The ball is ready to drop, and New York City's Times Square is all set to welcome guests from far and wide for its New Year's Eve celebrations to bid 2025 goodbye and welcome the new year with aplomb.

Warning: This post contains language readers may find disturbing. The Justice Department now says a handwritten letter it released Tuesday that was signed by “J. Epstein” and addressed to convicted ...

It’s 2026, and the new year brings us fresh hope. We’re packing our gym bags, pledging to be more present with our loved ones, and working to secure our financial health. In an uncertain economy, ...

An airplane has, for the first time, automatically landed itself after an in-flight emergency, according to the system’s manufacturer. Two people emerged unscathed from the Beechcraft Super King Air ...

The bigger the orchard, the more the bad apples. Close to five billion people were estimated to have traveled by air in 2025 — a record-breaking number — and plenty more tourists were also gadding ...

Viktor Pinkhasov can’t stop smiling. He has just managed to escape Ukraine after hiking alone for five days across the Carpathian Mountains. “I want to go and be free, to live,” the 34-year-old told ...

👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Everyone watches “Miracle on 34th Street” and “Elf” over the holidays, but festive vibes come in unexpected forms. So what’s the ultimate non-traditional holiday movie? Fill ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Rather than settling matters, the government’s release of the Epstein files has had ...

Some staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs are finding little to be merry about after the agency said it would eliminate tens of thousands of open, unfilled positions across the country as it ...

Political opposites, they are closing 2025 as they did 2024: on each side of America’s Donald Trump divide. Pierce, a retiree and part-time consultant in South Carolina, rated Trump’s first year back ...

Boris Sanchez counts down the ten most viral moments of 2025. Unprecedented and unconstitutional: AG rejects Trump’s pardon Hundreds arrested for DUI in Tennessee despite negative blood alcohol tests ...

President Donald Trump has thrust the country into a significant new phase in his showdown with Venezuela with a CIA strike on a port facility. But as he approaches grave new decisions on even greater ...