Culture

Auliʻi Cravalho was only 16 years old when she voiced her breakout role as Moana. And today, eight years later, she is reprising the iconic Disney character at the premiere...

Dzan, Mexico – Surrounded by dense jungle and beneath intertwining canopies of towering trees, Luis May Ku, 49, trudges ahead through shoulder-height bushes searching for a rare plant. The oppressive...

Takanashi Kiara is not like other girls.  The cliche applies to her in a literal sense. She’s a Vtuber, a term for a content creator who streams using an anime...

BRUSSELS — The European Commission is reducing the number of its spokespeople, as Ursula von der Leyen begins her second five-year mandate as president.  The spokesperson’s service, which reports directly to von...

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is fiction, but at times it resembles a documentary about recent political turmoil. Rasoulof incorporates actual cellphone footage of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” activism...

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris has offered the world a peek of its restored interior, five years after it was ravaged by a fire. French President Emmanuel Macron inspected the renovation...

There’s a code of conduct for the multiplex experience, deliberately broadcast right before a movie: When the lights start to dim, we turn off our phones and end any side...

At this Texas university, getting accepted is “mind” over matter. The University of Austin (UATX) – founded on free speech principles to push back against “woke” ideology – is shunning...

It’s been a hell of a ride for Ursula von der Leyen’s first team atop the European Commission from 2019-2024.  Those five years were dominated by one war on Europe’s...

The United States is known as a great melting of people, food and culture. In major cities across the country like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, people can find...