Bears Roar Back: Chicago Seizes NFC North Crown After Packers Fall in Baltimore
Chicago wins its first NFC North crown since 2018 after Green Bay collapses in Baltimore, setting up a playoff party at Soldier Field.
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Chicago wins its first NFC North crown since 2018 after Green Bay collapses in Baltimore, setting up a playoff party at Soldier Field.

A senior correspondent discovers that the 493-hp Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS is engineered not just for speed, but for the joy of losing your way.
New York’s subway quietly retired the MetroCard at midnight, shifting the nation’s busiest transit network to tap-and-go OMNY fares and ending a 30-year era.

Ukraine’s president lands in Florida for unannounced talks with Donald Trump on a possible cease-fire plan, upending U.S. politics and European diplomacy.
With playoff seeding on the line, Hurts and Allen collide in Buffalo’s frozen cathedral—who blinks first?
A Midland father tracked his kidnapped daughter’s phone for 20 miles, then sprinted the final three on foot to bring her home.
Across the country, restaurants are rewriting menus around one irresistible promise: real food at a single-digit price.
Scientists scan teen brains before and after a 72-hour phone blackout, revealing gray-matter shrinkage linked to daily screen time.

A ruptured gas main shuttered the 405 freeway and forced thousands to shelter indoors, exposing the hidden dangers beneath L.A.’s concrete arteries.
New research shows teens who get smartphones early face higher rates of anxiety, depression, and sleep loss as brain development collides with addictive design.