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I asked TPG staffers how they manage credit card statement credits — here are 4 tips [1d]

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Variety

Homeless ‘Ned’s Declassified’ Actor Tylor Chase Gets Help Offer From ‘Mighty Ducks’ Star: ‘All We Need to Do Now Is Find Him’ [1d]
Michael Douglas and Rob Reiner Talked ‘A Lot’ About Their Sons’ Struggles Before Director’s Death: ‘This Was a Man Who Always Gave It His Best’ [1d]
‘Christina Aguilera: Christmas in Paris’: How to Stream the Holiday Special Live Online Tonight [1d]
The Best Songs of 2025 [1d]
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Varang Actor Oona Chaplin Is Charlie Chaplin’s Granddaughter and Considered Changing Her Name: ‘It’s Tricky to Feel Undeserving’ [1d]
Lew Horwitz, Producer Known as the ‘King of Indie Film Finance,’ Dies at 90 [1d]
How Netflix Leveraged ‘Stranger Things’ Buzz to Boost ‘The First Shadow’ Ticket Sales on Broadway [1d]
Vince Zampella, ‘Call of Duty’ Creator, Dies at 55 in Car Accident [1d]
How ‘Heated Rivalry’ Became the Year’s Biggest TV Surprise: ‘We’re Now Premium Smut on HBO!’ [1d]
Critics Choice Awards Presenters Announced, Poppy Jasper International Film Festival Unveils Lineup – Film News in Brief [1d]
‘Emily in Paris’ Creator Darren Star on Season 5 Getting Sexier, ‘More Passionate’ and What’s Next for Gabriel [1d]
Bari Weiss’ CBS News Gaffes Pile Up as Paramount Tries to Woo Warner [1d]
James Cameron Criticizes Amy Poehler’s Golden Globes Joke About His Marriage to Kathryn Bigelow Being Torture: ‘An Ignorant Dig’ That ‘Went Too Far’ [1d]
Warner Bros. Discovery Hires Gap Inc. Exec Adrienne O’Hara as Discovery Global’s Head of Communications and Public Affairs Ahead of Spin-Off [1d]
‘Industry’ Season 4 Trailer: Frenemies Harper and Yasmin Hit New Lows as Their Careers Are on a Collision Course [1d]
The Best International TV Shows of 2025 [1d]
Timothée Chalamet Says Divisive ‘Marty Supreme’ Press Tour Behavior Is ‘the Spirit of Marty’: ‘I’m Trying to Get This Out in the Biggest Way Possible’ [1d]
Magnolia Pictures Buys Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee Drama ‘Late Fame’ (EXCLUSIVE) [1d]
Angelina Jolie-Backed ‘Muganga, The One Who Treats’ Boarded by WME Independent For World Sales Amid Box Office Success in France (EXCLUSIVE) [1d]
Bari Weiss Defends Pulling ‘60 Minutes’ Report on ‘Horrific Treatment’ of Detainees Sent by Trump White House to El Salvador Prison: ‘We Simply Need to Do More’ [1d]
‘The Odyssey’ Trailer: Matt Damon Gets Shipwrecked, Fights Monsters and Leads His Army Home in Christopher Nolan’s Epic [2d]
Korea Box Office: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Ignites Market [2d]
Paramount Skydance Says Larry Ellison Has Made ‘Irrevocable Personal Guarantee’ of $40.4 Billion Toward Warner Bros. Discovery Bid [2d]
Bari Weiss Made a ‘Political’ Decision to Kill ‘60 Minutes’ Segment on the ‘Brutal’ El Salvador Prison Where Trump Administration Sent Deportees: Report [2d]
‘Landman’: Guy Burnet on Charlie and Rebecca’s Hot Chemistry, Shooting That ‘Naked’ Bedroom Scene and His Bond With Superfan Arnold Schwarzenegger [2d]
Kumail Nanjiani Says He’s ‘Very Proud’ of His Performance in Marvel’s ‘Eternals’: ‘I Do Not Get to Choose What the Reviewers Are Going to Think’ [2d]

The New Yorker

Patricia Lockwood Reads Elizabeth Bishop [1d]
“Waiting to Exhale,” Thirty Years On [1d]
“Father Mother Sister Brother” Explores the Mysteries of Family Life [2d]
MAHA Country [2d]
Briefly Noted [2d]
Why Millennials Love Prenups [2d]
The Organists Improvising Soundtracks to Silent Films [2d]
Dyslexia and the Reading Wars [2d]
Premeditated [2d]
“Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep,” Reviewed [2d]
The Re-Assemblage of Joseph Cornell [2d]
How Willie Nelson Sees America [2d]
How Peter Navarro, Trump’s Tariff Cheerleader, Became the Ultimate Yes-Man [2d]
“Memory Palace,” by Bianca Stone [2d]
Daily Cartoon: Monday, December 22nd [2d]
Letters from Our Readers [2d]
Lorenzo Mattotti’s “Goodbye to All That” [2d]
A Puppet Called Paddington [2d]
Is the Dictionary Done For? [2d]
Mona Fastvold Knows Her Way Around a Chair [2d]
The Biggest Threat to the 2026 Economy Is Still Donald Trump [2d]
The Psychology of Fashion [2d]
“It’s Getting Lighter,” by Mary Jo Bang [2d]
The Extremely Online Bona Fides of “I Love L.A.” [2d]

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