Every year, thousands of prisoners in the U.S. are placed in solitary confinement, where they endure isolation, abuse, and mental suffering. This practice might soon become rarer for some inmates in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Willie Colón, photo courtesy of Craft Latino Willie Colón, a trombonist, bandleader, composer, and key architect of salsa music, ...

The trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer and producer from the Bronx helped shape the sound of salsa. By Ed Morales The music that the world now knows as salsa would probably not exist if not for ...

Night Manager actor Hugh Laurie has been dragged into a bitter row over Zionism after he paid a heartfelt tribute to Israeli television producer Dana Eden, who was found dead in a hotel room in Athens ...

A scandal at the Winter Olympics has left the Canadian curling teams on the defensive and Canadians reeling over the crack in their country's polite persona. Over the weekend, Canadian curler Marc ...