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Rewire Your Brain With This Simple Trick to Be Your Happiest Self in the New Year
Do you ever dwell on the past, on unpleasant memories? NTD brings advice from researcher and professor Ski Chilton on how to tame your mind and be your happiest. It’s a simple trick that can have a positive effect on the brain.
World Celebrates the Arrival of 2024
The world has celebrated the arrival of 2024 with fireworks, concerts, and messages of hope in anticipation for what we will make of the gift of a new year. At midnight along the eastern seaboard, thousands of Americans came together under the heavens to awe at New Year’s Eve fireworks displays, as the rest of […]
Revelers Set to Pack Into Times Square for Annual New Year’s Eve Ball Drop
NEW YORK—The confetti has been tested for airiness. The giant numerals—2 0 2 4—are in place. And the luminous ball, bedazzled in 2,688 crystal triangles, is fixed to the pole from which it will make its 60-second descent at 11:59 p.m. With throngs of revelers set to usher in the new year under the bright […]
Voices From Times Square on the Year Gone by and Hopes Ahead
As New York City prepares for New Year’s Eve, NTD ventured to Times Square to discuss people’s reflections on the past year and their aspirations for the upcoming one. Let’s explore their thoughts during this time of contemplation and expectation, as we approach the dawn of a new chapter.
Americans Share Their New Year’s Resolutions–And What They’ve Learned in 2023
As another year comes to an end, Americans are turning their thoughts to the year ahead: Making New Year’s resolutions is a time-honored tradition for many. Let’s hear what people are hoping for in 2024—and what they learned in the year gone by.
Small Changes Best Approach to Making, Keeping New Year’s Resolutions: Food Scientist
It’s that time to start brainstorming some dietary New Year’s resolutions. But how can you keep them up over time? Perhaps making smaller adjustments would help? NTD spoke to Dr. Taylor Wallace, a food scientist at George Washington University, to find out how to make those dietary New Year’s resolutions stick. “Make resolutions that are […]
Year of the Rabbit? Not so Fast! Vietnam’s Lunar New Year Celebrates the Cat
HANOI—As China, Japan, and other East Asian countries celebrate the start of the Lunar Year of the Rabbit, the people of Vietnam are an exception—welcoming instead the Year of the Cat. There is no official explanation for when and why the Vietnamese embraced the cat instead of the rabbit. Another smaller difference in the otherwise […]
Millions of Chinese Rush Home for New Year
Hundreds of millions of Chinese are traveling back to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year. Jan. 22 will mark the first holiday in three years that’s unburdened by health restrictions. The travel rush has triggered fears of a further surge in COVID-19 infections. But for many, this is the first opportunity to visit home […]
Celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year
This Sunday is the Chinese Lunar New Year, and you will likely be seeing lion dances for the celebration. The traditional Chinese culture has a wide impact on surrounding countries. Today, we are going to meet a Malaysian artisan who keeps alive the skill of hand-crafting lion heads used by dance troupes.
A Somber New Year for Those Grieving in China
Lunar New Year is starting and tens of millions of Chinese will travel to their hometowns to celebrate with family, but many will make the trip after a period of mourning for relatives that have passed away during the recent COVID-19 wave. Though many of them were not counted as COVID-19 deaths.
China In Focus Full Broadcast (Jan. 6)
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 […]
2 Dead and 4 Others Injured in New Year’s Day Shooting in Florida
Two people died and four others were injured in a shooting in Ocala, Florida, early Sunday, authorities said. Gunfire broke out around 4:30 a.m. near the 1600 block of Southwest 5th Street, in an area where a crowd of about 100 people were gathered, police said in a news release. Davonta Harris, 30, and Abdul […]
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. […]
Machete Attack Near Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration Leaves 2 NYPD Officers Injured, FBI Investigates
A man attacked three NYPD police officers with a machete on New Years Eve in New York City near Times Square celebrations, injuring two, officials said in an early Sunday morning news conference. New York Police Department Commissioner Keechant Sewell told reporters Sunday that the suspect, 19, tried to slash an officer with a machete […]
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, […]
Holiday Adventure in Dyker Heights, New York
Although Christmas is over, that doesn’t mean people have stopped celebrating the holidays with bright lights and sweet treats. NTD’s Phil Zou goes on a holiday adventure in a small neighborhood that’s making a big name for itself across the world.