Sam Nordquist, a Black trans man from Minnesota, was found murdered in a field in upstate New York. He was 24 years old. The ongoing investigation suggests that Nordquist was subjected to prolonged ...

Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested Tuesday night after speaking out in protest at a Huntington Beach City Council meeting. The California resident had voiced his disgust against a proposal to ...

It all started with a Messenger notification. In my inbox was a blurry image of a Tiramisu Cupcake sent by my grandpa, featuring a too-perfect frosting swirl with a thick coating of cocoa powder and a ...

At first, the footage could pass for a swath of sky that has suddenly become host to a flock of birds. Doves, perhaps. But ...

The New York Yankees have finally addressed the reason they lost last year’s World Series and haven’t won one since 2009. Or ...

The only thing wrong about Canada's 3-2 overtime triumph over the United States in Thursday's 4 Nations title game is that there was only one extra period, and that lasted under 500 seconds. By rights ...

Welcome to Listening Habits, a new column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. What is it like to make party and sex music in an age where people are doing both of those things a lot ...

On a long enough time scale and if the sport is widely popular, a country tends to lose its dominance in a sport it creates. England ceded soccer long ago. The U.S. is, perhaps, in the process of ...

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