If you loved the "Dune" movie starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, try reading the books next. There's plenty of "Dune" ...

As a newer retiree, I’ve checked a few things off my “wish list” of retirement adventures. Taking my wife to Alaska last year, making it to Spring training this year, ...

Most would head to the hospital. Teddy Roosevelt reached for his notes. After being shot in the chest by an assassin, he delivered a full 84-minute speech—bleeding the entire time.

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There’s a reason spelling bees are only common in English-speaking countries: English spelling is absurd. Even the most ...

The Titanic's sinking claimed over 1,500 lives. There were well-known people among the casualties.

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has ...

This is the seventh edition of a new weekly newsletter on the crazy world of New Jersey politics. You can subscribe here. Whispers of a shutdown It’s only April, but I’ve already heard the “S” word ...