The days of airplane cabins hazy with cigarette smoke are long gone, but a reminder of that era is still visible inside commercial jets. Smoking has been banned on commercial flights in the United States for decades, but the Federal Aviation Administration is only just updating an outdated rule to reflect that reality. Starting on […]

A Short Hike developer Adam Robinson-Yu’s delightful Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is back again for the spooky season. Robinson-Yu originally released the game in 2020 and has been updating it every year since, and it’s grown into something quite special — an experience I look forward to each year. You start by choosing a pumpkin […]

Mike Jeffries was the CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch from 1992 until 2014, through the clothing brand and its half-naked models’ heyday and then downfall. On Oct. 22, he was arrested by the FBI and federal prosecutors in a sex trafficking investigation. Jeffries was arrested in West Palm Beach, Florida, along with his partner, Matt […]

Bar A Tí is a serious taqueria: fresh blue-corn masa, a dark and cryptic mole that ferments for a full school year, duck confit, the works. The crispy taco, however, is a crinkled half-moon of braised beef shank flickering with garlic, chiles and cilantro under a heavy fringe of neon orange cheese. This is not, […]

Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly dropped into Cannes to talk NCIS: Tony & Ziva and gave the MIPCOM crowd a surprise first look at their upcoming Paramount+ series. In the clip, Weatherly’s Anthony DiNozzo could be seen bouncing off car bonnets, as he and de Pablo’s Ziva David indulged in their usual snappy dialogue and […]

Hospitals have reported a significant increase in severe injuries from falls related to the U.S.-Mexico border wall, with cases rising by 58% so far in 2024 compared to 2023. Data from Scripps Mercy Hospital and UC San Diego Medical Center reveals that the total number of severe falls has almost reached 1,000 with more than […]

Ten years ago, Howard and Sheila Konetz bought themselves a Florida dream: an 1,820-square-foot condo in a leafy gated community north of Miami, complete with access to a country club, tennis courts and swimming pools. The $478,500 purchase would usher them into blissful semiretirement, they thought. With enough cash in the bank, the couple didn’t […]

The FBI on Tuesday announced that it is investigating the unauthorized release of classified documents detailing Israel’s potential retaliatory strike plans against Iran. On Saturday, Axios reported that two alleged U.S. intelligence documents with details of Israeli preparations to hit back at Iran appeared on a Tehran-affiliated channel on messaging app Telegram. The channel’s administrators […]

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge heard arguments at a hearing Monday on whether he should temporarily block a new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1. Louisiana, a reliably Republican state in the Bible Belt, is the only state with such a […]

Nearly 40% of Americans avoid routine activities — such as exercising, running errands and spending time with loved ones — due to uncomfortable bowel symptoms.