2024-05-13 13:55
Nearly 21,000 baby boys born in the US last year were named Liam, while more than 15,000 girls were announced as Olivias—the two names that have been bestowed upon American bambinos th… Read More
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2024-05-13 13:31
Six years after plunging Spain into its worst political crisis in decades, Catalonia's separatist parties are in danger of losing their hold on power in the northeastern region after the pro… Read More
2024-05-13 13:07
President Biden is behind in most of the states that could decide the election, a new poll from the New York Times , Siena College, and the Philadelphia Inquirer suggests. Results in a head… Read More
2024-05-13 12:44
A volunteer fire department in Maryland is out more than $100,000 after money meant for new ambulances was swiped in a "business email compromise" scam. Per the Washington Post , the Rockvil… Read More
2024-05-13 12:21
A powerful solar storm put on an amazing light show across the globe over the weekend, per the AP . In the US, sightings of the Northern Lights were logged as far south as Fort Lauderdale, F… Read More
2024-05-13 11:42
A venomous snake that Lisa Kournelis believes has been living in her SUV since March apparently has no intention of leaving—and so the Aussie woman now simply throws on protective gear… Read More
2024-05-13 11:24
Stormy Daniels may have been the most sensational witness , but Michael Cohen is expected to be the most important one when he takes the stand against Donald Trump. Prosecutors in Trump's hu… Read More
2024-05-13 07:30
Susan Backlinie, the actress who played perhaps one of the most iconic roles in Jaws , died Saturday morning of a heart attack at her southern California home, her husband tells TMZ . She wa… Read More
2024-05-13 07:00
Steve Buscemi was punched in the face in New York City last week in what the actor's publicist says was a random attack. Buscemi, 66, was on a street in Manhattan on Wednesday morning when i… Read More
2024-05-12 22:15
The increase in mental health education and support at schools can only be a good thing, right? Turns out it might not be quite that simple: Research from recent years finds that a focus on… Read More
2024-05-12 21:55
The exodus of Palestinians from Gaza's last refuge accelerated Sunday as Israeli forces pushed deeper into the southern city of Rafah. Israel also pounded the territory's devastated north, w… Read More
2024-05-12 21:30
Sky-high housing costs in California have forced thousands of people to live out of their vehicles. In Los Angeles County alone, the official count in 2023 was about 14,000, up 9% from the p… Read More
2024-05-12 21:05
Days into his fifth term, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday ousted his longtime defense minister. Sergei Shoigu has been nominated to instead lead a council that advises Putin on de… Read More
2024-05-12 20:40
In a "childish protest that all businesses have to have a privacy policy and no one reads it," the head of a UK nonprofit slipped in wording out of left field to see whether anyone would not… Read More
2024-05-12 20:15
Amid bombastic threats of war, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has found a much smaller-scale way to vent against South Korea. He had crews remove streetlights from the only remaining roads… Read More
2024-05-12 19:45
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes reigned over the weekend box office with a $56.5 million North American opening, according to studio estimates Sunday, providing a surge to an uncertain sea… Read More
2024-05-12 19:15
Morale is up for employees these days, at least according to Conference Board's latest report on US job satisfaction. Worker satisfaction hit an all-time high since the nonprofit research gr… Read More
2024-05-12 18:45
The international space community has its sights set on humans landing on Mars by the mid-2030s, but a big question remains once astronauts get there: what will they eat? Researchers in the… Read More
2024-05-12 13:01
Folks having an emergency at Crazy Mary's Hole may get a more rapid response via a new tool for UK emergency services that helps identify locations by their nicknames. The Guardian reports t… Read More
2024-05-12 12:30
The Chicago Cubs drew six bases-loaded walks in the fifth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday, the most by a major league team in a single inning in 65 years. The last team to… Read More
2024-05-12 12:00
Drinking water while running a marathon is advisable. But as Esteban Prado learned, who you take the water from matters. SF Gate reports Prado was the first place finisher at the Hoag OC mar… Read More
2024-05-12 11:35
Swiss singer Nemo won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest early Sunday with "The Code," an operatic pop-rap ode to the singer's journey toward embracing a nongender identity, per the AP . Switz… Read More
2024-05-12 11:29
American roads are notably more dangerous than they were a decade ago in at least one respect: road rage shootings. An analysis in the Gun Violence Archive by the nonprofit Trace lays out th… Read More
2024-05-12 11:10
Roger Corman, the "King of the Bs" who helped turn out such low-budget classics as Little Shop of Horrors and Attack of the Crab Monsters and gave many of Hollywood's most famous actors and… Read More
2024-05-12 11:00
The San Francisco Chronicle is out with a bleak story about the future of the once-flourishing wine industry in California. The boom times, it appears, are over. "A lot of brands are dead bu… Read More
