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They're sipping smoothies, snapping phone pics, dealing with crashed email and fixing broken toilets: astronauts, they're just like us. The four crew members zipping through space toward the moon are ...

At first, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were not good. Neither of their first two albums make it into this top 10, and with good reason—for their first half-decade, the band were mostly focused on ...

We’re all about optimizing our lives and daily habits to better our health. And though we can go overboard with some things (we might be reaching protein-maxxing fatigue; watch this space), when it ...

San Francisco Giants fans have already found a major flaw in the new viral stunt food that will be at Oracle Park this season. The Giants are one of six MLB teams selling the 9-9-9 challenge ...

What are the newest Hot Wheels Car Culture and Boulevard sets you’ve seen in toy stores recently? For me, it’s Power Trip and Mix 1. Care to guess which cars from those mixes were instantly ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson isn’t bothering to try and justify the SAVE Act. A reporter asked Johnson Tuesday morning if he could point out any example of voter fraud in any previous election in ...

Long before the bright lights of Nathan’s Famous became synonymous with Coney Island, there was another name that defined the boardwalk: Feltman’s. Now, Coney Island native Michael Quinn is bringing ...

“Opalite” also reinforces Swift’s unshakeable chart dominance. The song marks the singer’s ninth one to top the chart this decade; she leads as the artist with the most for the 2020s. According to ...

Billboard reports that this is the fourth all- or mostly-Spanish-language song to top the chart. Its predecessors were “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee featuriung Justin Bieber in 2017; ...

Forget the clinical efficiency and silent hum of modern EVs. Honda has other ideas. The brand is channeling some of its spikiest ’80s spirit into the electric era, drawing a direct line from the ...