Editor’s note, December 25, 8 am ET: This story is being republished for the holiday season. It was originally published in 2020. It might seem unbelievable given that the “Christmas creep” now begins before Halloween, but the true Christmas season actually starts on Christmas Day itself. That’s right: December 25 marks the official start of […] Read more ›
0
On April 2, 2024, Palestinians stand next to a vehicle in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on, where employees from the World Central Kitchen (WCK), including foreigners, were killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to the NGO. | Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images The killing of World Central Kitchen workers shows no place in Gaza is safe, even for aid groups. An Israeli airstrike Monday killed seven aid... Read more ›
249
Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel A six-week ban will take effect in May, though voters could overturn it in November. In spring 2022, just months before the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Republicans in Florida passed a law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, down from the previous legal threshold of 24 weeks. It took effect that summer, but advocates for reproductive rights challenged it in state... Read more ›
101
Lord Yoshii Toranaga (center on horse, Hiroyuki Sanada) is based on real-life Shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu. | FX on Hulu The FX and Hulu hit depicts a bloody, brutal, mostly thwarted colonial history of Japan. It’s based in the truth. Shōgun, FX’s period drama-action series on Hulu, has drawn comparisons to Game of Thrones, thanks to its shocking violence, like people pulling out their own guts with swords and others being... Read more ›
29
A North Atlantic right whale, entangled in fishing rope, next to her newborn, on December 2, 2021, near Cumberland Island, Georgia. | Georgia Department of Natural Resources/NOAA Permit #20556 via AP Two simple solutions would save the North Atlantic right whale. Why aren’t we using them? The story of the North Atlantic right whale, an icon of the East Coast, should be one of hope — a tale of recovery.... Read more ›
107
Caitlin Clark and Iowa won the Big 10 Women’s Basketball Tournament earlier this month. | Adam Bettcher/Getty Images The most exciting player in college basketball, explained. For the uninitiated, college basketball may seem like a complicated sport. Nearly every second is packed with plays, screens, cuts, and defenses that can be hard to follow. Commentators spray you with names and phrases that you’re supposed to already know. (Izzo? Geno? The... Read more ›
152
A diamond-ring effect during a total eclipse of the sun on August 21, 2017, as viewed from the Cohen Recreation Center in Chester, Illinois. | Keith Gillett/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images This will be the last total solar eclipse over the contiguous United States for 21 years. Don’t miss it! On April 8, 2024, millions of Americans will be able to see a rare celestial occurrence: a total solar eclipse.... Read more ›
0
“You never forget your first kiss … you always remember your first time in the shadow,” says one eclipse chaser. There’s a total solar eclipse somewhere on Earth once every 18 months or so. And whether it’s passing over a barren, ice-cragged coast of Antarctica, a remote African desert, or a lonely patch of ocean, you can be sure there will be an umbraphile — a shadow-loving eclipse chaser —... Read more ›
75
Food delivery apps have recently added new fees in response to minimum pay rules in New York City and Seattle. | Getty Images/iStockphoto As delivery discourse rages, don’t forget the middlemen: apps like UberEats, DoorDash, and Grubhub. No one is happy about the delivery apps. Not the customers, who feel gouged by an avalanche of fees. Not restaurants, who feel gut-punched by the commission apps take from them. Certainly not... Read more ›
213
Melissa Mattola-Kiatos, RN, removes the pig kidney from its box to prepare for transplantation as part of Mass General’s historic pig kidney transplant surgery on March 16, 2024. | Massachusetts General Hospital We eat pigs. Do we need them to process our urine too? No one tells you, when you donate your kidney, that from that point on you’re a Kidney Guy. When kidney things happen in the news, everyone... Read more ›
0
Passersby walk near a poster for ‘Oppenheimer’ in Roppongi, as the film debuts in Japan eight months post worldwide launch on March 30, 2024. | Marcin Nowak/Anadolu/Getty Images The film’s Japan premiere renews critiques about what the movie omitted. Oppenheimer’s premiere in Japan this past weekend has renewed scrutiny of how the film depicted the devastating bombings that killed more than 200,000 people during World War II. The Oscar-winning film... Read more ›
604
The highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, has affected tens of millions of farmed and wild birds in recent years. Over the last couple weeks, it’s begun to infect cattle — and one dairy farm worker. | Nathalie Laurence - Sunspiral Images via Getty Images Explain it to me: Am I at risk of getting bird flu? Bird flu is, famously, a disease that infects birds. But on Monday, federal... Read more ›
65
Usher featured in a February 2024 Skims men’s campaign. | Donna Trope/Courtesy of Skims The internet loves Kim Kardashian’s shapewear company. But it loves its ads even more. Before hitting the stage at this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, R&B singer Usher graced the cover of Vogue’s 2024 Winter Digital issue. It wasn’t totally obvious, though, that he was meant to be the publication’s guest of honor. The styling is... Read more ›
0
J.K. Rowling, pictured at the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in 2022, has a history of transphobic statements and actions. | Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images An exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia. J.K. Rowling’s supporters frequently claim the author has never actually said or done anything transphobic. It’s a position you can see on social media, in the pages of the New... Read more ›
71
Beyoncé/Blair Cardwell via Instagram Coverage and analysis of the global superstar’s eighth studio album. Giddy up! Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé’s eighth studio album and long-awaited sequel to Renaissance, dropped on March 29. Notable collaborators include musicians like Linda Martell, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, and many others. Earlier this year, Beyoncé made history as the first Black woman to top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with “Texas Hold... Read more ›
2
Despite progress, including bans on lead in gasoline, lead remains a public health threat all over the world. | Robert Alexander/Getty Images What contaminated applesauce reveals about how lead exposure happens. Lead keeps showing up where it’s not supposed to be. In 2024, one of the most potent neurotoxins known to humanity persists all over the world as a public health threat. For the second time in six months, lead... Read more ›
135
Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images Americans used to live in multigenerational homes. We’re starting to, again. Layla Ahmed is, by any measure, a responsible adult. She works at a nonprofit in Nashville helping refugees. Makes 50k a year. Saves money. Pays her bills on time. But there’s another measure of adulthood that has so far eluded her. Ahmed, 23, moved back in with her parents after graduating college in 2022.... Read more ›
118
US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on affordable housing in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 19, 2024. | Ian Maule/Getty Images The president has a housing affordability problem. Biden is in campaign mode, and the president wants voters to know he understands housing is out of control. Over the last month, Biden has ramped up his bully pulpit focus on the housing crisis. In his State of the Union address,... Read more ›
75
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and UAW President Shawn Fain, left, speak at a rally in support of United Auto Workers members as they strike the Big Three automakers on September 15, 2023, in Detroit, Michigan. | Bill Pugliano/Getty Images German labor history has some tips on how the US could reduce its workweek. The 40-hour workweek in the US will turn 84 this June, making it older than most human... Read more ›
742
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/Getty Images The documentary details the abuse of Nickelodeon’s child actors in the ’90s and aughts. It’s a far bigger problem. Quiet on Set, a new docuseries from Investigation Discovery, tells the harrowing story of sexual assault and toxic behavior that took place behind the scenes on some of Nickelodeon’s most popular shows. “I will warn you, if you were a child of the ’90s, this is going to... Read more ›
36
Paige Vickers/Vox; AP Photo A spiritual atheist’s journey to helping death row inmates. When you hear the word “chaplain,” you probably think of a priest or an Imam or some other kind of traditional clergyperson — that’s what springs to my mind in any case. Which is why I was surprised when I stumbled upon an article in the New York Times magazine from earlier this year about an “atheist... Read more ›
53
Most popular sources
Business Insider
|
22% 2 |
Tom's Hardware
|
16% 1 |
Android Authority
|
7% 5 |
Slashdot
|
6% 0 |
Mashable
|
6% 3 |
| View sources » | |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
29.12.2025 15:27
Last update: 15:15 EDT.
News rating updated: 22:21.
What is Times42?
Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.