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How Do You Define ‘Family’?

What is the glue that holds a family together? Is it biological relationships? Love and support? Sharing the same home?

Family Says Hacked Nest Cam Terrorized Them With Fake Ballistic Missile Alert

A California family said they got the scare of a lifetime this past weekend when their smart security cameras began falsely warning of three North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles headed to Los Angeles, Chicago, and Ohio. Thankfully, the missile war…

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Paul Whelan: US spy suspect to remain in custody in Russia

Ex-US marine Paul Whelan was arrested last month on suspicion of spying – claims his family denies.

Guggenheim Targeted by Protesters for Accepting Money From Family With OxyContin Ties

Thousands of slips of paper rained down during a protest Saturday at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The…

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More Pets, Fewer Allergies

Children who live with cats and dogs when they are infants are less likely to develop allergies later in childhood

Saudi Woman Who Fled Home Embraces All Things Canadian. (O.K., Maybe Not Winter.)

Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, an 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family for fear of violence and received asylum in Canada, in Toronto on Monday.

Women’s rights in Saudi Arabia: ‘I escaped to seek a better life’

Salwa, 24, tells the BBC that she ran away from…

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James Gandolfini’s son cast to play young Tony Soprano

A planned movie prequel to “The Sopranos” TV series is keeping it in the family.

Vows: When Cultural Circles Are Expanded and Redrawn

Rabia Ahmad and Christopher Pattison exchanged vows Dec. 19 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau, surround by a small group of friends and family.

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Why You Should Dig Up Your Family’s History — and How to Do It

Learning your history is forced reckoning, asking you to consider whose stories you carry with you and which ones you want to carry forward.

The Secrets Inside the C.O. Bigelow Apothecary (Est. 1838)

Over the last 180 years, the Ginsberg family has amassed more than 10,000 pharmaceutical and beauty items.

What Jerry Brown Means to California

Tracing the strands of the retiring governor and his family offered a way to make sense of the Golden State.

The Extravagant Life of Hector…

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Get Paid $10,000 to Move Your Family to Italy

Photo: Paolo Panero ( Wikimedia Commons ) Why spend just three months in Italy when you can live there indefinitely (and get paid a few thousand dollars for it, too)? A small town in northern Italy is offering the ultimate incentive and giving curious partici…

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After the Overdose: A Family’s Journey Into Grief and Guilt

There is nothing left to do, no more frantic phone calls to make, no begging or fighting that can fix this because the worst thing that could happen already has, so Doug Biggers settles into his recliner and braces for his daughter’s voice to echo…

Family Ties at the Supreme Court

Do the political activities of Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife cross a line?

What drives some people to stay committed to one partner for life, while others cant seem to stay faithful? Perhaps our ancestors have something to do with it…

‘Family Trust’ Shows Silicon Valley’s Secret Obsessions

The novel by former tech worker Kathy Wang focuses on the envy and tensions in Silicon Valley’s middle class.

Family kicked off plane for body odor

A Michigan family was kicked off an American Airlines flight after passengers complained about the family’s body odor.

Furloughed family worries about keeping child…

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Review: ‘The Magic Flute,’ Trimmed for Families at the Met Opera

Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s opera, performed in English by a winning cast, returns in family-friendly form.

11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

Rustic shelters called bothies. The laundry specialist to the stars. The $238 million penthouse. A raucous English family, and more.

What School Nurses Want Parents to Know

After ten years of working in big city emergency departments and ICUs, I traded night shifts and fast-paced intensity for a new challenge: school nursing. Because…

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Gillibrand, in Iowa, Highlights Family, Children Issues

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand introduced herself to Iowa Democrats as a commonsense fighter for family and children issues as she made her first visit to the early-voting state as a 2020 presidential prospect.

‘Modern Family’ star: I was ‘very close’ to suicide

“Modern Family” star Sarah Hyland talked to Ellen DeGeneres about her suicidal thoughts after her first kidney transplant failed.

When Is a Border Just a Border? Almost Never

A migrant atop a border fence near Tijuana, Mexico, last month. His attempt to cross over with his family failed.

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For a Family Divided by the Korean War, a New Chapter

Nearly 70 years ago, Sylvia Nam’s grandfather left for North Korea and never returned. She went to look for him.