"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." — George Orwell. Imagine watching someone on TV, perhaps a public ...

Your iPhone can feel nearly useless to a thief once you mark it as lost. Apple's Activation Lock can help turn a stolen device into a locked brick. That should make phone theft less profitable. Yet ...

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Most shoppers like to believe they make purchasing decisions entirely on their own. However, retailers put enormous amounts of time and money into studying consumer psychology. Many aspects of ...

Monica Romano was 13 when she first tried cannabis in the 1980s. It started out as a social way to spend a Friday night behind the bleachers at football games, she said, but it soon became a daily ...

Son v. mother federal lawsuit threatened: Blattberg accuses his mother, Breskin (a psychologist), of having sexually abused him 30 years ago, when he was 4 to 7 years old. The son claims he "did not ...

Coptic Orthodox deacon pray during Easter mass, at Holy Cross Church in Cairo, Egypt, May 1, 2021. An Egyptian court Saturday, June 12, 2022, sentenced a man to die for the April stabbing death of a ...

Christine Sloan is an Emmy Award-winning reporter, who covers New Jersey for CBS News New York. Sloan re-joined the station in January 2023. She also worked at CBS News New York from 2004 to 2016.

The first time the placebo effect really got under my skin was when I read that roughly one-third of people with irritable bowel syndrome improve on placebo treatments alone. Usually this statistic is ...

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