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Pilgrims traverse Vatican Holy Door as Christmas marks the start of the 2025 Holy Year
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pilgrims lined up early Wednesday to walk through the great Holy Door at the entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica, as…
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Fashion
Bryan Kohberger Investigated Over Terrifying Home Invasion Just Year Before Brutal Murders of Four University of Idaho Students
Bryan Kohberger, the Idaho murder suspect, was once investigated for a disturbing home invasion that occurred just a few miles from where…
Fashion
New Year 2025: TXT, GOT7, BOYNEXTDOOR, IVE, and More Stars Share Future Plans
The New Year 2025 is almost here, bringing new hopes and dreams. The world is gearing up to welcome next year with new goals. Everybody…
Business
How the Las Vegas Jewish community is celebrating Hanukkah amidst Hamas attacks 1 year later
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — In a calendar rarity, Hanukkah starts this year on Christmas Day and while a time for celebration, many in the Jewish…
Lifestyle
Americans say Santa will be less generous this year
What's New Sixty-eight percent of Americans said that Santa will be less generous this Christmas because of economic pressure, according…
Lifestyle
Opinion: Romney's Senate exit marks an end to the bipartisanship Washington desperately needs
Mitt Romney delivered his farewell speech before the U.S. Senate in early December. It isn’t hyperbole to say it marked the end of an era.…
Style
What We’re Reading to Start the New Year
The New Yorker’s editors and critics considered hundreds of new releases this year in order to select the Best Books of 2024. The…
News
The Year of the Israeli Settler
Eiland likes to pose as a hardened paratrooper: a no-bullshit blusterer, ignorant of political chicanery, who is merely applying cold…
Culture
China’s wild markets send Hong Kong derivatives to third record year
FOR a third year in a row, trading of derivatives in Hong Kong has hit a record. More than 377 million futures and options have changed…
Fashion
TSMC shares touch record high, eyeing best year since 1999 on AI
TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) shares touched a record high, as the world’s largest contract chipmaker is poised to cap…
Fashion
Bitcoin momentum ebbs heading into last stretch of record year
BITCOIN is flagging in the last leg of a record-breaking year. The digital asset changed hands at about US$94,500 early on Tuesday (Dec…
Lifestyle
Cops lie to suspects during interrogations. Should detectives stick to the truth?
Thomas Perez Jr. was hours into an interrogation by police about his missing father when they dropped some devastating news: A body had…
World
The Year the Metropolitan Opera Declared War on the Critics
Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past? Judging from the striking array of contemporary works that…
News
Donald Trump Is The New Republic’s 2024 Scoundrel of the Year
This project began with a pledge to build a wall on America’s southern border. It is now centered on a promise to deport tens of millions.…
Business
A Holy Year is about to start in Rome. Here's what you need to know
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Tuesday formally inaugurates the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the…
Lifestyle
Column: Trump's promised deportations are on a collision course with a California economy built on hypocrisy
This country has always had a hypocritical relationship with the undocumented workers who keep America’s agricultural, construction and…
Culture
Singapore stocks’ best year since 2017 masks downbeat outlook
Singapore’s main stock index is on track to have its best annual performance since 2017, but any celebrations over the Straits Times…
Business
Burkina Faso releases four French nationals after detaining them for a year
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — France said Thursday that Burkina Faso released four French nationals it had detained for a year, following…
Lifestyle
A massacre, a rumored hanging and Syrians' thirst for justice and revenge
DAMASCUS, Syria — The crowd surged forward, thousands cheering, waving and jostling their way around Damascus’ Al Ashmar Square, all…
Lifestyle
Women's prisons are rife with trauma. Can California set a new course at Chowchilla?
CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she…
Fashion
Gold at one-month low after Fed flags slower rate cut pace next year
GOLD prices languished near a one-month low on Thursday (Dec 19) after the US Federal Reserve indicated it would slow the pace of its…
Culture
Gold at one-month low after US Fed flags slower rate cut pace next year
GOLD prices languished near a one-month low on Thursday (Dec 19) after the US Federal Reserve indicated it would slow the pace of its…
Fashion
Return of the Reits? Singapore’s IPO scene set to come alive after subdued year
However, industry watchers remain cautious amid the return of Donald Trump as his policies may keep inflation up, slowing the pace of rate…