The third week of February is jam-packed with holidays, celebrations and events, from Ash Wednesday and Ramadan to Mardi Gras and the Lunar New Year, and even a solar eclipse. Monday, Feb. 16, kicked ...

Ramadan and Lent will begin the same day this week — a rare overlap that religious leaders and scholars say offers a timely lesson in tolerance as states such as Texas see a rise in anti-Muslim ...

This Tuesday and Wednesday, four holidays from different cultures and religions overlap in a rare calendar year. The celebrations of Fat Tuesday (aka Mardi Gras) and Lunar New Year both occur on ...

jQuery 4.0.0 also debuts with a slimmer build, with the removal of deferred objects and callbacks. Deferreds have long-supported the Promises A+ standard for interoperable JavaScript promises; however ...

A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric patients, finding that many conditions involve similar genes and may not need ...

As animals go about their lives — eating, fighting, having babies — they don’t always follow the script laid out for them by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Not every behavior furthers the cause ...

There are plenty of car brand logos with hidden meanings, but the reason why Porsche and Ferrari both use a horse as their logo boils down to their individual histories, not branding strategy. Even ...

Humans are far from the only primates engaging in same-sex sexual activity. A new study found instances in which 59 nonhuman primate species, including bonobos, chimpanzees and macaques, have taken ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The justices turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The appeal came from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who repeatedly refused to issue marriage licenses ...

The Supreme Court will meet behind closed doors Friday to consider a longshot bid to overturn its decade-old same-sex marriage precedent, an appeal that is churning fear among some LGBTQ advocates ...