Day care prices aren't getting better. So states are stepping in
Child care has long been expensive for families, hard to find and financially precarious for day care owners and workers
May 14, 2024Child care has long been expensive for families, hard to find and financially precarious for day care owners and workers
May 14, 2024Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people in the European Union face less discrimination but more physical or sexual attacks than three years ago, a
May 28, 2024Two teachers met them with a smile at the steel door, and down the concrete staircase the mother and daughter clattered, hand in hand, through another
May 14, 2024Everything changed for Paul Tran and his wife Lynda when the skincare brand they co-founded went viral on TikTok.
May 14, 2024Taiwanese drag queen Nymphia Wind celebrated last month's win on RuPaul's Drag Race by staging a riotous, emotional performance at Taiwan's presidential office on
May 15, 2024A big change may be coming to a Jersey Shore town that was founded as a religious retreat and prevents people from using the beach on Sunday mornings
May 15, 2024While many of the migrants who reach Europe are escaping war, conflict and poverty, an increasing number are fleeing possible prison terms and death sentences because they are gay
May 16, 2024Hugo Boss has struck up a multi-year design partnership with Former Manchester United midfielder David Beckham, the German fashion house said on Thursday, as it seeks to boost demand for
May 16, 2024Offences against the LGBT+ community in France rose 13% in 2023, with 4,560 incidents reported, and after a rise of 3% in 2022, data from the French interior ministry
May 16, 2024For the nation’s bicycle shops, the past few years have probably felt like the business version of the Tour de France
May 16, 2024The German parliament has approved plans to relax strict restrictions on family names — clearing the way, among other things, for couples to take double-barreled surnames and pass them on to their children
May 17, 2024Thousands of Georgians led by Orthodox Christian clerics marked "Family Purity Day" on Friday, marching down the same central avenue in Tbilisi that has been the scene of some of
May 17, 2024A Vermont university has bestowed the honorary degree of “doctor of litter-ature” on a cat named Max who has become a beloved member of its community
May 17, 2024Hundreds of protesters in Peru's capital marched on Friday to demand the scrapping of a new law that describes transgender people, among others, as having a mental illness so they can
May 18, 2024Caitlin Clark is adjusting to life as a professional women’s basketball player on and off the court
May 19, 2024Exploring the cosmos makes for happy employees, federal workers like to work from home like everyone else, and an agency that has struggled with low morale is showing improvement
May 20, 2024On the roof of the mayor's office in Albania's capital Tirana, lesbians Alba Ahmetaj and Edlira Mara held an unofficial wedding ceremony on Sunday,
May 20, 2024A former prison correctional officer found himself incarcerated after brazenly pocketing hefty sums from an affluent inmate under his watch. The employee flagrantly defied protocols, accepting large payments in exchange for bestowing preferential treatment upon the moneyed prisoner – a flagrant ethical transgression and stark abuse of public trust. William Tidwell was previously employed as a prison officer at the Federal Medical Center Devens, a federal correctional institution in Ayer, Massachusetts. Amongst those under Tidwell’s control was Raj Rajaratnam, the erstwhile hedge fund magnate who created Galleon Group. Rajaratnam, formerly a known Wall Street figure, received an 11-year sentence for
May 20, 2024A Maine woman is appealing the dismissal of her lawsuit that accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender expression by providing a chest binder and using a new name and pronouns, without consulting her
May 20, 2024Cars, trucks and SUVs in the U.S. keep getting older
May 21, 2024A viral TikTok video has sparked heated debate over airplane seat swap etiquette after a father allegedly duped a fellow passenger during a seat swap gone wrong, turning it into a game of mile-high musical chairs. TikTok user Alex Bennett claimed she witnessed the “most insane plane behavior” on a recent flight while sitting behind a man who agreed to change seats with a father traveling with his two children. Bennett said the father approached the man in the aisle seat behind her, asking to trade aisle seats so he could sit together with his kids in the middle and
May 21, 2024The ‘Tinder Swindler’ has some competition – meet the ‘Hinge Hustler.’ Claudia Harris, a 29-year-old from Harpenden, Hertfordshire, got more than she bargained for when she said yes to an impromptu vacation with a Hinge match. Her tale is a harsh reminder that not every online connection is what it seems. It started innocently enough. Harris’s pal convinced her to give Hinge a go a year back. She quickly hit it off with a guy names James (not his real name) through the app. After nonstop chatting for half a day, James popped the question – not for marriage, but
May 22, 2024The pageant that crowned Belgium's Top Woman focused on the inner beauty and body positivity of the contestants.
May 22, 2024A person who now goes by Yaya DeCloud, age 42, has finally opened up about the nightmarish experiences of being held captive within a religious cult overseen by their own parent, Nelson DeCloud. Yaya was brought into this world as a male child on December 14th, 1981, but was compelled to reside in an intensely regulated communal arrangement alongside roughly 30 other individuals collectively dubbed the “DeCloud family.” This assemblage maintained an exceedingly isolated existence, seldom if ever venturing beyond the boundaries of their secluded compound. Nelson DeCloud, formerly employed in law enforcement, assumed the mantle of spiritual leader and
May 23, 2024Memphis barbecue is elevated to fine dining under the sun at the annual World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest
May 23, 2024