No one expects a judge’s rollback of Georgia’s abortion ban to be the last word
When a Georgia judge overturned the state’s abortion ban this week, abortion rights advocates praised the ruling and ...
After playing Weird Barbie, Kate McKinnon’s new children’s book also celebrates being uniquely you
If you find it odd that Kate McKinnon chose her first book to be for middle-grade kids, the former “Saturday Night Live” star ...
Bee Cave Middle School student arrested after school shooting threat
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A student at Bee Cave Middle School has been arrested after posting a school threat to social media Friday.
This year’s MacArthur ‘genius’ fellows include more writers, artists and storytellers
The 2024 class of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellows includes more writers, artists and storytellers ...
US sanctions extremist West Bank settler group for violence against Palestinians
The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Hilltop Youth, a group of extremist settlers in the Israeli -occupied West Bank who ...
DreamWorks Animation at 30: Painting a bright path forward with ‘The Wild Robot’
Filmmaker Chris Sanders had finally cracked “The Wild Robot.” Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot ...
Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists
Salman Rushdie’s memoir a bout his near-fatal stabbing, “Knife,” and Percival Everett’s revisionist historical novel, “James, ...
Ken Page, who starred in ‘Cats’ on Broadway and voiced Oogie Boogie, dies at 70
Ken Page, a stage and screen actor who starred alongside Beyoncé in “Dreamgirls,” introduced Broadway audiences to Old Deuteronomy in “Cats” and scared generations of kids as the ...
Shohei Ohtani is looking to top himself in his first playoff appearance with the Dodgers
Shohei Ohtani was already a superstar with his hitting and pitching accomplishments over six years with the Los Angeles ...
Mississippi justices reject latest appeal from man on death row since 1976
The Mississippi Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously denied the latest appeal from a man who has been on the state’s death row longer than any other inmate. Richard ...
New report analyzes state of Texas’ EV truck infrastructure
As electric vehicle technology access expands throughout Texas and the United States, the Texas Department of Transportation shared a task force-developed report this week on the state’s ...
John Amos, patriarch on ‘Good Times’ and an Emmy nominee for the blockbuster ‘Roots,’ dies at 84
John Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom “Good Times” and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries “Roots,” has ...