Below the Clouds” and Werner Herzog’s “Ghost Elephants” offer thrilling but troubled visions of a world in environmental flux.

Matt Davies is Newsday’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist. Davies is also a children’s book author and illustrator, currently publishing with Macmillan imprint; Neal Porter Books/Roaring ...

On this day in pop culture history, the very first telephone directory was published and The New Yorker was published for the ...

New research is providing unique insights into the love notes, drawings, jokes and political commentary scratched into the ancient city's walls. Pompeii Archaeological Park Some 2,000 years ago, a ...

As dusk settled over Pompeii, guests strolled into the grand home of one of the city’s wealthiest families for an evening of drinks and delights. Household staff led these privileged Pompeians through ...

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Walk through the ancient ruins of Pompeii and uncover the fascinating story of a Roman city preserved by volcanic ash. #Pompeii #AncientHistory #RomanRuins #WorldHeritage JD Tuccille: Embarrassed ...

Color returns to a buried Roman villa near Pompeii, where painted walls long sealed by volcanic ash are coming back into view. The rediscovery matters now because exposure begins a fragile countdown ...

The second fatal shooting of an American citizen by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis ignited a political firestorm. Jack Ohman leads this week’s editorial cartoon gallery with his view of ...

The U.S.-Canada men’s gold-medal hockey match and the Games as a whole serve as a reminder that national pride isn’t always a bad thing. She didn’t remember what she’d said, only that it had gone on ...