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Just as technological shifts created the cashless society, further advances are now helping charitable groups and advocates for the unhoused reach those most in danger of being left behind.

Five billion dollars worth of gambling gets done each year in Atlantic City.

It’s been a terrific year for video games.

Bodhi Day is a Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day Siddhartha Gautama attained awakening or enlightenment and became the Buddha 2,600 years ago.

The U.S. Census Bureau wants to change how it asks people about disabilities, and some advocates don't like where things are heading.

Country music star Brad Paisley and his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, helped create a free grocery in Nashville to offer dignity to low-income people when shopping for food.

Levi Strauss & Co. says that its CEO will step down in January and hand over the reins of the jeans maker to his appointed successor.

Health officials are releasing the first nationally representative estimate of how many U.S. adults have chronic fatigue syndrome: 3.3 million.

Preliminary designs are being released for an outdoor memorial to the 11 victims of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack.

Norman Lear, who died this week at age 101, changed American life with the candor and comedy of his creations.

Some of the words tied to this year’s hottest topics were also among the most mangled when it came to saying them aloud.

Jill Biden and military kids are sorting toys donated by the White House to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program.

At the multiplex, “Barbenheimer” ruled.

Preparing for Hanukkah feels uniquely somber yet defiant this year for the Jewish communities in and around Miami Beach.

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Frontier Airlines has settled a lawsuit filed by female pilots who said the airline discriminated against pregnant and breastfeeding employees.

Did you watch “Beef” yet.

A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension for refusing to change his hairstyle, renewing a monthslong standoff over a dress code policy the teen’s family calls discriminatory.

Greece’s health ministry is seeking police help against hoaxers who tried to scare foreign tourists out of several Athens short-term rental flats by inventing a bedbug crisis.

Her book is called ‘My Name is Barbra’ and it runs nearly 1,000 pages.

Prince Harry is challenging the British government's decision to strip him of his security detail after he gave up his status as a working member of the royal family and moved to the United States.

Last year, children were handcuffed and sent to a hospital emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation at least 117 times from schools in Wicomico County, on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Oxford University Press has named “rizz″ as its word of the year to highlight the popularity of a term used by Generation Z to describe someone’s ability to attract or seduce another person.

Say goodbye to the flesh-and-blood members of the rock group Kiss.

Toy maker Mattel is honoring the late, legendary Cherokee leader Wilma Mankiller with a Barbie doll as part of its "Inspiring Women" series.

As schools across the U.S. grapple with the student mental health crisis, the use of telehealth therapy for students has skyrocketed.

A 71-year-old Romanian yoga guru and 14 others have been handed preliminary charges by a Paris magistrate on a raft of counts linked to an international ring that for years allegedly subjected followers seeking enlightenment to sexual exploitation.

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a Nicki Minaj album dropping on her birthday and the return of Tony Shalhoub's OCD private investigator Adrian Monk with a final case.

Gregorian Bivolaru was known by his followers as “Grieg” and their guide through tantra yoga toward enlightenment and a higher state of consciousness.

Devotees of two Catholic saints — Damien and Marianne of Molokai — want to see where they spent a pivotal part of their lives caring for Hawaii’s leprosy patients.

President Joe Biden has gotten his turn at bringing the holiday spirit to Washington.

Most drivers would pay $15 to enter Manhattan’s central business district under a plan released by New York officials.

Four decades into his career, which includes 20 studio albums, a Grammy, and the Guinness World Record for bestselling jazz artist, saxophonist Kenny G is nowhere near done.

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.”.

Something is different on the comics pages this week.

Electric vehicles have proved far less reliable, on average, than gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs, according to the latest survey by Consumer Reports, which found that EVs from the 2021 through 2023 model years encountered nearly 80% more problems than did vehicles propelled by internal combustion engines.

French authorities have arrested the leader of a multinational tantric yoga organization on suspicion of indoctrinating female followers for sexual exploitation.

Greek officials say they will continue talks with the British Museum on bringing the Parthenon Marbles back to Athens.

Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh has been chosen to host the 2030 World Expo following its bid focusing on how to shape a prosperous and sustainable future.

Have a Google account you haven’t used in a while.

The COVID-19 pandemic upended the work habits of people around the world, with millions working from home, at least for part of their week.

Jill Biden has chosen a White House holiday décor that she hopes will inspire guests to feel like kids again.

More than a decade after debuting on the once-nascent YouTube creator community, “Get Ready with Me” videos have inundated social media.

Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.”.

A Nebraska woman bagged a marriage proposal along with a big buck during a recent deer hunting trip.

Late fall is the most spiritual time of the year in traditional Hmong culture.

A growing number of states are working to keep food out of landfills over concerns the waste is taking up too much space and posing environmental problems.

Consumers are scouring the internet for online deals as they begin to cap off the five-day post-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza with Cyber Monday.

