For author Percival Everett, libraries have long been a source of knowledge and discovery and pleasure, even of the forbidden kind.

In “Open Socrates,” Agnes Callard argues for a way of being that sounds a lot like her own.

He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

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The Chinese chatbot took the world by storm and rattled stock markets. But lost in all the attention was a focus on how the ...

Federal authorities have arrested a former Federal Reserve senior adviser for allegedly giving inside economic information to China. A grand jury indictment accuses John Harold Rogers, 63, of ...

Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? We VERIFY the answers to common questions.

What better way to get people together than to talk about a book, ask organizers of Whatcom READS. For 17 years, the program has connected people across the county for a profound — and fun — ...

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Both Oregon Ducks basketball programs on the men's and women's side are expected to be invited to the Big Dance this upcoming postseason. For the first time in ...

The Washington State Department of Agriculture made a $93 million line-item budget request to keep food assistance programs like it in place and help food banks and social networks in place.

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