He may no longer sit in the Oval Office, but Joe Biden just proved he’s not done making waves. At a recent conference in Chicago, the former president took the mic — and didn’t hold back when it came to his successor. Biden’s first speech Joe Biden and Donald Trump have clashed more than once…

I let her think it was her decision. I said we went to the property “just to look.” The second we entered the gate, she beelined for the chubbiest, sleepiest little ball of fur—that was all. First squish love. She called him Buttons even before we departed the yard. Trying to make rent stretch, she…

Heather Unbehaun, once at the center of a highly publicized child abduction case, has voluntarily surrendered to authorities after years on the run. Accused of abducting her daughter, Kayla, from South Elgin, Illinois, she is now being held without bail at the Kane County Adult Justice Center on charges of child abduction. Kayla was recently…

I’ve waited tables for years, but no customers have ever stayed in my heart like the Nolans. Mr. Nolan loves his wife in a way that’s quiet but powerful. She’s in a wheelchair, her hands too unsteady to feed herself. And every time they come in, he feeds her, bite by bite, while his own…

Owen discovered the dinosaurs while we were waiting for my mom to finish up in another area of Target’s toy aisle. They were all three distinct colors. He snatched them all up and held them to his tiny chest as if they were his most valuable belongings. I squatted down beside him. “All right, buddy,…

A dog was the catalyst for everything. For months, my son Andy had been pleading for one. The same thing is asked every day: “Dad, could we please, please get a dog?” I was on the verge of giving in to his unrelenting demands. However, he also needed to persuade my wife, Kelly. After much…

At the Leading Women Defined Summit in California, former vice president Kamala Harris stepped onto the stage to a warm, anticipatory applause and opened with a story from her early days in public service, recalling the first time she spoke before a skeptical audience and felt her voice tremble. She confessed that in that moment,…

Leaked messages from a private Signal group have plunged Donald Trump’s leadership into turmoil, sowing doubt among his closest advisers and exposing fractures within his administration. Fewer than one hundred days into his return to the White House, questions about stability swirl not only from the Democratic opposition but from the very team he assembled….

Nicole Kidman has been Keith Urban’s steadfast supporter since they married twelve years ago, and last night she was right by his side as he was named Entertainer of the Year at the 2018 Country Music Association Awards. The 51‑year‑old Australian actress beamed with pride as her husband accepted the night’s top honor. For the…

We only planned to indulge in funnel cake and lemonade—our annual ritual at the county fair, where the lights glow bright, the air smells of fried dough, and the rickety rides somehow still thrill. This year, however, marked our first visit without her father, and I didn’t realize how much that absence weighed on my…