Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and is predicting six more weeks of wintry weather, his top-hatted handlers announced Sunday from Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania. A massive crowd was on hand to hear the woodchuck’s weather forecast, an annual ritual with roots in European agricultural life that has boomed in public interest since Bill Murray’s...
A small girl in a pink sweater waved goodbye through the smudged window of a bus as it prepared to depart Gaza on Saturday, packed with 37 ill and injured patients, most of them children with cancer, in need of medical treatment that Gaza’s war-ravaged hospitals cannot provide. It was the first time in nine...
U.S. consumers will see higher prices at the gas pump from President Donald Trump’s decision on Saturday to apply tariffs on Canadian and Mexican oil, according to analysts and fuel traders. The likely hike in fuel prices reflects the double-edged nature of Trump’s trade protections which are designed to bolster domestic business and pressure U.S....
Consumers are looking for ways to travel on tighter budgets. Many are ditching first-choice options like flights for cheaper ones, like long-haul bus rides. Others are just staying home. Travel demand fell in the second half of last year, when even high-income households spent less on hotel rooms, Morning Consult recently found. It’s the latest...
Is there a benefit for healthy people to track their blood sugar? Measuring blood sugar has joined sleep and exercise tracking as wellness trends, with some longevity experts claiming that reducing fluctuations throughout the day can help protect against heart disease, even for people who don’t have diabetes. Continuous glucose monitors, or CGMs, are small...
WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks into his term, President Donald Trump is waging war against his own government, creating a deep sense of fear in the federal workforce — and recipients of federal aid — as he tests the limits of his power to alter the scope, function and nonpartisan nature of government without...
Beyoncé announced a new tour early Sunday in a social media post with the caption “COWBOY CARTER TOUR 2025” and a video displaying a lit up sign with a similar message. The homepage of her website was updated to display the same graphics. No additional information, including tour dates, has been shared. The news comes...
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot met with Tshisekedi in Kinshasa, after the French Embassy, among others, was set on fire by demonstrators protesting against inaction by the international community. President Donald Trump this week described the crisis as a “very serious problem,” while the State Department has advised U.S. citizens to evacuate, but the muted...
Ruth was born Renee Friedman to a Czechoslovakian Jewish family that included doctors and rabbis. The Friedmans, she said, also owned a wholesale liquor business and ran a soup kitchen for those in need. As World War II raged in the open, Nazi Germany secretly plotted to kill every European Jew, and the Third Reich’s...
The identities of all three soldiers who were on board a Black Hawk helicopter when it collided with an American Eagle passenger jet near Washington, D.C., on Wednesday have been released. The three service members along with all 64 people onboard the jet are presumed dead following the low-altitude collision over the Potomac River just before...