Potentially volatile cellmates are a fact of life in California prisons. That may change as the state’s incarcerated population declines, freeing up space for single-person quarters.

Former N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a long list of accomplishments, many of them progressive. In the race for New York City ...

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Florida is the land of sunshine and good vibes, but when the sun goes down on Downtown Fort Myers, something ghastly takes over. The waterside community is home to spiritual abnormalities that have ...

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

Filmmaker Ken Burns, in his latest documentary series, tackles what he calls ‘the most important event in the history of the ...

Fifty years ago today, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer brought viewers like you a novel way to watch news: a half-hour evening ...

Reading certain books felt like an objectionable act for Emily Zarka as a kid in 1990s Vermont. Monster-related media consumption ... to discuss creatures that haunt the human imagination for PBS ...

Some social media users aren't too keen on Daniel Tiger, the titular character of a "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" spinoff show on PBS Kids. The protagonist of the PBS Kids show "Daniel Tiger’s ...

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in ...