2024-05-11 22:30
With oral arguments over for this term, Supreme Court justices fanned out across the country over the weekend, providing an unusual flurry of public comments. At an appearance in Texas, Just… Read More
2024-05-11 22:05
It's wine time. Beer Thirty. Happy hour. Five o'clock somewhere. Maybe it's also time to rethink drinking? Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better resea… Read More
2024-05-11 21:40
Donald Trump's tower in Chicago has already lost a lot of money, partly because of cost overruns and partly because it opened during the Great Recession, in 2009. Trump could have another bi… Read More
2024-05-11 20:55
As cars and trucks get smarter and more connected, the humble lights that have controlled the flow of traffic for more than a century could also be on the cusp of a major transformation. Res… Read More
2024-05-11 20:30
Stratford-upon-Avon's lucrative tourist industry hinges on a claim that William Shakespeare's 1564 place of birth is open for visitors. New York Times writer Elizabeth Winkler goes on an ent… Read More
2024-05-11 20:00
Panama is on the verge of a dramatic change to its immigration policy that could reverberate from the dense Darien jungle to the US border. President-elect José Raúl Mulino say… Read More
2024-05-11 19:25
Apple bosses were not pleased after checking out OpenAI's new chatbot last year. ChatGPT, they realized, had lapped Siri. It employed generative artificial intelligence to write poetry and a… Read More
2024-05-11 18:50
It was the largest reptile to ever prowl Earth's oceans. At some 82 feet, this giant ichthyosaur would've been nearly as large as a blue whale, a marine mammal and the largest animal known t… Read More
2024-05-11 13:30
Flash floods from unusually heavy seasonal rains in Afghanistan have killed more than 300 people and destroyed upward of 1,000 houses, the UN food agency said Saturday. The World Food Progra… Read More
2024-05-11 13:00
"What the heck is making Montana drivers so unnecessarily angry?" That's the question posed by Jalopnik after viewing ConsumerAffairs' latest ranking of states where drivers are, shall we sa… Read More
2024-05-11 12:30
An unusually strong solar storm hitting Earth produced stunning displays of color in the skies across the Northern Hemisphere early Saturday, with no immediate reports of disruptions to powe… Read More
2024-05-11 12:00
Looks like we're not going to get to see Barron Trump's political debut this summer after all. It was announced earlier this week that former President Trump's youngest son would serve as an… Read More
2024-05-11 11:30
It's been a longtime standing joke/rumor/what have you that Mamas & the Papas singer Cass Elliot, aka "Mama Cass," died after choking on a ham sandwich, but her daughter (and only child)… Read More
2024-05-11 11:00
Rudy Giuliani was suspended Friday from WABC Radio and his daily show canceled over what the station called his repeated violation of a ban on discussing discredited 2020 election claims. Gi… Read More
2024-05-11 10:30
The Stone Age, launched roughly 3 million years ago, marks the time when tools first appeared. Early humans used stones for hammering, stones for grinding, and sharp stone flakes as knives a… Read More
2024-05-10 22:15
The State Department told Congress on Friday that although it hasn't found violations that would merit withholding military aid from Israel, it is "reasonable to assess" that the US ally's o… Read More
2024-05-10 21:45
Among Donald Trump's repeated complaints about his trial is that the judge has told him to not talk about potential witnesses in his New York trial without putting constraints on a particula… Read More
2024-05-10 21:20
Novak Djokovic needed medical attention after getting knocked on the head by a water bottle after a win at the Italian Open on Friday. A child was leaning over the railing to hand Djokovic a… Read More
2024-05-10 20:55
Britain's Prince William on Friday offered a positive assessment of his wife's health, a hospital administrator said, in one of the royal's few comments about Kate's condition since she anno… Read More
2024-05-10 20:30
US stocks coasted to the close of another winning week on Friday, per the AP . The Dow gained 125.08 points, or 0.3%, to 39,512.84. The S&P rose 8.60 points, or 0.2%, to 5,222.68 for its… Read More
2024-05-10 19:54
In the past week, Russia and Belarus have announced measures that could be interpreted as readying nuclear weapons. Russia said that President Vladimir Putin had ordered drills near Ukraine… Read More
2024-05-10 19:21
Those tired of reading headlines about Donald Trump and hush money might not have to endure them much longer. Prosecutors say they may rest their case as early as Thursday, reports the New Y… Read More
2024-05-10 18:56
The backlash last June against Target's offerings for Pride month, featuring various LGBTQ+-themed products, took a toll on the its bottom line , leading to its first quarterly drop in sales… Read More
2024-05-10 18:33
At one point, Venezuela claimed six glaciers, all located in the Sierra Nevada de Merida mountain range. By 2011, five of those glaciers had vanished, leaving just the Humboldt glacier, aka… Read More
2024-05-10 13:10
Two backcountry skiers were killed and one was rescued after they were swept up and buried in an avalanche Thursday in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City that occurred after several day… Read More
2024-05-10 12:48
