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Most of Albano Cleaners’ customers in Norfolk won’t recognize Dana Robinson by name, but they certainly depend on her extraordinary service. Her story highlights the passion of the people who take the time to write in about the wonderful things our Remarkable Women finalists do and the impact they make at home and beyond.

Climate change has already made allergy season longer and pollen counts higher, but you ain’t sneezed nothing yet.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Olivia Rodrigo praised prior female songwriters and music artists for giving her strength while accepting Billboard’s 2022 Woman of the Year award. The former teen actor turned pop star was awarded during the event Wednesday night at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. She spoke about being lucky for her career […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly voted at an emergency session Wednesday to demand an immediate halt to Moscow’s attack on Ukraine and the withdrawal of all Russian troops, with sustained applause breaking out after a formidable show of support among the 193 member nations against the invasion. The vote on the “Aggression […]

NEW YORK (AP) — While many people spent Valentine’s Day with the traditional flowers and chocolates, Brittney Johnson was making theater history. The young Broadway veteran was gently lowered onto the Gershwin Theatre stage to become the first Black actor to assume the role of Glinda full-time in “Wicked,” shattering a racial barrier on the […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces shelled Ukraine’s second-largest city on Monday, rocking a residential neighborhood, and closed in on the capital, Kyiv, in a 40-mile convoy of hundreds of tanks and other vehicles, as talks aimed at stopping the fighting yielded only an agreement to keep talking. The country’s embattled president said the stepped-up […]

Russian and Ukrainian officials met on Day Five of the war under the shadow of Putin’s nuclear threats, and with Moscow’s invasion running into unexpectedly fierce resistance,

The Russian TikTok video has it all: a cat, puppies and a pulsing background beat. It’s cute, watchable and hardly seems the stuff of state propaganda. In 2014, Russia flooded the internet with fake accounts pushing disinformation about its takeover of Crimea. Eight years later, experts say Russia is mounting a far more sophisticated effort […]

On Wednesday, five employees at a Christian School in Midland, Texas, were arrested after police say they failed to notify law enforcement when a student reported he had been assaulted on campus.

Valentine’s Day started as a frightening one for a Denver woman who woke up to a strange man sleeping on her couch.

Hampton police are expected to hold a news conference on Monday afternoon to share updates in case of missing 4-year-old Codi Bigsby.

A school counselor in Indiana sent a memo to parents telling them they can opt their children out of Black History Month lessons.

Patsy and Dickie Brooks fell in love many moons ago, but like every good love story, it’s not without trials and tribulations.

A mother whale is free after she was entangled in fishing line around her head.

Hope Nankunda is fighting to keep young Ugandan girls in school and away from marriages until after they turn 18. It’s a calling that began for Nankunda as a teacher, when she found herself spending more time counseling her students than engaging in classroom instruction. “They share about the challenges in their communities, in their […]

Doyle has a wide array of interesting looking sweet potatoes. Once spuds are grown, he makes sure to mold them, take pictures, and put them on display: something he takes very seriously.

It has been five years since the disappearance and murder of two teenage girls in Delphi, Indiana and no arrest has been made in the case.

NEW YORK (AP) — Olympic great Simone Biles said it was “THE EASIEST YES” when her fellow elite athlete Jonathan Owens popped the question on Valentine’s Day. “I can’t wait to spend forever & ever with you, you’re everything I dreamed of and more! let’s get married FIANCE,” the excited gymnast posted on Instagram. Biles, […]

MIAMI (AP) — A prominent Mexican scientist who led a double life with two families on separate continents pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of being co-opted by Russian agents into surveilling a U.S. government informant residing in Miami. Hector Cabrera Fuentes was arrested in 2020 at Miami International Airport as he and his Mexican […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Coach turned back the clock with a collection of looks reminiscent of past eras, including 1970s romance and 1990s grunge, with a theatrical presentation at New York Fashion Week. Mixing the aesthetics of a small-town setting with a catwalk fashion show inside a huge basketball facility, designer Stuart Vevers showed vignettes […]