As Americans have grown physically larger, brands have shifted their metrics to make shoppers feel skinnier—so much so that a women’s size 12 in 1958 is now a size 6. Those numbers are even ...

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced Monday that it will close a federal women's prison in California where sexual abuse was so common that it was known as the "rape club." The Associated ...

May 22, 2024 — At least 5.8 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer's disease, which is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for Alzheimer's, in part because ...

Dog behavior, size, age, grooming needs and activity level are all important, but what about male vs. female dogs? Is a dog’s sex something else you should take into consideration before making ...

Peonage, also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work. Legally, peonage was outlawed by Congress in 1867. However, after ...

Background noise in the custom-built chamber is actually measured in negative decibels, which means it’s below the threshold of human hearing Rose Eveleth: Updated by Smithsonian Magazine ...

The gender pay gap is calculated by the ONS as the difference between average hourly earnings of men and women as a proportion of men’s average hourly earnings. It is a measure across all jobs ...

Luke Mullins is a contributing writer at POLITICO Magazine, where he covers the people and institutions that control Washington’s levers of power. He has been a senior writer at Washingtonian ...

You’ll also see a breakdown of the state’s racial and ethnic disparities in youth incarceration, as well as the age at which the state automatically prosecutes a young person as an adult.

In 2022, the revenue of the global apparel market reached 1.5 trillion U.S. dollars, and the industry is forecast to show positive growth. Revenue was estimated to rise to almost 2 trillion ...

2024 marks the ninth year of the voter-approved 2C Road Improvement Program, with this year’s iteration approved by voters in 2019 at a lower sale tax rate of 0.57%, or 5.7 pennies on a $10 ...

During the trial, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, testified that he paid Daniels on behalf of Trump and that he worked out a reimbursement arrangement with the Trump Organization.