The first few hours of 2026 were more peaceful in New Orleans than one year ago, with local authorities reporting no incidents of fatal violence overnight as French Quarter revelers rang in the new ...

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The annual New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will feature more red, white and blue this year. Keeping with tradition, the Constellation Ball will drop from the One Times Square building, ...

The world has begun to close out 2025, toasting the end of a year that brought an American pope, precarious peace talks in several parts of the globe and a U.S. president whose impact was felt ...

It’s out with the old and in with the new in Times Square this year as the famous New Year’s Eve ball drop rings in 2026 with a dazzling new ball — the largest in the history of an event that started ...

A new year is bringing some new laws to the DMV. Read on for what you need to know. Kids under 16 can only spend one hour a day on each social media platform. It's up to the individual platforms to ...

Flu season is among us, and a new strain has emerged as a major threat. A mutation of influenza A H3N2, called subclade K, has been detected as the culprit in rising global cases, including in the U.S ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, though this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. It’s a big week for new TV shows, though the majority of the ...

For a holiday week, Netflix’s new releases lineup doesn’t have quite the volume you might expect, but that’s probably because they’re making way for one of the biggest Netflix shows of them all: the ...

A group calling itself the New California movement is pushing for a dramatic reimagining of America's most populous state: splitting it into two. Led by Paul Preston, a talk radio host on One Radio ...