"67," pronounced "six seven," spread from a rap song, through sports and social media, to classrooms and homes across the U.S ...

France is the latest country to change its criminal code to a consent-based definition of rape, but other developed countries ...

Debate in the courts over the legality of Trump's deployment of troops to U.S. cities has centered on the definition of the ...

Filled with tongue-in-cheek humor, cheap scares, and over-the-top dialogue, Leprechaun in the Hood is the definition of hip hop horror fun in a time capsule of early-2000s absurdity that refuses to ...

In ‘False Memories & Eldritch Interludes,’ the Vermont horror author and folklorist collects his short stories and reveals the real-life tales behind them.

Christmas gets a New Hampshire twist thanks to Native heritage and a sprinkling of colonial nostalgia. Meanwhile, Diwali, ...

Implementation of a new definition of obesity yields a substantial increase in the prevalence of obesity, according to a study.

Queen B traces its roots to Puscifer the Store, Maynard’s former retail shop located a few miles west in the quaint mining ...

A new Harvard and Mass General Brigham study suggests that nearly 70 percent of U.S. adults could be classified as obese ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham examined a new way to define obesity that goes beyond BMI by also considering how body fat is distributed. Obesity rates in the United States may increase dramatica ...

Dictionaries are deceptively simple, and incredibly ambitious. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Stefan Fatsis about his book, "Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) The Modern Dictionary." ...