High school students hoping for a discount on their college tuition may have to look no further than their last name. One of the unlikely endowments being offered by some universities is a full-ride scholarship based on a student’s surname – even if there is no relation to its benefactor. North Carolina State University graduate…

CNN  —  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have an early Christmas gift for their supporters. A new trailer for their Netflix docuseries, “Harry & Meghan,” was released Monday, along with a schedule for when the episodes will stream. Volume I will include episodes 1-3 and will stream on December 8, and Volume II with…

Seven weeks after firing Darvin Ham, the Los Angeles Lakers landed on their next head coach on Thursday: JJ Redick, the 15-year NBA veteran turned podcaster and broadcaster, league sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell The Athletic. Redick is signing a four-year deal worth in the neighborhood of $8 million per season with…

About Disney, Burton said to the Times that, “You’re strapped to a table all day and you have to draw. I just flipped out.” Luckily, Burton often drew his own pictures and even wrote a short film that Disney was kind enough to fund. That film was “Vincent,” a stop-motion animated film about a lanky,…

A teenage killer who stabbed Alfie Lewis to death with a six-inch blade outside a primary school has been jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years. Bardia Shojaeifard knifed the 15-year-old ‘in full view’ of pupils outside a primary school in Horsforth, in Leeds, last November. The culprit, who was 14 at the…

CNN  —  Axl Rose is ending a 30-year Guns N’ Roses tradition. The band’s frontman recently posted a note saying on social media that he would no longer be tossing his microphone into the crowd during their concerts after it came to his attention that a fan may have been hurt at their recent show…

If there’s an overriding lesson from the last four years of Paige Bueckers’ college basketball career, it’s this, she explains: “You never know what each day will bring. You never know what life is gonna throw at you.” There was a time when Bueckers didn’t necessary think that way, when she assumed her plans would…

“How to Train Your Dragon 2,” which saw DeBlois writing and directing on his own, debuted in 2014 to tremendous fanfare. Speaking with Collider at the time of the film’s release, Butler declared its predecessor “one of my favorite movies ever,” stating that he’d been “blown away with it” when he saw the finished product.…

Rare plant organisms on Stonehenge could be damaged after Just Stop Oil eco fanatics targeted the monument with orange powder paint, an expert said today. Environmental campaigners Rajan Naidu, 73, and Niamh Lynch, 21, ran up to the stones yesterday and attacked them as members of the public tried to intervene. Video footage showed two…

CNN  —  Adam Sandler will always Chris Farley. More than twenty years after Farley’s death, Sandler still gets sad when he sings the “Chris Farley Song,” a song he wrote for his late friend and comedian, who died in December 1997 of a drug overdose at age 33. Sandler told the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast…