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Federal spending on children has seen a “steep decline” since a 2021 pandemic peak. In 2024, expenditures on children are expected to level off, research finds.

The writer-director looks back on his grunge-era time capsule about life, love and music in early Ninenties Seattle.

Scientists with the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center began sounding the alarm as early as Sept. 23.

As beaver becomes harder to come by, suppliers and hatters are exploring a more sustainable (but less cute) option: nutria.

An investigation focused on three of the world’s largest shrimp producers claims that as big Western supermarkets make windfall profits, their aggressive pursuit of ever-lower wholesale prices is causing misery for people on the bottom end of the supply chain.

In China, a new generation of milk-tea chains—with design schemes that evoke everything from Communist-era factory floors to spaceships—sell not only beverages but also imagined worlds.

The 2025 NBA draft is viewed by scouts as significantly stronger and deeper than last year’s group of prospects.

It’s not just a respiratory disease.

For most of recorded human history, marriage was an arrangement designed to maximize financial stability.

Climate change is making floods, heatwaves and storms more frequent and more intense; scientists warn emissions must be cut