When Sesame Street premiered in November 1969, Kermit the Frog tried to teach young viewers about the letter W. But then, Cookie Monster interrupted and ate a fourth of the letter, turning the W into ...

The inescapable Icona Pop song “I Love It” is a force of mindless, destructive, all-consuming pleasure, a true agent of chaos, and so is the Cookie Monster, the furry blue walking id of Sesame Street.

MAINZ, Germany — When a famous 44-pound metal cookie was stolen from outside a German factory, there was one obvious suspect. But few would have expected the Cookie Monster himself to claim ...