My female students at the University of Virginia are worried about the state of the opposite sex. The women who take my “sociology of family” class tell of brothers living in their parents’ basements, ...

Stewart Brand’s “Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One” (Stripe, 308 pages, $40) begins with a drama that belies the book’s seemingly humdrum topic. The author recounts the stories of three contestants ...

Flooding washed out part of U.S. Highway 12 in Naches, with many other roads in the area closed on Thursday. As of 12:45 p.m. Thursday, the Naches River near Naches had fallen 19.5 feet from 20.9 feet ...

The latest holiday gift sensation is a handy little device that can literally rewire your brain while you use it. It’s portable, reusable and re-giftable, and comes in literally millions of different ...

Visitors enter Ki Woon Huh’s DeSoto Acres home through a gallery filled with his fantastical, colorful pottery—everything from delicate teacups to towering porcelain sculptures. A Sarasota resident ...

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one of the studies found. By Steven Lee Myers and Teddy Rosenbluth ...

Bangladesh will hold a parliamentary election on February 12, authorities said, in what would be the country’s first national vote since last year’s student-led uprising that removed former Prime ...

Clark County Firefighters Union is concerned about getting an ambulance quickly to Primm and the stateline, after the town’s only ambulance was sent to Laughlin. A 73-year-old man is dead after being ...

The far-right group known as the R.S.S., whose members include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has spent a century trying to ...

Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year Choice, Cloud Dancer, is being read as everything from a soothing reset to a politically tone-deaf choice in a year marked by DEI rollbacks. Some have claimed that ...

Political thrillers have been a staple of popular culture since the 1960s, when the Cold War threw conspiracy theory-loving writers into overdrive, and television and film are no exception. This year, ...

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Erastus Ethekon during stakeholder engagement forum on December 8, 2025. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]. Independent Electoral and ...