Netflix decided to take over all three major holidays this year for its three-part Stranger Things finale here in its last season. That may be annoying, depending on your plans with friends or family, ...

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Mortgage rates ticked lower this week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed the average rate on the benchmark ...

TOKYO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to levels unseen in 30 years, taking another landmark step in ending decades of huge monetary support and near-zero ...

President Donald Trump addressed the nation in a primetime speech from the White House on Dec. 17, touting what he claimed were achievements in his second administration's first 11 months. "Eleven ...

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity ...

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year tends to say a lot about the past 12 months — and how ready we as a society are to give up, toss our calendars and hope the next 12 are better. Last year, following ...

There's good and bad news for home shoppers hoping for lower mortgage rates in 2026 — they're likely to fall more in the new year but shouldn't drop much below 6.0%, if they reach that. But the ...

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The “Architects of AI” were named Time’s person of the year Thursday, with the magazine citing 2025 as when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view” with no turning back. “For ...

From left to right: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta; Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices; Elon Musk, xAI; Jensen Huang, President and CEO of Nvidia; Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI; Demis Hassabis, CEO of ...

Time's 2025 Person of the Year covers. (Photo illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/Yahoo News; photos: Time, Getty Images) Time magazine has unveiled its 2025 Person of the Year: The architects of AI.