly has set his characters loose in a city of big dreams and lucky breaks. Now they’re facing an altered landscape. So is he. By Elisabeth Egan In ...