The popular language-learning app Duolingo reported roughly 216% growth in new Mandarin learning in the U.S. compared to this time last year, with a sharp spike occurring mid-January, just as ...

With 2024 being the single-most expensive year on record in terms of insurance payouts in Canada, following a swath of devastating weather-related disasters, insurers are warning that home ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

The holiday season in New York City comes to an end as the Rock Center tree lights dim on final time NBC Universal, Inc. The lights are dimming on this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

Confirmed local losses include Altadena pizzeria Side Pie, which burnt down to the building frame in a photo posted to Instagram. Long-standing diner Fox’s, fast-food spot Everest and ...

As levels of LDL (‘bad’) cholesterol spike by 20% post-Christmas, how can we avoid becoming prediabetic? Levels of LDL cholesterol, the so-called ‘bad’ cholesterol that blocks arteries ...

She bought a potted holiday tree this year, which she plans to water, but not eat. Jan. 8, 2025 Go ahead and recycle your Christmas tree. But please, the Belgian authorities say, don’t try to ...

Ring doorbell footage has captured the moment armed police fatally shot a father on Christmas Eve. Marcus Meade, 39, was shot dead by police during a standoff lasting more than five hours at a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is closely monitoring reports of a spike in human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China. HMPV, which was discovered in 2001, is common but underdiagnosed ...