Ellis Island closes its doors By The Associated Press undefined Today is Tuesday, Nov. 12, the 317th day of 2024. There are ...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are on the brink of clinching unified GOP control over Washington under President-elect Donald ...

Rosamund Young has loved cows all her life. And why not? After all, she was born in a cottage on her grandfather's dairy farm ...

"Carson the Magnificent," by Bill Zehme with Mike Thomas. (Simon & Schuster/TNS) For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight ...

It’s painful to read those stories of men wrongly condemned and forgotten, slowly abandoned by everyone, casualties of an ...

John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It's called ...

If you're a reader, you might want to keep your fingers crossed for a rainy November - especially in Connecticut.That way, you'll have plenty of time to stay indoors with the new books coming this ...

French economist Thomas Piketty has long argued that the richest figures and their heirs will only grow exponentially wealthier in the coming decades, concealing fortunes in offshore tax havens and ...

From the very first page of Susan Minot's latest novel, "Don't Be a Stranger," Ivy Cooper, a single mother in her early 50s, ...

Thousands of fans streamed into Great American Ball Park despite steady rain on Sunday to pay respects to Pete Rose, baseball ...

Toy giant Mattel says it "deeply" regrets an error on the packaging of its "Wicked" movie-themed dolls, which mistakenly ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More than half of the monkeys bred for medical research that escaped from a compound in South Carolina ...