Wearing winter gloves while using a touchscreen phone often goes about as smoothly as trying to read a book in the dark: you can’t use one without making the other basically obsolete. “For gloves, there is often a compromise between warmth and function,” says Claire Sturzaker, a travel writer and founder of travel blog Tales...
After a season of record holiday spending, here come the bills to pay for it all. Retail sales hit a record $994.1 billion during this past holiday season, which ran from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, according to the National Retail Federation. And a big chunk of that spending was on borrowed money. According to...
A Nigerian man who was indicted in connection with the “sextortion” of a South Carolina teen who died by suicide has been extradited to the U.S. to face prosecution, the Justice Department said Monday. Gavin Guffey, 17, died by suicide in 2022 after Hassanbunhussein Abolore Lawal allegedly extorted him using “compromising photos,” the U.S. Attorney’s...
President Donald Trump, on his first day back in power, issued an executive order on gender that essentially states that males become males, and females become female, “at conception.” But that, medical experts say, is wrong. All fertilized eggs or embryos are filled with both male Y and female X chromosomes, and the gender reveal...
Following President Donald Trump’s return to office, immigration enforcement operations have started to sweep through major U.S. cities. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 956 people on Sunday — the largest number of arrests on a single day by the Trump administration to date — bringing total ICE arrests since inauguration to at least...
He’s the first Eagles quarterback to reach two Super Bowls, and his five career playoff wins trail only Donovan McNabb’s nine in franchise history. Since Sirianni’s plants growing underground speech, Hurts has won 48 of 63 starts. He’s lost 15 games since October of 2021. And one of them was the last Commanders game, when...
Gunfire rang out early on Monday across parts of Goma, the largest city in eastern Congo, hours after Rwanda-backed rebels said they had seized the city despite the United Nations Security Council’s calling for an end to the offensive. The recent advance by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel alliance has forced thousands in Congo’s mineral-rich east from their...
As the Kansas City Chiefs celebrate their victory in the AFC Championship on Sunday, Brittany Mahomes is sending a pointed reminder to Buffalo Bills fans about the importance of sportsmanship. The wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes took to her Instagram Story to address an incident from November involving Bills fans at a tailgate. At...
DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services, though existing users will be able to log in as usual. The Chinese artificial intelligence startup has generated a lot of buzz in recent weeks as a fast-growing rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and other leading AI tools....
We don’t always have the answers, but we have some people on speed dial who do — which is why we present to you our series FYI where we have experts explain if lip balm is actually bad, how often should you wash your hair and more. When you wake up in the morning and...