It’s the season of giving – and spending. Americans will pay an average of $1,014 more for gifts this holiday, according to Gallup’s 2024 holiday spending estimates. That’s a 9% increase from 2023, when shoppers dropped an average of $923. The increase is thanks to inflation, experts say – a nagging problem that has significantly […]

Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn and mega-donor to the Democratic Party, is said to be so worried about President-elect Donald Trump’s victory that he has considered leaving the country. Hoffman, who was vocal in his support of Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed campaign, has told friends he is considering moving out of state […]

Elon Musk has asked a federal judge to block Sam Altman’s OpenAI from completing plans to become a for-profit entity – arguing that it would cause “irreparable harm” to the public. In an appearance late Friday in US District Court in San Francisco, Musk accused Altman of violating antitrust law through OpenAI’s collaboration with Microsoft, […]

No one mourns the wicked – and no child should read it either. Before there was the movie Wicked starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, there was the Broadway musical Wicked, which is based on Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, based on in L. Frank […]

A couple gave up their bedroom so their children could have their own space – and now sleep in their living room. Paige Boakes, 29, and her husband Ashley, 28, decided to give up their bedroom to give their children – daughters, aged seven and 11, and sons, aged three and seven – the space […]

‘Tis the season to be “tacky”—and millennials love it. The delights of the 1990s are ringing up to the wonderful Christmas decor of yesteryear, reviving the maximalist trimming of trees with big red bows, lights and twinkling lights. But the comeback yuletide trend is garnering mixed reactions from the often Grinchy Gen Zers, who are […]