From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend. By Maggie Astor Any reader knows the unique delight of ...

Fewer Americans than ever before are reading for pleasure, according to a new study released Wednesday, declining 40 percent in the past 20 years. Only 16 percent of Americans age 15 and over read for ...

The judge presiding over the Karen Read trial gave jurors a revised verdict slip on Tuesday afternoon, following confusion from the panel about the first slip they were given, which prompted a ...

Karen Read's defense team has filed a motion to amend the verdict slip in her second trial on murder charges as jurors return to the courthouse in Dedham, Massachusetts, for their first full day of ...

Deliberations are underway in the Karen Read murder trial. After both sides gave their closing arguments Friday morning, Judge Beverly Cannone spent the early afternoon reading jury instructions ...

Editor's note: This page summarizes testimony in the Karen Read trial for Tuesday, May 20. For the latest updates on the Karen Read retrial, visit USA TODAY's coverage for Wednesday, May 21. Questions ...

DEDHAM, MASS. (WHDH) - The medical examiner who performed Boston police officer John O’Keefe’s autopsy took the witness stand Thursday in the Karen Read murder retrial. Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello walked ...

More than 20 witnesses have testified in the second Karen Read murder trial and the judge told jurors this week that the trial expected to last six to eight weeks remains on schedule. Witnesses from ...

A key witness in the retrial of Karen Read returned to the stand Wednesday for a second day of testimony, as she recounted the hours leading up to the death of Read’s boyfriend John O’Keefe — and the ...

TO EXPLAIN DAVID. GOOD EVENING. MARIA JEN MCCABE WAS A FRIEND OF JOHN O’KEEFE AND SAID SHE LIKED KAREN READ TOO. BUT AFTER JOHN O’KEEFE DIED, READ TOLD AN INTERVIEW, QUOTE, IT’S ME OR HER. EITHER I’M ...

The infamous Karen Read case has returned to court, and if you want to better understand it there's a television documentary series Read called her "testimony." "A Body in the Snow: The Trial of Karen ...

The confession hung in the air between us, startling in its honesty. My sister—a college senior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and one of the most hard-working people I know—wasn’t joking. We ...