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 ...

"Reach out," the old jingled implored. "Reach out and touch someone." That was the 1980s, and the metaphor of physical touch helped humanize the still-nascent technology of long-distance phone calls.

Russell Stover's campaign on TikTok is an extension of a digital effort that urged people to send each other "virtual hugs" as the coronavirus pandemic dissuades physical contact. By enlisting an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be punched in VR? Me neither. Well, you may get your chance anyway. Because Disney — the company behind your favorite childhood movies like The Lion King ...

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 ...