Katy Perry is exactly the kind of celebrity to go to space.

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In a famous incident in Mexico City in 1976, Vargas Llosa punched fellow Nobel Prize winner and ex-friend García Márquez, whom he later ridiculed as “Castro’s courtesan.” It was never ...

The Trump administration hasn’t yet delivered huge deportation numbers — but it is using the internet to provide regular ...

Hold off on our beloved football chant for now though. I’m attending the Nobel Peace Prize Forum at Luther College. Every year, one Midwestern college (Augsburg, Augustana, Concordia, Luther or St.

Milton Hershey, J. Pierpont Morgan, and Henry Clay Frick were among the notable figures who never made it on the Titanic.

Anna Li, a doctoral student at Pitt, won the Hult Prize, a year-long competition challenging young entrepreneurs to solve global issues through their own businesses, in September. The $1 million in ...

Right-wing personalities have taken to their podcasts and radio programs to deride Donald Trump for his egregious and horrendous missteps concerning a multitude of issues ranging from tariffs and ...

He was author of such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of the Goat.” A prolific novelist and essayist and winner of myriad prizes, Vargas Llosa was ...

When former leader Bashar al-Assad fell, new Syria war crimes investigations began. But U.S. budget cuts have halted some work. For families of the disappeared, it means justice delayed or denied.

Peruvian Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigour and lyrical prose for five decades and came close to being president of his country ...