Matthew Cella

The French president has vowed retribution after purported ISIS-linked attackers killed more than 120 people in the country’s capital.

Interracial homicides – black people who killed whites and whites who killed blacks – climbed to their highest levels last year since the election of President Barack Obama almost eight years ago, even as the proportion of so-called black-on-black killings dipped, according to the latest national crime figures from the FBI. The number of black people killed by whites – a demographic in the FBI report that includes those of Hispanic descent – surged by nearly a quarter in 2015 from the year befor…

A federal judge has rejected a request to rehang a controversial painting depicting police officers as animals that drew national headlines earlier this year after Republican lawmakers repeatedly removed it from a display inside the U.S. Capitol complex.Saying the court was “sympathetic to plaintiffs given the treatment afforded” to the painting, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates declined to issue a preliminary injunction requested by Rep. Lacy Clay that would allow the painting to hang in the C…

The smashing of what is believed to be the oldest U.S. monument to honor Columbus comes amid a national debate over monuments depicting historical figures tied to racism or slavery.

More of America’s recycling is ending up in local landfills. And it’s China’s fault.Decades after activists and environmentalists first began beseeching Americans to separate their bottles and cans – ultimately conditioning even the most recalcitrant consumer to believe that filling a blue bin could benefit the earth and ease their conscience – it turns out that an increasing amount of that waste is being thrown away.Two states recently told residents that – at least for now – a healthy share of…

For decades, the idea of a funeral service has generated images of burial on a gated lot with a manicured lawn punctuated by markers of marble or granite after a religiously oriented service involving wreaths of flowers and black-clad mourners.With 2.7 million Americans – as many as the population of the city of Chicago – dying each year, it only stands to reason that those lots will become more crowded and that at some point the graves will become overwhelming – especially in urban areas. That’…

Americans have less interest in helping pay down the soaring national debt now than in nearly 40 years.