If passed, the bill would give Americans an extra hour of sunshine in the evenings during the winter. But it would also push winter sunrises one hour later. That's of concern to Orthodox Jews, who pray three times a day, beginning with the Shacharit morning prayer service, which by tradition cannot begin in the dark. (Shimron, NPR)
Read MoreTraditionalist Catholics have been coming to this tiny town 90 miles west of Kansas City for more than 40 years, drawn to the teachings of the global Society of St. Pius X, which embraces the Latin Mass and rejects other modernist changes of the Catholic Church. (Gowen & Faiola, The Washington Post)
Read MoreIn Luminate’s annual midyear report for 2026, a few key takeaways are apparent: R&B/hip-hop continues to lose ground, but remains the biggest streaming genre in the U.S.; dance/electronic music is on the come up; and the kids are loving CDs. (Robinson, Billboard)
Read MoreThe regulator said the two search engines were the primary way that children accessed adult websites and that their top results regularly featured sites without age-verification systems. (Titcomb, The Telegraph)
Read MoreNo decade can be summed up any more than a country can be summed up, but if we wrote an autobiography not of words but of works — books, music and art, ideas, dress and culture — these 25 would be among the most momentous. (The Washington Post)
Read MoreAn obscure and extremely powerful psychedelic called 5-MeO-DMT is drawing intense interest from the pharmaceutical industry, where biotech companies are racing to turn it into a commercially available treatment for severe mental health disorders, like depression, anxiety and PTSD. (Ferdman, The Wall Street Journal)
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