The issues contested in the second-story courtroom of the Rhea County courthouse may seem long settled, but they still divide ...

America marks a century of condescension toward religious fundamentalists that spread from the trial in Tennessee of a ...

It's widely accepted conventional wisdom that when it comes to creative works—TV shows, films, music, books—consumers crave ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through Earth from the most massive collision of black holes ever observed, a ...

Under President Donald Trump, the GOP has decided to go nuclear. The federal government’s support of science and medicine is being systematically destroyed by devastating cuts to research, agencies ...

The Trump administration has proposed closing either the LIGO Hanford observatory in WA or its twin in Louisiana.

In 1925, a teacher deliberately broke a law stating that evolution could not be taught in Tennessee classrooms. His trial ...

A column about fixed-odds wagering on horse racing and the possibilities in sports betting-rife North America.

One hundred years ago, in Dayton, Tennessee, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” was underway, with the battle for children’s public education in the balance. This case has become infamous in American legal ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...

Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on ...