Fifteen-year-old Isela Anahí Santiago Morales' coming-of-age party has become a sensation.

Hurricane Katrina changed New Orleans' education system forever, creating the first all-charter school district in the U.S. The Associated Press spoke with three survivors about their experiences.

The central Pennsylvania town of Mount Gretna is a throwback to the period more than a century ago when the summertime get-togethers known as Chautauquas were practically a craze.

In Cedar Rapids, Grant Wood painted “American Gothic,” the iconic portrait of a man and a woman standing in front of a white frame house.

Hormone therapy has been shrouded in confusion for years.

Britain's top diplomat has been given a formal warning for fishing without a license during a recent outing with U.S. Vice President JD Vance.

Sabrina Carpenter’s seventh studio album, “Man’s Best Friend,” and Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*” starring Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

In a secluded lot next to a former gasworks in suburban Berlin, Martin Rötzel is breathing new life into a tradition of centuries past: the monastery garden.

A pair of federal lawsuits filed in San Francisco and New York accuse Delta Air Lines and United Airlines of misleading passengers by charging premium fees for window seats next to blank walls.

These market lessons from 2025 can prepare investors for the road ahead.

Many people looking for entry-level jobs are struggling to get hired at a time when economic uncertainty has discouraged employers from adding staff.

Bolivia heads into an Oct. 19 runoff between centrist Rodrigo Paz Pereira and right-wing ex-president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga after nearly 20 years of socialist rule.

Google on Wednesday unveiled a new line-up of Pixel smartphones injected with another dose of artificial intelligence that’s designed to do everything from fetch vital information stored on the devices to help improve photos as they’re being taken.

There's clearly an appetite for shopping sustainably online.

The “Boots on the Ground” line dance has quickly become an anticipated moment at African American gatherings, like family reunions, weddings, graduations, parties and cookouts.

A flotilla of hundreds of historic ships is sailing into Amsterdam for a five-day festival celebrating the Dutch capital’s maritime history.

A dozen newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are set to publish again after buyers stepped in to keep the communities from becoming news deserts where little or no local media remains.

For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from U.S. government vaccine recommendations.

Tourism in Las Vegas is slumping this summer, with resorts and convention centers reporting fewer visitors compared to last year, especially from abroad.

Oklahoma will require applicants for teaching jobs from California and New York to pass an exam that the state’s top education official says is designed to safeguard against “radical leftist ideology.”.

Switching to a heat pump is often touted as a climate-friendly choice that can help your wallet, too.

The Cambridge Dictionary has added over 6,000 new words including slang terms like “skibidi,” pronounced SKIH-bih-dee, "tradwife" and "delulu."

A Muslim matchmaking show on Hulu and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s comments about meeting his wife on a dating app provide a glimpse into the diverse ways American Muslims find their spouses.

Set on 150 acres tucked away on a hillside in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Dog Mountain has become a destination for dog lovers looking to explore nature, take in art, or pay tribute to a pet.

Migos rapper Offset releasing his third solo album “Kiari” and Samara Weaving playing a reformed getaway driver in the heist thriller “Eenie Meanie” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

Orthodox Christians across Alaska are taking part in three days of prayer for peace, ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

WK Kellogg Co. plans to remove artificial dyes from its breakfast cereals in the next two and a half years.

Taylor Swift's new album announcement has everybody seeing orange.

Florida shifted to virtual learning for youth in juvenile detention — and parents and students say it's been a disaster.

A new study warns that rising sea levels could threaten Easter Island’s iconic moai statues by the end of the century.

Billy Joel’s beloved motorcycle shop on Long Island, New York, is closing down after nearly 15 years of offering fans a free peek at his personal collection of dozens of bikes.

Charlie Brown and Snoopy are heading to sleepaway camp in a new Apple TV+ special.

Car buyers seeking stout full-size SUVs might want to consider the Chevrolet Tahoe and Nissan Armada.

Fast-food chain McDonald’s Japan has canceled a Happy Meal campaign that came with coveted Pokemon cards.

Mexican-American clothing designer Willy Chavarria has apologized for an Adidas sandal that he created after being accused by Mexican authorities of “cultural appropriation” for copying an indigenous shoe design.

Delivery drones are supposed to be fast, yet the long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States.

Saving for the future can be difficult because of a cognitive bias known as hyperbolic discounting: our tendency to place greater weight on immediate satisfaction, even if focusing on the long term will have a greater payoff.

Vanessa Kirby starring in the gritty film “Night Always Comes,” and Maroon 5 releasing their eighth studio album with songs featuring Lil Wayne and Blackpink’s LISA are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

A writer from Maine, Sharon Kitchens has turned her passion for Stephen King's books into a published work.

An increase in the tax on university endowments is creating financial challenges for the wealthiest U.S. colleges.

OpenAI has released GPT-5, the latest version of the AI technology behind ChatGPT.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a memorandum requiring colleges to prove they do not consider race in admissions.

New research reveals that an inconic Argentine glacier is undergoing its most significant retreat in a century.

Surveillance systems in American schools increasingly monitor everything students write on school accounts and devices.

The summer vacation season is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere, but navigating the line between work time and personal time is tricky for a lot of people.

Germans worry that their beloved kebab in a pita sandwich may get more expensive.

Hundreds of Harvard researchers have fallen victim to the freeze on funding by the Trump administration.

A new federal report finds that most Americans get more than half their calories from ultra-processed foods.

New research from a watchdog group reveals ChatGPT can provide harmful advice to teens.

