Now in its 113th year, Operation Santa, run by the United States Postal Service, allows children and families to send letters to Santa Claus. Those letters are posted online—personal details ...

A federal government shutdown is suspending SNAP benefits, known as Nutrition Assistance in Arizona, starting in November. Arizona food banks are preparing for an increase in demand as about 855,000 ...

I have a pandas DataFrame storing string data with string[pyarrow] datatype. When converting this data to numpy array with either "df.values" or "df.to_numpy()" it produces a numpy "object" array ...

I'm writing from Mississippi. I'm here for the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson. A few hours ago, I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Alice Randall and Tom Piazza. Our books were about ...

DALLAS, Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- National Write Your Congressman (NWYC), an organization that gives small businesses a voice in government, released its Q3 2025 Index, highlighting small ...

Petersburg native Maria Chevelle has written her seventh book, her first in the fiction genre. Chevelle credits her time working at The Progress-Index in 2004 for sparking her interest in writing. Her ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

The University of Arizona is terminating its Writing Skills Improvement Program, a move that closes the door for students to receive instruction from specialists with professional degrees in writing, ...

Eurex has expanded its Partnership Progam model to also include credit index derivatives, as part of an effort to boost growth and liquidity in this market. Since the program’s launch on 1 August 2025 ...

Three high-profile authors have put their heads and their networks together to dream up a university program tailor-made for children’s and YA creators. Martha Brockenbrough, A.S. King, and David ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...