Brazil's boys danced on a bus and Mexico's girls lifted a trophy on home ‌soil, while U2 enjoyed the festivities as the Street Child World Cup brought music, football and celebration to Mexico.

BTS, Madonna and Shakira will headline the World Cup final halftime show on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, marking the first Super Bowl-style performance at a World Cup final.

After 17 months of heated negotiations and decades of inequity, the WNBA and its players reached a deal this spring that has ...

A Writer’s Ode to the Small-Town Girls Who Left, and Those Who Stayed A new book by Jayne Anne Phillips, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, recalling her childhood is a bittersweet triumph. Jayne Anne ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Every year in May, the small Appalachian town of Buckhannon, W.Va., hosts a weeklong Strawberry Festival. It began in the 1930s as a booster for the local farms that were once a mainstay of the area ...

The essays in “Small Town Girls” (Knopf) were written over many years, says author Jayne Anne Phillips, but they go together to make up a memoir that moves from Phillips’s childhood in Buckhannon, ...

Jayne Anne Phillips writes like a jeweler, setting each word like a gemstone. Phillips won the Pulitzer Prize in 2024 for the novel “Nightwatch,” set in a post-Civil War so nightmarish that a mother ...

Final Girls Theater Company will present its debut production, IN THE NEXT ROOM (OR: THE VIBRATOR PLAY) by Sarah Ruhl, with performances scheduled at Vino Theater, located at 274 Morgan Avenue in ...

Killer FedEx driver Tanner Horner revealed the chilling final words he said to 7-year-old Athena Strand before strangling her inside his delivery truck and dumping her body in a creek near her Texas ...