The White House has quietly told the FBI to halt background checks on dozens of the president's top staffers and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, sources say.

The White House has directed the FBI to stop conducting background checks into dozens of U.S. President Donald Trump's top staffers, and to transfer the process to the Pentagon, ABC News reported ...

Just How Golden Is Silence? If you can’t avoid a noisy environment, should you play white noise in order to drown out the rest? White noise is a nondescript background hum, kind of like the ...

Nancy White’s paintings reach, for me, the platonic ideal of abstraction. Walking through Romer Young’s New Work, her second solo exhibition with the gallery (not one to fix something that isn’t ...

Do you feel you’re better focused on the job with a little light background jazz or coffee shop chatter compared to pin-drop silence? Scientists might know why.

The abstract white relief, as envisioned by artists from diverse locations, generations, and affiliations, is the unexpectedly thrilling subject of “Sotto Voce,” a new exhibition that opened ...

Detailed new census data reveals half of the country's 50M black people say they're African American while a third of 130M white Americans describe their ethnic background as ENGLISH ...