Faith & Fame

Today is National Coffee Day.  While most of us have at least a cup a day, the origins of one of America’s most consumed beverages remain somewhat murky.  The first known references to brewed coffee come from Yemen in the 15th century.  It wouldn’t be introduced to America until the mid-17th century by European traders.  […]

New data from scoring company FICO says the national average credit score is on the decline.  The average FICO score has dropped by two points since 2024, lowering the national average to 715.  A credit score is a mathematical formula that helps lenders determine how likely you are to pay back a loan. Credit scores […]

Free tours are scheduled next week for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park neighborhood.  The Obama Foundation will start allowing the public to view the property starting next Tuesday.  Tourists can ask questions, view the renderings, and take a walking tour outside the fence of the construction site.  The tour:  One-hour guided walking tours […]

President Trump is expected to sign a deal today that will allow a Chinese company to sell TikTok. That’s according to White House sources who told NBC News the deal will facilitate the sale of the popular social media app to a group of American investors. Under the deal, the app’s U.S. operations will be […]

Jimmy Kimmel’s return to late night is seeing a major boost in ratings. Tuesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live returned to six-point-three million viewers, its most-watched regularly scheduled episode ever. The number also is an over 340-percent increase from the previous season’s average of just over a million viewers. Kimmel’s return monologue has been viewed […]

A new survey from retirement plan provider Empower says a third of Americans don’t have an emergency savings fund. The survey also found that 29-percent of Americans could not afford an unexpected expense over 400-dollars. The survey says the median emergency savings for Americans is 500-dollars. More than half of survey respondents said the rising […]

Physical therapists say there are seven posture mistakes that make us look older. At the top of the list is slouching and jutting your neck forward when you’re texting. They say those two things alone can add years to our face. Others include standing with locked, rather than relaxed knees and uneven weight distribution, like […]

The White House says American companies will now control TikTok’s algorithm in the U.S.  Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt spoke on Fox News Saturday and said Chinese company ByteDance will get one of the seven board seats for TikTok’s U.S. operations, and Americans will hold the remaining seats.  Congress had voted to ban the video-sharing app […]

Award-winning musician Robyn Rihanna Fenty and her partner, ASAP Rocky, have hinted on social media that they are now parents of two boys and a baby girl. The couple already shares two young sons, RZA Athelston Mayers and Riot Rose Mayers. Speculation is swirling that the boys may have a little sister, as Rihanna’s pregnancy […]

Brandy has a new memoir on the way.  It’s titled “Phases” and is being billed as a testament to “Hope, resilience, and the strength needed to make peace with the past.”  In a statement, the singer said she’s excited to share her full story in book form,” adding that the memoir is the result of […]

OpenAI is announcing new teen safety features for ChatGPT.  Now the AI chatbot will include an age-prediction system and ID age verification in some countries.  The companies age-prediction system that identifies if a user is under 18 years old and routes them to an “age-appropriate” system that blocks graphic sexual content. If the system detects that the […]

A new study shows many people don’t realize they have diabetes.  Data published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology shows 44 percent of people 15 years and older who have diabetes are undiagnosed.  Researchers looked over data from more than 200 countries from 2000 to 2023 for their study.  More than ten-percent of people worldwide […]