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(UPI) A message in a bottle tossed into an Ontario lake as part of a school project was found by a student at the same school 26 years later.

Makenzie Van Eyk was a fourth grade student at St. John the Baptist Catholic ...Read more

Let’s say, without saying more, that your week hasn’t gone as you’d hoped and that you wouldn’t describe yourself as feeling incredibly optimistic at the moment.

You may find a kindred spirit in Grace Pudel.

The ...Read more

(UPI) A book is back at a Massachusetts library after being returned to another facility 51 years past its due date.

The Worcester Public Library said its only copy of The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley was due back May ...Read more

(UPI) The side of a Nebraska highway was littered with hundreds of boxes of energy drinks after a semi truck overturned and wound up in a ditch.

Officer Mike Bossman, a spokesman for the Omaha Police Department, said on ...Read more

(UPI) A traveler at New York's LaGuardia Airport captured video when a raccoon descended from the ceiling and caused chaos at a terminal.

The video, posted to X by user Ahmad Anonimis, shows the raccoon dangling from a ...Read more

Q. I missed out on the $39 earbud deal you wrote about recently. Any other recommendations?

—P.C., Kansas City, Missouri

A. That was for the EarFun Air 2 NC earphones. I now have an even better EarFun recommendation ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In honor of “Saturday Night Live” celebrating its 50th anniversary this fall, list-loving Rolling Stone has ranked the top 50 musical performances on “SNL” and, faster than you can say “Al Franken...Read more

Behind the convenience and flashiness of fast fashion lie its unsustainable practices and ecological consequences, from the making of plastic-derived textiles to its disposal. According to the Environmental Protection ...Read more

For the last 1.5 years since ChatGPT launched, workers and business leaders have been singing two different tunes about the advent of generative artificial intelligence.

From the C-suites, there is excitement and ...Read more

Going for an adventure outdoors is one of the best ways to spend time together as a family. Not only does it offer a chance to bond and create lasting memories, but it's also good for children's health. According to ...Read more

There’s no shortage of seasonal films that claim to extol “the true meaning of Christmas,” and this year, the holiday comes early with Dallas Jenkins’ “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” based on the 1972 novel ...Read more

Sometime in the last handful of years, so sneakily that few of us seemed to be paying attention, Hugh Grant suddenly turned into a brilliant character actor. Though he’d appeared in a variety of roles throughout a career...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It's dusk inside an empty Hollywood Bowl as David Gilmour peers out from the stage and delivers his song "Dark and Velvet Nights" to no one in particular. A strutting psych-blues jam with visions of "great ...Read more

With the nail firmly in Halloween’s coffin, it is time for a parade of holiday season fare.

In theaters this week, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” wants to get on your merry ol’ to-do list ahead of buying the ...Read more

ATLANTA — “Juror #2″ is a film packed with moral ambiguity, placing a seemingly ordinary man into a super sticky situation that quickly turns into a catch-22.

It’s the type of gray area 94-year-old director Clint ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Kate DiCamillo was walking down a south Minneapolis street when she realized she had to write “The Hotel Balzaar.”

It was in the early days of the pandemic, when we still hoped it was a short-term ...Read more

Obi Kaufmann has spent a lot of time thinking about California’s fires.

“There’s no way I can pull this punch: To live in California, you are going to live with fire,” says Kaufmann during an hour-long phone ...Read more

For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson was the last face millions of viewers saw before they closed their eyes and went to sleep. Carson, the critic David Thomson once noted, was “an ...Read more

Maylis de Kerangal’s new story collection, “Canoes,” is a moving, surprising exploration of grief and friendship across seven short stories and one novella, set in France, Canada and the United States.

Beautifully ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It’s the old chew toys that really get you.

Lying on its side, encircled in stone, there’s Peaches’ green rubber porcupine, collecting desert dust for decades.

Beneath a cast-iron cactus, oxidized by ...Read more