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A satirical website compiled the cost of property damage if Calvin — of the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" — was a real kid. The total: nearly $16,000.

Sophie Blackall, illustrator of the best-selling Ivy and Bean books, has enlisted her heroines in the effort to eradicate measles. They decide that a shot is more practical than moving to the moon.

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The actor says he's been able to do a lot of different things in his life, including his role as Doogie Howser. So when he sat down to write a memoir, he made it a "Choose Your Own Adventure."

On Sunday, October 9, 1864 in the Shenandoah Valley Union General Philip Sheridan instructed two cavalry divisions of Generals George Armstrong Custer and…

With the war’s outcome still in doubt, Abraham Lincoln on Monday, October 10, 1864 wrote Henry Hoffman of Maryland that he favored a new state…

Despite solid Republican victories in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana and substantial Republican gains in traditionally strong Democratic states of the…

"I have had four cancer-scrapings, but so what. If I die, I die," the English musician and former leader of The Smiths wrote in an email interview with a Spanish-language newspaper.

The 9th Circuit Court issued its ruling after the Supreme Court gave tacit approval to three other circuit court decisions that overturned gay-marriage bans.

From the time of slavery, some light-skinned African-Americans escaped racism by passing as white. The new book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, explores what they lost.