Airline adding bunk beds for economy travelers but bans snacks, smells and cuddling

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Sleep on a long-haul flight in economy class has always been a fantasy for many travelers. Air New Zealand will soon offer a solution that involves climbing into a triple-tier bunk bed wearing special socks.
The airline will soon open bookings for four-hour stints in the Skynest sleep pods and says they will be the first lie-flat beds for budget air travelers. Fliers will get cozy with their fellow passengers, however, so crumbs, strong perfumes and bedsharing are forbidden.

2026 NFL mock draft 8.0: Ty Simpson goes late first round after trade back in, while 4 Buckeyes are...

With March Madness come and gone, attention is turning formally toward the 2026 NFL Draft. Five teams have multiple first-round selections, but in the eighth edition of Nate Tice and Charles McDonald’s mock, it’s a team that trades back into the late first round that makes the most noise.
In this mock draft, Yahoo Sports’ Charles McDonald makes the odd-numbered picks, and Nate Tice makes the even.
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SMBC Group selects Charlotte for bank operations expansion, Governor Stein announces

One of **** an's largest financial institutions is expanding its U.S. presence, with plans to open its second American headquarters in Charlotte and create 2,000 jobs over the next six years.
Gov. Josh Stein announced Tuesday that SMBC Group will invest $50.5 million in Mecklenburg County, establishing a major hub to support multiple business units and expand talent diversity. The average salary for new positions will be $165,316, nearly double Mecklenburg County's average wage of $90,706.
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Kamari Ramsey Is Gaining NFL Draft Buzz for Traits Scouts Can’t Ignore

USC safety Kamari Ramsey enters the 2026 NFL Draft having displayed terrific positional versatility. Capable of playing a flexible role for a defensive backfield, Ramsey embodies everything the safety position has become in today's NFL. Teams crave that ability.
Ramsey recently spoke exclusively with NFL Draft On SI. Ramsey discussed playing multiple positions at USC, how the safety position has changed and evolved, meeting with a bunch of NFL teams, his fantastic performance at the NFL Combine, and more.
JM: You playe

How Cathie Wood Sent ARK Innovation on a Wild Roller-Coaster Ride

Everybody wants their investments to go up in value. But what many people don't realize until they've been investors for a while is that they also want to realize those gains without having to endure a lot of downward volatility along the way. Unfortunately, that's not the way things work, and many of the individual stocks that have been the best long-term performers have forced their shareholders to endure gut-wrenching drops that have tested their conviction and discipline. Indeed, for some, the decision to invest in exchan

7-ton meteor identified as likely cause of boom heard across Ohio

An asteroid weighing about 7 tons and traveling at 45,000 miles per hour zoomed over multiple states and lit up the sky as a meteor Tuesday morning, causing a loud boom that some residents mistook for an explosion, officials said.
NASA said eyewitnesses from 10 states, Washington, D.C., and the Canadian province of Ontario reported seeing the "bright fireball" moments before 9 a.m. ET. The National Weather Service office in Pittsburgh shared an employee's video of the meteor arcing across the sky.
Witnesses in Ohio, New Yor

The Trump-Led Iran War Can Lead to a Triple Whammy for the Federal Reserve -- and the Stock Market...

Since the start of 2019, things have gone exceptionally well for Wall Street and investors. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has registered at least a 16% gain in six of the last seven years, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) have both motored to several record-closing highs.
Upside catalysts have been abundant, including the evolution of artificial intelligence, better-than-expected corporate earnings, stock-split euphoria, rec

This Neck Pillow Is So Good, I Slept for 5 Hours Straight on an Economy Flight

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I just returned from my honeymoon to Southeast Asia. To get there, my husband and I had to fly multiple long-haul flights in a row. We had full travel days — it took us about 25 hours to get to Vietnam, and the same amount of time to get home from Thailand. We flew economy class, and didn’t check any bags because the flights were already prohibitively expensive. But flying long-haul economy

Tracking Darryn Peterson live stats with points, minutes in Kansas vs. Houston

Tracking Darryn Peterson live stats with points, minutes in Kansas vs. Houston originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
24 Mins, 11 Points, 4-12 FG, 1-5 3PT, FT 2-2, 3 REB, 0 Ast, 2 TO, 0 STL, 0 BLK, Fouls: 2
6:57- 2nd: Peterson checks back into the game.
9:36- 2nd: Right after nailing a 3-pointer, Peterson exits. Is he out for the game at this point?
10:29-2nd: The first triple for Peterson comes in transition.

