The fifth CFP rankings of 2025 have arrived, giving us the sharpest look yet at how the 12-team playoff race is taking shape. With Selection Sunday just five days away, contenders are making their ...

Supporters of Eileen Higgins, a candidate for Miami mayor, outside Miami City Hall in November 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have ...

Connie Francis' "Pretty Little Baby" was relegated to the B-side of a single when the American singer originally released the song in 1962. But this year it went viral as the soundtrack to hundreds of ...

(KTLA) — Pop culturally, the year tends to wrap up by early December, at least with music. Few artists want to drop anything they care about amid the holiday rush and the domination of holiday music.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. In Créteil, France, on September 29, 2025, the Spotify logo ...

It seems like it’s going to be one award after another this season for Paul Thomas Anderson. Warner Bros’ action epic “One Battle After Another” was named the best film of the year by the New York ...

YouTube released its annual end-of-the-year trending lists for 2025 — and launched the first general iteration of YouTube Recap, a personalized, shareable highlight sizzle reel of users’ overall watch ...

'One Battle After Another' and Jafar Panahi Warner Bros./Josh Telles for Deadline Close to four hours after closing the doors to vote, the New York Film Critics Circle on Tuesday gave its Best Film ...

Take a deep breath and think of your happy place: "rage bait" is the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year. After three days of online voting by more than 30,000 participants, Oxford University Press announced ...

Every year when we look back at all the games that dropped, trends reveal themselves. For 2025, you might boil it down to a year of innovation. Yes, there were many big, anticipated games that ...

New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. In an era of post-podcast-boom funding cuts, two independent projects have bravely voyaged toward the cutting edge of audio, fostering both ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...