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Dove Cameron and Peter Gabriel, Harrison Ford’s last hurrah as Indiana Jones swings onto Disney+ and Elvis will be honored with a starry special “Christmas at Graceland” featuring Post Malone, Alanis Morissette, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves and Kane Brown.

Ringo Starr’s latest project is for fans of music and of fashion.

Shoppers hunting for big deals packed malls on Black Friday as retailers stepped up discounts and other perks to lure customers weighed down by inflation and sticking to tighter budgets.

Beloved cartoon characters like Snoopy and SpongeBob SquarePants are taking to the skies above New York City in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Retailers are kicking off the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season on Friday with a bevy of discounts and other enticements.

If you didn’t already guess it from a barrage of sales ads in your inbox, the holiday shopping season is upon us.

What is a holiday season without festive music.

Thanksgiving may be a time for Americans to come together, but opinion is divided over what’s on the crowded dinner table.

The island of Kauai is home to the only all-stone, hand-carved Hindu temple in the West, built without power tools or electricity.

The 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination finds his family, and the country, at a moment many would not have imagined in JFK's lifetime.

It’s been a wonderful year at the movies for cinephiles, but what do you get for the film lover who has seen everything already.

From the obsessive record collector to the casual listener.

A good book packs power.

Staring down a hefty holiday gift list.

Carriers like the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx and United Parcel Service have capacity to meet projected demand this holiday season, which is cheery news for shoppers and shippers alike.

It looks like the U.S. canned seafood industry is moving well beyond tuna sandwiches thanks to a culinary trends that emerged from the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 55 million people are expected to travel at least 50 miles from home for Thanksgiving this year, and there's no Butterball hotline to help them with any bumps along the way.

A faded, cracked felt hat worn by Napoléon Bonaparte sold for $2.1 million at an auction Sunday of the French emperor’s belongings.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its “plant hardiness zone map” for the first time in a decade.

Hip-hop legend and marijuana aficionado Snoop Dogg says he’s going to stop smoking.

Appointees of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are seeking communications between Disney and local media, as well as documents related to the company’s position on Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law.

A New York woman who died Sunday from cancer has raised enough money to erase million of dollars in medical debt with a posthumous plea for help.

The 1976 book “The Hite Report” was a bestseller from the beginning.

E-40 created his own lane with an unorthodox rap flow that’s worked for more than 30 years.

As the temperature drops (in many places), the holiday TV calendar is heating up with a variety of festive options.

This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Adam Sandler playing a 74-year-old elementary class lizard in the latest Netflix animation offering “Leo” and “Oppenheimer” finally arriving on home screens.

The federal government has opened civil rights investigations at seven schools and universities over allegations of antisemitism or Islamophobia since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.

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One of the thorniest problems of the 21st century is how to get people to eat less meat.

America’s Black and Latino students were at a disadvantage in nearly every measure of education opportunity in the 2020-21 school year.

Used-car shoppers won’t have it easy this year or next.

Dozens of tiny grocery stores have sprung up around Cuba in recent months.

ESPN Bet, a rebranded sports-gambling service owned by Penn Entertainment, has launched.

Beyond the engineering, the athleticism, the speed, the luxury, fans love the sound of Formula One.

At an age when many of his contemporaries have long since retired, King Charles III is not one to put his feet up.

In a war where journalist access is limited, there's a flood of video available online from the Israel-Hamas war.

Airbnb “horror stories” are a genre unto themselves.

Lady Bird Johnson's own voice is helping offer new looks at the former first lady in several recent projects.

Shoppers in China have been tightening their purse strings, raising questions over how faltering consumer confidence may affect the annual Singles’ Day online retail extravaganza.

A new large study finds that the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy reduced the risk of serious heart problems by 20% in certain patients.

Niger fashion designer Alia Bare took center stage at the Joburg Fashion Week with a collection that she hopes will spread a positive image of her troubled country, suffering from instability and economic sanctions that followed a military coup earlier this year.

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album of rock songs by Dolly Parton, the first half of the final season of “The Crown” returns to Netflix and three dudes from “Saturday Night Live” get their first feature-film shot.

Last year, consumers lost $8.8 billion to scammers, and the Federal Trade Commission says older adults lost the most money compared to other age groups.

Jezebel, the sharp-edged feminist website founded at the height of blogosphere era, is shutting down after 16 years.

From Hollywood to auto production lines, U.S. labor unions are once again in the national spotlight.

The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school attendance vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever.

The Census Bureau is predicting an older and more diverse America in the coming decades, along with other projections through the year 2100.

In 2015 Heather McDonald launched her podcast “Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald” as a way to promote her stand-up comedy.

Partnerships between two- and four-year colleges and universities could help more community college students go on to earn bachelor’s degrees, according to data released Thursday by U.S. Education Department.

Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India and for Hindus in particular.

It may be time to get out those fairytale ballgowns.

Adidas says it may write off the remaining 300 million euros ($320 million) worth of Yeezy shoes left unsold after it cut ties with rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.