We no longer have to read between the lines to understand why Miss USA Noelia Voigt suddenly resigned this week . The first title holder in the pageant's history to voluntarily step down acc… Read More
2024-05-10 12:26
A Texas man born 14 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight has reclaimed his record as the world's oldest skydiver. Guinness World Records has confirmed that Al Blaschke, who turned 1… Read More
2024-05-10 11:43
All eyes have been on Stormy Daniels' testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial , including on what the adult entertainer has worn to court. The New York Times notes she has "dressed for… Read More
2024-05-10 11:28
A Florida deputy shot Senior Airman Roger Fortson multiple times before ordering him to drop his gun, body cam footage released by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office shows. The footage sho… Read More
2024-05-10 11:07
A Virginia school board has become the first in the country to restore school names honoring Confederate generals shortly after removing them. The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia… Read More
2024-05-10 09:53
The NBA says Milwaukee Bucks guard Patrick Beverley has been hit with a four-game suspension for "forcefully throwing a basketball multiple times at spectators and an inappropriate interacti… Read More
2024-05-10 09:18
A New Hampshire man convicted of killing his 5-year-old daughter and moving her corpse around for months before disposing of it was sentenced Thursday to a minimum of 56 years in prison on m… Read More
2024-05-10 07:00
After all the attention paid to the lack of a meeting between King Charles and Prince Harry on the occasion of the younger royal's return visit to the UK, even the Archbishop of Canterbury i… Read More
2024-05-10 00:00
Studies have shown that millions of Americans owe a combined $220 billion in medical debt, with 1 in 5 adults saying they don't expect to ever be able to pay off the bills. A group of congre… Read More
2024-05-09 23:40
The Supreme Court sided with a music producer in a copyright case Thursday, allowing him to seek more than a decade's worth of damages over a sample used in a hit Flo Rida song. The 6-3 deci… Read More
2024-05-09 23:15
Two new stories explore how the oil industry is factoring into the 2024 election, with a clear push for Donald Trump to win a second term: A challenge: The Washington Post reports that Trump… Read More
2024-05-09 22:45
Hailey Bieber expressed irritation in an interview last fall about rumors that she was pregnant, saying, "When there comes a day that that is true, you, you as in the internet, will be the l… Read More
2024-05-09 22:15
President Biden welcomed the reigning WNBA champions, the Las Vegas Aces, to the White House on Thursday, celebrating what he called a "banner year" for women's basketball. "It matters to gi… Read More
2024-05-09 21:45
Hunter Biden's federal gun case should move forward, an appeals court ruled Thursday, setting the stage for the president's son to stand trial on criminal charges next month in Delaware. Hun… Read More
2024-05-09 21:15
It's a double whammy for those looking to break into the field of TV and movie production: Not only is the Art Directors Guild suspending an annual job-placement program for newbies, it deli… Read More
2024-05-09 20:45
Corey Briskin and Nicholas Maggipinto had planned to have children for a decade, since before they were engaged. They decided to employ in vitro fertilization, in which an egg and sperm are… Read More
2024-05-09 20:19
Stocks had a strong day on Thursday—strong enough to pull the benchmark S&P 500 back within 1% of its record following a rough April, per the AP . The S&P rose 26 points, or 0… Read More
2024-05-09 12:43
Who can stand being with Steve Urkel for more than five minutes? Nicoletta Ruhl, apparently. The tech exec tied the knot on Saturday in Los Angeles with Jaleel White, the 47-year-old actor w… Read More
2024-05-09 12:21
California officials repeated warnings on water safety after a tragedy on Tuesday. Two young siblings, a 4-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy, died after being swept away by a rapidly flowin… Read More
2024-05-09 11:47
In contrast to events at many campuses on the other side of the Atlantic, students at Ireland's oldest university agreed to take down an anti-Gaza war encampment after negotiations that Trin… Read More
2024-05-09 11:31
A month after implanting a brain chip in its first human patient, Neuralink discovered a problem. Initially shown playing virtual chess, Mario Kart, and Civilization using his thoughts , qua… Read More
2024-05-09 10:47
The first discontinuation of the Chevy Malibu took place in 1983, after nearly 20 years in production. The iconic General Motors sedan was brought back to life in 1997, but now, the company… Read More
2024-05-09 10:30
Forecasters warned a wave of dangerous storms in the US could march through parts of the South early Thursday, after storms a day earlier spawned damaging tornadoes and massive hail, leaving… Read More
2024-05-09 09:55
Four flight attendants who worked on routes to the Dominican Republic from New York's JFK Airport allegedly abused their easy route through security by smuggling millions of dollars to the C… Read More
2024-05-09 07:00
Looks like the rumored spinoff of The Office is indeed happening, but, true to the initial vague reports about the new series, it does not appear to have much to do with The Office . Rather… Read More
2024-05-09 06:30
