Imagination Library of Kentucky Advisory Board Chair and former First Lady Jane Beshear thanks Dolly Parton at the Lyric Theater in Lexington, Ky., on Tuesday, August 27, 2024. Arden Barnes Dolly ...

Words are a quiet kind of magic. However, they’re often treated like commodities rather than recognized for the power they hold. Words are a vehicle for connection, for understanding and for ...

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The Education Department is advancing its plans to eliminate itself, attempting a work-around to move certain mandatory programs to other federal agencies in a move resulting in considerable confusion ...

Millions of Americans who rely on food assistance are expected to be removed from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the coming months as states move to comply with tightened ...

Now in its 113th year, Operation Santa, run by the United States Postal Service, allows children and families to send letters to Santa Claus. Those letters are posted online—personal details ...

Memory giant Sandisk has taken the wraps off the new Sandisk Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive. The company says this is the world’s smallest 1TB USB-C flash drive and is designed to stay put once it’s ...

Iran is facing its worst drought in decades, raising fears of evacuations in Tehran while threatening the regime’s stability and nuclear ambitions, according to a leading environmental expert. Kaveh ...

Back in the 2010s, a website called Let Me Google That For You gained a notable amount of popularity for serving a single purpose: snark. The site lets you generate a custom link that you can send ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse’s offer of amnesty on penalties accrued for unpaid parking tickets will begin Monday, but automobile owners looking to pay their base fines online will have to wait until Nov ...

A growing number of special education teachers say they use artificial intelligence platforms to draft all or part of students’ individualized education programs, even as many districts lack policies ...