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Texas lawmakers have approved banning gummies, drinks and vapes infused with THC, the compound that gives marijuana its psychoactive properties.
Dollar General set a quarterly sales record of $10.44 billion and it upgraded its annual profit and sales outlook as Americans tighten their budgets and spend more at dollar stores and off-price retailers amid economic uncertainty.
Large numbers of Muslims converge once a year on Saudi Arabia to unite in a series of religious rituals and acts of worship as they perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that is one of the pillars of Islam.
A Shaquille O’Neal docuseries about his time at Reebok’s basketball division and Mario Kart World on Nintendo’s Switch 2 are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
Snack food maker Mondelez International is suing the Aldi supermarket chain for packaging its store-brand cookies and crackers in a way that “blatantly copies” products like Chips Ahoy and Wheat Thins.
Faizan Zaki has seized the title of best speller in the English language at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Videos featuring emotional moments with hyper-realistic baby dolls have sparked both online fascination and political debate in Brazil, with lawmakers even bringing the lifelike dolls into legislatures.
The special Tony Award that honors educators is going to a New York public high school teacher who shows how theater skills can apply to a career in the arts and also far away from it.
“The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing it and carry on the Christian songbook’s more than 180-year-old folk music history.
“The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds, and it is getting an update.
A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year.
Africans are remembering the work of acclaimed author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, following his death in the U.S. They recall Ngũgĩ’s criticism of an autocratic administration, leading to his arrest and imprisonment in the 1970s.
Nepal’s mountaineering community has celebrated the 72nd anniversary of the conquest of the world’s highest peak.
The beloved cartoon duo Phineas and Ferb are returning for new episodes this summer after a decade away and pretty much nothing has changed.
Outside of Phoenix in suburban Gilbert, one farming family decided over 10 years ago to get ahead of development and urban sprawl by developing their way.
Gen Z tends to lack trust in the major institutions that previous generations expected to safeguard their futures.
Stragglers beware: U.S. travelers flying with United Airlines will have to check in to domestic flights a little earlier starting next week.
Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.
It’s the last day to book a flight on Southwest Airlines without being hit with a fee to check bags after the airline abandoned a decades-long luggage policy.
Taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Andrei Kozlov is pouring his experience in captivity onto canvas in an exhibition of paintings.
A couple who moved from Los Angeles to Utah about 45 years ago to run a radio station are now operating the only Hindu temple in a predominantly Mormon town.
Young children of divorce in the U.S. have reduced earnings as adults and increased chances of teen pregnancy and incarceration.
Two border collies have a full-time job keeping birds and other wildlife off the runway at West Virginia's busiest airport.
An Oregon man who quit his job at a tire company and liquidated his retirement savings to set sail for Hawaii with his cat reached his destination Saturday.
McDonald’s says it's closing down CosMc’s, a new restaurant format it began piloting in the U.S. last year.
“Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong’s satirical drama “Mountainhead” and Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel playing dysfunctional siblings in the murder thriller series “The Better Sister” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
U.S. homeowners are boosting spending on home renovation projects, bucking a broader pullback by consumers amid diminished confidence in the economy.
Former Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov is visiting Boston with a message — don't forget those who are still being held in Gaza.
A woman who was able to sneak onto a flight from New York to Paris without a boarding pass last year has been convicted of a stowaway charge.
Apple users are starting to get ways out of the iPhone maker’s so-called “walled garden" which imposes restrictions and fees on payments through iOS apps.
Whether it's No Mow May or Let It Bloom June or Leave The Leaves, homeowners are finding more ways to adopt a low mow lifestyle instead of keeping up with short, manicured lawns.
A lot of American adults — about 3 in 10 — make use of astrology, tarot cards or fortunetellers at least once a year.
Two giants of the women’s rights movement, Gloria Steinem and Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee, have teamed up for a picture book with the mission of inspiring young people to change the world.
Two of the navigators in a women-only vintage car rally tearing through France are blind.
José Andrés says his work with his nonprofit World Central Kitchen flows with his 40 restaurants, his NBC cooking competition show with Martha Stewart “Yes, Chef,” and his new book “Change the Recipe: Because You Can’t Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs” that hit stores last month.
Scientists have identified molecules from blood and urine that may reveal how much energy a person consumes from ultraprocessed foods.
The 1925 Scopes monkey trial famously put the spotlight on evolution and appeared to mark a defeat for biblical fundamentalism.
Austrian fans have enthusiastically welcomed classically trained singer JJ back home at Vienna airport after he won the Eurovision Song Contest with “Wasted Love.”.
The slang term at the center of a political firestorm around former FBI Director James Comey likely originated as food-service-industry jargon before extending to other uses.
Heather Donahue starred in the low-budget hit movie “The Blair Witch Project” and has been embroiled in a spat with locals in her tiny Maine town after she started marking trees to help people find their way in the dense forests.
Joe Jonas’ sophomore solo album Work It Out” and John Krasinski and Natalie Portman searching for immortality in Guy Ritchie’s adventure movie “Fountain of Youth” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
One song generating a lot of froth at the Eurovision Song Contest is “Espresso Macchiato.”.
A 29-year-old former tire shop manager who quit his job and cashed in his retirement savings to buy a sailboat has become a social media sensation as he sails from Oregon to Hawaii with his cat, Phoenix.
Business travel to the U.S. fell 9% in April as companies and workers grappled with economic uncertainty and anger over the Trump administration’s tariffs and border policies.
Since the game’s early days, baseball mythology has been constructed — often deliberately — to set itself apart.
There’s one word you hear more than any other in Basel during the Eurovision Song Contest: Sauna.
As mental health awareness increases, so are conversations about about what constitutes toxic behavior at work and the kinds of treatment people won't tolerate for a steady paycheck.
A former White House executive chef says U.S. presidents and their families are “just regular people” when they're at home in the private living areas of the Executive Mansion.
Rising heat is a problem for millions of people in India, and one western city is pointing the way in figuring out some ways to deal with it.
The feijoa, not the kiwi, is the unofficial fruit of New Zealand, but it remains unknown to much of the world.
An injunction barring the enforcement of Florida’s drag-show ban will remain in effect after a federal appeals court ruled that the law is likely unconstitutional.
You can’t keep Stanley Tucci from his beloved Italy just like you can’t keep cheese from lasagna.
