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It has been a brutal three months for dramas and comedies.

The evil of human bondage was more complex than many historians care to reckon with.

A teenager with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men. She wants the public to have a fuller understanding of how she was victimized.

Jeffrey Epstein cast himself as a Trump insider and wanted to leverage potentially damaging information about the president and his business dealings, according to emails with associates.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released emails suggesting that President Trump knew more about Jeffrey Epstein's activities than he has acknowledged.

Representative Lauren Boebert, one of the Republicans pressing for more Epstein disclosures, was summoned for a meeting in the White House Situation Room.

As he prepares a congressional run, J.F.K.'s grandson admits, "I'm not for everybody."

Despite considerable hand-wringing in the party about caving to Republicans in the government closure, some Democrats see potential upsides in the outcome.

Mr. Kimmel said that he and Mr. Escobedo, who led Cleto and the Cletones on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," had been "inseparable since I was 9 years old."

Everyone wants to understand the generation below them. Can young people rebuff those efforts by being completely absurd?