• Like many holiday traditions, lighting candles and fireplaces is best done in moderation
• A look at aging baby boomers in the United States
• A look at the experts racing to decode Trump's tariff rules
• Yemen's warring sides to release some 2,700 prisoners in war's largest exchange
• Parents are divided on whether their girls should return to flood-scarred Camp Mystic in Texas
• Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that
• Croatian man sentenced to 50 years for killing 7-year-old student in school attack
• Japan gets local consent, clearing a last major hurdle to restart the world's largest nuclear plant
• France races to avoid US-style government shutdown after budget talks collapse
• US stocks rose again in 2025 after overcoming turbulence from tariffs and Trump's fight with the Fed
• How Seuk Kim's tragic plane crash built a volunteer army of pet rescuers
• Visa: Sales are up 4.2% for first 7 weeks of the holiday shopping period but the pace lags last year
• Should you worry about overfunding your 529 plan?
• Thousands turn out in Kabul to cheer on Afghanistan's traditional buzkashi equestrian games
• World shares are mostly higher in holiday-thinned trading ahead of US growth and labor updates