A new book has embroiled the academic community in a heated debate over whether spending time on smartphones affects young people’s mental health and, if so, how. Social psychologist Jonathan …
After taking on the plastic, fantastic world of Barbie Land, producer Margot Robbie is heading to the rich terrain of Monopoly. Robbie’s company LuckyChap and her partners Tom Ackerley and Josie McNamara are producing a…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ralph Yarl, the Black teenager who survived being shot in the head after he rang the wrong doorbell nearly a year ago, is only now coming…
Almost a year since blue check marks disappeared from some large, influential accounts on X (formerly Twitter), they have started to return. On Wednesday, some individuals with large followings started…
O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star who was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend in a televised trial that gripped the nation, has died of cancer, according to…
Lara Croft, the iconic lead of the Tomb Raider franchise, sped past Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog to top a new list of most iconic video game characters of…
A campaign staffer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential bid has been fired after a video recently circulated of her talking about preventing President Joe Biden’s re-election by trying…
Beyoncé’s new album, “Cowboy Carter,” has shined a light on a country music pioneer that many people may not know. One of the album’s tracks is called “The Linda Martell Show,” which is an intro to the…
Social media users on the East Coast flooded X on Friday with emotions, jokes and memes after a rare earthquake shook the region. Some asked if others had felt the…
The Anti-Defamation League gave Harvard University and 12 other schools failing grades for policies to protect Jewish students from antisemitism on campus. The ADL said it selected 85 of the top…
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