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.

From precision salon cuts to gravity-defying hair sculptures, the hairstylist community on YouTube is blurring the line between professional expertise and amateur enthusiasm. These videos range from ...

Two federal officers fired at Alex Pretti during Saturday’s fatal shooting in Minneapolis, according to a statement sent to some members of Congress by the Department of Homeland Security that ...

NEWBURGH HEIGHTS, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - Three children, ages 8, 11 and 12, stole a car and crashed it into a home after watching how-to videos on YouTube, according to police. On Saturday, officers ...

• As the Brown University mass shooter remains at large, Providence Police Chief Oscar L. Perez Jr. asked for the public’s help identifying a person shown in a photo released earlier who crossed paths ...

It’s no secret that when you want to learn something new—whether it be a recipe, a song, or a workout routine—you’ll seek out a how-to video. Your average content creator realizes this and is always ...

JAKARTA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Indonesia is investigating companies suspected of clearing forests around flood-hit areas in Sumatra, its forestry minister said on Thursday, acknowledging poor forest ...

Reach the reporters securely on Signal: Alex Horton at AlexHorton.85 and Ellen Nakashima at Ellen.626. The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence ...

Franz Kafka and his dog. Kafka’s late story about a philosopher dog, like most of his stories about animals, is really about our lost humanity. Slavoj Žižek had me at the title of his 1992 book ...

Over the years a multi-vector policy has become a distinctive feature of Belarus. When Aleksandr Lukashenko came to power, he immediately outlined the foreign policy priorities: our main partner is ...

This week, tech content creators began to suspect that AI was making it harder to share some of the most highly sought-after tech tutorials on YouTube, but now YouTube is denying that odd removals ...