Tropical Storm Arthur became the first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season Wednesday morning, forming off the middle Texas coast and putting five states under a flood threat the National Hurricane Center has labeled life-threatening. The system’s wind profile is modest, but its rainfall payload is anything but.

The federal student loan system is about to look fundamentally different. On July 1, 2026, the most sweeping changes in decades take effect, reshaping how much students and parents can borrow and how they pay it back. For new borrowers, a tangle of repayment options collapses into just two choices.

The latest results from the country’s longest-running educational gauge deliver a split verdict: the youngest students tested are climbing out of the pandemic’s academic hole, while the teenagers just ahead of them remain stuck. The findings, drawn from the 2025 Long-Term Trend assessment released June 10 by the National Center

The flag that has flown over the United States for more than six decades is often traced to a high school history assignment and a teenager who refused to accept his grade. The story of Bob Heft has become a fixture of American folklore, repeated in classrooms and patriotic ceremonies.

In the middle of the Civil War, with the nation tearing itself apart, the federal government made a quiet decision that would shape American life for generations. On July 2, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, a law that used federal land to fund a new kind of

The motorsports world lost one of its defining figures Thursday with the death of Kyle Busch, the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and the winningest driver across the sport’s three national series. He was 41. The Busch family, Richard Childress Racing, and NASCAR announced the death in a joint statement

Something remarkable is happening in the fight against cancer in America. For the first time since scientists began tracking the disease in a systematic way, the five-year survival rate for all cancers in the United States has reached 70% — up from 49% in the mid-1970s. That number, drawn from