Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

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The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Dallas Mavericks 116-110 on Saturday night behind an incredible performance from Luka Doncic. Number 77 orchestrated the offense to perfection to get some revenge ...

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Most people use dating apps to find love. Tiffany Chau used one to hunt for a summer internship. This fall, the 20-year-old junior at California College of the Arts tailored her Hinge profile to ...

Blue books made a comeback in 2025. In an effort to prevent students from feeding final essay prompts into ChatGPT, some professors asked their students to sit down and write in-person in the lined, ...

Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen has proudly sported the No. 1 on the front of his car for the last three seasons, having dominated Formula 1 in recent years. However, the Dutch racer will have to ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

Inside the financial engineering of the AI build-out: Nvidia, Google and the rest of Big Tech are turning to Wall Street, vendor financing and private credit In a rural Louisiana parish that is home ...

Right-wing NewsMax anchor Rob Schmitt claimed Friday that SNAP recipients use the benefits not to procure much-needed food, but to “get their weaves” done. Schmitt made the eyebrow-raising comment ...

All the world’s discarded phones, bricked laptops, and other trashed electronics are collectively a treasure trove of rare earth elements (REEs). But separating out and recovering these increasingly ...