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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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On Monday, Dec. 1, the Penn State Nittany Lions continued their search for the football program's next head coach, amid more openings being filled in the college football landscape. Major college ...

For as long as it’s been alive, Chicago’s employer head tax has been derided — in one colorful way or another — as a job killer. “It’s much more than a head tax… it’s a scalping tax,” said the late ...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost a game they should not have lost Thursday night. Entering the game tied with the Carolina Panthers for the NFC South lead at 7-6, the Buccaneers took a 28-14 lead over ...