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On the morning of May 23, 1925, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the small hot spring town of Kinosaki, near the coast of the Sea of Japan.The …

Washington launched the operation without notifying key Gulf allies first, U.S. officials tell NBC News. Then Trump abruptly canceled it. Saudi officials were angered by President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that the U.S. would start guiding ships through the Strait of Hormuz, fearing the …

Southern states are racing to redraw political boundaries that eliminate majority-Black districts after the Supreme Court gutted critical protections …

You don’t hire bouncers in the hope that they’ll smash up your bar, and you don’t hire bank guards in the hope that they’ll break into your vault. …

In 1928, naturalist Henry Beston famously wrote that our fellow animals are “gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings,” he added. ”They are other nations.” Beston employed this turn of …

Hello, stranger! That's a good thing to say, as we reported in a story we published three years ago: Why a stranger's hello can do more than just brighten your day. Correspondent Rhitu Chatterjee reported on studies showing that simply chatting with strangers has a lasting impact: It can make the …

The actress shares why the Mindy Kaling-produced Netflix series is her dream project, how Disney Channel was ahead of the curve and the piece of …

Spare a thought for parents-to-be who are agonising over what to name their little bundles of joy. Because, according to research, it does indeed …

With the first pitch of his start against the New York Yankees on Friday, Milwaukee Brewers phenom Jacob Misiorowski reared back and threw a 102.4 …

Jon Krakauer reflects on the 1996 Everest disaster and the state of the mountain today. On May 10, it will be 30 years since a squall swept across the upper reaches of Everest, killing eight climbers that night in what was then one of the deadliest mountaineering disasters of all time. (By the end …