Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most adults like to think they're pretty smart — until a simple trivia question knocks them straight off their high horse. The ...

In Central Havana, a boy pauses before a smoldering pile of garbage that spills into the street. Cuba is in the grip of a deepening fuel crisis that has rippled across nearly every aspect of daily ...

Multiple-choice questions have gotten a bad rap, especially over concerns that they only measure recall and other surface-level understandings. Many educators have altogether removed multiple-choice ...

American Airlines is joining Delta, United, Southwest and JetBlue in raising its checked bag fees as the industry deals with high jet fuel prices. American is hiking the fee more for basic economy ...

Bill Galvin's in a series of new ads. What are they and who's paying for them? Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin is in series of commercials at a time when he's running for re-election.

I was at a trivia night last month when the host asked: "What's the capital of Australia?" I heard half the room confidently whisper, "Sydney." The other half hesitated, second-guessing themselves, ...

In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making. They had a short summer window — November to early ...

North Carolina Republican state Rep. Allen Chesser said he was taken by surprise when a Democratic sheriff who has long opposed cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could ...

For years, I opposed Universal Basic Income, firmly and reflexively. I treated it as a liberal fantasy — an invitation to idleness, a subsidy for stagnation, a sedative administered by a bloated state ...

Let’s be honest – this quiz is very basic. We’re talking simple additions and subtractions, easy fractions, percentages, shapes, angles, and a bit of number logic. All the questions are type-in. If ...