A Florida-based silver miner has filed a damages claim against JPMorgan , accusing the bank of manipulating the silver market to push prices so low the company's mine had to close.

quotation from Star Trek

Will Smith stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday (Jan. 14) to promote his upcoming threequel, Bad Boys For Life, and opened up about his early career as a rapper and hip-hop star.

It’s no more scientifically valid than a BuzzFeed quiz.

Fishermen who were allowed to take unused war-era undersea copper cables have gone too far, "salvaging" fibre-optic lines providing some of Vietnam's Internet and other international communications.

Pepperoni is America's favorite pizza topping, but where does it come from? What is the secret origin of pepperoni? You can find out in this article!

Happy hour has been banned in Massachusetts since 1984, part of an effort to curb drunken driving accidents.

Why Do Catholics Eat Fish on Friday?, by Michael P. Foley; published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 When I picked up this intriguingly noscriptd paperback, I expected it to be a zippy read, informative, but light and amusing. It is informative … Continue reading…

Learn more about the history of sushi -the origins of your favorite Japanese food- and how it has evolved into what we know and love today.

Dolphins can't taste sweet, savory, and bitter tastes. In fact, they might not be able to taste their fish at all, according to a new study. That might be because they swallow fish whole.

Eccentic and bizarre.

In chemistry, pH (/piːˈeɪtʃ/ pee-AYCH), also referred to as acidity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen"). It is a scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution. Acidic solutions (solutions with higher…

It may have altered the outcome of the Revolutionary War.

deliberate crash of an Airbus A320 in the French Alps on March 24, 2015

Here are 15 things everyone should know about Fred Rogers:

Serbian former flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute

American Airlines flight 587 crashed in Belle Harbor, New York, U.S., on November 12, 2001, killing all 260 people on the plane and five people on the ground.

American martial artist and actor

Read about how and why 'Independence Day' (1996) was and remains so successful in Joseph Wade's critical analysis of the famed Blockbuster.

Chicago television hijacking incident