WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

The share of adults diagnosed with shingles between 2019 and 2026 rose steeply with age, from about 7 per 10,000 among those born between 2006 and 2008 to 182 per 10,000 among those born between 1968 ...

New analysis of archival Hubble data points to the possibility of "dead" white dwarf stars hosting second-generation planetary systems.

Making it work would require pulling a lot of (cosmic) strings—but perhaps we need wild explanations to explain wild events.

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

Swooning over China’s repressive communist dictator and belligerently acting out at the United Nations. Yes, it’s a psychiatric emergency.

A Madrid startup has built an ice cube that turns blue, bitter and solid the instant a drink is spiked, trapping the drug as evidence for police.

The underlying issue is best approached with a nuanced understanding of history, culture, diplomacy and regional politics. Trump skipped all that.

Gadi Eisenkot, a former military commander who has emerged as Netanyahu’s main rival in the Oct. 27 election, accused him of evading responsibility for security lapses.

A conversation with Carl Hoiland & Joel Edwards of Zanskar.

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

A woman said she paid $30,000 to rent a home that belonged to a UC Berkeley professor. But he had been killed months before in an alleged murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by his ex-wife.

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

As culture warriors continue to stoke the flames of a gender panic in professional sports, wild conspiracy theories are coming into play.