Recent discoveries from the nascent study of pig cognition offered evidence that pigs were quick learners, slow to forget and similar to humans in many ways.

A fiercely private man, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said he is going public to counter the idea that leukemia is a death sentence.

A growing number of teenagers have been dressing to articulate gender identity and sexual orientation, confounding school officials, whose responses have ranged from indifference to applause to bans.

The fall of the Berlin Wall was so fine a moment, it takes effort to recall how spontaneous the breach really was.

After a daylong clash with Republicans over a proposal that has been a Democratic goal for years, lawmakers voted to approve the $1.1 trillion, 10-year-plan that Democrats said would provide relief to Americans struggling to buy or hold on to health insurance.

Sales of footwear were up sharply in September and October, possibly because they are a less expensive way to indulge.

A new breed of children’s movies play a kind of reverse dress-up, disguising adult anxieties in the costumes of innocent make-believe and fanciful spectacle.

A gunman identified as Jason Rodriguez, 40, walked into his former workplace and opened fire on Friday, officials said.