A reporter traces the shadowy fate of the definitive version of the Hebrew Bible

Remember that these are human lives we're talking about here -- 239 of them.

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The idea of the parallel world has fascinated writers for centuries. A new book explains the science behind it

Climate change is a major threat to life on Earth — but not a major focus of biology textbooks

If the Bible's the word of God, the religious right should look again. There's a lot of sex and debauchery going on

Roof seems to want to be a martyr for his deadly, racist beliefs. We shouldn't let him off that easy

“They investigated themselves. That doesn’t work. Fox News had an outside investigators," she tells Tucker Carlson

Twitter joins the consumer fray

Aimed at the Bible Belt and piggybacking on Schiavo and the pope, NBC's creepy, pandering "Revelations" miniseries paints nuns as heroes and rationalists as the bad guys.

American Christians buy millions of Bibles they seldom read and don't understand

The History Channel's new series is being championed by the likes of Glenn Beck and Joel Osteen. Of course it is