You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. In Aidan Zamiri’s recent mockumentary ...

The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called music “the universal language of mankind.” Is that still true when the so-called music is being generated by a probabilistic robot instead of a ...

A scratch-off lottery ticket worth $500,000 was sold for the “50X” game last week at a Wawa in New Jersey. The first of the three top-prize tickets was purchased Feb. 10 at the convenience store on ...

What would it be like to get $10,000 a month for life? Well, one lottery player in Pennsylvania is about to find out. That’s because a winning $10,000 a Month for Life scratch-off ticket was sold ...

We explore one possibility for relieving the U.S. housing crisis. By Conor Dougherty I cover housing. Amid the sprawl of Orange County, Calif., is something unusual: A 300,000-person city with a dense ...

A Florida resident has won a seven-figure prize from a scratch-off ticket purchased in New York City. Daniel Kavian of Fort Lauderdale claimed a $1 million top prize on the New York Lottery’s Xtreme ...

Connecticut education leaders are expressing cautious optimism as the state Department of Education tries its hand at course development. The department announced the release of its first-ever “Course ...

A $1 million Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off ticket was sold in York County. The winning Millionaire Loading ticket was purchased at a Rutter's store in Newberry Township. The Rutter's store that ...

WASHINGTON — The national school meal programs should feature more milk options and more meals made from scratch now that the Dietary Guidelines for Americans were updated. Whether those programs ...

Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a bit of Amazon) along with their model makers of choice, ...

A Polk County man won a $2 million prize from a Florida Lottery scratch-off ticket. The winner, Emorie Clark, chose a lump-sum payment of $1,276,000. Florida Lottery scratch-off games have better odds ...

With cannabis sales holding steady in Connecticut and planned federal changes to the industry, a university here is expanding its certificate courses in the cannabis business. The new 16-week Southern ...