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Pearl Jam isn’t quite the last band standing from the glory days of grunge—their Seattle brothers Mudhoney still fight the good fight, delivering good new records every few years—but they are among an ...

Eric Boodman focuses on narrative features, exploring the startling ways that science and medicine affect people’s lives. You can reach Eric on Signal at eboodman.88. Megan Molteni reports on ...

The farm experts at Gold Shaw Farm reveal the joy and struggle of raising first farm pigs. Hyundai plant shut down after hundreds of workers arrested in massive ICE raid Toddler Erupts in Tears After ...

From monster trucks and massive pumpkins with a side of music to a slew rides and all the fried food your arteries can handle, the Nashville Fair is back. Thousands are expected to flock to the ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — It began as a quirky pizza restaurant with a cult following in 2013 in Robbinsdale, and now it's back with the team from Nouvelle Brewing. Next month, another Pig Ate My Pizza ...

Billboard sizes up the 23 new songs on Bieber's semi-surprise sequel set. By Andrew Unterberger Swag, swag, swag… on II. The suddenly very prolific pop superstar Justin Bieber announced over social ...

Over the past year, folk singer Jesse Welles has become an unlikely star thanks to protest songs about everything from ICE raids and the health care industry to the opioid epidemic and the invasion of ...

The Runarounds is the new musical teen drama on Amazon Prime Video, but what songs make the soundtrack? Find the list below. The eight-episode show follows a group of recent high-school graduates in ...

Whether they're watching a Cincinnati Bengals game or cheering for some other irrelevant team, viewers have been tuning into "Monday Night Football" for over 50 years. Games first aired on ABC in 1970 ...

A 67-year-old US man is still alive more than six months after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig. This is the longest a pig organ has survived in a living person. Researchers say the ...

A self-described science nerd is the latest American to get an experimental pig kidney transplant, at a crucial point in the quest to prove if animal organs really might save human lives. The ...