In today's LTE Donald Plummer seems to have a defeatist attitude about great empires doomed to failure. A quick look at those he listed I found a common thread: corruption, weak leadership, ...

Even with 100 firmness levels, firmness is really only detectable in increments of 10. A separate adjustable base is required to unlock the bed’s potential. Odds are, you've heard of Sleep Number ...

Denmark's state-run postal service is dismantling its iconic red mailboxes and will end letter delivery service on December 30. Henrik Petit / PostNord Denmark’s cheery, bright red mailboxes are an ...

The institution has tried to work with the administration’s demands that it present a more uplifting view of American history. By Graham Bowley The Trump administration on Thursday scolded the ...

PBS sent a letter to the Arkansas Educational Television Commission Wednesday expressing surprise about the commission’s plan to drop PBS programming and are encouraging it to reconsider the decision.

In the 1960s, Germany reopened the Dachau concentration camp as a national historic site, recognizing the tragedy of that place where many prisoners lost their lives during World War II. I visited it ...

The Toronto Blue Jays are coming off a World Series appearance and spent big this offseason to get back. They signed Dylan Cease to a seven-year, $210 million deal and added Tyler Rogers on a ...

Braydon Fisher wasn't supposed to be this good in his rookie season. The scouting reports on the 25-year-old right-hander always mentioned his power arm but questioned whether he could throw enough ...

To the editor: The fight over the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration reminds me of the unsuccessful battle to save the Ambassador Hotel (“Fixing this downtown L.A. building would cost $700 million, ...

A man with a long history of arrests is now accused of killing a woman during a home invasion in a quiet San Francisco neighborhood, a case that is renewing scrutiny of California’s mental-health ...

In our clinical training as local medical students, we’ve met patients whose lives could have been transformed by access to syringe service programs. The teen with HIV whose body shuts down when she ...

Commendations and thanks are due to the young man who was staffing the customer service counter at the Eagle River Fred Meyer the morning of Nov. 29. As I was shopping, I noticed a man lying in one of ...