Extracts from CNN Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb’s new book, “American Hope: What Pope Leo XIV Means for the Church and the World,” reveal how his election bucked history.

For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.

Abstract: Sign language translation is one of the important issues in communication between deaf and hearing people, as it expresses words through hand, body, and mouth movements. American Sign ...

Latin American literature meets film, revealing how pop culture shapes storytelling. Lights, camera, action! Latin American literature intersects with all sorts of other kinds of art, including film.

The American Girl doll brand is celebrating its 40th anniversary in a big way in 2026. Mattel, Inc. announced in a press release on Wednesday that two book titles celebrating the landmark anniversary ...

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What can a renovation do for a golf course? Take a look at the list of the toughest and easiest courses on the PGA Tour in 2025 and there is bit of information that is quite telling. And it concerns a ...

November is Native American Heritage Month, and the fall has brought a dazzling slate of noteworthy new books by Native American authors. We're highlighting a small fraction of those, as picked by ...

Laura Patranella makes it a priority to read at least one novel each year with her elementary school students, relishing both the depth of these works and students’ communal experience of talking ...

PEN America released its list of the most-banned books of the 2024-2025 school year on Wednesday – and warned that the number of books challenged or banned in public school districts across the ...

Italian Professor Alessandro Carrera was shocked when he counted the number of language graduates on the University of Houston’s commencement program in May. Around 20 undergraduates earned degrees in ...

The beauty of Squid Game lies in its deceptively simple, childlike games twisted into life-or-death challenges, forcing participants to confront their own humanity (or lack thereof) in a pressure ...