From Estonia to Antarctica, this once-pagan symbol has taken on many strange forms. In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children admiring a Christmas tree ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

The New York Yankees are on the hunt for another starting pitcher and one of their top targets, flame-throwing Japanese right hander Tatsuya Imai, may no longer be an option. While the Yankees are ...

Drone pilots from Ukraine's Third Army Corps have destroyed a Russian Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower system on the Lyman front in Donetsk Oblast. Source: Third Army Corps; video from the Stalevi Levy, ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece -- The Olympic flame began its journey Wednesday to the Milan Cortina Winter Games missing a little of its usual magic. Bad weather lashing western Greece forced organizers to ...

At a temple in Ancient Olympia, a flame is drawn from the sun to begin its journey to the Winter Games. The choreographed ceremony inspired by ancient Greece is designed to link the original games to ...

DEAR NEIL: This redbud tree was dug up on the side of a mountain in Arkansas about 12 years ago. It has done really well, but this spring only one side bloomed.

Whether it’s a pet that evolves in your palm, a movie hero that learns to trust you, or a play kitchen that actually runs real water, the biggest toys of 2025 all lean into immersive, tactile, ...