“Why her?” the journalist Mark Oppenheimer writes toward the end of his first biography, “Judy Blume: A Life.” “What is it about Judy and her work that won her so many millions of fans?” Partly talent ...

University of Dayton sophomore Molly O'Riordan had nine points, nine rebounds, two blocked shots two steals and an assist in the Flyers 75-66 victory over Evansville on Sunday, Dec. 21 at UD Arena.

Francis Crick missed a crucial seminar in 1951, probably because he was seeing a lover. James Watson did go, failed to take notes and misremembered key details. As a result, their first model of DNA ...

On Nov. 1, 1938, in a two-horse match, Seabiscuit defeated the favored Triple Crown winner War Admiral by four lengths in what was dubbed the “Race of the Century” at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

Sometimes, nice guys do finish first. This notion suffuses practically every page of “Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist,” Daniel Pollack-Pelzner’s worshipful, virtually-no-warts-at-all ...

Perhaps a true-to-life biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, can never be written. Smith’s claims to accessing the divine were too outlandish, his embrace of polygamy too ...

Desi Arnaz’s life ricocheted between privilege and economic hardship, creative peaks and alcoholic lows — the stuff of high drama. But it was comedy that secured his legacy. The Cuban American ...

Boundless Bio is in a bind. A phase 1/2 trial has revealed the shortcomings of Boundless’ lead candidate, prompting the company to lay off one-third of its staff and pivot to a combination of two ...

Mark Twain was America’s first celebrity, a multiplatform entertainer loved and recognized all over the world. Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one-man ...

This year brings with it many exciting big-ticket book releases, ranging from the discovered diaries of a literary titan to the hotly awaited memoir of a major star. We’ve surveyed the publishing ...

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Redistricting is back for another try in California in the 1 1/16-mile Seabiscuit Handicap (G2T) Nov. 30, taking on many of the usual local suspects on the Del Mar turf. In his previous trip west for ...