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Jane Austen fans are celebrating 250 years since the writer’s birth with a series of celebrations – including Georgian ...

A Supreme Court ruling over a Montgomery County lawsuit gave parents the right to opt their kids out of lessons with LGBTQ+ books. These are the children's books they relied on.

The novel that inspired the film ‘Jaws’ was decidedly populist. The movie? Not so much.

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Longtime film historian Richard Koszarski, the museum curator for the Barrymore Film Center in Fort Lee, who wrote the book "Fort Lee: The Film Town" about the borough's film past, curated the ...

Directed by Penny Marshal (best known for “Big” and “A League of Their Own”), the film riffs off the real-life work of Dr. Oliver Sacks, a trailblazing doctor who wrote the book ...

The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme.

After five years on the Supreme Court, Justice Amy Coney Barrett is defying expectations, staking out independent ground, and breaking with President Donald Trump.

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Trump just revoked temporary protected status for Haitians, after putting them at the center of a racist conspiracy while campaigning for president.