3+ week, 3+ day ago (398+ words) November 6, 2025, 1:07 PM 1. "Bonds of Hercules (deluxe ed.)" by Jasmine Mas (Canary Street) 2. "The Black Wolf" by Louise Penny (Minotaur) 3. "The Widow" by John Grisham (Doubleday) 4. "The Secret of Secrets" by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 5. "Alchemised" by SenLinYu (Del Rey) 6. "Gone Before Goodbye" by Witherspoon/Coben (Grand Central) 7. "The Proving Ground" by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) 8. "Remain" by Sparks/Shyamalan (Random House) 9. "Always Remember" by Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life) 10. "Twice" by Mitch Albom (Harper) 11. "The Intruder" by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen) 12. "The Things Gods Break" by Abigail Owen (Red Tower) 13. "Wreck" by Catherine Newman (Harper) 14. "The Everlasting" by Alix E. Harrow (Tor) 15. "The Tin Men" by DeMille/DeMille (Simon & Schuster) 1. "The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The Essential Recipes" by Ree Drummond (Morrow) 2. "Nobody's Girl" by Virginia Roberts Giuffre (Knopf) 3. "The Let Them Theory" by Mel Robbins (Hay House) 4. "Read Your Mind" by Oz Pearlman…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (359+ words) EPSTEIN FILES: House votes to force release of Justice Department's files on the convicted sex offender November 18, 2025, 4:25 PM (CNN) " "The Daily" has been dethroned. "The Joe Rogan Experience," which was #3 on Apple's list of most popular podcast shows last year, moved up to first place this year. "The Daily," from The New York Times, was #2 this year, followed by "The Mel Robbins Podcast," which wasn't in the top 10 at all in 2024. Apple, which has an outsized place in the podcast ecosystem, released the top 10 ranking and several related lists on Tuesday. Two other shows broke into the top 10 this year: Alex Cooper's "Call Her Daddy," at #7, and "The Ezra Klein Show," another New York Times podcast, at #10. "Crime Junkie," "Dateline NBC," "SmartLess," "This American Life," "Huberman Lab" were all returning hits this year. Rogan remains the envy of the podcasting…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago (110+ words) The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade" NEWS UPDATE: 29-year-old Afghan national named suspect in shooting of 2 National Guard members in DC November 26, 2025, 1:11 PM The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers. For free upcoming tour information, go to www.pollstar.com...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (90+ words) November 19, 2025, 11:18 AM Top New Shows (US) 1. Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder, NBC News 2. The Hand in the Window, 20/20 True Crime 3. Blood Trails, MeatEater 4. Once We Were Spacemen, Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk 5. Crissle" Couch, CAKE MEDIA 6. IT: Welcome to Derry The Official Podcast, HBO 7. Matty, Casefile Presents 8. Wingmen with Matthew & Brady Tkachuk, Wave 9. WICKED: The Official Podcast, Universal Pictures 10. Brief Recess: A Legal Podcast with Michael Foote & M'lissa Malebranche, Exactly Right...

2+ hour ago (246+ words) November 30, 2025, 2:10 PM "Zootopia 2" had a roaring, record-setting opening at the box office. The animal city sequel from the Walt Disney Company brought in $96 million in North America over the weekend, earned $156 million over the five-day Thanksgiving frame, and scored a staggering $556 million globally since its Wednesday opening, according to studio estimates Sunday. That made it the highest international opening ever for an animated movie, the fourth highest global debut of any kind, and the top international opener of 2025. "Wicked: For Good" stayed aloft in its second weekend for Universal Pictures, earning another $62.8 million domestically over the weekend for a North American total of $270.4 million. The second half of the "Wicked" saga has brought in $393 million internationally. The pair of sequels combined to make the Thanksgiving weekend a glimmering exception to an otherwise dark year at movie theaters. "Zootopia 2" arrives almost…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago (410+ words) November 26, 2025, 4:11 AM Today is Wednesday, Nov. 26, the 330th day of 2025. There are 35 days left in the year. On Nov. 26, 2008, teams of heavily armed militants from the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant and a crowded train station in Mumbai, India, leaving at least 175 people dead (including nine of the attackers) in a rampage spanning four days. In 1791, President George Washington held his first full cabinet meeting; in attendance were Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox and Attorney General Edmund Randolph. In 1864, English mathematician Charles Dodgson presented the illustrated manuscript "Alice's Adventures Under Ground" to his friend Alice Pleasance Liddell, 12, a book later published under the pen name Lewis Carroll as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." In 1917, the National Hockey League was founded in Montreal, succeeding the National Hockey Association....

