‘Gramma,’ a tortoise who lived through 20 presidencies, dies at 141 Her life spanned a tumultuous period of U.S. and world history, from Chester Arthur to Donald Trump. To San Diegans, she was a beloved local celebrity.
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What the best free preschool programs reveal about child care in America Dozens of states and cities offer some version of publicly funded child care for 3- and 4-year-olds. It’s going far better in some places than others.
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What Trump’s plan to exclude nursing from ‘professional’ degrees actually means The Education Department's definition of professional degrees has been criticized for excluding some fields, with industry groups urging reconsideration.
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Jamil Al-Amin, Black Power activist known as H. Rap Brown, dies at 82 The civil rights organizer was a fiery voice for Black empowerment. He died in prison, serving a life sentence for the murder of a sheriff’s deputy in 2000.
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Town’s Christmas art contest ends in scandal: Did the winner use AI? The winning artist, Ghassane Moutaoukil, denies using AI to create his illustration of revelers on a wintry night.
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Meet Beef the bulldog, who takes slow walks with his 78-year-old friend “Join Beef on his 30 minute 0.2 mile walk,” wrote the English bulldog’s owner, America Miranda.
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We calculated how much more — or less — Thanksgiving dinner costs this year The cost of your Thanksgiving grocery haul will vary depending on where you’re shopping.
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Viola Fletcher, oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, dies at 111 A century after a White mob destroyed her prosperous Black community in 1921, she became a plaintiff in a symbolic lawsuit seeking reparations.
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