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Big Ben is the name for the giant bell inside Elizabeth Tower. The chimes are slow by as many as six seconds. Mechanics are placing or removing pennies from the pendulum to alter its speed.

Authorities in Denham Springs, La., threatened Sarah Childs with arrest because her holiday lights were arranged in a particular shape. A judge sided with her, issuing a temporary order allowing her to light up the night with the shape of an extended middle finger.

After nearly 20 years without recording for a major U.S. label, jazz singer Abbey Lincoln has a new album, World is Falling Down.

Christopher McCandless, the subject of the book Into the Wild, lived — and died — in a bus outside Denali National Park in Alaska. The bus became a shrine to him — but now, as a movie version of the book is released, a piece of that bus has been auctioned on eBay.

After hearing from residents opposed to using tolls to pay for the Brent Spence Bridge project, the Kenton County Fiscal Court has passed a resolution…

Readers say it's better for NASA technology to flop on earth than in the sky.

Two Cincinnati men have each received $100,000 from a philanthropic organization that wants to improve the city. People's Liberty named Brad Cooper and…

The FBI says it's arrested a man from a Cincinnati suburb, and charged him with planning an attack on the US Capitol building. Twenty-year-old Christopher…

For more on the Palestinian reaction to recent tensions with Israel, Robert Siegel speaks with Mkhaimer Abu Sada, a political science professor at Al-Azhar University in Gaza City.

Michèle Flournoy writes that "Washington must ramp up support for vulnerable partners — before it's too late."