BEIJING – On Aug 31, more than 20 world leaders will gather in China for a regional security summit in a tightly choreographed display of Beijing’s convening power and Global South solidarity, amid ...

An Iowa Youth Writing Project volunteer works with a young writer during an after school program at Mark Twain Elementary. — courtesy of Iowa Youth Writing Project Two weeks after the University of ...

The University of Iowa will discontinue the Iowa Youth Writing Project (IYWP) and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the end of 2025 due to funding changes. The Iowa Youth Writing Project serves K-12 ...

Children participate in an Iowa Youth Writing Project activity in this photo shared to IYWP’s social media on their 15th anniversary in May 2025. Months after the University of Iowa’s International ...

A high school soccer player from Boston is spending her summer as a coach to the next generation of athletes through Soccer Unity Project, which teaches much more than just how to score a goal. Bryie ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Wednesday that the Lava Ridge Wind Project is officially canceled. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he would reverse approval of the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Bureau of Land Management is expediting an environmental review of a proposed project that could increase the amount of oil that comes through the Grand Valley on trains with no opportunity for ...

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the Biden administration’s approval of a major oil development on Alaska’s North Slope, even though it identified one flaw with the action. The 9th U.S.

One of the principal challenges in building VLM-powered GUI agents is visual grounding, i.e., localizing the appropriate screen region for action execution based on both the visual content and the ...