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She was there when Jesus was crucified, yet no one knows much about her. That might be why scholars just can’t quit chasing down the truth about Mary Magdalene. The Penitent Magdalene by Guido Reni.

Most people have either been told that they don't look well when they were sick, or thought that someone else looked ill at some point in their lives. People often use nonverbal facial cues, such as ...

(RNS) — The Vatican released a document Thursday (Dec. 4) stating that current church teaching does not permit women to be ordained as deacons, while emphasizing that the opinion is not a final ruling ...

The study also found that kids with a smartphone before their teenage years also have an increased risk of getting insufficient sleep Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

Some say they hope the many majors will help them stand out in the job market, though experts say the extra majors may not be of interest to employers. As a high schooler in the Bay Area of California ...

Tucker Carlson's interview with white supremacist Nick Fuentes--and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Robert's initial defense of it--is highlighting a rift in the conservative movement. Kim ...

A just-launched national Women in Agriculture Study is a comprehensive effort to capture women’s voices from across all 50 states and Puerto Rico. The survey remains open through March 31 to gather ...

Coming off the best season in program history, expectations still abound for TCU women’s basketball, which was selected to be Big 12 champion in the conference’s preseason coaches poll for the first ...

Thanks to the dire state of sex education in the UK combined with societal shame and stigma that discourages open conversations about sex, a lot of us often feel in the dark when it comes to what’s ...

We didn’t fully understand the experiment we were beginning, but this was the question driving our search, the point of curiosity that started our not-quite-scientific process. As women who were once ...

FAIRFIELD, CT. (WFSB) - A retired financier and his assistant were charged with sex trafficking and transporting women to engage in sexual acts. Howard Rubin was arrested in Fairfield Friday morning.