Every year in late December, my childhood home transformed into a vision of American bliss. We’d gather to ornament a tree, drape string lights around the house, and sit down to an elaborate feast.

What do the holidays mean to you? Is it drinking hot cocoa by the fireplace? Cooking a meal for family and friends? Or singing your heart out to your favorite nostalgic holiday song? Whatever this ...

From balloons to wrapping paper, everyone tends to produce more waste this time of year. We asked two scientists for tips on how to be more mindful of the environment when celebrating the holidays.

Two ISIS-linked camps were taken out in US-backed airstrikes on Christmas, the Nigerian government confirmed Saturday. “These locations were being used as assembly and staging grounds by foreign ISIS ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An 11-story Holiday Inn could soon trade short-term stays for long-term living, as Dallas-based hospitality and multifamily firm Premier Design to Completion ...

If Santa Claus knew Long Island's holiday-break day camps offer the chance to feed stingrays, explore virtual meteorites and catch a quail walking on a leash, he'd postpone this year's trip back to ...

The chunk of time between the day after Christmas and that first full week in January — when most people find themselves slogging back to work, their hearts and minds full of hopes, aspirations and ...

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Time to undeck the halls? With Christmas in the rearview, an age-old debate has reentered the chat: when should you take down your seasonal decor? It ultimately comes down to personal preference. For ...

Since the launch of Disney Channel in the mid-1980s, Disney Entertainment Television has become a platform for rising actors to begin their careers on screen. As the brand is gearing up for 2026, the ...

After a year of living out of her car in San Jose’s Columbus Park, where rats had so overrun the city’s largest homeless encampment that residents gave them names, Tami Davis wasn’t expecting to be ...

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