For the 39th annual Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest, 32 readers submitted recipes for sweet treats, including biscotti and shortbread, bars and balls, and classic chocolate chip and sugar cookies. Some ...

After days of voting, more than 1,800 readers cast over 3,800 votes to decide the 12 finalists in this year’s Holiday Cookie Contest. Here are the recipes that received the most votes and are ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about shoshin lately, the Japanese word for “beginner’s mind.” I first wrote about it here, after learning the word from a guest on my podcast Fifty Words for Snow. My co-host ...

PEOPLE's World's Cutest Rescue Dog Contest Presented by the PEDIGREE® Brand has chosen its Top 10 canine finalists out of thousands of entries Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

What happens when a machine almost outsmarts the world’s best coders? At the 2025 AtCoder World Finals, OpenAI’s secret internal AI model came astonishingly close to claiming victory in one of the ...

A human programmer won a coding competition in Tokyo. An OpenAI tool took second place. Sam Altman and OpenAI congratulated the winner on X. "I'm trying to give 100% of what I have and try to stay ...

Joey Chestnut returned to the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest after a one-year ban and, well, you can guess the rest. He performed like the GOAT he is. Chestnut, 41, won his 17th title, with an ...

Did Joey Chestnut return to victory at the 2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest? Full results from the event at Coney Island. Miki Sudo is the Chestnut of the women's division of the Nathan's Hot Dog ...

Owen Osborne's veggie and rice-based dish got him two big cardboard checks and high fives from hordes of classmates at Evangel Christian Academy. The 10-year-old was one of five selected grand-prize ...

PEOPLE's World's Cutest Rescue Dog Contest Presented by the PEDIGREE® brand is back and accepting submissions from July 1-27 Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The New York Post and the nation’s leader in college consulting, Command Education, are thrilled to kick off 2025 with the return of the highly anticipated Scholars Contest. This annual writing ...