Volunteers with the LiTEArary society read to children who live in "book deserts" and bring them their own books.

When you’re smack dab in the middle of something, you can’t be more in the middle of it.

It can be very difficult to understand why people would consistently vote against their own best interests — why they would support policies over and over that create financial hardships.

Sales of non-chocolate candy are growing faster than those of chocolate. With cocoa in shortage, manufacturers are changing pack sizes, adding fillers and dipping candy in "white creme."

Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay.

Amazon's cloud computing service provides back-end support to many companies that operate online. When it has problems, so do they.

With age comes wisdom. And wrinkles. And joint pain. In wellness circles, the buzz is that collagen supplements can help with all these concerns. But are these claims something you should swallow?

English spelling can be a museum of earlier pronunciations, as we see in words like "night," "through," and "cough."

We Americans had our own demagogues, authoritarians, and fascists in the 1930s. But we ultimately had the good sense not to put them in charge of things.

Organizers say they expect millions of Americans will march this weekend against the policies of the Trump administration. The protests come amid National Guard deployments in several cities.