The IDF confirmed on Wednesday that it struck in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday and eliminated the terrorist Ahmad Abu Hin, a Hamas military wing sniper cell commander, and Mahmoud Walid Jabr Abu ...

“Why her?” the journalist Mark Oppenheimer writes toward the end of his first biography, “Judy Blume: A Life.” “What is it about Judy and her work that won her so many millions of fans?” Partly talent ...

Genius and arrogance play leading roles in a new biography of the man who helped uncover the structure of DNA Most people could tell you that Francis Crick, together with James Watson, discovered the ...

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

Andrew Lownie’s book explores Duke of York’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, his relationships and finances A new biography claims startling insight into the private lives of the Duke of York and his ...

The digital demagogue earned billions by anticipating the market’s needs. Now, his philanthropic foundation is helping countless others across the globe. Bill Gates is perhaps the most well-known ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Nearly two years after her death at age 79, Christine McVie is receiving overdue appreciation as the dueling doyenne in Fleetwood Mac. “Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie” (out Nov. 19 ...

During a September 23 rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump was mid, uh, “weave”—ranting about late-night talk show hosts Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel, who mercilessly ridicule Trump ...

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, born on October 15, 1931, in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, was a prominent Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He is ...

When the critic Janet Malcolm set aside a biography of Sylvia Plath and began reading a memoir about the author instead, she felt as if she “had been freed from prison.” The writing in the biography, ...

Almost every resident of Seattle has some connection, however loose, to Bill Gates. Over 50,000 people in Washington work for Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has over 1,000 employees ...