Jewish academic and Hebrew scholar Irene Lancaster explains the Jewish perspective of sacrifice in the Old Testament, ...

Eve Adams, an immigrant and the proprietor of a 1920s lesbian tearoom, was imprisoned for disorderly conduct and obscenity, ...

Heartwarming 'Code Adam Activated': Home Depot workers sprint into action after 4-year-old boy with autism vanishes in store ...

One used to hear this phrase – “raising Cain” – a lot in the church-going South, such as in the following examples: “My ...

In the end, Scopes was found guilty and fined US$100. It was a hollow victory for the creationists. Still, Tennessee (among other states) did not repeal the 1925 legislation until 1967.

The 81-year-old’s transgressive photos of sex workers, trans people and the elderly in Pinochet’s traumatised Chile go on ...

Steve McGehee’s column (“Religion is no friend of mine ...,” Daily News, July 3), was thought-provoking, as always. I share Steve’s discomfit with many of the doctrines, policies, practices, beliefs ...

Embeth Davidtz was a hard-working actress, and then she found her voice as a writer/director. Thanks to a cancelled series, ...

“I'm playing old-man-par golf at the moment,” Adam Scott said of his eight birdies, eight bogeys and the rest pars after 36 holes at Oakmont.

George Palmer Putnam, co-founder of the Jazz Age nightclub, introduced the world to Rudy Vallée and fell hard for Amelia ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” reshaped English literature.