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HOW ONE KENTUCKY TOWN SAVED ITSELF

Downtown Hazard had lost its small-town mojo to drugs. Former addicts are helping to bring it back.

Heroes of the Holidays

It's not just Santa Claus bringing the holiday magic this season. As you'll see, he's got elves all over.

The Man Who Looks After His Wife's Ex

For him and his bride, \"in sickness and in health\" meant something really special

New Year's Traditions Around the World

1 MOST OF US spend the final seconds of each calendar year watching a nearly 12,000-pound geodesic sphere descend over Times Square in New York City.

Protect Your 'Holiday Heart'

This joyful time of year can also be dangerously stressful

Puff the Magic Pastry

It always rises to the occasion

DWAYNE JOHNSON THE WORLD'S BIGGEST Actor

It's hard for Dwayne Johnson to hide. Wherever he goes, there he is― as conspicuous out in the world as he is on the silver screen. But after two decades of playing a version of himself in huge movies, suddenly Dwayne Johnson is ready to do something entirely new: vanish.

PHARRELL WILLIAMS Designer of the Year

Riding along from Paris to Hollywood to New York with the Louis Vuitton *men's creative director, whose prolific and often prophetic contributions to fashion, film, and music have once again thrust him to the center of the pop culture Venn diagram.

THE GREAT INFLATABLES RACE

In these neighborhoods, holiday cheer is blowing up-literally

Cookies for Forgiveness

My blowup was half-baked. The apology wasn't

How Risky Are Those Holiday Cocktails, Really?

The latest recommendations about drinking and your health

Mom's Wall-Sign Wisdom

She never met a plaque or bumper sticker she didn't quote

BURIED IN A SNOW TOMB

The snowboarder was off the trail, headfirst under 6 feet of powder. To survive, he’d need his luck to change.

Dream It, Do It, Done!

Your bucket-list goals, accomplished

A Companion for Your Wrist

Audemars Piguet's new release with artist Brian Donnelly, a.k.a. KAWS, brings high-art hype to the world of pop-watch collabs.

Golden Couple

LIKE MANY LUCKY couples, Tara Davis-Woodhall and Hunter Woodhall went to Paris this summer.

How the WNBA Became the Most Fun, Complicated, and Exciting League in Sports

Caitlin Clark! A'ja Wilson! Angel Reese! This year, women's hoops emerged as a dominant popcultural force. But the road to sports-league supremacy has been long and winding. This is the inside story of how the W finally broke through.

JOHN MULANEY. KID GORGEOUS GROWS UP

After immortalizing the whirlwind of the past four yearsrelapse, intervention, recovery-in his awardwinning standup special, John Mulaney has emerged as one of the most popular comedians on earth. For his next trick, he's embracing his surprising new role as a suburban dad.

WILD SIDE

Is Lake Tahoe's bear boom getting out of hand?

THE TEXAS EXODUS

Amid stringent abortion laws, ob-gyns are fleeing the state.

GETTING A GRIP

Robots learn to use their hands.

NOW YOU SEE ME

John Singer Sargent's strange, slippery portraits of an art dealer's family.

LET'S MAKE A DEAL

\"Death Becomes Her\" and \"Burnout Paradise.\"

ANTI HEROES

\"The Franchise,\" on HBO.

BADDIE ISSUES

\"Wicked\" and \"Gladiator II.\"

FELLOW-TRAVELLERS

The surprisingly sunny origins of the Frankfurt School.

WITHHOLDING SEX FROM MY WIFE

In the wake of [the] election, progressive women, who are outraged over Donald Trump's victory at the ballot box, have taken to social media with public, vengeful vows of chastity. - The Free Press.

DEADLINE EXTENSION

Old age, reborn.

PARIS FRIEND - SHUANG XUETAO

Xiaoguo had a terror of thirst, so he kept a glass of water on the table beside his hospital bed. As soon as it was empty, he asked me to refill it. I wanted to warn him that this was unhealthy - guzzling water all night long puts pressure on the kidneys, and pissing that much couldn't be good for his injury. He was tall, though, so I decided his insides could probably cope.

AMAZON AND ELON MUSK'S SPACEX CHALLENGE LABOR AGENCY'S CONSTITUTIONALITY IN FEDERAL COURT

Attorneys for Amazon and Elon Musk’s SpaceX argued in a federal appeals court Monday that the National Labor Relations Board’s structure is unconstitutional, advancing a legal fight that may last into the Trump administration where Musk is expected to oversee bureaucratic cost-cutting.