Little Hands Child Creative Center, a daycare center and preschool near Halsted Street in Homewood, celebrated its grand ...

A Knives Out Mystery is Rian Johnson's third film in his mystery franchise with another stellar ensemble led by Daniel Craig.

Fiction by George Saunders, Karl Ove Knausgaard and Laura Dave; a bracingly honest divorce memoir; Jennette McCurdy’s debut ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Here’s a thought many of us have these days: if only we weren’t on our damn phones all the time, we would surely unlock a better self—one that went on hikes and talked more with our children and felt ...

On July 25, 1853, a group of California Rangers met a band of armed Mexicans near Coalinga, in central-California gold-mining country. In the ensuing skirmish, three Mexicans died. One corpse in ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

On the Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, episode of The Excerpt podcast: From AI thrillers to found-family favorites, 2025 gave us stories that hit hard. USA TODAY Books Reporter Clare Mulroy joins The Excerpt ...

‘Tis the season for reflecting on a well-read year. So, after all that reading, which books are we still thinking about now? The truth is, the best book of the year is deeply personal to every reader.

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

Beavis And Butt-Head’s third season ended earlier this week, capping off the dynamic duo’s recent reboot adventures with a surprise appearance. None other than MTV’s Daria appeared in the season ...

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