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The generation’s favorite coffee chain is now serving up one of its most beloved beverages. Boba, or bubble tea, is having a moment. It seems that new bubble tea joints are popping up everywhere you turn. Chains like Kung Fu Tea and Gong Cha are easy to come by, and there are even at-home boba kits for sale in grocery stores so you can have boba anytime.

Dropping out of the workforce can be an attractive option for educators with young children, which adds to retention challenges already facing schools. When Christina Zimmerman returned to teaching last year after maternity leave, she grappled with postpartum depression that she says could have led to quitting her job.

The companies argue that the law violates the U. S. Constitution on a number of grounds, including running afoul of First Amendment free speech protections. TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance said on Tuesday they filed suit in U. S. federal court seeking to block a law signed by President Joe Biden that would force the divestiture of the short video app used by 170 million Americans or ban its use.

Operation Wetback’s main objective was not to remove Mexican immigrants but rather to frighten U. S. farmers, especially in Texas, into hiring them legally. While campaigning in Iowa last September, former President Donald Trump made a promise to voters if he were elected again: “Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” he said.

Fashion designers aren’t usually shy about their politics. So why didn’t they use the Met Gala to express their views on the Isreal-Gaza conflict? Zendaya wore a blue layered gown, reminiscent of a peacock. Kim Kardashian wore a floral corset with an absurdly cinched waist. Lana Del Ray had branches in her headdress.

After a month of back-and-forth involving AI and other technology, the beef between the two rappers is still sizzling—and represents an evolutionary leap for how diss tracks are made and distributed. The long-simmering battle between hip-hop heavyweights Drake and Kendrick Lamar escalated dramatically over the weekend. With a rapid-fire volley of deeply personal diss tracks, the feud has now left the realm of playful, mutually beneficial name-calling, and crashed, jarringly, somewhere between a blood vendetta and an actual combat zone.