After being jailed as a resistance organizer for the Tamil minority in his native Sri Lanka, he spoke out against governmental repression worldwide.

His viral video of the comedian Hannibal Buress calling Bill Cosby a rapist helped spur broader coverage of sexual-assault accusations against a once-beloved entertainer.

For more than 30 years, he drew fans for dispensing weekly produce punditry on a New York television station, building on a ...

He seemed to know everyone at the Holy See, and it showed in his reporting for the National Catholic Reporter and his website ...

His forays into rockabilly music, wrestling and erotic films made him a cult hero in a career as confounding as that of his ...

As an employee with the N.S.A., he claimed he was exposed to a direct-energy device that led to a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease at the age of 45.

As one half of the famed rhythm duo Sly and Robbie, he played with some of the biggest names in music, including Bob Dylan ...

An Emmy-winning comedian with oddball charm, she got her start with the influential Canadian sketch comedy series “SCTV.” ...

A Black female doctor when that was rare, she developed a diagnostic test for the disease that is still a standard tool, as ...

Drawing on his love of fly-fishing, he developed a balloon catheter that removes blood clots from patients’ limbs in a ...

The successive problems appeared to overwhelm the pilots, who were experienced but not authorized to fly the type of jet they ...

After a week of lacerating criticism, the Trump administration said that it had opened a civil rights investigation into the ...