World’s oldest person, Maria Branyas Morera, dies at 117
Maria Branyas Morera, an American-born Spanish woman believed to be the oldest person in the world, has died, according to her family. She was 117.
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He survived combat in Iraq. Did a fellow soldier kill him at home?
The killing was the second in recent years involving soldiers connected to Fort Drum, a vast installation near the Canadian border that employs more than 15,000 service members and nearly...
Not afraid of sharks? Well, researchers in Brazil are finding cocaine in their system.
If the prospect of sharks lurking just off the beach wasn’t frightening enough, researchers in Brazil have discovered a new reason to be unnerved: Some of them have cocaine in...
Students targeted teachers in a group TikTok attack, shaking their school
Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their School
A century later, 17 wrongly executed Black soldiers are honored at gravesites
Several descendants of the soldiers gathered at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery as the Department of Veterans Affairs dedicated new headstones for 17 of the executed servicemen.
Hospitals are desperate for workers. They might find them in high schools.
Public school students in Boston will have a direct route to guaranteed jobs with the city’s largest employer, the Mass General Brigham health system, via a new initiative that will...
Lily Gladstone Won’t Let Hollywood Put Her in a Box
Lily Gladstone Won’t Let Hollywood Put Her in a Box
The year’s 5 best audiobooks are also great gifts
An American epic, a poet breaking free from her father, a study of opposites, and more.
How abortion lifted Democrats in Virginia and other states, plus more takeaways from Tuesday’s elections
Ohioans enshrined a right to abortion in their state’s constitution, and Democrats took control of both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly while holding on to Kentucky’s governorship.
Hidden No More: An Enslaved Child’s Portrait, Once Erased, Arrives at the Met
Hidden No More: An Enslaved Child’s Portrait, Once Erased, Arrives at the Met