Richard Cottingham, infamously known as the “Torso Killer” or “The Times Square Killer,” has claimed to have taken the lives ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Edith Renfrow Smith, just before her 110th birthday, when she baked a cherry pie at her North Side home, She died Friday at the age of 111. Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times ...

A statue of pioneering 19th Century mathematician Ada Lovelace has been installed in the town near her childhood home.

As the year draws to a close, Computer Weekly looks over some of the notable stories relating to women in tech, diversity and inclusion throughout 2025 ...

Back in the 1960s, a couple of Harvard students had an idea. From Radio Diaries, this is a look back at the creation of the very first computerized dating service.

It is finally happening. For the first time in the U.S., car manufacturers will be required to use female dummies for crash tests. The move will boost safety for women on board the vehicles. It took ...

Adrian Crane climbed mountains in Scotland with his father and uncle when he was a boy. He remembers using ice axes to climb in the winter when he was only 15. There is this “great feeling you get of ...

TOKYO — As Japan’s first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi has broken new ground in a country that struggles with gender equality. But she has quickly run up against a tradition that may be ...

WASHINGTON — Women are finally getting a dummy of their own. The Transportation Department rolled out the design for a “first-of-its-kind” advanced female crash test dummy, aimed at improving safety ...

Democrat Abigail Spanberger has been elected governor of Virginia, per the Associated Press. She will be the first woman in the commonwealth’s history to hold the role. Spanberger was favored against ...

New Jersey elected a new female governor, Mikie Sherrill, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, adding to major wins for Democrats in California, New York City and Virginia — where voters came out in droves to ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia voters will make history Tuesday when they choose between two women vying to become the state's first female governor in its 400-year history. The gubernatorial race between ...