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The Classic New Year’s Eve Outfit Clichés—and What to Wear Instead

It’s time to retire those tired New Year’s Eve staples—plastic crowns, chintzy boas, sequin gowns—and try these stylish, celebration-worthy alternatives.

The Top 5 Interior Design Trends for 2024, According to Hundreds of Professionals

Bossy brass makes way for silvery metals. Interior architecture that’s rich in curves elbows out sharp corners. And those black houses? Over. These are among the trends coming and going next year.

Your Desktop, Phone Screen and Inbox Are a Mess. 6 Tips for Digital Decluttering.

Start 2024 by getting yourself organized online.

Throwing Punches and Opening Emergency Doors: Airline Passengers Are Still Losing It

In-flight outbursts, from disruptive to dangerous, continue running high over a year after airlines dropped mask requirement

What Poker Can Teach You About Winning at Work

Women poker players teach professionals how to play the game to get savvy about their careers

By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. , The Wall Street Journal

Before it can launch nuclear missiles, AI will have to prove it can find a TV show worth watching.

Restaurants Have Ways to Stop You From Splitting Meals

As more diners share appetizers and entrees at the table, eateries rework their menus

Stay-at-Home Girlfriends Are Having a Moment

Social media offers a Gen-Z take on life outside the workforce, with minimal housework and maximal self-care: ‘It’s really not what it seems’

How Putin’s Right-Hand Man Took Out Prigozhin

Nikolai Patrushev, a top ally of the Russian leader for decades, put in motion the assassination of the mutinous chief of the Wagner mercenary group

The $720 Million Resort Run by a Budget Airline

Allegiant Air, known for its no-frills flights, unveils its upscale hotel on Florida’s Gulf Coast; will travelers bite?

Are You a Morning Person? You Might Want to Thank Your Neanderthal Genes

New study links DNA inherited from our extinct cousins to a propensity for being early risers

For Israel, the Existential Question Returns

It has been decades since the very survival of the country has been front and center for Israelis. The Hamas attacks changed all that.

The Race to Defend Against Drone Warfare Plays Out in Ukraine

Proliferation of small, cheap drones is changing the way militaries think about air defense

A ‘Recipe for Disaster’: Insiders Warned Meta’s Privacy Push Would Shield Child Predators

The company’s own child-safety experts sounded the alarm about efforts to encrypt messages on Instagram and Facebook. This month, it started doing it anyway.

European Retailers Try On Second-Hand Fashion

Global market for resale apparel is expected to reach $351 billion in 2027, Statista data show

Good News: You Don’t Have to Sleep With Your Spouse

Therapists and sleep scientists say it’s OK for couples to sleep apart, a reversal of a long-held marriage tenet

AI-Generated Santas Are Suddenly Everywhere

He’s making a list. He’s checking it twice. But he’s not Santa—he’s just an advanced algorithm.

Is Santa Bringing Investors Trash for Christmas?

Some low-quality companies have done well of late, but it looks more like a broadening of the recent rally than a speculative frenzy

Dyker Heights Is Fighting to Keep the Christmas Lights On

This year, there are fewer of the over-the-top holiday displays that have drawn hundred of thousands of visitors to this Brooklyn neighborhood each year for over a decade

Good News, Your Package Has Been Delivered. Just Not to Your House.

With holiday deliveries still missing, anxious shoppers put on their detective hats