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The war in Iran has slowed growth, France's deficit is expanding and social unrest has recently turned violent.

Brian Frange, who calls apples the "greatest fruit to grace the earth," has made it his calling to rank and re-rank at least 100 varieties of the fruit, based on 10 criteria, including density, skin, flesh, crispness, beauty and, of course, taste.

Historian Julian Zelizer says that in the early 1980s, when most Americans were just gaining their footing with the personal and interconnected computers, "WarGames," a major Hollywood movie, helped ordinary viewers imagine some of the problems that the new technology might create.

Democrats are hoping to gain political ground ahead of midterms, while Republicans scramble to hold onto their foothold.

A gap in the law in New York and nearly two dozen other states makes it hard to prosecute rape if the victim has been drinking or taking drugs beforehand.

The World Health Organization says a possible case of pneumonic plague poses a very low risk outside Russia.

The Supreme Court is looking at a case today about a worker with a retirement plan through his employer, Intel, and the investment choices Intel made.

Border agents dispersed a camp of protestors along the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday who were protecting the last tree in a stand of towering cottonwood trees.

According to The Wall Street Journal, President Trump's Justice Department is reviewing the conduct of special prosecutors who, more than 50 years ago, investigated the Watergate break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” is a staple of the musical theatre repertoire, with multiple Tony wins.