In a year of noteworthy news, these stories fell off the beaten path. Check out five offbeat news stories from 2025.

Alice Cooper’s 2026 tour plans include special Las Vegas shows with magician Criss Angel, festival performances, and more.

Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg made 15 of 20 free throws en route to a career-high 42 points against the Utah Jazz on Monday. Melissa Majchrzak / NBAE via Getty Images Cooper Flagg broke a ...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper spoke to Rob Reiner in September about the legacy of “This Is Spinal Tap” and his decades of films. Canada making border crossing change that will impact Americans Florida’s ...

At Cooper University Healthcare in Camden, New Jersey, clinicians were facing a growing crisis: burnout. Clinicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) were spending one to two hours after their ...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper spoke to Rob Reiner in September about the legacy of “This Is Spinal Tap” and his decades of films.

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from Season 2, Episode 5 of “Landman,” “The Pirate Dinner,” which premiered Sunday, Dec. 14, on Paramount+. At one point in this week’s episode of “Landman,” ...

The murder of Ryan Cooper, as portrayed in Dateline, shocked many when it was originally reported, and it continues to hang over the city of Traer, Iowa. In this small town, most people know each ...

National news outlets are following the story of affair partners turned murderers. NBC's longest-running prime-time program, "Dateline," is spotlighting the murder of Iowan Ryan Cooper on Friday, Dec.

Is it too early for me to assume the 2026 NBA Rookie of the Year race has already been narrowed down to two players? Probably, but with the way Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel have been playing, it ...

25 years ago, EA released its first-ever M-rated game. Rather than take a risk on an established, mainstream franchise at a time when games still had to be purchased physically — and often by parents ...