LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betty Boop and “Blondie” are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain. The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characters are among the pieces of ...

Sentiment has shifted dramatically in favor of an interest rate cut. Top officials at the Federal Reserve have displayed a rare degree of public disagreement over a possible interest rate cut next ...

Strong friendships have been shown to reduce loneliness, improve emotional resilience, and even buffer the effects of grief and stress. In moments of birth, loss, illness, and major life transitions..

In the 1938 book “Arms and the Covenant,” later published in the U.S. as "While England Slept,” Winston Churchill shared a collection of prophetic speeches in which he criticized his country’s leaders ...

Most American voters believe the United States is too politically divided to solve problems, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena University released Thursday. The poll found that 64 ...

The lawsuit seeks clarity around whether companies can exploit the earliest depiction of Mickey Mouse from a 1928 animated short. By Winston Cho Disney is continuing to enforce its intellectual ...

There's no shortage of cute couples on HGTV, from Fixer Upper (RIP) stars Chip and Joanna Gaines to Home Town's Ben and Erin Napier, Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa and Christina Haack and whoever she ...

The gender divide between Gen Z men and women continues to deepen, according to a new poll from the NBC News Decision Desk. This poll shows that Gen Zers are split beyond just political beliefs, with ...

WSJ’s Meridith McGraw breaks down the awkward exchange between President Trump and Fed Chair Jerome Powell, following weeks of Trump steadily badgering the Fed leader. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Reuters ...

EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it claims is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models. The dataset, called the Common Pile v0.1 ...

Dozens of Iowa landowners have been lobbying in the Iowa Capitol against Summit Carbon Solutions' pipeline for years. Empowered by South Dakota's success in limiting eminent domain, some Iowa ...