The way JMW Turner depicted a storm at sea shocked his contemporaries, and foreshadowed the evolution of abstract art.

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A photograph of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of killing a health care executive in New York City on Dec. 4, is ...

CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — An aspiring social media star reported missing more than a week ago in Clayton County was found dead in Jonesboro on Tuesday, police said. Clayton County Police said that ...

Most of the messages on the crowd-sourced fundraising site GiveSendGo reflect a deep frustration shared by many Americans over the U.S. healthcare system.

Caroline Blackwood inspired paintings by Lucian Freud and poetry by Robert Lowell. Her own work has been unjustly forgotten.