In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

France's main Braille publisher is in financial crisis after a bold decision to sell its embossed books for the same price as standard ones. Its future raises the broader question of whether printed ...

An alleged 'anti-Semitic' nanny has been accused of poisoning a French Jewish family including three young children. Algerian Leila Y, 42, was hired as a live-in nanny in Paris in January 2024 to look ...

Purchasing life insurance for a child can provide a safety net if the worst should happen, but it can also protect them well into adulthood. There are different plans that parents, grandparents or ...

What was supposed to be a continuation of a decades-old tradition for first ladies turned into a laugh fest on social media. While first lady Melania Trump was attempting to spread Christmas joy with ...

The nanny, identified in French media only as “Leila Y.,” was sentenced to three years in prison—six months of which were suspended—for actions committed in January 2024. She deliberately contaminated ...

Traveling from country to country without restrictions. Shorter lines at the border. The right to live and work in ...

Not long ago, a book party like this would have been unthinkable: a Washington celebration of one of the most notorious French novels ever written. But on a frigid December night, some 50 people ...

In the heart of Fairbanks, where winter temperatures can make your eyelashes freeze together, there exists a treasure trove that locals swear by and visitors stumble upon with wide-eyed wonder: Value ...

Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was previously the lifestyle editor at HelloGiggles, deputy editor at So Yummy and senior lifestyle editor at Hunker. Over the past 10+ years, Anna has also written for the ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Jennifer Krauss Jennifer Krauss ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...