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If the holidays are stressing you out, remember: everything is optional
Managing a full December calendar and a long list of to-dos can quickly take you from festive to frazzled if you're trying to make everything picture-perfect, Instagrammable and a...
Rising European Film Streamer Sooner & Cannes Critics’ Week Unveil Next Step Partnership
France-based streaming platform Sooner and Critics’ Week have announced a new partnership bolstering the parallel Cannes section’s Next Step program, which supports directors as they move onto their first...
What’s on your TikTok page? U.S. looks to scour tourists’ online profiles
Passengers from an international flight enter customs and immigration control at McCarran International Airport (now known as Harry Reid International Airport) in 2011. The Department of Homeland Security is...
Disney’s Dana Walden Doesn’t Appreciate Being “Pit Against Colleagues” As CEO Race Enters Final Stages, Opens Up About Jimmy Kimmel Furor
Dana Walden has gone on the record on two topics that have swirled around Hollywood this year: the Disney CEO race and Jimmy Kimmel. Walden, who is Co-Chairman, Disney...
Forget flowers: These ancient plants attract pollinators by getting hot
Beetles (Rhopalotria furfuracea) visit a male cone of the cycad plant Zamia furfuracea, whose cones produce heat during pollination. Michael Calonje hide caption toggle caption Michael Calonje Some of...
Disney Inks Blockbuster $1B Deal With OpenAI, Handing Characters Over To Sora
Disney has put its chips in on AI. The Hollywood giant has signed a major deal with OpenAI, investing $1B in the artificial intelligence giant and handing over characters...
Venezuelan opposition leader Machado reappears in Oslo as a Nobel laureate
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado reacts to the crowd gathered below from a balcony at the Grand Hotel, in Oslo, Norway, early Thursday. Jonas Been Henriksen/AP/NTB Scanpix...
‘South Park’ Finale Sees Trump & Friends Plot To Kill His Antichrist Spawn In Time For Holidays
South Park wrapped up its unholiest season yet on Wednesday as Trump’s mission to take out his own Antichrist spawn reaches its conclusion. In the Season 28 finale ‘The...
NTSB warns that defense bill could undermine aviation safety changes after DCA crash
National Transportation Safety Board chairwoman Jennifer Homendy gave a strong rebuke of a defense authorization bill that rolls back safety improvements. The board recommended the changes after the January...
CBS News’ Robert Costa, Fourth Estate Honoree, Tells Crowd Of Covering Politics, Particularly In Trump Era: “You Never Know How The Story Will Turn”
Robert Costa, national correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning and chief Washington analyst, was feted at the National Press Club on Tuesday with its 2025 Fourth Estate Award. Costa’s...
The fight to beat neglected tropical diseases was going well. 2025 could change that
A nurse performs surgery on a trachoma patient in Ethiopia. Trachoma is considered a neglected tropical disease, caused by a bacterial infection, and can lead to blindness. Marco Simoncelli/AFP/via...
Leo Woodall On Learning German Alongside Russell Crowe For ‘Nuremberg’: “I Put A Lot Of Pressure On Myself”
British actor Leo Woodall, aged 29, has smashed it playing Renee Zellweger’s hunk du jour in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, a heartthrob in Netflix weepie One Day and by playing leads in...