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DECEMBER 24, 2025
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As housing costs and insurance hurdles shift, many once popular home upgrades are losing their resale punch. Real estate experts said some of the most expensive and trendy renovations will offer little to no return in 2026 and may even make your home harder to sell.
1. High-End or Luxury Additions
Buyers increasingly see high-end additions like full theater rooms...
DECEMBER 24, 2025
Billionaire And DOGE Director Elon Musk Ends His Role In Washington, District of Columbia, USA – 30 May 2025. - Molly Riley/White House/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire / Shutterstock
Here are the not-so-fun facts: Someone earning $600,000 a year in salary can realistically face combined tax rates approaching half their income in taxes when you add up federal...
DECEMBER 19, 2025
Data showing speed to singularity. - Translated
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:
By one unique metric, we could approach technological singularity by the end of this decade, if not sooner.
A translation company developed a metric, Time to Edit (TTE), to calculate the time it takes for professional human editors to fix AI-generated translations compared to...
DECEMBER 19, 2025
Neither of my parents had corporate jobs. I didn't absorb the unwritten rules of the workplace at family dinners. But I did have a relentless curiosity about how influence actually works.
That led me to become a licensed therapist and executive coach, research human behavior, and write my book, "Managing Up: How to Get What You Need From the...
DECEMBER 19, 2025
Maria Shriver is on stage at the Anaheim Convention Center on March 5, 2025 in Anaheim, California; Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Diplomatic Room of the White House on December 17, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
Maria Shriver, a journalist, advocate and niece of the late President John F. Kennedy, condemned President Donald Trump’s effort to rename...
DECEMBER 17, 2025
City of Richland, Washington State closes recycling station over illegal dumping.
The city of Richland began clearing junked vehicles and other items outside a garbage-strewn central city home after more than a year of legal wrangling and complaints from neighbors.
Discarded appliances and other debris were hauled away by workers, focusing chiefly on the detritus left on public property,...
DECEMBER 16, 2025
Bermuda Island. - PHOTO: Yujie Chen/Getty Images
Seismologists have made a fascinating discovery about what lies beneath the archipelago of Bermuda.
Seismologists have made a fascinating discovery about what lies beneath the Bermuda -- a never-before-seen plume of rock that makes the archipelago appear to float in the middle of the ocean, according to a paper published last month in Geophysical Research Letters.
Typically,...
DECEMBER 16, 2025
Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner attend the Human Rights Campaign 2019 Los Angeles dinner at JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE on March 30, 2019. - Amy Sussman, Getty Images
Late-night hosts are paying tribute to a Hollywood icon.
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers all reacted to the death of Rob Reiner on their Dec. 15 shows, one day after the...
DECEMBER 7, 2025
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the prestigious Leadership Summit 2025 of a national daily today, announcing a major government drive to return over Rs 104,000 crore in unclaimed assets to their rightful owners, primarily poor and middle-class families.
The Prime Minister framed the initiative as a testament to the strengthened trust between the...
DECEMBER 7, 2025
Have you ever glanced at a quarter and thought it was just another piece of pocket change? Most of us have.
We toss them into jars, use them for parking meters, or hand them over without a second thought. That ordinary 1983 Washington quarter sitting in your cup holder might actually be worth a small fortune, though.
Honestly, it...
