Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is running for governor. The two-term Detroit Democrat announced her plans Wednesday morning in a campaign video. "I'm running for governor to truly make ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

Mariska Hargitay has been playing the role of Olivia Benson on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit since 1999, and the character has bled into her real life over the years. “It’s deeply in me ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A Florida couple — including a woman who authored children's books — has pleaded guilty to abusing their adopted children inclduing spanking ...

Federal prosecutors have closed a long-running public corruption investigation targeting Detroit Councilman Scott Benson, former Councilwoman Janeé Ayers and their chiefs of staff without ...

In a blog post on Tuesday, the popular author said he has read the allegations and felt “horror and dismay”. He wrote: “I’ve stayed quiet until now, both out of respect for the people who ...

The couple's children said they often went for months without bathing and were seriously malnourished, the arrest report alleged A Florida-based children’s book author and her husband are ...

The Philadelphia Eagles player was seen reading Jim Murphy’s self-help book ‘Inner Excellence’ during a game on Jan. 12 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE ...

I know it’s only Jan. 15, but I feel confident in saying that I’ve already found one of my favorite books of the year. Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author, out now, is a genre-defying ...

Best-selling British author Neil Gaiman released a statement Wednesday denying he had ever engaged in non-consensual sex after a magazine this week published allegations from several women ...

Best-selling author Neil Gaiman has responded to new allegations he sexually assaulted, abused and coerced eight women. Most of the allegations relate to occasions when Gaiman was in his 40s or ...

Gaiman said some of the allegations "simply never happened" while others had been "distorted" to "bear no relationship to reality" Sandman author Neil Gaiman has denied allegations of sexual ...