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Hochul’s Christmastime boast of safer subway came amid string of alarming violent attacks
Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul celebrated a statistical decrease in New York City subway crime, including minor and major offenses, just days before several fatal and near-fatal incidents.
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Pregnant celebrities 2025: Which stars are expecting babies this year
"Bachelorette" alum Garrett Yrigoyen, model Don Benjamin and more stars have announced they are starting families with their pregnant partners.
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Republicans look to defang motion to oust House speaker in new rules package
House GOP leadership is angling to diminish the motion used to oust a speaker in order to avoid a repeat of the mutiny against Kevin McCarthy that crippled the lower chamber for some three weeks in late 2023.
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Charlize Theron, 49, soaks up the sun in a black swimsuit on family vacation to Mexico
The "Atomic Blonde" star put on a cheeky display in the sensual halter-top bathing suit that clung to her slim figure and emphasized her bronzed shoulders.
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Net neutrality rules blocked by appeals court in blow to Biden admin
A three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals said the FCC lacked authority to reinstate the rules initially implemented in 2015.
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Caitlin Clark details painful ‘welcome to the’ WNBA moment: ‘Hurt so bad’
Caitlin Clark's "welcome to the WNBA moment" was quite painful.
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Browns will consider Kirk Cousins after Deshaun Watson disaster
The bar for quarterback play is so low in Cleveland that another team's benched disaster may be the best option for the Browns.
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'Dinosaur highway' tracks dating back 166 million years are discovered in England
Four of the sets of tracks that make up the so-called highway show paths taken by gigantic, long-necked, herbivores thought to be Cetiosaurus.
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Christina Aguilera Claps Back at Critics: 'No One Is Perfect'
Christina Aguilera made a New Year's resolution for fans, urging them to do 'something a little different' in 2025.
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How much are the cheapest tickets for the final Blue Man Group NYC shows?
If you miss this show, you'll be Blue.
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A glam beachfront Hawaiian home with rock star and Hollywood ties asks $12M
The pad, set on Anini Beach, was formerly owned by R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck and appeared in the Sarah Jessica Parker flick "Honeymoon in Vegas."
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McDonald’s lame ‘sustainable’ straws won’t save the planet— but WILL make your life a little worse
McDonald's has introduced new "sustainable" straws to help save the environment. Huh?
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Trump posts stately photo vowing he’ll be ‘back in 18 days’ after New Year’s Day attacks
President-elect Donald Trump posted a stately photo of himself and a top adviser on Thursday, vowing he'll be "back in 18 days," amid a deadly terror attack and another possible terror act carried out on New Year's Day.
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Dog Warming Paws in Front of Fire Delights Internet
"Now this is warming my heart," one viewer said, while another added: "The sweetest fried chicken I've ever seen."
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NYC protesters follow New Orleans attack by calling for ‘intifada revolution’ hours after rampage
Terror suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar flew an ISIS flag as he plowed through New Year's Eve revelers in New Orleans. Hours later, New York demonstrators called for an "intifada revolution."
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Meteor showers, northern lights and supermoons: Here’s what 2025 has in store if you look up
The skies are looking bright in the new year.
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Mike Johnson gets public GOP Senate support ahead of tight House speaker vote
Some senators have opted to publicly announce support for Mike Johnson in his bid to remain House speaker, which is a notable move for members of the upper chamber.
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What Time Is The Sugar Bowl On Today? Start Time, Channel, Where To Watch Notre Dame vs. Georgia Live Online
Georgia and Notre Dame collide in the Sugar Bowl!
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Cold Snap to Grip Much of the U.S., Followed by Winter Storms
The Arctic air arrives this weekend and could linger into mid-January.
