CINCINNATI — Paula Bussard knows a lot of people are stuck at home feeling helpless these days during the COVID-19 crisis while doctors, nurses and first responders are working extra shifts to help as ...

Caitlin Hicks, a first-grade teacher at Center Street Elementary in El Segundo, gives a "hug" to student Sid Solomon earlier this month. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) Lying in a fetal ...

Social distancing means no hugs. Stay at Home orders means stay at home as often as you can unless you are an essential worker or need to go to the pharmacy or grocery store. All those things have ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Normally, members of the Free Mom Hugs group would spend much of June hugging people at Pride events all over North Carolina. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pride events are ...

Today, Bloomsday—the musical project of New York singer-songwriter Iris James Garrison—has released their latest single, “Virtual Hug.” The track follows previous releases “Where I End and You Begin” ...

KAI: WE WANTED TO SHARE THIS HEART WARMING PHOTO THAT A VIEW SHARED WITH US. THIS IS A GRANDSON SAFELY GIVING HIS GRANDMA A HUG, THROUGH HER FRONT DOOR IN PERRY HALL. KIND OF THING WE NEED. TONY: ON A ...

The internet is capable of providing us with instant connection to total strangers. At one point, in the heady tech-utopian 1990s, this extraordinary feature seemed like it might finally be the key to ...

As a “hug mobster,” the physical distancing brought along by the coronavirus pandemic was difficult at first for Edie Weinstein. “We have skin hunger that is just as important as food hunger, and ...

Parents of transgender and nonbinary children are staffing a newly revamped hotline aimed at answering questions from other trans and nonbinary youth and their family members. A project of Stand with ...

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are officially on their way to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Their journey could become the first time astronauts have returned to the ...

"We've gotten the short end of the stick for milestones and memories," said Shawn Burgher, a parent. Burgher's daughter, Cheyanne, is a senior at Bremen High School. Burgher was inspired to start the ...

Lying in a fetal position next to my laptop on a lazy Saturday afternoon, a soothing voice wafts over Zoom and asks me if my body parts are “saying anything.” The voice belongs to Jean Franzblau, a ...