Chicago’s City Council unanimously codified the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism after student-led lobbying, while New York City recently reversed its prior adoption under Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
A Reddit user in New Jersey said they mistook a palm-sized tortoiseshell kitten for a black sock on a road; the post on r/IllegallySmolCats gained more than 14,000 upvotes and the poster said the kitten was later adopted by their aunt and named Harley.
Alysa Liu says she and her father were targeted in an alleged Chinese spy operation before the 2022 Beijing Olympics, and U.S. authorities provided protection.
Childcaring Inc. awarded Building Blocks Learning Center a $100,000 capacity-building grant to expand classrooms, add child care slots, improve facilities and strengthen staffing supports; the funds were provided through Wood County’s allocation of American Rescue Plan Act relief funds.
Emma Heming Willis says she is caring for her husband, Bruce Willis, who has frontotemporal dementia nearly three years after his diagnosis, and she highlights the heavy unpaid, often unseen labor of dementia caregiving.
This edition of The Stroller lists community events across the Alle-Kiski Valley for Feb. 18, 2026, including a drive-thru dinner at Peoples Library in New Kensington and volunteer needs such as Vandergrift Meals On Wheels seeking drivers and delivery helpers.
The article reports that Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. died at age 84 during Black History Month. The author describes how Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign and long activism profoundly influenced his life while also noting controversies and later health decline.
Prince William joined a BBC Radio 1 panel on male suicide and described a personal 'toolkit' he builds to manage mental health, urging people to learn to love and understand themselves.
A Guttmacher Institute report says federal funding freezes and new state restrictions likely reduced the number of brick-and-mortar abortion clinics over a 21-month period ending in December, and physical clinics still provide about 80% of abortions in states without bans.
Red Barn was a fast-food chain with seven Erie County locations, known for barn-shaped buildings and community fundraising; most local outlets closed in the early 1980s.
