A boy and his teacher ... ...

Dwindling tax dollars are forcing libraries to close branches, cut hours and end programs just as more people are turning to them for services. "Libraries rely on public dollars, and we know there are less pub...

Students are full of convictions. They are fully persuaded that YouTube and Facebook is time well spent, that Angelina Jolie is currently the hottest woman alive; and that the convictions th...

Many college-educated single mothers are setting up lives around other single mothers and all their children, with no role for men or romance.Single Moms ...

The prepubescent children of days gone by have given way to a cooler kid -- the tween -- who aspires to teenhood but is not quite there yet. ...Retailers know tweens are a hot market for clothes, music and ente...

The three girls walking down Meiji Street in the heart of Tokyo's Harajuku district are talking loudly in cute high voices, sometimes breaking into giggles. They could be any group of teenage girls on a merry s...

Carol Porter, 63 and no word mincer, sits in her modest kitchen in Euclid, Minn., and recalls the day her 118-year-old church was burned to the ground. "I was baptized, confirmed and married there," she reports...

With a president they view as more sympathetic to their causes, progressive religious activists are pushing the new Obama administration for aggressive action -- on poverty, the environment and social justice i...

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Apparently, President Barack Obama thought that Jessica Simpson's weight was something he needed to make fun of during his pre-Super Bowl interview with Matt Lauer on NBC Sunday. Seriously. Obama called Jessica...