LOS ANGELES — A puppy is getting a new leash on life after being rescued with life-threatening facial injuries in Pasadena.

The 2½-month-old puppy, Peanut, was brought in as a stray on March 9 after being rescued by a good Samaritan in Arcadia, according to Jamie Holeman, chief marketing and communications officer at Pasadena Humane. Peanut,...Read more

We are more connected than ever before, with our high-speed internet, pinging smartphones and ever-updating apps and social media networks. (iPhone 17e, anyone?!)

And yet, we are also lonelier than ever, especially younger generations who are even more likely to be on their digital devices for longer periods of time. Gen Z, it turns out, is the...Read more

Q. My ex wants me to give him my friends’ phone numbers so he can call them and arrange playdates with their children when my son is with him. You don’t give people’s phone numbers out without asking them first, and these are my friends. I feel uncomfortable sharing their information, but he says I’m being difficult and preventing our ...Read more

A document detailing our health care expenditures just arrived in the mail.

“Shocking,” I said.

“You mean the cost of health care?” the husband asked.

“No — documentation that we are officially fixer-uppers.”

There it was, right before our eyes. Three months of physical therapy for a back injury from crawling into the far back ...Read more

In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove that we don’t have to end up like the dinosaurs.

On March 6, scientists from Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and NASA published ...Read more

Dear Kid Whisperer,

I am not considered an official educator, but I do have time with my kids every day before school. I am a bus driver, and I believe I have a big impact on my kids. As they say, "I am the first face they see in the morning." I have, at most, one hour of time each morning with my kids. They are special needs students, and each...Read more

I am a man of vision — 20/30, to be exact. And my wife, Sue, is a woman of vision — also 20/30.

So why can’t we find our glasses? Or keep track of how many pairs we have? Or use the right ones when we want to read, drive or watch TV?

Those were the eye-opening questions we had for a certified optician who gave each of us a free vision ...Read more

CHICAGO — If you’ve ever seen a poster from the 1930s promoting one of America’s national parks, created at the behest of the Works Progress Administration, then you have a good idea of the kind of tourism-style posters the illustrator and graphic designer Steve Shanabruch has created for a number of Chicago neighborhoods and landmarks.

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CHICAGO — On an unseasonably warm day in Chicago, Blake Mohseni stepped out for a walk and fielded a call about a school his 3-year-old daughter is still too young to attend. Mohseni — who works in finance and describes himself as “deep in AI” — is among the fervent followers of Alpha School, a network of AI-based private schools soon ...Read more

I was cleaning blue fabric dye out of my giant chili pot the other morning when it hit me that some of my favorite parts about parenting — the parts that hit me like a gust of wind and make my chest tighten in a good way and my eyes well up in a where-did-that-come-from way — are the parts I was least expecting. Wasn’t actually expecting ...Read more

Daniel Gonzales pressed a tattoo needle into Israel Ray Gaitan’s bare back, where a Mayan calendar spanned Gaitan’s shoulder blades. Gonzales had already logged 30 hours tattooing the elaborate design in honor of Gaitan’s mother.

Gonzales wasn’t sure how Gaitan sat through the ordeal: Tattoos in the spinal area hurt a lot. “Don’t ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It's called "red-shirting" or the "gift of time," but the practice of holding back a child from kindergarten for a year offers few benefits over the long term, and the academic advantage for students of being older generally evens out by the third grade, according to a new report.

The percentage of parents who hold back their 5-...Read more

The National Garden Bureau has named this the Year of the Impatiens. I could not be happier. Very few flowers provide nonstop blooms from spring until frost in the deep South. From impatiens that look like a rose to riveting color in the shade garden and in full sun, the impatiens can do it all.

Let’s go basic, and that is the bedding ...Read more

Dear Anna,

My partner and I met on a dating app five months ago. It started out as a very casual thing but quickly became exclusive and serious. He lives about 40 minutes away, and it’s a long drive to see him. We’re both in college, so generally we only see each other on weekends, but sometimes, we’d see each other multiple times a week....Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter was working at Mural Arts in 2021, inside the former home of famed Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins, when she came across an 1882 photograph by Eakins, posted online, that left her rattled.

Titled African American girl nude, reclining on couch, the sepia image focuses on a young child gazing ...Read more

Jacqueline Kerr arrived to a Florida convention center Friday, suitcases stuffed with intricate, hand-made costumes — pink sequined ball gowns, a leopard bodysuit and an all-white rhinestone cowgirl ensemble — all paying homage to classic Barbie looks.

None of them made it out of her suitcase.

Kerr and her best friend had spent hundreds of...Read more

Every online dater knows the emotional roller coaster of the process. After spending tons of time crafting your bio and choosing photos, you finally feel all the stress and effort is worthwhile when you start coming across promising profiles and starting meaningful conversations. Things reach a new level of excitement when you finally agree to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — It was a frigid Tuesday night in mid-January when John Wilson went to deliver laundry to a Columbia Heights family in hiding because of Operation Metro Surge, the immigration crackdown that brought more than 4,000 federal agents to Minnesota.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had been staking out laundromats, so ...Read more

DENVER -- Sabrina Ortengren had almost no hope when she and her husband Jay sat down with an autism therapy provider in Evergreen, Colorado, in 2022.

All of the specialized schools in their home state of Virginia had deemed their son Ethan’s needs too severe to manage. The family had made the three-day journey west based on reports that ...Read more