Lifestyle

Parents arrested after baby found dead on Christmas Day
What's NewTwo people have been arrested in Saint Paul, Minnesota, after drugs were suspected to have played a role in the death of their child on Christmas Day.Newsweek has...
Steelers Star Cam Heyward on Christmas Chiefs Loss: “I Own That”
The Pittsburgh Steelers had a crushing 29-10 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs at yesterday's Christmas game, making it the team's third defeat as the playoffs loom. Star defensive...
Fact check: Did Denmark offer to buy United States?
Multiple posts shared on social media on Christmas Day suggest that the Danish government has offered to purchase the U.S.They feature what appears to be a news article on...
Woman reunited with cat after learning apartment was on fire
A woman shared the heart-wrenching moment she was reunited with her cat after a fire tore through her apartment building.Casey Rae Borella (@caseadilla_._), 23, a cook, was just a...
Taylor Swift’s gesture to Travis Kelce after Christmas touchdown goes viral
Taylor Swift has shown her support for Travis Kelce after she liked three Instagram posts about the tight end scoring a touchdown on Christmas Day, breaking a major Kansas...
Donald Trump suggests Wayne Gretzky for Canada PM: What are his politics?
What's NewPresident-elect Donald Trump has floated the idea of ice hockey pro Wayne Gretzky running to be the leader of Canada in the future.The incoming Republican president said that...

World

The Year in Surprises
December’s so dramatic. For weeks, the days darken—a quickening fade that suggests a coming show. It’s depressing to leave home around four-thirty and realize the sun’s already set. But...
What We’re Reading to Start the New Year
The New Yorker’s editors and critics considered hundreds of new releases this year in order to select the Best Books of 2024. The magazine’s writers also made their way...
The New “Nosferatu” Drains the Life from Its Predecessor
Robert Eggers’s remake of the German director F. W. Murnau’s 1922 vampire classic, “Nosferatu,” may be presumptuous, but it’s not cynical. Murnau’s film, a silent, is an adaptation of...
Diana Ejaita’s “Midnight Moments”
With the frantic pace of modern life, it’s easy for the days to turn into weeks to turn into months without notice. But as the final moments of a...
Does Morality Do Us Any Good?
Sauer, who cautions that his chronological arrangements “shouldn’t be taken too literally,” terms the results of his multidisciplinary triangulation a “deep history,” one that “doesn’t use dates or names,...
The Year the Metropolitan Opera Declared War on the Critics
Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past? Judging from the striking array of contemporary works that reached American stages in the past...