Does getting an end-of-year bonus or pay increase make you happier? Does the lift it gives you tend to fade quickly, especially if others around… Read More »Richard A. Easterlin, 'Father of Happiness Economics', dies at 98
ST. LOUIS – Detectives from the St. Louis County Police Department's Bureau of Crimes Against Persons are investigating the murder of a man next door… Read More »St. Louis County police are investigating the fatal shooting in Bellefontaine Neighbors
Last September, faulty door handle hardware caused Volkswagen to take the rather drastic steps of halting sales and production of the electric crossover and recalling… Read More »VW repairs ID.4 door handles, restarts production and sales
Around 2010, Dick Wolf's vast television empire suddenly came undone. First, NBC abruptly canceled its network mainstay, “Law & Order,” which had been on the… Read More »Dick Wolf enters streaming with the new Amazon Prime Show 'On Call'
No one ever wants to look back with regret. But for many retirees that is the reality. This isn't a dampener at this new start… Read More »What do people regret most when they retire?
We would expect someone like Dylan, always immersed in folk songs, old norms and American history, to lament the corrupting influence of new technology. And… Read More »Bob Dylan has some Dylanesque thoughts on the 'wizardry' of technology
Andreas here. Happy New Year and Happy Saturday. This morning we look at what may or may not happen in 2025. This isn't so much… Read More »What we're looking at in 2025
On second thought: better not. That seems to have been on the minds of two dogs who wanted to go outside on an extremely snowy… Read More »The video shows two dogs heading straight inside amid white snow
At the end of last month, two days before Christmas, Rev. Dr. Katrina D. Foster, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood,… Read More »How one pastor is helping struggling churches keep their doors open
The US government finally got its metaphorical hands on Do Hyeong Kwon, the 33-year-old Korean national who built a financial empire on the cryptocurrency Luna… Read More »Do Kwon, the crypto brother behind the $40 billion Luna/Terra collapse, is finally extradited to the US
STEVENS PASS, Wash. – Skiers and riders at Stevens Pass Ski Resort are raising concerns about the increase in equipment theft at the property, with… Read More »WA skiers are demanding action as 'rampant' thefts plague the Stevens Pass resort
As signs emerged that President Biden was preparing to block Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel from acquiring Pittsburgh-based US Steel, top Japanese officials repeatedly warned that… Read More »Despite the blocked US steel bid, Japan will not stop seeking US deals
A Rhode Island man is facing charges after graphic video shows him slamming a woman to the ground after a car crash Friday morning, authorities… Read More »Video shows a man violently knocking a woman to the ground in a road rage incident in Attleboro
Science generally does not tolerate frivolity, but the infinite monkey theorem has an exception. The question it poses is downright bizarre: could an infinite number… Read More »Can monkeys really type all of Shakespeare?
Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said Friday evening that she was resigning after the paper's opinion section rejected a cartoon… Read More »Washington Post cartoonist quits after Jeff Bezo's cartoon is killed
