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Don't talk politics with strangers, we're told. But these days, conversations with even those closest to us can be fraught. How are friends, families keeping things civil across the political divide?

Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news: "Joementum 2.0," 'No More Facetime" and "The Blind Loving the Blind."

The search giant's push into artificial intelligence as a tool for health improvement is a natural evolution for a company that has developed algorithms that reach deep into our lives through the Web.

Every year, Palestinians from towns and villages across the West Bank bring their ladders and tarps to local olive groves. Olive oil season is the center of local history and culture — and at the heart of the economy.

Some years ago, acclaimed novelist Mary Gordon wrote a memoir about her father, revealing how the man she had loved as a Catholic intellectual was actually a converted Jew, a rabid anti-Semite and an academic fraud. Gordon's new memoir, Circling My Mother, is a tribute to the hard-working woman who raised and supported her.

Illinois is not part of the growing movement from state legislators to have a larger say in how students are using phones in schools, leaving educators to make their own rules and regulations surrounding phone usage. In Bloomington-Normal, those policies vary widely.

Sophia Park has become the youngest person to pass the California bar exam at 17 years, 8 months old. She beats the record set by her brother Peter Park in 2023.

At a rural high school outside El Paso, Texas, the principal tries to inspire poor immigrants or kids of immigrants to go to college, though many have never seen one.

Jimmy Carter said that his love of music -- and his friendship with The Allman Brothers in particular -- helped him get elected.

Chefs congregated in Boston at the Big Queer Food Fest.