Welcome to Current Events Conversation, where each week we round up some of our favorite responses to one of our student writing prompts. For all the community, creativity and fun smartphones and social media have brought to teenagers’ lives, they have also come with a multitude of hazards, Natasha Singer writes in “Banning Social Media,” […]

Cast your mind back to 2017. In those heady days before ChatGPT and DALL-E, and Zoom calls, Swatch launched a fancy online platform that let you, the watch-buying public, design your own Swatch watch. Well, not exactly design. More like customize. It was called Swatch x You, and it let you tweak Swatch’s standard New […]

A woman was decapitated by a garbage truck when she was crossing the street Wednesday in Orange County, according to authorities. Maria Rubalcava de Ruesga, 69, of Santa Ana, was crossing the street around 7:56 a.m. near Shelton and Bishop streets when she was hit by a garbage truck making a right turn on Shelton, […]

NEWLY released pictures capture the devastating moment a UPS cargo plane's wing ignited during takeoff, sparking a disastrous accident that left 14 people dead. Three crew members and 11 people on the ground were fatally injured after the doomed plane took off at Louisville International Airport in Kentucky on November 4. On Thursday, the National...

Read how the much-awaited Miss Universe 2025 final competition is unfolding in the host country, Thailand.

The actress was sizzling in red, standing in contrast to Cyrus who chose an all-black ensemble.

The actress was sizzling in red, standing in contrast to Cyrus who chose an all-black ensemble.

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Pressure creeps in for the "Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Collab Edition 2.0" teen housemates as the first leg of their Ligtask Challenge begins. While the Determined Warriors struggle to score points, the Smiling Angels and the Strong-Willed Fighters go head-to-head.

A US soldier carries the Surveyor interceptor drone at a demonstration in Poland this week. Kacper Pempel/REUTERS NATO forces are training to use a cheap intercepter drone that has already proven itself in Ukraine. Poland and Romania are deploying the Merops system in response to recent Russian drone incursions. Business Insider watched soldiers train on […]