Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million light-years. Roughly 66 million years ago, scientists believe an enormous ...

Here is a roundup of our endorsements in the coming primary races. Arkansas residents will go to the polls Tuesday. See you there!

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and a classicist and historian at Stanford ...

When St. Paul Public Schools introduced the temporary virtual learning option about 7,900 of the district’s approximately ...

Missouri isn’t exactly known for looking like the surface of an alien planet, but apparently nobody told Meramec Caverns in Sullivan about that. This underground wonderland looks like something a ...

How do destructive ideas and bouts of collective madness so quickly become policy, law, and the status quo? After all, most have little public support — and are not Western nations supposedly ...

This month offers St. Patrick’s Day and the Oscars, vampires and Mapplethorpe, as well as free ice skating and a final bow from Jonathan Groff.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them.

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...