This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...

Katie Fulton 600-book Christmas tree went viral, amassing more than 27 million views on TikTok Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 ...

Katie Fulton has loved reading for as long as she can remember. Originally from central New Jersey and now living in Media, Penn., the 37-year-old recalls struggling to learn to read in first grade ...

Carol Kratz (left) of La Crosse, Wis., gets a lesson in how to tie a knot using a strip of mulberry tree fibers from Nana Takano, a second-year student at the Center for the Book, as volunteers for ...

NEW YORK (November 4, 2025)—The Line of the Ball: Leadership, Legacy, and Lifelong Lessons in Family, Business, and Sport by Dr. Beh Chun Chuan is now available on Amazon and at major booksellers. The ...

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The most commonly banned books in U.S. schools include LGBTQ titles, international bestsellers, teen romantasy novels and a 1962 classic, according to a new report that compares modern-day censorship ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — It’s a common problem that deserves its own term, “tree blindness.” It happens when you’re strolling through a neighborhood and realize you can’t identify any of the trees that ...

European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone doesn’t see major threats to inflation in either direction, with interest rates currently well positioned. Europe’s economy has been “quite ...

Editor’s Note (10/8/25): This podcast was edited after posting to remove some incorrect descriptions of research on crickets in Hawaii. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m ...