JoJo was a teen sensation. At 33, she's found her voice again
Joanna Levesque shot to stardom at 13. Two decades later, “JoJo” — as she’s better known — has written a memoir and says the ...
50 years after 'The Power Broker,' Robert Caro's dreams are still coming true
Robert A. Caro stands between two giant columns in a second-floor library of the New-York Historical Society, looking out on ...
US will let more people take methadone at home
The new federal rules allow stable patients to take home 28 days’ worth of methadone. Colorado, New York and Massachusetts ...
Alert: Passenger on a previous Titan submersible dive testified his mission was aborted underwater due to apparent malfunction
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Passenger on a previous Titan submersible dive testified his mission was aborted underwater due to apparent malfunction.
Vouchers ease start-up stress for churches seeing demand for more Christian schools
The state has an expansive voucher program in which taxpayers help to pay tuition for all families who want to send their ...
Tourists can finally visit the Oval Office. A replica is opening near the White House on Monday
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington is getting a new tourist stop that offers visitors the next best thing to being in the Oval ...
Nepal’s revamped truth commissions will need to go beyond ‘ritualism’ to deliver justice to civil war victims
The two main bodies involved — the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons — were created by Nepal’s government in 2015 to deal ...
Wind phones help the bereaved deal with death, loss and grief − a clinical social worker explains the vital role of the old-fashioned rotary phone
People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things left unsaid. Wind phones offer a setting for the person to tell the story of ...
Half of Black gay men will be diagnosed with HIV, despite highly effective preventive treatments − why?
Black gay and bisexual men made up about 38% of the estimated 37,981 new HIV diagnoses in the U.S. in 2022. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 50% of these men ...
College can be confusing for first-generation students – but it doesn’t have to be
That’s right. On average, early adulthood is more secure — in terms of career, family, health and a host of other outcomes — for college graduates. What we often miss, though, is the insecurity that ...
Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view their neighborhood
Common understandings of gentrification and urban development often frame these urban processes as natural, linear and even inevitable for low-income neighborhoods. The argument goes that once you see ...
Self-forgiveness is more than self-comfort − a philosopher explains
Rather, as philosopher Robin Dillon pointed out, self-forgiveness suggests that someone is no longer being consumed or overwhelmed by those negative feelings. In short, it is possible to forgive ...