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Construct a stylish wood-burned growth chart to track your child’s height over the years.

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Robust public investments can lift the weight of the child care affordability crisis off the safety net’s shoulders.

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In his third campaign for the nation's top office, former President Donald Trump's closing messages have run the gamut, ...

Tyson Foods is being investigated by the Department of Labor for employing minors at two of its Arkansas poultry processing ...

The Harlem apartment where a 4-year-old boy was allegedly starved to death by his parents was stocked with food — but the ...

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For Dwarfism Awareness Month, we spoke to a colleague and journalist, Md Emad Chowdhury. Through his lens, we explored the realities of those living with dwarfism in Bangladesh ...

Carmelo Anthony is the co-parent of a daughter with Mia Burks. Not long after the child's seventh birthday, Burks wrote a children's book inspired by Genesis Harlow.