Former President Donald Trump rang in the new year with a short message on social media, predicting that 2024 will be a “historic” year as he hopes to seal the Republican nomination and defeat the Democrat, likely President Biden, at the end of the year.
Acting Pakistani Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar announced on Thursday that New Year celebrations will be banned nationwide to “express solidarity with our Palestinian brothers and sisters.”
Outraged citizens in Henan province, China, attacked cops and overturned a police car on Monday after authorities attempted to enforce a ban on new year fireworks, social media videos and local reports revealed.
Improving physical health and saving money top the list of New Year’s resolutions for Americans, a YouGov survey released this week found.
Half of younger adults — those 18 to 25 — are choosing to improve their mental health as a top New Year’s resolution, a December Forbes Health/OnePoll survey found.
The authoritarian government of Turkmenistan, which normally holds exuberant New Year celebrations, this week ordered residents of the capital city of Ashgabat to ramp down their festivities, banned state companies from holding New Year’s parties, ordered restaurants to shut down by 9:00 p.m., and even banned parties in private homes.
Country music star Jason Aldean rang in the New Year with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, stating, “This man is unbelievable,” and referred to Trump as “the G.O.A.T.”
Pope Francis said Saturday that hurting a woman insults God because God took on our humanity from a woman, the Virgin Mary.
Former Labour leader and prime minister Tony Blair has been dubbed a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the New Year Honours Lists.
Regional border areas in England to brace for influx of ‘Covid refugees’ from more heavily regulated Scotland and Wales this New Year.
Comet Leonard has been a nightly spectacle in the lead-up to Christmas and will continue to dash through the night sky into the New Year.
Mayor Sadiq Khan surprised locked down Londoners with a divisive New Year display which used fireworks and drones to light up the night sky with the clenched fist symbol of Black Lives Matter.
CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen on Monday advised the American public to cancel their Christmas and New Year plans as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Jakarta’s deputy governor banned Christmas and New Year events in the Indonesian capital this holiday season in an announcement Monday.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said 2020 will be the year Brexit finally gets delivered and pledged no more elections or referendums in his New Year message.
“We’re going to have a great year, I predict,” President Donald Trump said. “I think it’s going to be a fantastic year.”
The Chinese holiday of Lunar New Year is widely observed in both Koreas, albeit in very different ways. For example, North Koreans are reportedly giving each other crystal meth and other controlled substances as gifts to ring in the Year of the Pig.
Chinese officials in Xinjiang province, the troubled home of the Uighur Muslims, reportedly compelled Muslims to eat pork and drink alcoholic beverages during the Lunar New Year holiday this Tuesday. Muslim dietary practices forbid both activities.
China sent Taiwan a Lunar New Year video this week that included footage of Chinese warplanes and the badge of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force juxtaposed with the tallest skyscraper in Taipei. The Taiwanese responded with their own video of military exercises, making it clear they are prepared to fight for their freedom if necessary.
North Korea’s state media announced that Pyongyang sent a celebratory floral basket to the Cuban embassy on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Revolution. Dictator Kim Jong-un also sent a friendly greeting to dictator Raúl Castro, a sign North Korea expects Cuba to play a major role in its diplomacy in 2019.
Citizens across Venezuelan burned effigies of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and other prominent far-left figures on Monday evening to celebrate the turn of the New Year.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) politicised Scotland’s famous Hogmanay celebrations for the New Year with a pro-EU theme, and even projected “love letters to Europe” onto a number of buildings.
A prominent radical Hindu group has told followers to reject the celebration of the New Year on January 1, which signals an acceptance of Jesus, urging them to move the feast to April instead.
During its New Year’s coverage, CNN aired celebrities’ New Year’s resolutions. Actress and former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Jane Curtin vowed to ensure “the Republican Party dies” in 2019. “My New Year’s resolution is to make sure that the
As part of its New Year’s Eve coverage, CNN reporter Randi Kaye took part in chugging champagne from a snorkel bong while on a yacht in St. Bart’s. This follows up Kaye’s performance from 2017, where she reported live from
Psychology professor and author Jordan Peterson told Breitbart News that a good New Year’s Resolution is to compare yourself to who you were yesterday and begin by making small incremental improvements, adding that starting with small steps will have a larger impact over time.
Netflix talk show host Chelsea Handler rang in the New Year Tuesday much the same way as she exited the last one — by relentlessly attacking President Donald Trump on social media.
The United Kingdom has rung in 2018 amidst heightened security in the British capital of London, including reports of elite snipers on the roof tops of buildings in order to thwart attempted terrorist attacks. Heavy steel and concrete barriers greeted New
London’s New Year’s Eve celebrations will be overseen by rooftop snipers from Britain’s elite Special Air Service (SAS), according to reports.
Fatah’s youth movement, Shabiba, has forbidden Palestinians from hosting parties to mark the secular New Year.
Breitbart News executive chairman and former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon said in an interview with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily radio show that the United States must return to “traditionalism” when it comes to the holiday season while slamming the “disturbing” consumerism that has consumed Thanksgiving.
The mayor of a Dutch town could face criminal charges for insisting a gang of allegedly criminal North African migrants stay inside their accommodation on New Year’s Eve to protect “public order and safety”.
French authorities have been accused of a cover-up after claiming New Year’s Eve “went off without any major incident” despite more than 1,000 cars being torched in arson attacks.
The Islamic State has formally taken responsibility for the slaughter at the Reina nightclub in Istanbul, issuing an unusually direct official statement that hailed the still-at-large gunman as a “heroic soldier of the caliphate.”
Drivers on New Year’s Eve were stuck for several hours in both directions on I-5 north of Los Angeles, thanks to snow that fell in the area.
While covering the New Year’s Eve celebration live in New Orleans this year, CNN’s Don Lemon took ringing in the new year literally. After debating a tattoo or piercing, Lemon went with a piercing. Kathy Griffin suggested a nipple piercing, which Anderson Cooper
German police say they have arrested a man who shouted “bomb, bomb, bomb” at Berlin’s massive open-air New Year’s party.
An attack that killed 39 revelers in an Istanbul nightclub overshadowed New Year celebrations around the world to ring in 2017.
Mariah Carey struggled through her performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve late Saturday night when apparent technical difficulties caused her audio track to be thrown out of sync.
2016 may have been too long for Hollywood’s unhappy celebrities, but the nation will add an additional second before the calendar ticks over to 2017.
