On any night a month ago in Pasadena’s Upper Hastings Ranch, there were lines of cars driving up and down each street, marveling at the annual Holiday Light Up tradition that has been going on for ...

California is the third U.S. state to designate Diwali as an official statewide holiday. The law, newly signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, takes effect January 1. It allows public schools ...

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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has apologized for poorly managed foreign adoption programs that were rife with abuses ...

A version of this story ran in the September / October 2025 issue. BLD PWR (think: build power) Day 2025 was a hectic one. Starting late in the afternoon, many African Americans flocked to the Ion ...

On Sept. 30, Philadelphia’s Office of Immigrant Affairs plans to hoist the red flag emblazoned with the star of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in front of city hall to celebrate the anniversary of ...

SAN ANTONIO — A teen girl was shot and killed at a party in southwest Bexar County early Sunday morning, according to the sheriff's office. Bexar County sheriff's deputies were called to the 13900 ...

The night sky is especially active this week, so don't forget to pause and look up Arctic-Images/Getty As the harvest moon begins to reach its peak, the sparkly Fomalhaut ("Autumn Star") will rise low ...

Moldova's pro-Western governing party won a clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups in an election that was widely viewed as a stark choice between East and West. European ...

Moldovan President Maia Sandu secured a mandate to press ahead with her agenda to steer the country into the European Union after her party won a parliamentary election, thwarting Russian efforts to ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

Mr. Shenk is a historian of modern American politics and has written extensively about the fight for control of the Democratic Party. This essay is the first installment in a series on the thinkers, ...