The Nazis killed his parents, and three years in concentration camps almost killed his spirit, but when Henry Orenstein created some of the world's most popular toys, he proved that playing well is the best revenge.
What is happening in Harris County, Texas, reflects a change across the United States, where new death sentences are set this year to hit the lowest levels since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 as many prominent prosecution offices lose their zeal for execution.
Before he hosted "The Apprentice" — and long before his short fingers came within reach of the White House — Donald Trump enjoyed a terrible and haphazard acting career.
More than two dozen kids in and around Colorado Springs, Colorado, have killed themselves in less than two years. The main reason: Another kid did it first.
Laboratory tests show that a cold-tolerant mosquito known as Culex quinquefasciatus can be infected with Zika virus in the laboratory. If confirmed in the field, it would be a troubling development, suggesting the virus would be more difficult to control, and might be able to spread far north of Florida and the Caribbean.
There are more women in the CIA then ever before, with women operating at unprecedented levels on every floor of CIA headquarters and throughout its far flung global outposts. Yet women remain underrepresented in executive-level jobs and the clandestine service.
On the 15th anniversary of 9/11, Placido Perez is struggling to accept a harrowing truth: His time saving lives at Ground Zero has made him sick — and could kill him.
On Thursday morning, activist collective Indecline erected cartoonish life-size sculptures of a naked Trump in high-traffic areas of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Cleveland.
In addition to breaking legs, the gangsters allegedly poured gasoline and set fire to a car belonging to the owner of a competing gambling club in Yonkers, sold 17 illegal guns and made millions from untaxed cigarettes and stolen credit card information.
Trump sells himself as qualified to run the country because he is a businessman who knows how to get things done. But while he's had a few successes in business, most of his ventures have been disasters.
“I’ve smoked coffee grounds, ate gourmet dog food, got drunk off a humidifier full of vodka and most recently tried to get drunk off a few gallons of Kombucha,” says Jules Suzdaltsev, a writer who has taken stunt journalism to its logical extremes. So when did journalism become so... physically degrading?