Although there are cur­rently said to be more than 14 bil­lion pages on the Internet, a new study shows that nav­i­ga­tion between any two of these pages should take you no more … read more »

In a country where 11 mil­lion people live without papers, cut­ting 50,000 more visas without improving legal immi­gra­tion flows will do nothing to fix the greater system, according to Rachel … read more »

The drug com­pany Merck is in hot water for using car­toon char­ac­ters and stickers to market grape-​​​​flavored children’s allergy medicine.

Experts warn that the recent glut of reported acts of can­ni­balism in the United States, Canada, Japan and Sweden is a trend that — fig­u­ra­tively as well as lit­er­ally — … read more »

Thirty-​​​​three years after the dis­ap­pear­ance of Etan Patz, the only sus­pect ever arrested is as much an enigma as the missing child case that has baf­fled inves­ti­ga­tors for decades.

Grad­u­a­tion speakers include Pres­i­dent Obama, Oprah Win­frey and Jane Lynch.

Debby calls her 26-​​​​year-​​​​old daughter Beth three times a day –  and might add a few daily texts on top of that. Mother and daughter, both of whom live in Denver, … read more »

As details emerge on the kid­nap­ping of an infant in Texas on Tuesday, psy­chol­o­gists said the woman who allegedly com­mitted the crime seemed to fit a familiar pro­file of an … read more »

Adults with dis­abil­i­ties are more likely to be vic­tims of vio­lence than adults who are not dis­abled, according to a new study pub­lished online in The Lancet.

A child was charged with murder and felony assault in the fatal stab­bing of a 12-​​​​year-​​​​old boy, author­i­ties said Wednesday.