Three high schoolers from Newtown, Conn., have been arrested in a sexting scandal with a new wrinkle: Not only were they distributing sexually explicit pictures of classmates, but selling them—allegedly f...

Is it wrong for colleges to ask applicants if they've ever been arrested? It sure is, according to the activist group Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Yet that doesn't stop many colleges and unive...

For years—generations, actually—Mattel's popular fashion doll Barbie has been under assault for her outrageously unrealistic body. However, when Barbie sales sank 20 percent between 2012 and 2014, M...

Discouraging Words Take Center Court in Wisconsin Get downloadable PDF. Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation. About/Disclaimer What Happened If you go to a basketball game anywhere in America...

"Sesame Street" has begun releasing new episodes of its seminal series, this time not in the free confines of PBS but in the premium cable world of HBO. While episodes eventually will air for free on PBS, th...

Netflix users streamed a collective 42.5 billion hours' worth of programming last year—an increase of about 13.5 billion hours from 2014. That means the folks on each Netflix account streamed approximatel...

Late last year, the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association sent an email to students, warning basketball fans not to "taunt or disrespect" opposing teams with their chants. The disparaging phrases inclu...

When 20-year-old Hanna Lottritz was taken to the hospital last July, she was completely unresponsive. Her blood alcohol concentration was five times the legal limit, and doctors didn't expect her to survive. ...

Children as young as 13 are undergoing weight-loss surgery in Great Britain, according to a report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The fact that British kids are undergoing surgery to shrin...

Growing up in poverty can impact kids in a whole host of negative ways. According to scientists from Washington University in St. Louis, that includes kids' gray matter. Researchers studied the brainwaves of...