New limits push back on live bets and the algorithms powering gambling apps. This clip imagines a scenario that mirrors real debates around the Safer Bet Act, showing efforts to curb live wagers and ...

Henry David Thoreau is often remembered as a writer who retreated from society to live in a small house at Walden Pond. But he also sheltered escaped enslaved people in his home, defied federal law, ...

NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their ...

Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History is a four-part series from acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., exploring the rich, complex relationship between Black Americans and Jewish ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening ...

ARLINGTON, VA; January 28, 2026— PBS today announced the appointment of Scott Nourse as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In this role, Nourse will lead PBS’s technology strategy and operations, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information ...

There’s no business like show business — a sentiment far too familiar to acclaimed Broadway director, Charlie Summers. But after 20 years in the New York musical theatre world, he's found himself in a ...

High school students in Bullitt County have partnered with a Louisville-based software company. High school students in one Kentucky school district could have counseling help at their fingertips. In ...

On May 8, 1970, “the Hard Hat Riot” erupted in lower Manhattan. At midday, construction workers, including those building the World Trade Center, violently clashed with students demonstrating against ...

ChatGPT will tell 13-year-olds how to get drunk and high, instruct them on how to conceal eating disorders and even compose a heartbreaking suicide letter to their parents if asked, according to new ...

CHIP JACOBS, WRITER: It's hard for us to imagine what it was like that day in July 1943. It appeared quite suddenly. CHRISTOPHER WELLS, HISTORIAN: Thick, dark, silvery blue clouds descended over the ...