Two of our most time-tested and influential texts are lists of ten: The Bill of Rights and the Ten Commandments. The first defines basic freedoms in the United States and the second presents ...

Federal holidays in the United States are officially recognized days when government offices, banks, and many institutions remain closed. Between October and December 2025, four key federal holidays ...

Nevada is off the Department of Justice’s list of sanctuary jurisdictions. According to the DOJ, it’s the first removal of any jurisdiction since the Trump administration list was published in August.

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge yielded 294 Burmese pythons, the most since the challenge began. Taylor Stanberry won the Ultimate Grand Prize of $10,000 for capturing 60 pythons. A total of 294 ...

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has released a new evaluation, dubbed GDPval, to measure how well its AIs perform on “economically valuable, real-world tasks across 44 occupations.” “People often speculate about ...

A total of 294 Burmese pythons were eliminated during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge – the most of any python challenge since the event started in 2013. But only one snake by a hunter was declared ...

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...

The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 ...

Rock groups weren't in the mix of honorees for the first two decades of the Walk of Fame's existence. But they sure are now. By Paul Grein When Def Leppard receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Pitchfork’s editors are already sorting, compiling, and straining to remember all the music that’s been released this year. So we’re spotlighting some of 2025’s most outstanding records to date by ...