Sharon Stone continues to choose to be happy 24 years after a near-fatal brain bleed that changed the course of her life forever. Prior to presenting the best foreign film award at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday night, Stone told Fox News Digital that she believes people have a choice about how they view the world. "I think that you get to choose how you view the world, and I choose to be happy, which I think is a discipline. And so that’s what I do," Stone said.
Tarek and Heather El Moussa aren't letting the past negatively affect the future, especially when it comes to cultivating healthy relationships within their family. The real estate experts put in some serious elbow grease toward their friendship with Christina Hall, Tarek's ex-wife, and created an alliance that not only benefited their personal household but also helped form a bond between the pair for their new HGTV series, "The Flip Off." In an Instagram clip featuring the trio, Princess Diana's voice echoed in the background from her infamous 1995 BBC interview where she was asked if Camilla Bowles was a "factor" in the breakdown of her marriage to Prince Charles, to which she replied, "Well, there were three of in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."
The Department of Commerce is offering up to $225 million in CHIPS and Science Act funding to automotive supplier Bosch, the agency announced in December. The funding, which includes an additional $350 million in loans from the CHIPS Program Office, supports Bosch’s $1.9 billion project to expand its Roseville, California, facility for silicon carbide semiconductor production for the automotive industry.
Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the table, according to NASA. The proposals present alternatives to the original Mars Sample Return program. Designed by NASA and the European Space Agency, the initial plan was deemed unwieldy after an independent review board projected it could cost up to $11 billion. The board’s assessment also pushed the expected return date of the samples from 2031 to 2040 — a delay that was “simply unacceptable,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson reiterated Tuesday. The agency will decide between the newly proposed strategies, intended to reduce complexity, cost and mission duration, by the second half of 2026, Nelson announced during a news conference on Tuesday.
Wildfires began breaking out in Southern California Tuesday morning as a life-threatening, widespread windstorm that could be one of the most destructive to hit the region in over a decade roars to life and creates extremely dangerous fire weather conditions.
Millions of people across Southern California are under a red flag warning as a dangerous windstorm fanned blazes in the Los Angeles area, including the Palisades Fire, which has triggered evacuations and burned hundreds of acres. A "Particularly Dangerous Situation" red flag warning has been issued for 19 million people in the region, including metropolitan Los Angeles. That class of warning is issued "in rare situations when long-lived, strong and violent tornadoes are possible," according to the National Weather Service.
A wide swath of blacked-out businesses and residences has followed the path of the storm as it moved from Missouri to Virginia since the weekend. Utility tracker PowerOutage.us' data show nearly 230,000 utility customers in seven states remained without power as the storm was expected to exit off the Atlantic coast overnight, with cold air forecast to fill in behind it.
Scottie Scheffler withdrew from The American Express on Monday, missing his second consecutive tournament due to injury. Scheffler, 28, underwent minor surgery to repair a glass puncture in his right hand suffered on Christmas.
Santa Claus wasn't the only one shelling out gifts on Christmas Eve. According to Renee Brown, a single mother and bartender at The Railyard bar in Houston, Texas, rapper Post Malone channeled his inner Kris Kringle, gifting her an enormous tip on a day that started out unusually to begin with. Brown says her holiday plans were a deviation from her normal routine, typically spent with her 9-year-old daughter, Iliana. "We usually bake cookies and watch Christmas movies, and this was the first time I wasn’t able to do that," she told Music Mayem magazine of her regular plans.
The WWE announced on Monday that the Royal Rumble, one of the marquee premium live events the company holds, will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2026. The Royal Rumble event has primarily been held in the United States outside of its first instance in 1988, when it was hosted in Ontario, Canada. It will be hosted in Indianapolis in February before it heads overseas next year.