What Americans think about giving cash as holiday gifts

Welcome to exhausted America 2025: Most adults are more than a little fine with doling out cash as gifts, and many plan to be asleep

Tennessee Williams’ early radio play ‘The Strangers’ publishes

Playwright Tennessee Williams sits at his typewriter in New York in November 1940 Long before the rise of podcast dramas, listeners worldwide tuned in to

UK to rejoin European Union’s Erasmus student exchange program

The United Kingdom will rejoin the Erasmus scheme for students from 2027, six years after ending its participation as part of Brexit, BBC reported yesterday. Students in

Trump sues BBC for defamation, asks for $10 billion in damages over January 6 speech edit

President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and

Rob Reiner and his wife found dead in Los Angeles home

Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner arrive on the red carpet at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors gala dinner, Dec. 2023, in Washington Director

Militant groups are experimenting with AI, and the risks are expected to grow

As the rest of the world rushes to harness the power of artificial intelligence, militant groups also are experimenting with the technology, even if they aren’t sure

Girls and women fleeing Mali describe sexual violence by Russian forces

The girl lay in a makeshift health clinic, her eyes glazed over and her mouth open, flies resting on her lips. Her chest barely moved. Drops

Israel says it has killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza 

Israel on Saturday said it killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza after an explosive device detonated and wounded two soldiers in the territory’s south. Hamas

Reddit challenges Australia’s world-first law banning children under 16 from social media

Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia’s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social

Copenhagen plans to severely restrict social media use for young people

Caroline Stage, Danish Minister for Digitalization and representatives from the agreement parties As Australia began enforcing a world-first social media ban for children under 16

A woman sues Royal Caribbean over her fiancé’s death on a cruise ship

A Royal Caribbean International cruise ship sits docked at PortMiami (March 2020) The fiancée of a man who died on a cruise ship has filed

‘One Battle After Another’ leads nominations, while ‘Wicked’ falters

Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene of “One Battle After Another” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” scored a leading nine nominations to the 83rd

16,000 fossil footprints in central Bolivia reveal dinosaur behavior

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from supernaturally strong monsters — capable of sinking their claws even

Putin says there are points he can’t agree to in the US proposal to end war

Russian President Vladimir Putin says some proposals in a U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine are unacceptable to the Kremlin, indicating in comments

US stocks hold near records as company profit reports come in mixed

Stocks were holding near their records on Wall Street following mixed profit reports from companies, as Dollar General and Salesforce climb but Kroger falls. Dollar General rallied

Europeans accuse Putin of feigning interest in peace

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Presidential foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov attend talks with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff (back to a camera) at the Kremlin U

German bakers bring Christmas specialty to life with rich tradition

Pastry chef Tino Gierig makes stollen - a traditional Christmas pastry in Dresden When pastry chef Tino Gierig is asked what the famous Dresden stollen tastes

Prada purchases fashion rival Versace in a deal worth $1.4 billion

The Prada Group announced yesterday that it has officially purchased Milan fashion rival Versace in a 1.25 billion euro (nearly $1.4 billion) deal that puts

Covet an Italian masterpiece, but shy of the millions? Buy digital

A high-definition, digital version of Andrea Mantegna’s painting, “Cristo Morto nel Sepolcro e Tre Dolenti The last person to get their hands on a painting attributed

Pope prays for peace at tomb of saint revered by Christians and Muslims

A group of nuns reach out to Pope Leo XIV as he arrives to the Catholic basilica of Harissa, Lebanon Pope Leo XIV prayed yesterday at the tomb

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