In a move that CNBC says is "reminiscent of the traditional cable TV bundle" of yore, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are teaming up to offer a bundle of the two companies' streaming servi… Read More
2024-05-09 00:30
A new Apple commercial has upset those who don't see creativity as a zero-sum game. The ad features an industrial press crushing a series of objects that create and reflect art to bits&mdash&hell…Read More
2024-05-09 00:10
Pete McCloskey—a pro-environment, anti-war California Republican who co-wrote the Endangered Species Act and co-founded Earth Day—has died. He was 96. A fourth-generation Republi… Read More
2024-05-08 23:45
New York City has more millionaires than any other city in the world, even before the price of their homes is taken into account, according to investment migration consultancy Henley and Par… Read More
2024-05-08 23:25
Nikki Haley had another relatively strong showing in a Republican primary Tuesday, despite having dropped out of the race more than two months ago. According to DecisionDeskHQ , she had 21.7… Read More
2024-05-08 23:00
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson was met with boos, laughter, and 359 votes against in the House on Wednesday, quelling the Georgia Republican's long-threat… Read More
2024-05-08 22:40
A cruise ship worker from South Africa was arrested Tuesday in Alaska's capital city, accused of attacking a woman and two security guards with scissors on board the vessel, according to aut… Read More
2024-05-08 21:51
Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter has agreed to plead guilty to two federal charges in connection with a gambling scandal that could send him to prison for more than 30 years. The US Attorn… Read More
2024-05-08 21:28
Olympic swimmer Florent Manaudou became the first Olympic torch carrier in France after the Olympic flame arrived Wednesday in Marseille's Old Port on a majestic three-mast ship from Greece… Read More
2024-05-08 12:10
A cringey encounter last month between No. 1 WNBA draft pick (and now Indiana Fever player) Caitlin Clark and a reporter from the Indianapolis Star has now led to that reporter being banned… Read More
2024-05-08 11:19
Disney had some good news to share during its latest quarterly report, including the profit its streaming services (Disney+ and Hulu) turned this time around. But CEO Bob Iger also noted dur… Read More
2024-05-08 11:11
Customers of Sam Bankman-Fried's imploded cryptocurrency exchange will get paid—with interest. FTX says it will have billions more than owed to customers once it wraps up the sale of i… Read More
2024-05-08 08:00
Panera's Charged Lemonade has been blamed for two deaths, and now the restaurant chain is reportedly ditching the energy drink. Surviving family members have sued Panera over the 2022 death… Read More
2024-05-08 07:30
A massive, newly released report on the workplace culture at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. includes major accusations against the government agency. More than 500 employees reported mi… Read More
2024-05-08 07:00
Kim Ki Nam, a North Korean propaganda chief who helped build personality cults around the country's three dynastic leaders, has died at 94, the North's state media said. North Korea's offici… Read More
2024-05-08 06:30
A planned shipment from the US to Israel that was to include 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs was paused last week due to concerns that Israel was planning to defy US wishes… Read More
2024-05-08 06:00
As many as 50 people were trapped inside a FedEx facility in Portage, Michigan, after tornadoes hit the area Tuesday night and the building partially collapsed. Everyone eventually made it o… Read More
2024-05-08 05:30
Prince Harry is back in the UK for the first time since February, but he won't be seeing his father on this visit. A spokesperson for Harry says that while the prince "hopes to see [King Cha… Read More
2024-05-07 23:31
A woman who fell from the stands to her death during a graduation ceremony at Ohio State University last weekend has been identified as a Georgia resident, authorities announced Tuesday. The… Read More
2024-05-07 23:06
Elizabeth Holmes started a federal prison sentence of 11 years and three months almost a year ago—but the amount of time she has left to serve has gone down by a lot more than a year s… Read More
2024-05-07 22:25
The body of the last missing construction worker killed in the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March has been recovered, officials announced Tuesday as demolition crews p… Read More
2024-05-07 21:54
Donald Trump's federal classified documents case has been postponed indefinitely, meaning it is unlikely to conclude before the November election. In a court order Tuesday, US District Judge… Read More
2024-05-07 21:28
Because there's nothing quite like saying na-na-na-na-boo-boo at your neighbor, US News & World Report is out with its annual rankings of the best states in the union. The survey took a… Read More
2024-05-07 21:05
Boeing's first astronaut launch was called off because of a valve problem on the rocket Monday night. The two NASA test pilots had just strapped into Boeing's Starliner capsule for a flight… Read More
2024-05-07 20:41
US stocks held relatively steady Tuesday as trading on Wall Street calmed following some sharp recent swings. The S&P 500 rose 6.96 points, or 0.1%, to 5,187.70, its fourth straight gain… Read More
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