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NFL insider says not to rule out a Rams OC already on staff

The Los Angeles Rams are currently the only NFL team without an offensive coordinator. Mike LaFleur left for the head coaching job with the Arizona Cardinals, and the Rams are still doing their search a few weeks later.
While many speculated that passing game coordinator Nathan Scheelhaase would get the job, especially after he interviewed for multiple head coaching gigs himself, Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer made a different prediction about the team's next offensive coordinator.
"I wouldn’t dismiss the idea that quarterback

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DHS confirms it has body-cam video in shooting of Alex Pretti

Investigators are reviewing body-camera videos from immigration agents in the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to NBC News.
Homeland Security investigators have videos recorded by cameras worn by multiple agents, department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said.
The agents involved in the Pretti shooting were part of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit, a specialized force, McLaughlin said. Two law enforcement officials told NBC News that unit has more body-worn cameras.

Several Psychiatric Disorders Share The Same Root Cause, Study Suggests

Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis.
A study published in early 2025 pinpointed specific variants among those shared genes, showing how they behave during brain development.
The US team found many of these variants remain active for extended periods, potentially influencing multiple developmental stages – and offering new targets for treatments that could address several disorders at once.
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A minute-by-minute timeline of the Alex Pretti shooting, based on 5 verified videos

The interaction that ended in the death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning began at least three minutes earlier when Pretti appeared to be using his phone to record CBP officers, according to videos reviewed and verified by ABC News.
Minutes later, Pretti was pinned on the street by multiple federal agents -- visibly being hit by one of them -- when one of the officers can be seen leaving the struggle with what appears to be a gun.
Those videos appear to contradict, at least in part, claims

Navy bans sailors from using kratom, other drugs

The U.S. Navy announced that it is prohibiting the consumption of an organic opioid, along with several other substances, in a recent service-wide message.
The Navy announced in a Jan. 14 memo that service members were barred from using kratom, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine.
“Protecting service member welfare and readiness is paramount to maintaining an effective fighting force,” the message reads. “Additionally, substance misuse by members of the armed forces is incompatible with military standards of good order, discipline, perform

Demand for Bitcoin is rising at a time when supply remains relatively fixed.
New financial products are reducing some of the risk and volatility of investing in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin has a track record of posting triple-digit returns that dates all the way back to 2012.
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Right now, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is going nowhere fast. It currently trades for just $90,000 and is sitting nearly 30% below its all-time high of $126,000 from October.

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Transcript of emergency call made by Barron Trump read aloud in U.K. ******* ault case

Barron Trump, the teenage son of President Donald Trump, called police to report an alleged ******* ault in the United Kingdom last year, according to multiple reports.
In January 2025, Barron Trump made an emergency call to UK authorities to report that a woman he had met on social media was being ******* aulted. He told a dispatcher that he saw the woman being attacked when he video-called her, according to local reports from The London Standard, The Times, Sky News, Metro and other outlets.
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Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin-focused company Strategy is once again edging toward a key valuation threshold, as its market-to-net-asset-value multiple, or mNAV, hovers just above levels that could undermine the logic of holding its stock as a proxy for Bitcoin exposure.
In early trading on January 2, Strategy shares rose modestly, offering brief relief after months of pressure.
Even with the bounce, the stock remains down roughly 66% from its July peak.
The company’s mNAV, a measure comparing its market valuation to the value of its Bitcoin holdings, stood near 1.02, leaving little margin befor

The widening protests in Iran over the country’s worsening economy escalated Thursday, with demonstrators clashing with police in multiple provinces, leaving several people dead.
At least three protesters were killed and 17 others wounded during an attack on a police station in Iran’s western province of Lorestan, the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported.
The clashes between activists and security forces have intensified since the protests kicked off over the weekend, triggered by degrading economic hardships, currency devaluation and poor living conditions.
The recent demonstrations are

In early November, a massive storm hit farmers and residents in the Great Southern and Wheatbelt regions of Australia. Unfortunately, the damage to crops, roads, and buildings has been extensive.
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, heavy rainfall and hail caused extensive flooding and damage across multiple towns. Farmers, in particular, faced partial or total crop loss, interrupting the grain harvest.
Some towns reported over 100 millimeters of rainfall during the "unbelievable" storm. Meanwhile, farmer Murray Hall was on the road at the time and wondered whether the large

Quantum computing remains a concern for Bitcoin and crypto markets, posing a security threat to its underlying cryptography. However, a new threat emerges as a controversial "Cat" Bitcoin Improvement Proposal, sparking heated debate among developers about labeling millions of inscription-related outputs as permanently unspendable.
The draft BIP seeks to address concerns about blockchain bloat, raising key questions around property rights and core Bitcoin principles. Community responses range from strong support to warnings about setting a risky precedent.
Every Bitcoin transaction spends coi

