For nearly a quarter century, Lowe’s has offered free children’s workshops, inviting kids to don tiny aprons and create their own pint-sized projects at its stores. Now, the home improvement chain is ...

Soldiers control an FPV drone to send food to fellow-soldiers on a mission on the frontline near Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Feb. 17, 2026. (Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine's 93rd Mechanized ...

In case you had any doubt, Elon Musk’s X has an algorithm that favors conservative content posted by political activists over liberal content or posts by traditional news media accounts, according to ...

ST. LOUIS — Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the time leading up to Holy Week and Easter Sunday. This year it falls on Feb. 18. Some St. Louis area churches are offering drive-thru ash ...

The cars roll up to Christ Church in Ridgewood and snake around the block, waiting for their turn at the drive-thru. Then Rev. Tom Matthews, the church rector, emerges to perform the ancient, annual ...

It's almost time for Lent, the 40-day period where the faithful practice repentance, fasting and prayer. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, with the marking of the cross in ash on the forehead, a common ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Following the parades and parties of Mardi Gras, people across the Baton Rouge area will mark Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday in 2026 is being observed on Wednesday, Feb. 18.

With the words of one of several familiar formulas for the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday, many Christians begin their annual Lenten journey. Growing up Roman Catholic, Lent was a memorial of ...

It’s a common experience for Ash Wednesday Massgoers: The pews are packed with many attendees, many of whom are unfamiliar to regular parishioners. Who are all these people, and why are they there?

This is the week of Ash Wednesday, a solemn day of fasting and reflection that signals the start of Lent, the most penitential season of the church calendar for Catholics and many other Christians. On ...

Ash Wednesday is Wednesday, March 5. It is the first day of Lent, a 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving. On Ash Wednesday, priests place ash crosses on worshipers' foreheads to indicate they ...

T.R. Reid’s “Ash Wednesday and our Shared Dust” (Houses of Worship, Feb. 13) expresses the seeming contradiction between wearing ashes in public on Ash Wednesday and Jesus’ admonition not to display ...