After living with esophageal adenocarcinoma for nearly five years, my dad had wound up in the emergency room on Dec. 1 with severe weakness and imbalance. An MRI revealed fluid buildup in his brain — ...

Some of the classics beaten into second spot finally topped the charts many years later IT’S always the most hotly-contested chart of the year with the top spot going down in music history. And it ...

Starring Reba McEntire , Rex Linn , Belissa Escobedo , Melissa Peterman , Tokala Black Elk, and Pablo Castelblanco, Season 2 ...

A Kenyan environmentalist hugged a palm tree for 72 straight hours in Nyeri county to draw attention to the rapid loss of the ...

Amanda McNulty embraces the spirit of the season by sharing the joys of visiting your local Christmas tree farm.

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

From Estonia to Antarctica, this once-pagan symbol has taken on many strange forms. In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children admiring a Christmas tree ...

Happiness is taking control of a beloved comic strip. Sony is buying a 41% stake in the Charles M. Schulz comic “Peanuts” and its characters including Snoopy and Charlie Brown from Canada's WildBrain ...