In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat together sounding out words. Kim Williams, the school’s principal, watched as ...

Is there anything more totally 1980s than an IROC Chevy Camaro with the T-tops off and Madonna blasting on the cassette ...

English is a trap. It’s a language built on theft, borrowing words from German, French, and Latin, shaking them up in a bag, and spilling them out with spelling rules that make absolutely no sense.

Rvssian is back with yet another Rauw Alejandro collaboration. The multi-platinum Jamaican producer tapped the Puerto Rican ...

The Iowa House passed a bill Thursday retroactively bumping the premium tax rate for health maintenance organizations to make up for a Medicaid budget shortfall — a move Democrats and insurers said ...

Colorado’s House ethics panel admonished a Republican legislator over allegations he used a master key to access areas of the ...

The letter X can be a lot of things: rebellious, mysterious, religious. For this Word of the Week, we examine its origins and many uses.

Phrases like “just looping back” often sound polite but signal hidden pressure. Indirect follow-ups can create confusion, frustration and erode trust in teams.

Actor Michael Shannon and musician Jason Narducy are playing R.E.M. deep cuts and re-creating whole albums, keeping the band's songs alive.

This week's letters to the editor share views on the SAVE Act, voter registration, taxes, hunger and immigration detention.

On Feb. 7, Rep. Scott Perry visited Cumberland County Republican Committee headquarters in Carlisle. Outside in a blustery 11-degrees, scores of constituents joyfully massed to oppose ICE militancy ...

The iconic dropped "r" sound is disappearing. But to those who still have it, it’s more than a way of speaking; it's the sound of home. (Video produced by Olivia Yarvis/Globe Staff, Photo: Matthew Lee ...