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Ryan Burge’s Vanishing Church shows the importance of faith for America. Burge is a sociologist who has carved out a nearly singular online profile as a prominent purveyor of charts and graphs about ...

The weather forecast is looking promising for warmer weather as the calendar turns to March. In the East, a dramatic warm-up is in the forecast, and the Climate Prediction Center's outlook for March 6 ...

Georgia is ending the week on a warm and humid note, with temperatures climbing near record daily highs Thursday and Friday. Forecasters say the unseasonable warmth is being fueled by a strong ...

A lewd joke shared in the deluge of the Epstein files summarizes Jeffrey Epstein's fascination with religious power. The joke's set up: "four Catholic men and a Catholic woman" are sitting around ...

At first glance, the December meeting of a little-known government panel looked like ordinary bureaucratic business. But then, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s advisory board opened its ...

Hello, world? Can I come out of hibernation yet? Folks in the central and eastern United States who've endured weeks of bitter cold and snow are wondering: Is winter over? Will the polar vortex come ...

The Sun is now at the most active point in its roughly 11‑year solar cycle, and scientists say the current peak has arrived earlier and more forcefully than first expected. As activity climbs, ...