Katherine Kubler spent 15 months against her will at the Academy at Ivy Ridge in upstate New York before her father finally pulled her from the program. Those months were more than enough to cause ...

SNAP benefits became a national flashpoint during the government shutdown in 2025, as millions of Americans worried about what would happen if funding stalled. For households relying on monthly ...

Netflix’s upcoming docuseries “The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping” is a first-person account of the trauma and abuse a group of teens experienced while attending The Academy at Ivy Ridge in ...

The latest true-crime docuseries to hit Netflix charts shot to the No. 3 spot on the streamer's most-watched list last week as more than 7 million people tuned in to "The Program: Cons, Cults and ...

For some, “The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping” is entertainment. For director Katherine Kubler and her former classmates, though, it's the story of their lives. In the three-part series, director ...

The 12-step program aims to help people attain abstinence from substance use disorders or make a behavioral change through peer support. This intervention provides a supportive social network and ...