Several notable talents in music, television, film and pop culture died in 2025. On the first day of the year, Wayne Osmond, one-fourth of the original Osmond Brothers, died at age 73.

Famous composer and veteran of the Great Patriotic War Alexander Merlin died at the age of 101. This was reported on December 27 in the Telegram channel of the Russian Consulate General in ...

After the crystal ball drops on New Year’s Eve in New York City, it will rise again, sparkling in red, white and blue to ...

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left ...

An American Jewish fighter pilot whose plane was shot down in the Chinese theater during World War II was given a proper ...

Hook’s 11-page memoir is on a website, The World War II Experience, a local nonprofit that preserves the stories of the World ...

An Army veteran remembers her wife's last Christmas after she was diagnosed with cancer. Time now for StoryCorps. In 2005, Army service member Alleria Stanley and her wife, Ellicia, just had their ...

In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce, former All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro set out to reconstruct the events of that day.

White Christmas came ten years after Crosby had won an Oscar for 1944’s Going My Way. Though “White Christmas” became ...

Hiranmayi Srinivasan is a former Associate Editor for Investopedia. She covered personal finance topics such as budgeting, saving, investing, and economic news at Investopedia between 2021 and 2025, ...