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in the 1960s calling for Black voting rights has been reconstructed in its entirety at a museum near Detroit.

Between rising prices and dwindling job growth, using “buy now, pay later” on everything from concert tickets to fast food deliveries is becoming increasingly appealing.

Oprah Winfrey has selected Richard Russo's novel "Bridge of Sighs" for her book club.

A huge grain elevator and silo in North Dakota are the site of a massive mural by an Australian artist.

While most retirement portfolios include allocations to stocks and bonds in the years leading up to retirement, most retirement savers don’t hold much more than an emergency cushion in cash.

The Smithsonian’s removal of a reference to the 2019 and 2021 impeachments of President Donald Trump from a panel in an exhibition about the American presidency comes in the wake of Trump administration actions like removing the name of a gay rights activist from a Navy ship, pushing for Republican supporters in Congress to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and getting rid of the leadership at the Kennedy Center.

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The Smithsonian Institution has removed a reference to President Donald Trump's impeachments from an exhibit.

New Orleans legend Big Freedia returning with a new gospel album and the acting trio of Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson and Keke Palmer teaming up for the armored truck action comedy “The Pickup” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

The best of the internet’s cat videos are coming to the big screen this weekend.

Dedicated model builders at Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg have been working for almost 25 years to create tiny visions of the trains, cars and cities of the real world.

The traditional Chinese spirit baijiu is being reinvented to attract younger generations.

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the proportion of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high.

U.S. fashion retailer American Eagle Outfitters wanted to make a splash with its new advertising campaign starring 27-year-old actor Sydney Sweeney.

A fictitious rock group with AI-generated music, lyrics, and album art sparked debate about how the new technology is blurring the line between real and synthetic in the music world.

Acura’s ADX is all-new for 2025, and it’s the automaker’s smallest and least expensive crossover SUV.

Thousands of emotional Black Sabbath fans have paid their respects to band founder and singer Ozzy Osbourne as his hearse makes its way through the streets of Birmingham.

Starbucks says it plans to add a cold foam protein drink, coconut water-based beverages and improved baked goods to its menu to help turn around the company’s lagging U.S. sales.

If you’re a Microsoft Authenticator user, you’ve probably received at least one notice that the app’s password management features are no longer usable and that your stored passwords will be inaccessible starting Aug. 1 unless you have the Edge browser.

Residents in the Southeast U.S. are no strangers to hot weather in the summertime.

What lessons does value investing’s success abroad hold for value investors everywhere.

Tracee Ellis Ross has mastered the art of traveling solo and has been taking trips by herself for nearly 30 years.

Indian author Kiran Desai is up for the award again with her new novel “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.”.

Tea, a dating discussion app that recently suffered a high-profile cybersecurity breach, announced late Monday that some direct messages were also accessed in the incident.

Morocco’s argan forests are thinning under the strain of climate change, overharvesting and booming demand for luxury cosmetics.

Older Americans worried about cognitive decline can stay sharper for longer by exercising both their bodies and their brains and eating healthier.

Asian skin care has been a booming global business for a more than a decade, with consumers in Europe, North and South America, and increasingly the Middle East, snapping up creams, serums and balms from South Korea, Japan and China.

People with experimental brain implants often turn to the treatment as a last resort, hoping to improve their health when everything else has failed.

This year's United Nations climate conference in November is in Belem, Brazil, a city facing high poverty and infrastructure challenges.

Harold Terens fought in World War II.

A provocative dating app designed to let women anonymously ask or warn each other about men they'd encountered rocketed to the top spot on the U.S. Apple App Store last week.

Beyoncé's daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, is captivating audiences on the Cowboy Carter tour.

Hulk Hogan, a wrestling icon of the 1980s, captivated audiences with his larger-than-life persona.

Continuous glucose monitors that track the rise and fall of sugar in person's blood are growing in popularity.

Benicio Del Toro starring in Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme”and Reneé Rapp’s second studio album “Bite Me” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

The U.S. Postal Service is turning 250.

Coffee hasn’t always been an easy sell in Nepal.

In one of America's favorite party hotspots, residents and business owners say the stench of trash and bad decisions is being scrubbed clean like never before.

Art restorers have removed a deteriorating piece of graffiti by the street artist Banksy titled “The Migrant Child” from the side of a building overlooking a Venetian canal.

As higher education costs have grown to heights many U.S. residents find unattainable or illogical, some adults are looking to their employers for help.

Warner Music Group has announced that it's reissuing the lone album recorded by Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham when they were just a duo.

Ken Silver knows beef because he knows Philly cheesesteak.

Here’s the good news: The Hershey Company says it’s not raising prices for Halloween candy this year.

Ozzy Osbourne’s fans had sensed the end was near.

Driving an electric vehicle across the country might sound like a nightmare, but it’s easier than you think with the right planning and by having access to as many fast charging stations as possible.

Teenagers are increasingly turning to AI for advice, emotional support and decision-making, according to a new study.

Danish artist Thomas Dambo creates giant wooden trolls from recycled materials to promote environmental awareness.

President Donald Trump teased the announcement last week, but Coca-Cola finally confirmed it Tuesday: a version of Coke’s trademark cola sweetened with cane sugar will be released in the U.S. this fall.

History, it has been said, is written by the winners.

When the KissCam at a Coldplay concert last week landed on a couple who suspiciously escaped their embrace and tried (but failed) to duck out of the spotlight, the internet immediately got to work.

Christine Benz, Morningstar’s director of personal finance and retirement planning, recommends taking a preemptive approach as you get closer to retirement.