Category: New Year

Resolutions for 2023: Tips for a Happier Life

For some of us, the new year rings in resolutions: Drop 30 pounds by year’s end, hit the gym four evenings per week, or spend less money. All of these are noble and worthy causes, to be sure, but also a trifle grim, like the bread-and-water diet of a desert anchorite. Many Americans are already…


1 Million Deaths This Winter ‘Quite Possible’: Expert

Hospitals are overflowing in China. Video shows patients outside the emergency room, in hallways, on stair landings, and even outside restrooms. Corpses on the ground, long service wait times, and obscuring cause of death—a father shares what he saw inside a Chinese crematory. China’s COVID-19 death toll is coming under scrutiny. One doctor’s account may…


A New Year but Nothing New

Commentary People speak of a new year as turning the page, or starting out fresh, or forgetting the past. At the start of a new year, I like to look back a century ago to see what has changed and what hasn’t. In 1923, America had finally recovered from the Spanish flu, which killed 675,000…


‘Country On’—New Year’s Eve, Nashville, 2023

Commentary (Following is a draft from the author’s work-in-progress “American Refugees: What It Means Culturally, Politically and Spiritually to Migrate from Blue to Red States” to be published by Encounter Books) One of the pleasures of moving to a red state from a blue state, perhaps the greatest personal pleasure, is that you can be…


9 Suffocate to Death in Ugandan New Year Firework Stampede: Police

At least nine people including a 10-year-old boy suffocated to death as crowds rushing to see a New Year’s firework display got stuck in a narrow corridor in a shopping mall near Uganda’s capital, police said. People started pushing through a passage in the Freedom City Mall just after clocks struck midnight, the police said….


New York Officers Attacked by Man With Machete Near New Year’s Eve Celebration in Times Square

NEW YORK—A man wielding a machete attacked three police officers at the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York City, authorities said, striking two of them in the head before an officer shot the man in the shoulder. The attack happened a little after 10 p.m. about eight blocks from Times Square, just outside of…


3 Officers Injured by Machete Attack Near Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration: NYPD

NEW YORK—A man wielding a machete attacked three police officers at the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York City, authorities said, striking two of them in the head before an officer shot the man in the shoulder. The attack happened a little after 10 p.m. about eight blocks from Times Square, just outside of…


First New Year Night in Boston 2023

Boston’s First Night has been a New Year’s Eve celebration of artistic performances, the wonders of the season, and the beginning of a new year. In keeping with this fantastic Boston tradition, the First Night celebration will open 2023 with an array of performances. A series of shows will be performed by Puppet Showplace Theater,…


First Night Boston 2023: Boston’s New Year’s Eve Celebration

Boston’s First Night has been a New Year’s Eve celebration of artistic performances, the wonders of the season, and the beginning of a new year. In keeping with this fantastic Boston tradition, the First Night celebration will open 2023 with an array of performances. A series of shows will be performed by Puppet Showplace Theater,…


LIVE 6 PM ET: First New Year Night in Boston 2023

Boston’s First Night has been a New Year’s Eve celebration of artistic performances, the wonders of the season, and the beginning of a new year. In keeping with this fantastic Boston tradition, the First Night celebration will open 2023 with an array of performances. A series of shows will be performed by Puppet Showplace Theater,…