With Jon Stewart having signed off Aug. 6, 2015, as comedian/anchor for Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," pundits are opining about Stewart's legacy and questioning what he was exactly. A comedian? Journalist?...

While America's teen pregnancy rate is historically low, it's still quite high among one subset of teens: Those who identify themselves as gay, bisexual or questioning. According to research done by Teenwise...

Playing in the band always has offered plenty of benefits: You get to hang out with other band people. You wear colorful uniforms that'd be wholly inappropriate elsewhere. You get to march in relatively straigh...

Teens always have spent lots of time with friends, but these days those friendships often are created and lived largely online. According to the Pew Research Center, 57 percent of teens ages 13 to 17 have me...

With 23 states having approved medicinal marijuana use and four legalizing pot outright, many were worried that teen use of the drug would soar. However, according to a study published in Lancet Psychiatry, tee...

After Dylann Roof murdered nine people at the historic Emanuel AME church in Charleston, S.C., many southern states have been removing the Confederate battle flag from its capitol buildings. Now, several southe...

Parents may worry about how much time their children spend tethered to their smartphones and mobile devices, but kids have some concerns of their own. A new study of 6,000 kids and teens by AVG Technologies ...

We've already reported that you can make big money simply by playing video games in the hyper-competitive world of e-sports. Turns out, you can make a pretty good living by coaching, too. According to The Wall ...

Fat cartoon characters may make their young fans fatter, too, according to a new study. To research this phenomenon, scientists showed about 60 eighth graders one of two cartoon characters: One was a nice, t...

The FBI rescued 600 children from sexual exploitation last year, but experts say these success stories are simply a fraction of the sex abuse actually taking place. Experts say tens of thousands of American chi...