1+ week, 4+ day ago (215+ words) November 19, 2025, 12:06 AM Probably a lot of women taking home prizes they deserve! Ella Langley, Megan Moroney and Lainey Wilson lead this year's nominations with six nods each. There's a lot of stiff competition: Wilson, who is hosting the ceremony, is also competing for the night's highest honor " CMA entertainer of the year " against Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Chris Stapleton and Morgan Wallen, last year's winner in the category. That's not all: The nominees for new artist of the year are Langley, Shaboozey, Zach Top, Tucker Wetmore and Stephen Wilson Jr. And the legendary Vince Gill will be presented with the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award. Shaboozey, Combs, Stapleton, Langley, Moroney, Top, Wetmore, Wilson and Wilson. Jr will all perform, as well as Kelsea Ballerini, Brandi Carlile, Kenny Chesney, Riley Green, Miranda Lambert, Patty Loveless, Old Dominion, The Red Clay Strays…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago (249+ words) November 13, 2025, 4:10 AM Today is Thursday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2025. There are 48 days left in the year. On Nov. 13, 2015, Islamic State militants carried out a set of coordinated attacks in Paris at the national stadium, in a crowded concert hall, in restaurants and on streets, killing 130 people in the worst attack on French soil since World War II. In 1775, during the Revolutionary War, American troops captured Montreal under the command of Continental Army Gen. Richard Montgomery. In 1909, 259 men and boys were killed when fire erupted inside a coal mine in Cherry, Illinois. In 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling which found Alabama bus segregation laws were illegal. In 1971, the U.S. space probe Mariner 9 went into orbit around Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. In 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In 1985, some…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago (397+ words) VIRGINIA DISTRICT 22: Elizabeth Guzman beats wins House District 22, defeating incumbent Ian Lovejoy November 5, 2025, 8:58 AM We've got you covered. Read on to get a crash course on how Grammy voting works. Members of the Recording Academy and record labels submit artists in certain categories, which are then vetted for eligibility. Currently, there are 95 Grammy Award categories. Once the nominees are determined and announced in November, a period of final round voting takes place. This cycle, that runs from Dec. 12 through Jan. 5. Winners are announced live at the award show in February. And don't get it twisted " voting members do not vote in all 95 categories. They're permitted to vote in up to 10 categories across three genre fields, as well as the six general field categories, which include record, album, song, producer, non-classical and songwriter, non-classical of the year, and best new artist....

2+ week, 4+ day ago (321+ words) November 12, 2025, 8:30 AM Chances are good there's a nonfiction book out there to suit just about anybody on your holiday gift list. Imagine, if you will, a world without mobile phones, the internet or The New York Times (digital OR print). Would your favorite puzzler survive? The good folks at the Times have something perfect to put in the bunker: "Puzzle Mania!" It's a stylish hardcover book full of Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, Minis and more. By a lead Times puzzle editor, Joel Fagliano. Authors Equity. $38. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger! The handy little book "Bird Talk" seeks to make identifying bird calls fun and accessible without heavy phonetic descriptors or birder lingo. Becca Rowland, who wrote and illustrated, offers funny, bite-size ways to identify calls using what's already in our brains. Hence, the black-capped chickadee goes "cheeseburger, cheeseburger!" Storey Publishing. $16.99. David Burtka is…...