The US ETF market achieved a historic "triple crown" in 2025, setting records in inflows ($1.4 trillion), new launches (1,100+), and trading volume ($57.9 trillion). This is the first time all three metrics hit records simultaneously since 2021.
Three consecutive years of double-digit S&P 500 gains powered the rally. But Wall Street is starting to ask: what comes next?
That precedent carries a warning. The year following the 2021 triple crown saw the S&P 500 plunge 19% amid the Federal Reserve's aggressive rate hikes. The tech-driven rally that fueled ETF inflows reversed sharply, with both

The winter solstice is upon us, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year.
People across the country have already faced multiple blankets of white snow where they live, but the winter solstice marks the first official day of winter.
The solstice also marks the start of the Pagan holiday, Yule, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. The holiday is thought to celebrate the sun's return and the land's rebirth as days begin to get longer after the longest night of the year.
The solstice is celebrated by many as a time of rebirth and change. Many cultures throughout human history ha

With the four weekday games from last week's holiday slate, your Week 14 NFL predictions should account for the rest advantages that teams have. Games like Bengals vs. Bills (-6), Ravens vs. Steelers (+6), Chiefs vs. Texans (+3.5) and Eagles vs. Chargers (+2.5) all feature teams with multiple days of rest over their opponent. While sportsbooks factored this in when setting the Week 14 NFL odds, having the edge in rest hasn't always been beneficial in regard to NFL spread success. Cincinnati, for example, who played on Thanksgiving Day, is 0-6 ATS over its last six games when it has the rest ad

A group of researchers say it's time for academia to get serious about studying UFOs.
The movement, championed by the Society for UAP Studies, is wrapping up an international conference aimed at establishing a new discipline dedicated to studying unidentified anomalous phenomena (or UAPs, the more formal term for UFOs).
Michael Cifone, the society's co-founder and president, said he's interested in what he calls "the empirical weird."
His catch-all phrase encompasses things that blur the lines between the real and the possible, phenomena that defy easy explanation: the spiritual, the parano

Russia unleashes massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine as diplomatic talks continue

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Ukraine overnight into Saturday, after U.S. and Ukrainian officials said they’ll meet on Saturday for a third day of talks aimed at ending the nearly 4-year-old war,
Following talks that made progress on a security framework for postwar Ukraine, the two sides also offered the sober ****** sment that any “real progress toward any agreement” ultimately will depend “on Russia’s readiness to show serious commitment to long-term pea

A Russian cosmonaut was recently booted from an upcoming NASA and ******* eX mission to the International ******* e Station that will launch from Florida.
Russia's ******* e agency confirmed the ******* efarer's removal and replacement on the mission, known as Crew-12, but did not provide a reason. However, multiple reports have suggested the move could have been related to an alleged national security violation during training in the United States.
The news represents another recent blow to Russia's ******* eflight program after the launch pad the nation uses is Kazakhstan was damaged in a

Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. Credit - Prakash Singh—Bloomberg via Getty Images
Even as Russia once again made clear this week that it had no intention of pursuing genuine peace negotiations on Ukraine, Vladimir Putin landed in New Delhi to a red carpet treatment. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the Russian leader on Thursday with a handshake and hug on the tarmac, breaking diplomatic protocol. The sight was a reminder that Russia is far from a geopolitical pariah in important parts of the world, and

With the four weekday games from last week's holiday slate, your Week 14 NFL predictions should account for the rest advantages that teams have. Games like Bengals vs. Bills (-5.5), Ravens vs. Steelers (+5.5), Chiefs vs. Texans (+3.5) and Eagles vs. Chargers (+2.5) all feature teams with multiple days of rest over their opponent. While sportsbooks factored this in when setting the Week 14 NFL odds, having the edge in rest hasn't always been beneficial in regard to NFL spread success. Cincinnati, for example, who played on Thanksgiving Day, is 0-6 ATS over its last six games when it has the res

A Russian cosmonaut was recently booted from an upcoming NASA and ******* eX mission to the International ******* e Station.
Russia's ******* e agency confirmed the ******* efarer's removal and replacement on the mission, known as Crew-12, but did not provide a reason. However, multiple reports have suggested the move could be related to an alleged national security violation during training in the United States.
Due to launch early in 2026, the Crew-12 mission could send a contingent of international astronauts – including two Americans – for a six-month science rotation at the Internationa