Marjoe Gortner, whose childhood as an evangelical preacher was the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary "Marjoe" and who went on to have a career as an actor, died Friday. He was 82.

Milt Windler, one of the leaders of Mission Control who directed the effort to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely, has died.

Alma Katsu’s latest release, “Incarnate,” explores the dangers of social media through a modern retelling of “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”

Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it.

SHIYAN, China (AP) — Physical training is less demanding and corporal punishment has been eliminated. New ways of motivating students have been introduced instead. Among them is the chanting of slogans aimed at building physical and inner strength.

Mary Louise Weller, the actress known for her role as Mandy Pepperidge in "Animal House," died Thursday after a long illness. She was 79.

Billions were spent purchasing warehouses, rushing contracts and trying to establish detention operations in locations that didn’t meet regulations.

The Russian chess player Garry Kasparov spoke out after the US charged five alleged Russian intelligence agents accused of plotting to murder a 'prominent Russian dissident' living in the United States.

Greenhouse gas emissions from the AI sector could reach worrying levels by the end of the decade, according to a study published Wednesday by the French advocacy group Green IT. This is in addition to the damage caused to aquatic environments and fine particle pollution.

Jaimie Bethea, a 21-year-old mass communication specialist, had been deployed on the USS Fort Lauderdale for more than 11 months. She died by suicide in June.

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

People born between 1970 to 1985 are dying more frequently, in what researchers call a "genuinely alarming trend." A new study found they are seeing "increasing mortality in cardiovascular disease, ca...

Naked Eyes singer Peter Byrne, whose band scored hits in the 1980s with ‘Always Something There to Remind Me’ and ‘Promises, Promises,’ dies at 74.

She was part of the leftist radical group, which mocked institutional authority with political satire and street theater.

Along with being a long-time columnist for the Sun-Times, he was White House correspondent for the Tribune and pioneered political writing at Politico.

Exit Party presents an arresting vision of a world in which time is porous and people are duplicated. Like Mandel's prior novels, it's ingenious, eerie and complex — and it hits close to home.

There’s an AI-generated “biography” of me that is just my book “The Last American Road Trip” plagiarized near verbatim and sold under the byline of a non-existent person. Today I got an AI-generated e...

ALS diagnoses were highest among male veterans, 61 and younger, who had served in the Air Force, Coast Guard and Navy

A free interactive map of real filming locations, built from Wikidata, plus the real places video games are set in. Search a title to see where it was shot, or a place to see what was made there.

Seventeen-year-old Isabel tees up balls for golfers in a lush luxury oasis in Manila. It's the feature film debut of writer and director Rafael Manuel, and every shot of Filipiñana churns with life.

What is the universe made of, and how do we know? Those are the questions Katie Mack, a Waterloo astrophysicist and researcher at Perimeter Institute seeks to answer in her new book, "How to Build a U...