Life happens, and sometimes things like buying Christmas presents or last-minute holiday necessities get pushed right up to the wire, even to Christmas Eve. Luckily, plenty of stores stay open that ...

As details emerge regarding the prediction betting scandal surrounding the US attacks on Venezuela, it’s becoming harder and harder to imagine any explanation other than the obvious: that an insider ...

A judge had ordered the Oscar-winning filmmaker to pay at least $7.5 million to a former film-industry publicist after a civil jury found him liable for raping her. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Paul ...

Eric Chapman Jr. of Albany had been slated to be sentenced before Judge Andra Ackerman on Thursday in connection to the 2023 death of 18-year-old Javone Sims. The Glen-Worden School was recommended to ...

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We are entering peak flu season, and a new variant known as subclade k is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. Public health officials say this ...

Many New Year's traditions are meant to bring prosperity in the months ahead, but America's relationship to wealth is complicated. As billionaires' influence has grown, so too has skepticism. In a ...

If your portfolio is invested in exchange-traded funds, you may have had a very good 2025. The S&P 500 — the index tracked by the three largest ETFs on the market, per ETF Database – returned about 16 ...

Sworn in at midnight and again hours later publicly, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used his first day in office Thursday to hit the ground running with new executive orders targeting city ...

Independent journalist Nick Shirley said he has to wear a bulletproof vest because he is worried about his safety following his viral report on Somali-run daycares in Minnesota. Shirley shared his ...

Matthew Chapman attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing in election and policy coverage.