Kane Tanaka celebrated her 119th birthday. Her family said she intends to live another year to reach her 120th birthday, bolstering her world record.
Author: Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY
What does dating etiquette look like now in the COVID era? A much more blunt crowd.
A self-discovery phase has defined a renewed outlook in the dating pool, where people continue to navigate with caution due to several COVID variants.
These parents lost their kids to cancer. Here’s how they found hope during the holidays
Losing a child to cancer can be the biggest heartbreak. But parents linked with St. Jude are honoring legacies of hope to live life to the fullest.
5 children killed, more injured after bounce house sent flying by wind gust in Australia
Five children died in Australia after falling from a bouncy castle lifted by high winds. Images showed officers consoling one another at the scene.
Geminid meteor shower to peak Monday with more than 50 stunning meteors per hour
NASA called an expected meteor shower “one of the most reliable” and suggested that the Geminids could showcase scores of shooting stars per hour.
Italian bishop apologizes for telling children Santa doesn’t exist on a commercialism rant
“No, Santa Claus does not exist,” The bishop of Noto in Sicily, Antonio Staglianò, told schoolchildren. The response drew big backlash and an apology.
An American buffalo, named ‘Tyson the Bison,’ spotted casually roaming the Chicago suburbs
The Lake County (Illinois) Sheriff’s Office said family-owned buffalo – known as “Tyson the Bison” – fled its home and is roaming the Chicago suburbs.
Elon Musk says there aren’t ‘enough people,’ birthrate could threaten human civilization
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is being firm with his stance on birthrate. “If people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble, mark my words.”
A letter from Catherine the Great urged mass immunization in 1787. It just sold for over $1 million.
After being immunized against smallpox twenty years earlier, Catherine the Great showed the “statecraft and foresight shown by the great monarch.”
The world’s most expensive cities in 2021: Where do Los Angeles and New York rank?
New York City and LA didn’t even crack the top five on a Worldwide Cost of Living index. Where’d they land? And which city beat out Paris as priciest?