When Ken and Beth Kiessling of Arbutus, Maryland, purchased tickets to see Gallagher at the Fish Bowl Inn in 1998, they were excited. The prop comic had headlined numerous specials on Showtime and was ...

Espionage novelist John le Carré penned hits like The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. But his ...

Reading transports us to worlds we would never see, introduces us to people we would never meet, and instills emotions we might never otherwise feel. It also provides an array of health benefits. Here ...

If a product flunks on both these counts, it can be sold—but manufacturers can’t call it “ice cream.” It’s now a frozen dairy dessert. Thanks to more air and less milk fat, it’s likely cheaper to ...

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A domed lid: Oxygen is released inside the pickle jar when the veggies ferment and go bad. Because that oxygen has no place to go, it causes the lid to bulge and create a dome-like appearance.

These days, the phrase hot-button issue or hot-button topic refers to any matter that is fraught with emotion, especially the ...

Live, laugh, love actually has dual origins. There’s the phrase itself, which appears to have grown popular thanks to a poem ...

Idioms and proverbs can be found in thousands of different cultures and languages across the world—and although there are ...

The United States government knew it needed to step up its espionage game during World War II. The Office of Strategic ...

A number of Millennials’ favorite YA book series are still going or about to enjoy a reboot; here are five familiar titles to ...

Welcome to Kennections, a weekly quiz created by Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings. Here's how to play: All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?