Although some TV announcers in the 1960s began counting down to the new year, it wasn’t until 1979 that the crowd at Times ...

Rising threats from climate change and nuclear arsenals prompted the scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, to move it two minutes closer to midnight ...

For the first time, “Rockin’ Eve” brought the Central Time countdown to viewers coast to coast. While that meant no ...