The Owen sisters may be back in “Practical Magic 2” 28 years after Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock first played the sibling witches, but that doesn’t mean the first movie’s outing doesn’t still sting a little. The or...
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Military recruiting has rebounded to its strongest levels in years, but Pentagon data shows young Americans are enlisting for steady pay, education benefits and job training rather than politics.
Overtraining syndrome is derailing the careers of elite ultrarunners, turning a decade of explosive growth in ultramarathon racing into a quiet health crisis.
Thailand was never colonized by a European power, and the kingdom then known as Siam survived on diplomacy, reform and a careful performance of civilization.
Dolly Parton's 1977 interview with Barbara Walters has resurfaced after her death, when the singer answered a pointed question about being called a hillbilly.
The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics asks the field to defend proof, human authorship and peer review as AI moves into research.
An Ohio grand jury declined to indict Cody Morelock, charged with felony vandalism over a destroyed Flock license plate reader camera in a Cincinnati suburb.
Greenhouses are having a moment in American agriculture, winning the indoor farming race while heavily funded vertical farming startups collapse.
Defining success on your own terms matters more than chasing salary, job titles, or other people's approval, a lesson Bill Watterson delivered in his 1990 Kenyon College commencement speech ten years after his own graduation.
Andrew Carnegie's 1889 Gospel of Wealth argued that the rich should live modestly, provide for their dependents, and treat surplus wealth as a trust fund for the community, acting as agent and trustee for their poorer brethren. A critical reading of that famous case for philanthropy challenges Carnegie's motivations rather than accepting them at face value.
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In May 2023, bipartisan legislation dubbed the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act was introduced in both the House and Senate, requiring all new passenger vehicles to include AM broadcast radio as standard equipment at no additional charge. The bill was prompted by a growing trend among electric vehicle manufacturers — led by Tesla — to drop AM radio from their cars, citing electromagnetic interference between AM signals and electric drivetrains.
Read on Trill News →In a widely read 2023 profile published in ELLE magazine, journalist Melissa Giannini spent roughly three years attempting to reach Meg White — the enigmatic drummer and co-founder of the White Stripes — for an interview, ultimately writing about the experience of searching for someone who simply does not wish to be found. The piece ran around the time of the White Stripes' nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, making White's continued absence from public life all the more striking.
Read on Trill News →Germany's Federal Statistics Office reported in mid-2023 that the country's population grew by approximately 1.1 million people in 2022 — a 1.3 percent increase — driven almost entirely by the arrival of Ukrainians fleeing Russia's full-scale invasion. By the end of 2022, around 1.05 million Ukrainian refugees were registered as residing in Germany, pushing its total population to record levels.
Read on Trill News →Big Boy Restaurants, the storied American diner chain that once boasted nearly 1,000 locations across the United States, announced in 2023 the launch of a fast-food spin-off concept called Bob's Big Boy — a nod to the chain's original 1936 incarnation. The first two locations were announced in metro Detroit suburbs as an experiment in a lower-cost, counter-service format without traditional table service.
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