According to PEN America, 4,349 books were banned from schools between July and December 2023, more than the entire previous school year. More than 3,000 of those bans were in Florida.

Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie said he would vote to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker if it came to the floor. He told Johnson in a closed-door meeting that he should resign.

A very sinister thriller with a dash of science-fiction and full of inscrutabilities, Sarah Langan’s novel is as entreating and creepy as it is timely and humane.

The National Park Service is seeking the public’s help in identifying the two men, caught on video pushing rocks off a cliff near the Redstone Dunes Trail earlier this month.