In 1996, the giggling stuffed doll turned holiday shopping into chaos, a preview of every sneaker drop, PlayStation launch and Taylor Swift ticket rush to come. There was a mad rush to grab one of the ...

Barney Frank, the liberal icon and gay-rights pioneer who represented Massachusetts in Congress for more than three decades, died Tuesday night at his home, according to a close friend who confirmed ...

The NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast booth had a very special guest during Saturday’s Philadelphia Phillies game against the Colorado Rockies. “Have you enjoyed your day at the ballpark today?” ...

An electronics wizard, he was already a veteran inventor when he collaborated with Ron Dubren on an idea for a toy that giggled. The rest is retail history. Greg Hyman in 2012. The toy that he and Ron ...

When former Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts died on Tuesday at 86, he was already a human version of a historical artifact. Frank was famous in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, but ...

The National Football League unveiled the complete 2026 regular-season schedule on Thursday. This season, the Chicago Bears are scheduled to appear in five primetime games and two standalone games, ...

Barney Frank, the barrier-breaking former Massachusetts congressman who helped draft reforms that sought to rein in an unruly financial industry in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, ...

SPRINGFIELD — With less than three weeks before the Illinois General Assembly’s scheduled adjournment, lawmakers are in a race to finish a multibillion-dollar budget while navigating threats from ...

The Bears are where we thought they were. Despite a suggestion that the Bears have been dangling the possibility of building a new stadium in Chicago, the team has issued a clear statement closing the ...

The Bears might not be playing in Chicago for much longer, with the team revealing again Thursday that the search for a suitable site for their planned new stadium will focus on two locations that are ...

Then-U.S. Rep. Barney Frank presides over a committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in this 2009 file photo. Barney Frank, the liberal icon and gay-rights pioneer who represented Massachusetts’ Fourth ...

Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat who brought his sharp intellect and irrepressible wit to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he led a sweeping overhaul of the financial industry after the ...