The Kukulkán pyramid in Chichén Itzá is scanned in a detailed search for hidden chambers, making sure not to damage the Mayan ...

Gracie Muehlberger wrote letters to her future self and stored them in a multicolored trinket box on her dresser. Her notes, penned when she was 13 and signed “Gracie from the past,” bubbled with ...

Nearly 1,900 publicly subsidized rental units are sitting empty across Portland, according to new estimates. New data from real estate analytics firm CoStar reveals that 1,863, or 7.4% of the city’s ...

Shanghai has officially said goodbye to chamber pots, bringing an end to residents who lacked private toilets needing to carry their bedpans to communal waste disposal locations each morning, often ...

The Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) Indicator Report tracks progress towards achieving the four objectives of the GCR. This year, 2025, sees the launch of the third GCR Indicator Report, which builds ...

EXCLUSIVE: More than 200 children have been killed in school shootings in the U.S. since 1999, according to the nonprofit Brady group. That devastating reality underpins the Academy Award-contending ...

Each major stock index is trading near all-time high levels. A stock market indicator known as the Fear & Greed Index currently shows a reading of 21, signaling "extreme fear." While a sell-off could ...

When Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, walked into the chamber one October afternoon, the silence was deafening. The microphones were switched on, but the seats were mostly empty, symbol of ...

A government shutdown, the second-longest in U.S. history, has entered its fourth week with no resolution in sight. Democrats and Republicans are at a stalemate over funding, with Democrats seeking an ...

Let’s agree that, in order to learn, one must actually show up to school and put one’s butt in one’s chair. Unfortunately, many kids in Orange County — and many more in the state at large — are ...

Andy Smith is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), licensed realtor and educator with over 35 years of diverse financial management experience. He is an expert on personal finance, corporate finance ...