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The northern lights are a bucket-list item that appears on virtually every travelers’ wishlist—but if you’re really lucky, you won’t even need to catch a flight to see them. The dazzling light show is one of nature’s most impressive spectacles, most commonly visible in destinations like Alaska, Iceland, and Norway. While it’s true that the best places to see the northern lights are these far-northern locales, US-based aurora hunters in the Lower 48 can get quite lucky at home, too.The northern lights occur when charged particles ejected from the sun bombard the Earth, interact with the atmosphere, and glow. While…

Source: Box Office Mojo Notes: Amounts include North American box office revenues over the summer and are adjusted for inflation. Data for 2025 is preliminary. By The New York Times This was supposed to be the summer when the North American box office returned to form — finally from the pandemic slump.“We believe that a dramatic reawakening of the industrywide domestic box office has begun,” Adam Aron, chief executive of AMC Entertainment, the continent’s largest theater operator, gleefully told analysts in May. He predicted that Hollywood’s summer movies would be “barn burners, one after another.”Moviegoers, alas, were not cooperative. Multiplexes…

Acer’s new Chromebook Plus Spin 514, announced at IFA 2025 in Berlin, is the company’s first laptop to use the Arm-based MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 processor. That chip was used in the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 that launched earlier this summer, and it was key to delivering excellent performance and marathon battery life in that fanless laptop. I dubbed the Lenovo “the new king of Chromebooks,” and this $699.99 Acer, launching this month, seems poised to be a solid alternative — especially if you prefer a touchscreen convertible and don’t mind hearing a fan on occasion.Acer sent me the new…

The full lineup for this year’s BFI London Film Festival has been unveiled with Noah Baumbach’s George Clooney-starring Jay Kelly and Chloé Zhao’s buzzy Shakespeare tale Hamnet among the additions. On Wednesday, a total of 247 titles — comprised of features, shorts, series and immersive works — from 79 countries were confirmed to premiere at this year’s festival, running Oct. 8-19. Rian Johnson’s next Knives Out installment, Wake Up Dead Man, was previously announced as the opening gala and Julia Jackson’s 100 Nights of Hero is set to close the fest. The headline galas are jam-packed with Hollywood’s top talent. Kicking off…

Let me start the 2025 NFL picks column with a factual statement:My picks stunk last year.It was not my best season when it came to NFL picks. I wasn’t the worst of my CBSSports.com experts picks crew, but it wasn’t very good. None of us really were.That changes now.It’s a new season, which means like every fan base and every team, optimism is a part of my equation. I will be better. I have to be better.Week 1 picks are always a challenge, but I feel pretty good about these. The record is 0-0 right now, so the slate is clean.New season.…

A roughly 1.8 million-year-old Homo erectus jawbone discovered in the Republic of Georgia may be evidence of one of the earliest human groups to live outside Africa.The discovery, announced July 31 by the Georgian National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation, sheds new light on the evolution of our genus, Homo, and “is expected to reveal the reasons for the migration of early hominins out of Africa,” Giorgi Bidzinashvili, an archaeologist at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, told Live Science in an email.Bidzinashvili has been leading an excavation at the early Stone Age site of Orozmani, about 60 miles (100 kilometers)…

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Topline A federal appeals court ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot fast-track the deportation of Venezuelan migrants from the country using an 18th-century law that has previously only been used during wartime, dismissing the administration’s argument that the migrants were part of an “invasion.” The court ruled that the Trump administration cannot use the 18th century act to swiftly remove Venezuelan migrants from the U.S.Getty ImagesKey FactsIn a 2-1 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 could not be applied to the case of these Venezuelan migrants—who the Trump administration…

Target has set itself apart from big box retailers like Walmart by having trendy clothes, homegoods branded by reality TV stars and, of course, in-store Starbucks. With malls and traditional department stores in decline, Target has even become the go-to destination for stay-at-home parents who need to get out of the house (and maybe get a Frappuccino). In recent years, the store has cemented themselves as a notch above similar retailers with exclusive products with a more high-end feel, while still being inexpensive and regularly holding sales for even more savings. Carrying everything from outdoor gear to clothes to tech…