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You Don’t Know Your Habits
You probably remember when you took your last shower, but if I ask you to examine your routine more closely, you might discover some blank spots. Which hand do you use to pick up the shampoo bottle? Which armpit do you soap up first?Bathing, brushing your teeth, driving to work, making coffee—these are all core habits. In 1890, the psychologist William James observed that living creatures are nothing if not “bundles of habits.” Habits, according to James’s worldview, are a bargain with the devil. They make life easier by automating behaviors you perform regularly. (I would rather attend to what I read in the news on a given morning, for example, than to the minutiae of how I steep my daily tea.) But once an action becomes a habit, you can lose sight of what prompts it, or if you even like it very much. (Maybe the tea would taste better if I steeped it longer.)Around the new year, countless people pledge to reform their bad habits and introduce new, better ones. Yet the science of habits reveals that they are not beholden to our desires. “We like to think that we’re doing things for a reason, that everything is driven by a goal,” Wendy Wood, a provost professor emerita who studies habit at the University of Southern California, told me. But goals seem like our primary motivation only because we’re more conscious of them than of how strong our habits are. In fact, becoming aware of your invisible habits can boost your chances of successfully forming new, effective habits or breaking harmful ones this resolution season, so that you can live a life dictated more by what you enjoy and less by what you’re used to.James was prescient about habits, even though he described them more than 100 years ago. Habitual action “goes on of itself,” he wrote. Indeed, modern researchers have discerned that habits are practically automatic “context-response associations”—they form when people repeat an action cued by some trigger in an environment. After you repeat an action enough times, you’ll do it mindlessly if you encounter the cue and the environment. “That doesn’t mean that people have no recollection of what they did,” David Neal, a psychologist who specializes in behavior change, told me. “It just means that your conscious mind doesn’t need to participate in the initiation or execution of the behavior.”Our conscious goals might motivate us to repeat a particular behavior, and so serve as the spark that gets the habit engine going. In fact, “people who are best at achieving their goals are the ones who purposefully form habits to automate some of the things that they do,” Benjamin Gardner, a psychologist of habitual behavior at the University of Surrey, told me. He recently enacted a flossing habit by flossing each day in the same environment (the bathroom), following the same contextual cues (brushing his teeth). “There are days when I think, I can’t remember if I flossed yesterday, but I just trust I definitely did, because it’s such a strong part of my routine,” he said.But even habits that are deliberately begun are worth reevaluating every so often, because once they solidify, they can break away from the goals that inspired them. If our goals shift, context cues will still trigger habitual behavior. A 1998 meta-analysis found that intentions could predict only actions that are done occasionally, such as getting a flu shot, and not actions that were repeated regularly, such as wearing a seat belt. In one study from 2012, students who often went to a sports stadium raised their voices when they saw an image of that stadium, even if they didn’t intend to. And scientists have shown that habitual behaviors and goal-directed behaviors involve different pathways in the brain. When an action becomes a habit, it becomes more automatic and relies more on the sensorimotor system. When scientists damage the parts of animals’ brains that are related to goal-directed behavior, the animals start behaving more habitually. (There remains some debate, however, about whether any human action can truly be independent from goals.)And yet, people tend to explain their habitual behavior by appealing to their goals and desires. A 2011 study found that people who said they’d eat when they got emotional weren’t actually more likely to snack in response to negative feelings; eating behaviors were better explained by habit. In a 2022 study, Wood and her colleagues asked people why they drank coffee. The participants said they did so when they were tired, but in fact, when they logged their coffee drinking, it was only weakly correlated with their fatigue. “They didn’t have a desire to drink coffee,” Wood said. “It was just the time when they typically did during the day.”Habits also maintain their independence by not being as sensitive to rewards. If you don’t like something the first time you try it, you probably won’t repeat the experience. But habits can persist even if their outcome stops being pleasing. In one study Wood worked on with Neal and other colleagues, people with a habit of eating popcorn at the movies ate more stale popcorn than those without the habit. Those with a popcorn habit reported later that they could tell the popcorn was gross, but they just kept eating it. “It’s not that they are totally unaware that they don’t like it,” Wood said. “The behavior continues to be triggered by the context that they’re in.” It’s not so terrible to endure some stale popcorn, but consider the consequences if more complex habitual actions—ones related to, say, work-life balance, relationships, or technology—hang around past their expiration date.In the face of invisible habits, awareness and attention are powerful weapons. In a recent study, Gardner asked people who slept fewer than six hours a night to describe their bedtime routines in detail. Doing so revealed pernicious bedtime habits they weren’t aware of before. James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits, has similarly suggested making a “Habits Scorecard,” a written list of all of your daily habits that includes a rating of how positively, negatively, or neutrally they affect your life.Neutral habits, such as the timing of my yoga session, can be hardest to take stock of. And if they’re just humming along making your life easier, identifying them might feel pointless. But because habits won’t always have your latest intentions in mind, it’s worth keeping an eye on them to make sure they don’t start working against you. Like it or not, people are destined to be bundled up with habits. But knowing how they work—simply becoming aware of how unaware of them we can be—can help get you to a life with as little stale popcorn as possible.
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FBI says New Orleans attacker acted alone, posted videos about ISIS
The FBI now believes that the New Orleans attacker acted alone when he rammed a rented truck into crowds on Bourbon Street hours into New Year's Day. CBS News' Anna Schecter and Kati Weis have the latest information.
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California Sees Highest Number of People Quit Their Jobs All Year
In October, 352,000 Californians resigned from their jobs. That marked the highest number of resignations in a single month for the entire year.
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Ellen DeGeneres made ‘Bachelorette’ alum Ali Fedotowsky ‘feel stupid’ on talk show: ‘She was laughing at me’
The reality TV star appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in May 2010, the same day that her season of “The Bachelorette” was set to premiere.
