People take shelter at a metro station during Russian air attacks in Kyiv on December 27, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine’s air force announced a countrywide air alert and said drones and missiles were moving over several regions including Kyiv. (Photo by Serhii Okunev / AFP via Getty Images) Serhii Okunev |…
A Penn State vs. Clemson postseason matchup felt almost inevitable entering the 2025 season — just not like this. It was easy to imagine the Nittany Lions and Tigers colliding in a College Football Playoff semifinal at either the Peach Bowl or Fiesta Bowl as two national championship contenders. Instead, after a pair of startlingly disappointing…
After the country barred children under 16 from using social media, many parents have been asking whether similarly tough action is needed in their own countries.
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The holiday season is often painted as an idyllic vision of rest, conjuring images of warm beverages and bountiful time with loved ones. But many people have trouble unwinding at this time of year. Why do the December…
A Google support page in Hindi says the ability to change your Gmail address is on the way. The feature would allow you to replace your current @gmail.com address with another. Your old address would remain active as an alias on the account, and all your data would stick around, unaffected. The support page (translated)…
And so we say au revoir to another year in showbiz. It’s rarely quiet, and there’s always something dominating the pixels of this website, so we endeavored to take a moment and reflect on some of the stories that have shaped 2025. From Karla Sofía Gascón’s car crash awards campaign, to the gawp-inducing resignation of…
The Saudis ramped up their rhetoric against a faction that has seized parts of Yemen in recent weeks.
I played a lot of games on my Steam Deck this year. It seemed like there was a never-ending list of incredible indie games to try — The Verge wrote about a lot of them! — and many worked brilliantly on Valve’s handheld gaming PC. Some bigger games made a splash on Steam Deck, too,…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Bill Plaschke writes, “If the Trojans truly want to return to greatness, being selected for the CFP is the goal. Not beating Notre Dame. Not even beating UCLA.” That’s 100% wrong. As a USC alum (1965) and longtime fan, those are the only things that do matter. I have often said that if…
Just before Christmas, the Department of Justice did a major document dump with the Epstein Files. DOJ hoped that by releasing certain documents before Christmas, people wouldn’t pay that much attention to the disclosures about Donald Trump. They were sort of correct. But it’s been consistently interesting that the degenerate formerly known as Prince Andrew…
