On Dec. 16, the Garden City High School Literary Circle held its 30th anniversary of the Winter Solstice poetry reading. Club ...

A melancholy December vision in Liverpool invokes a Dickensian ghost with more worldly but still warm realism Down on the canal on Christmas Day Down on the canal on Christmas Day a man walks towards ...

A man was taken to the hospital after crashing into a Giant Food store in Silver Spring, Maryland, Sunday, according to the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. Firefighters said crews responded ...

A new study has shown that prompts in the form of poems confuse AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude — to the point where sometimes, security mechanisms don't kick in. Are poets the new hackers?

For more than a decade, the Arab Spring has been widely dismissed as a failure, often portrayed as a brief eruption of idealism that collapsed into repression, war and authoritarian restoration.

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

Fifteen years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor whose cart was confiscated by the police, set himself on fire to protest against police harassment and the ...

Police say a 47-year-old man has died after a fire broke out on the third floor of a unit complex in Spring Hill just after 3am on Tuesday. Two others were taken to hospital, with a 19-year-old woman ...

I do not know how to love you. I do not know how to tempt you ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages. Millicent Borges Accardi’s “Good Tank Farms” appears in our new Winter issue, ...

Editor’s note: This story, originally published at 11:31 a.m. on Dec. 12, 2025, was updated at 3:46 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2025, to add more information about the collision provided by Montgomery County ...