Month: January 2025
Going to weddings and birthdays can be pricey. How to cut costs or gracefully decline
If your social calendar is burning a hole in your wallet, there are steps you can take to spend less while maintaining good relationships.
Read More8 things to know about Groundhog Day and its big star, Punxsutawney Phil
The weather-predicting groundhog celebrity has met two presidents and drinks a life-extending elixir: “Our Phil is like, probably 139 years old,” Groundhog Club Inner Circle President Tom Dunkel says. (Image credit: Jeff Swensen)
Read MoreEditor’s note: Reporting the midair collision will focus on facts and people’s stories
NPR’s reporting will continue to focus on what happened and learning what we can about the victims and telling their stories. (Image credit: Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor B/U.S. Coast Guard)
Read MoreA groom-to-be pilot, daughter of Indian immigrants and figure skating champions are among DC air collision victims – CNN
A groom-to-be pilot, daughter of Indian immigrants and figure skating champions are among DC air collision victims CNN D.C. Plane Crash Live Updates: Black Boxes Found As More Details Emerge About Air Traffic Control Tower Staffing Forbes From Anguish to Aggression: Trump
Read MorePalestinians Stream Back to Northern Gaza on Foot
Israel allowed displaced Gazans to begin crossing a military zone that bisects the enclave after a deadlock over hostage releases was broken.
Read MoreLeading China Property Developer Reports Huge loss, in Sign of Widening Real-Estate Woes
Troubles at Vanke raise questions about the continued spread of the property crisis and whether the Chinese state will step in.
Read MoreDid DEI D.I.E.? Welcome to a new kind of ‘civil rights’ era
The new Trump administration is using the language of civil rights but flipping it on its head. If ‘diversity’ is now being coded as discrimination, what does that mean for the future of civil rights? Brittany is joined by Columbia
Read MoreFreed Israeli Hostages Still Had Shrapnel in Their Bodies From Oct. 7 Attack
Some of the women were held alone for extended periods and spent eight months in tunnels, an Israeli medical official said.
Read MoreSuspected Sabotage of Deep-Sea Cable Triggers First NATO-Led Response
The alliance mounted its first coordinated response to a suspected sabotage campaign against critical infrastructure after another cable was severed in the Baltic Sea.
Read MoreRwanda-Backed Rebels Enter Congo’s Safe-Haven City
Residents of Goma reported gunfire and shelling after rebels overran Congolese troops. U.N. officials estimated that more than one million displaced people were now inside the city.
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