Phobias might seem silly when you’re teasing your arachnophobic friend about the spider on the ceiling but they can be incredibly debilitating. Overcoming an extreme fear is not always straight forward. For mental health awareness week, we’re answering Google’s most searched for mental health questions — including how to overcome…

This collection of 25 stories from speculative fiction’s sharpest voices presents visions of future Americas that are born, bloody and aching, from the peril and difficulty of this present moment. In his introduction, editor Victor LaValle writes about how this book derives from the project of its namesake, Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States — the story of this place, as told by its people, all of its people. Indigenous and immigrant, female and queer and poor…

Donald Trump’s inaugural committee has received a subpoena for documents from prosecutors, who are reportedly probing the group for crimes including conspiracy to defraud the US, mail fraud, false statements and money laundering. “We have just received a subpoena for documents. While we are still reviewing the subpoena, it is…

A major snowstorm that lashed parts of the Midwest on Monday will give way to record-smashing cold this week as a powerful polar vortex drives a deep freeze across the eastern half of the nation, forecasters said. A snowstorm will wreak havoc across the Deep South on Tuesday. The bitter…

For the first time in more than three decades, the United States is not the world leader in resettling refugees. That title now belongs to Canada — a nation with fewer people than California. Canada resettled more refugees than any other country in 2018, according to a new analysis from…