Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro seemed to make a plea for peace back in October 2025, repeating a slogan that has since gone viral. During a state television broadcast, after U.S.-led missile ...

Join Josh and Ollie as they react to a hilarious mix of viral internet videos in a thrilling guessing game! Watch as they try to predict if each clip is a "Yes Yes Yes No" (unexpectedly happy ending) ...

Two days of talks between President Volodymyr Zelensky and allies have brought some progress on security guarantees, but Russia remains opposed to any foreign forces in Ukraine. By Steven Erlanger and ...

If an Iranian taxi driver waves away your payment, saying, “Be my guest this time,” accepting their offer would be a cultural disaster. They expect you to insist on paying—probably three times—before ...

For nearly six years on the radio, United Fruit Co.’s Chiquita Banana has admonished millions of U.S. citizens never to “put bananas in the refrigerator.” Last week, Brooklyn’s Piel Bros, brewing ...

Our ability to communicate with dogs is a vital part of our relationship with them. At the most primitive level, we ought to be able to discourage a dog from some action—"No! Don't do that!"—or ...

Theodore Roosevelt once quipped that nothing worth having comes without effort. Long before him, Marcus Aurelius wrote that what stands in the way becomes the way. Both statesmen were intimately ...

Launching a new product during a recession is a bad idea, right? A recently published paper suggests that might not be true. In fact, the authors find that launching during a recession could boost a ...

Find today’s readings here. “Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ Anything more is from the Evil One.” I sometimes find yes-or-no questions brusque, perturbing, even unsettling. It’s ...

The big picture: Java stands as one of the enduring pillars of the software world. The programming language was released by Sun Microsystems on May 23, 1995, and so far has weathered the shifting ...