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Most therapists have limited training in suicide. Here are tips for suicidal people on how to find a mental health professional qualified to help.

My husband and I married five years ago at city hall after his cancer diagnosis. Now we’re planning a “public” wedding, and she says it’s ruining hers.

Whether he’s playing big-brained Professor X or big-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, McAvoy always brings the sexy, the intense—and the range.

A team preparing for UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet's possible visit to the tightly controlled Muslim-majority Chinese region of Xinjiang this year should be given "unfettered access", she said on Thursday. In a speech in Geneva, Bachelet welcomed the invitation from China to tour the region but added: "We will continue to request unfettered access for an advance team in preparation for this proposed visit". "We will seek to analyse in depth the human rights situation in China, including the situation... Читать дальше...

There's so much nostalgia that comes when you hear your MacBook's startup chime.

A newly arrived picture book from Australia offers some advice as virus anxiety sets in.

Strategies include taking turns making decisions, or even going it alone.

You can probably guess how that worked out.

A free St. Patrick’s Day party will overtake the iconic dome entrance of the Plaza Hotel & Casino on Tuesday, March 17.

BetRivers Sportsbook and The Event Center offer the best seats for college basketball’s biggest tournament.

Letter adds to signs of Justice Department turmoil over attorney general’s handling of Roger Stone, other Trump-related prosecutions.

Families on Wadmalaw Island have one thing in common: None expressed excitement about their choices. They all vowed to vote, but expressed frustration with the large, chaotic field of candidates.

Citizens of a once-prosperous nation live amid the havoc created by socialism, illiberal nationalism, and political polarization.

The following statement was issued by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley on the passing of entertainer William “Smokey” Burke. Once again, Barbados has lost an icon of the performing arts; a true son...

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark—in all of Europe actually—and Amazon has been tight-lipped about it. It seems there might have been a hack or a well-executed denial-of-service attack. I realize this was in October, but Google autocomplete suggests that “AWS DDoS attack” be followed by a year. These things happen frequently.

Apache CouchDB, the NoSQL database lauded for its speed and querying capacities, but derided for potentially lax default security choices, just rolled out a 3.0 release that addresses the security questions head-on, making the database now “secure by default.”

GraalVM, Oracle’s open source, polyglot virtual machine — supporting languages ranging from C and Java to JavaScript, Python, and Ruby — emphasizes continued experimental support for Windows builds with the just-released version 20 upgrade. JavaScript capabilities are highlighted, as well.

AI (artificial intelligence) is the most perfect field of dreams in modern culture. If you ask the average person on the street what AI runs on, they probably won’t mention training data. Instead, they might mumble something about computer programs that magically learn how to do useful stuff from thin air.

When you think about your smartphone, apps and interfaces are probably the first things that come to mind. Beneath all that surface-level stuff, though, our modern mobile devices are filled with files — folders upon folders of 'em! — just like the clunky ol' computers we've relied upon for ages.

DFL U.S Rep. Collin Peterson likes to keep things kind of mysterious. The Blue Dog Democrat has held onto his rural, conservative western Minnesota district for decades, mainly by blatantly acting like a Republican. He’s got an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association; he’s voted against the ...

When Bryan Washington came out to his parents, he baked them a comforting dessert they’d been eating all their lives.

A video of the fiction writer Bryan Washington making bread pudding and discussing how the dish plays into his coming-out story and identification as a queer baker.

Daniel A. Gross writes about a prisoner weighing his primary options in Maine, which is one of just two states that allow all incarcerated people to vote.