Israel says the remains of three hostages have been handed over from Gaza and will be examined by forensic experts as a month ...

An open letter signed by over 850 prominent figures warns that superintelligent AI could “break the operating system of human ...

Historian Yuval Noah Harari speaks at the 2025 Inclusion Conference on the Bund on Sept 11. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] "Measure our progress not by the speed of our technology, but by the ...

“Conform” began as an off-handed comment debut author Ariel Sullivan made to her husband during a “dark point” in her life, she tells TODAY.com. Sullivan was struggling with postpartum depression and ...

Mitch Albom is a sports writer turned author turned benefactor who puts love and hope at the center of nearly everything he does. For our Weekend Spotlight series, John Yang meets up with Albom to ...

The organizations behind Banned Books Week based this year's theme, "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights," on Orwell's sobering story to show we may be closer in real life to his dystopia than ...

This year’s Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to a Hungarian writer whose work offers bleak visions of existence, and whose father hid his Jewish ancestry from him for much of his childhood.

As one local author described it Tuesday, writing can be “a lonely, lonely business.” But at the State House, novelists, nonfiction writers and picture book authors found community for the day, ...

The number of opioid-involved drug overdose deaths in 2023 decreased for the first time in five years. Minnesota health officials say 54 people have died from suspected drug overdoses in just the ...

Bestselling author Stephen King was named the most banned writer of the 2024-25 school year in PEN America’s latest report tracking book censorship in the U.S. Some 87 titles among King’s oeuvre, ...

Stephen King is the most-banned author in U.S. schools. According to PEN America’s Banned in the USA, the King of Horror has the most banned or censored books of any author throughout the United ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US: Call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Globally: The ...