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Host: Jane Pauley COVER STORY: Is a good night’s sleep a far-fetched dream?Since the COVID pandemic began, one in three Americans has had reduced quality sleep. Correspondent Susan Spencer pulls back the covers on how pandemic stress is among the factors affecting people’s already-tortured relationship with shuteye. Spencer talks with […]
Regulators in the United States and Europe approved Microsoft’s acquisition of Zenimax Media, and that means Bethesda is now an Xbox studio. But what does that mean for the companies involved and for fans of games like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls? Well, Microsoft is going to start answering those […]
New York Men’s Day New York Men’s Day continued its mission to highlight the future of menswear. Several designers stood out in particular, namely Chelsea Grays, STAN, and Timo Weiland. Chelsea Grays’ collection was an homage to 2020 with references to police brutality, protesting, coronavirus, and voting. There was a […]
The U.S. just saw the deadliest week for avalanches in more than 100 years. At least 15 people were killed in avalanches from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 in Utah, Montana, Colorado, California, Arkansas and New Hampshire, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC). In total, 21 people have […]
Wall Street has a tough act to follow, and that’s not a reference to last night’s game. Stocks rose every day last week, which is hard to pull off twice in a row. What could break the five-day winning streak? Well, you’ve got a lot of things that almost feel […]
Angel Olsen, an Aquarius. Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photos Getty On Thursday, there’s a new moon in Aquarius, intensifying all the Aquarian energy already in the sky. (There are currently five other celestial bodies in the sign: the sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn.) Like every new moon, this will be […]
For a fifth week, a group of demonstrators gathered outside the Tower Theatre to voice opposition of its sale to a Fresno church. They were joined by counter demonstrators, including anti-mask activist Ben Martin; Josh Fulfer, a member of the group that confronted Fresno City Councilman Miguel Arias at his […]
Welcome to Money Diaries where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money. We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking every last dollar. Today: a technical reviewer who has a joint income of $216,100 per year and spends […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Health officials in Greater Cleveland are ready to ramp up coronavirus vaccination programs, providing perhaps more than 100,000 shots a week, but there’s one catch. All say they are hindered by a lack of available vaccine. Representatives from the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, MetroHealth System, St. Vincent […]
GOTEBORG, Sweden (AP) — Cinema in lockdown: Scandinavia’s largest film festival is exploring the social isolation resulting from COVID-19 by setting up a temporary cinema-for-one on a desolated island in the North Sea with the only companionship the events’ entire movie selection and enough food to last the week. Lisa […]
By DAVID KEYTON, Associated Press GOTEBORG, Sweden (AP) — Cinema in lockdown: Scandinavia’s largest film festival is exploring the social isolation resulting from COVID-19 by setting up a temporary cinema-for-one on a desolated island in the North Sea with the only companionship the events’ entire movie selection and enough food […]
Share this article: Health officials said Saturday that COVID-19 vaccination appointments for next week are available in Los Angeles County for those who qualify. For county residents seeking their first dose, “appointments from February 1 -7 are now available at VaccinateLACounty.com,” the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health tweeted. […]
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ False claims target Bible used for Biden’s presidential […]
The City of Dunedin and Pinellas County will present an agreement next week to the estate of the late Gladys Douglas to buy her 44 acres on Keene Road and save it from development. City and county officials announced their plan at a virtual press conference on Friday, the day […]
The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission this week is expected to decide the fate of a Navy proposal to use up to 28 state coastal parks to help train special operations SEALs on how to be undetectable. The Navy held a five-year permit to use five state parks that […]
Two models backstage at the Louis Vuitton Fall Winter 2021 men’s fashion show on January 21, 2021. Photo courtesy of Louis Vuitton In his first Paris residency for the Louis Vuitton collection Virgil Abloh helms, the men’s Artistic Director honed-in on one of the few places left where folks can […]
If there’s one overarching frustration of the streaming age, it’s the glut of stale films that clog up the menus of services like Netflix. Despite the flood of new TV shows, it still feels like the roster of movies is stuck in time — you absolutely do not need to […]
Airbnb said on Wednesday that it is cancelling reservations and barring new ones in the Washington, DC metro area next week in response to official pleas not to travel to the area for the United States’ inauguration week. Airbnb said on Wednesday that it is cancelling reservations and barring new […]
The stakes for this season’s finale between fierce NFC West rivals Seattle and San Francisco on Sunday, Jan. 3, are far more one-sided that a year ago. The game will be live streamed on fuboTV. Instead of a prime-time showdown for a division title, the Seahawks are fighting for the […]
Saudi Arabia moved Monday to halt all international flights and travel in the face of a new strain of COVID-19 reported in the U.K. that experts say is spreading faster than previous mutations. The Times of India reported that a notice from the country’s General Authority of Civil Aviation issued a […]
The City of Denver, the State of Colorado and a handful of homeless residents will face off in federal court this week during an evidentiary hearing regarding a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Colorado in October. “You only get an evidentiary hearing at this point if you need emergent […]