Starbucks' New Rule Ignites Debate on Public Bathrooms

Starbucks' New Rule Ignites Debate on Public Bathrooms

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 26, 2025, 10:05 pm

Starbucks' decision to restrict its restrooms to paying customers has flushed out a wider problem: a patchwork of restroom policies that's left Americans confused and divided over who gets to use the…

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Sales of 'One Part of the Party Puzzle' Drop

Sales of 'One Part of the Party Puzzle' Drop

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 26, 2025, 11:30 am

For years, wine was "surging, surging, surging" in sales. Now, NBC News reports that health worries, changing demographics, and alternative offerings are among the reasons that sales of wine have…

Farmers Worry About the Fate of 'FarmTok'

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 25, 2025, 5:01 pm

Zoe Kent hopes people get a little joy out of her talking about farming on the Internet. In one of her latest videos, she compares pesticide application to dry shampoo. "Farming is for the girls,"…

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Edmunds' 2025 Picks Are Out

Edmunds' 2025 Picks Are Out

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 23, 2025, 12:35 am

Once a year, Edmunds' car experts gather to decide on the best new vehicles on sale. The annual Edmunds Top Rated Awards are given to the cars, trucks, and SUVs that beat out the rest of the…

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Melania Makes a Statement With Her Hat

Melania Makes a Statement With Her Hat

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 21, 2025, 4:35 pm

It was at times difficult to discern what Melania Trump thought of her husband's inauguration on Monday, owing to the wide-brimmed hat she wore. "Whatever she was thinking was impossible to see—by…

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Fire Tears Through Tents at Earth's Biggest Religious Fest

Fire Tears Through Tents at Earth's Biggest Religious Fest

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 20, 2025, 8:30 am

A fire tore through at least 18 temporary tents at a massive Hindu festival thronged by millions of people in India's northern Prayagraj city, officials said Sunday. There were no injuries, the AP…

Walmart Just Got a Lot More Posh

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 19, 2025, 7:35 pm

Walmart may not be the first place most people think of when they're mulling picking up a high-end handbag, jewelry, or other luxury items, but starting this week, shoppers can head to the retailer's…

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Biggest Religious Fest on Earth Is Underway

Biggest Religious Fest on Earth Is Underway

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 18, 2025, 12:30 pm

Tens of thousands of Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the confluence of sacred rivers in northern India this week—the first of a series of major baths in the…

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One Upside of Frigid Weather: Dazzling Ice Castles

One Upside of Frigid Weather: Dazzling Ice Castles

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 13, 2025, 8:09 pm

An annual architectural celebration of ice is up and running again in New Hampshire and several other states. Ice Castles, which are both temporary art installations and tourist attractions, feature…

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Remote Worker? Escape to These 10 Cities This Winter

Remote Worker? Escape to These 10 Cities This Winter

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 12, 2025, 7:15 pm

If you're working remotely this winter, here's some intel to tickle your wanderlust. Quartz reveals the top global cities for snowbirds to migrate to for remote work, ranked by their affordability,…

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Away, Banished Words, Away!

Away, Banished Words, Away!

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 9, 2025, 3:45 pm

This story is 100% a game changer—period. If you winced at reading that sentence, you're in good company, according to Lake Superior State University , which included three of those terms on its…

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Here's Where the Foodies Should Go

Here's Where the Foodies Should Go

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 5, 2025, 7:40 pm

Hankering for a gourmet repast worthy of Michelin honors? Although fine dining in some cities around America might not get more complicated than a chow-down at the local greasy spoon, other areas'…

AI's Newest Victims: Lace-Makers

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 5, 2025, 3:30 pm

Lace-makers of the world, unite—against artificial intelligence-produced books that are now marring the centuries-old art. Writing for 404 Media , Samantha Cole reports on how veterans in the lace…

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The Ultimate Food Delivery Guys Fly Thousands of Miles

The Ultimate Food Delivery Guys Fly Thousands of Miles

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 4, 2025, 9:55 pm

In the age of DoorDash and Amazon Prime, it seems almost anything can be delivered. Maik Express underscores that. The Guatemala-based business run by Maik Chavez, 36, specializes in delivering food…

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'Generation Beta' Has Arrived

'Generation Beta' Has Arrived

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 4, 2025, 12:30 pm

It may seem odd that we started naming generations so late in the alphabet—ie, Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z—but at any rate, we've already circled back to the beginning with Generation Alpha, the current…

Dungeons & Dragons Rule Changes Cause Big Drama

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 4, 2025, 11:30 am

For years, Dungeons & Dragons players started off their epic fantasy campaigns by choosing a race and a class. For races, think "biology," like human, elf, halfling, or dwarf. For classes, think…

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Here Are Some of 2024's Most-Borrowed Books

Here Are Some of 2024's Most-Borrowed Books

Lifestyle from Newser     •     January 1, 2025, 3:58 pm

Public libraries have been releasing their end-of-year lists, and NPR took a look at 18 of them to see what some of the most-borrowed books of 2024 were: Popular across the country: Kristin Hannah's…

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