There's always a lot of excitement about the Preakness Stakes — the second leg of the Triple Crown — but this year's weekend is off to a tragic start. Laurel Park is hosting this year's Preakness as ...

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I spend more time today than ever before interacting with terminal windows, which is something I don’t think Past Me would have believed in the early ’90s. Back then, poor MS-DOS was the staid ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery. While other ...

As we do every year here at For The Win, alongside our top-notch draft coverage we will provide our immediate thoughts and analysis on every move made in Thursday's first round. Whether or not a ...

From Friday's Sixth Circuit decision in U.S. v. Farris, by Judges Eric Clay, Julia Gibbons, and Whitney Hermandorfer: Howe [a court-appointed criminal defense lawyer appealing a drug trafficking ...

Unit sales of print books had a slow start in 2026, according to data from Circana BookScan. Total unit sales fell 3.1% compared to a year ago for the quarter ending March 28, 2026, dropping to 163.5 ...

Here's how you can submit letters to the Public Pulse opinion section. In an introductory column that I wrote when I got to The World-Herald 11 months ago, I mentioned that when my mentor Steve Buttry ...

The 2026 NCAA Tournament bracket was announced on Sunday, kickstarting the annual tradition of filling out your entries for the Bracket Games and predicting exactly how the opening rounds will unfold.

It was the phone call that changed the world, though the caller was actually in the same building as the recipient. “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.” And with those words, transmitted over a ...

I can't stand opening the Microsoft Store. It's slow to load, confusing to browse, and full of ads for things I don't care about. Luckily, thanks to a new feature, I don't have to open the Microsoft ...

When The Beatles broke up in 1969 (although it wasn’t announced until 1970), the four men made a point of moving forward into solo forays pretty quickly. They also inherently understood that their ...