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Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — Torrents of predawn rain unleashed flooding that killed at least 111 people in a market town where northern Nigerian farmers sell their wares to traders from the south, officials said ...

WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS. By Grady Hendrix. Berkley. 496 pages. $30. The Charleston region has its share of homegrown authors, but there’s only one Grady Hendrix. You’ll find no Pat Conroy ...

Many adults around the world believe that spells, curses or other magic can influence people’s lives. Survey respondents in sub-Saharan African countries and in Colombia are especially likely to hold ...

The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Greta Gerwig's upcoming Narnia movie has found its White Witch in British actress Emma Mackey (Barbie; Sex Education; Death on the Nile). She'll play Jadis of ...

Despite persistent rumors to the contrary, Elizabeth Olsen is now claiming that she will not return as Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch, for Marvel Studios' next Avengers movies. "I didn’t ...

Louie figured he was taking a gamble when he submitted his passport application after President Trump's inauguration. He had a passport, which was valid for another two years. But at the end of ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, and its grants create the foundation of basic science knowledge on which major health advances ...