On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X, Mark Whitaker, author of "The Afterlife of Malcolm X," looks at how the charismatic and defiant Black leader's influence has grown in the decades ...

A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times, and scientists are studying his blood to treat snakebite.

Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other ...

Tim Friede’s blood is now the source of a potential new universal anti-venom, following hundreds of meticulous bites and ...

Freida McFadden is the master of nail-biting thrillers — and we have a preview of her next one. “The Intruder” begins on a ...

1927: The Stevens Hotel — then the largest hotel in the world — opened on Michigan Avenue. The $30 million, 28-story towers ...

Since the 1970s, the Capital Mall has been the heart of our community: Watch a blockbuster, check out a book or shop the latest trends.

The brown recluse and black widow are the most common venomous spiders in the U.S., Mississippi. What are their habitats? Know how to prevent a bite.

This book is well researched, with a wealth of detail, but a tad too much of the author’s personal experiences, which ...

The Onion began with a group of scrappy Gen Xers who wanted to poke fun at mainstream news. It's evolved into an at times ...

North Carolina House Republicans passed a bill this week that would ban books. So why are they insisting ... ignores the very real concerns people have with this bill.

Becky Showalter, center, and William Johnson, right, listen as Janice Robinson reads from The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas during a ‘Celebration of Banned Books’ at Halifax Mall in downtown ...