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Biohacker says this 2-ingredient drink in the morning reduces stress and hair loss
Biohacker Dave Asprey says he has the secret to hacking hair loss — and one of the most important steps is reducing stress.
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Meghan Markle shares trailer for new Netflix series ‘With love, Meghan’
The Duchess is headed back to our TV screens. Meghan Markle took to Instagram to share a teaser for her new Netflix series, “With Love, Meghan,” airing Jan. 15. “I have been so excited to share this with you! I hope you love the show as much as I loved making it,” she captioned the...
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Woman's theory on the color pink sparks viral debate
"I never dreamed that my random thought would gain so much traction," Kirsten Fradsham told Newsweek.
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Millie Bobby Brown, 20, slams trolls comparing her to a ‘40-year-old Jersey housewife’
Followers flocked to the comments section to comment on the "Stranger Things" star's appearance after a new Instagram post.
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Matthew Livelsberger Photo Appears to Show Pro-Ukraine Support
An image that seems to show the suspect in the Las Vegas Cybertruck blast wearing a "Slava Ukraini" T-shirt has circulated on social media.
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Simone Biles hints her Olympics career could be over after Paris redemption
Roughly four months removed from the 2024 Paris Games, speculation is already bubbling about whether Simone Biles will compete in Los Angeles in 2028.
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‘No definitive link’ between Vegas Cybertruck explosion and New Orleans attack: FBI
FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia said there was “no definitive link” between the attack in New Orleans and the Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas.
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Suspect behind Cybertruck that exploded at Trump hotel identified as active-duty US Army soldier
Police have identified the driver of the Tesla Cybertruck that blew up outside Trump International Hotel Las Vegas as Matthew Livelsberger, an active-duty U.S. Army soldier.
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Pregnant Goat Gives Birth During Night, Hearts Melt as Owner Finds Babies
"We had no idea Honey, our goat, was pregnant, so it was a complete shock," the owner said.
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Simone Biles Named Sports Illustrated Person of the Year 2024
The announcement comes after the 27-year-old's remarkable performance at the Paris Olympics, where she secured three gold medals and a silver medal.
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Why Tom Holland Doesn't Walk the Red Carpet With Zendaya
The two have supported each other on-screen and off-screen, but have a strategic approach to maintain their individuality.
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Jenniffer González Sworn In as Puerto Rico's Governor Amid Blackout Crisis
Outages were still being reported on Thursday, following Tuesday's blackout that left 1.3 million people without power.
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Former NASCAR Driver Forms New Xfinity Series Team For 2025 - Drivers Confirmed
NASCAR legend Derrike Cope has launched Cope Family Racing, a new Xfinity Series team set to debut in 2025.
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FBI now believes New Orleans attacker acted alone, officials give update | Special Report
Officials in New Orleans gave an update Thursday on the deadly New Year's Day Bourbon Street truck attack, with the FBI saying it now believes the attacker acted alone with no accomplices. Tony Dokoupil anchored CBS News' special report.
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Douglas Murray: From college campuses to Afghanistan, we let Islamic terrorism rise again
Why are we so craven while people on the streets and campuses of this city actually call for terrorism while the citizens in New Orleans have just suffered it?
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The major Yankees concern that lingers after reshaping roster
The organization can pretend that their poor technical play was isolated to the World Series. But their fundamental shortcomings were evident — and not fixed — all season.
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Chargers Khalil Mack, Derwin James Jr. and Rashawn Slater named to Pro Bowl rosters
Three Chargers earned spots on Pro Bowl rosters announced Thursday, with Khalil Mack, Derwin James Jr. and Rashawn Slater all earning recognition.
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Browns Interested in Trading for Kirk Cousins: Report
The Cleveland Browns have expectedly emerged as an interested party in trading for the veteran quarterback.
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Rare religious cross discovered by child while exploring on school field trip in Jerusalem
A 10-year-old found a golden cross while on a class field trip to the village of Ein Karem village in Jerusalem, Israel. The medallion is believed to be 100 to 200 years old.
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China's Aircraft Carrier Operations Reach Next Level
Chinese media said aircraft carrier CNS Shandong can conduct "round-the-clock operations" in complex weather conditions.
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Trump says he's not changed his mind on H-1B visas as debate rages within MAGA coalition
President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he has not changed his mind on the H-1B visa program, as it continues to spark debate within the Republican/MAGA coalition.
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Abused Dog Finds Forever Home, Internet Can't Cope With Her Bedtime Attire
"I'm crying, the relief and contentment on that little face," one user commented. Another added: "That baby is not spoiled."
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