What parents need to know about ‘Wicked: For Good,’ ‘Rental Family’ and more
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ChatGPT to roll out educator tools free for some Virginia districts
Teachers in Virginia’s two largest school districts may soon be able to use artificial intelligence to generate lesson plans and...
AI toys can cajole kids or be made to discuss sex, watchdog groups warn
Artificial intelligence is enabling children’s toys, from teddy bears to wheeled robots, to talk back to kids who play with...
Amid today’s unpalatable politics, here’s a public career worth savoring
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The month they are born, all Ohio children can be enrolled in a program that sends a...
I was in solitary for 5 years. My country can do better.
Sergey Tihanovski is a Belarusian political activist and former presidential candidate. “Politics is a dirty business! You should have been...
After decades of power, Washington shuns Larry Summers over Epstein ties
Lawrence H. Summers dominated economic thought in Washington, on both sides of the aisle, for the better part of four...
The 10 best books of 2025
FICTION ‘Ruth’ by Kate Riley Ruth, the impish narrator of Kate Riley’s debut novel, is born into a little and...
These salacious affairs are great for gossip and terrible for America
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While the West fiddles, Ukraine is burning
President Donald Trump has a new Ukraine policy. It’s the same as his old Ukraine policy — force Kyiv to...
Meta is building an AI-powered morning brief in push to compete with ChatGPT
Meta is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized daily briefing powered by the company’s generative...
Hundreds of struggling renters in nation’s capital line up to ask for help
The line snaked out the door, down the sidewalk, into the parking lot — men and women and children and...
Tensions between renters and homeowners challenge Mamdani housing plan
NEW YORK — As he waited for the bus in a neighborhood packed with two-story homes, Bradley Shields wondered what...
Two minutes on a porch, a misunderstanding and a fatal shot
The house cleaners had circled the block in an Indiana town a few times that morning, following the mapping app’s...
Shortage of manufacturing talent threatens Trump’s reshoring push
When Viega LLC began hiring for its new factory in northeast Ohio last year, company officials ran traditional “help wanted”...
‘Anxious’ shoppers keep scaling back and hunting for deals, retailers say
As economists continue to seek clarity on how Americans are faring after the federal government shutdown paused data collection, the...
