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A high school with students who will graduate at age 20 -- after sharing classrooms with confirmed trouble-makers -- in inner city Detroit would seem to be a recipe for academic disaster. But one high school is beating the odds, and even attracings students to apply or transfer.

Not too long ago, African-Americans played a much bigger role in baseball. In the mid-1970s, a quarter of all players were black Americans. Today, it's one in 10. Baseball historian Rob Ruck writes about how that happened in his new book, Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game.

Writer John Hodgman expounds on a variety of fascinating and sublimely ridiculous subjects — historical, literary and hobo — in his book The Areas of My Expertise.

In his new book, The K Street Gang, author Matthew Continetti traces the roots of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal to the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. In Continetti's telling, the scandal is the result of a GOP reform movement that became a racket.

Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras offers a playlist of music that's comforting him and his listeners amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A new book, Peril, says the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was attempting to head off a potential armed conflict when he called his Chinese counterpart twice in Trump's final months in office.

Tyler Florence can regularly be seen on the Food Network, helping amateur cooks resolve cooking emergencies. His latest cookbook is a collection of recipes inspired from his travels around the world.

The annual campaign fell close to $180,000 short of its target and left the social service agency pondering whether it will need to reduce services at the Safe Harbor shelter unless additional funding comes in.

Two names with Republican Party history will be on ballots Tuesday. Wyoming voters appear ready to boot Liz Cheney, while Sarah Palin looks for an Alaska comeback. What does it say about the GOP?

The so-called atmospheric river storm was pulling in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean. Flooding and rock slides closed portions of roads across Northern California.