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A mom in Glendale, California, took matters into her own hands Wednesday when an alleged thief tried to steal a package from her neighbor’s porch. 

Grime rapper and Jeremy Corbyn fan Stormzy, real name Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr., is set to read a passage from the Bible at the end of one of BBC One’s Christmas Day programmes.

Pope Francis has underscored the need for the Church to embrace “epochal change,” insisting that resistance to change always hides some mental disorder.

Franklin Police Department therapy dog “Ben Franklin” was caught pilfering a baby doll on Wednesday.

Actress-comedian Whitney Cummings said she got in trouble last year for saying “Merry Christmas” to a television production crew.

Extremely favorable consumer sentiment level poses a challenge for Democratic presidential hopefuls who the economy is struggling.

A Utah family’s packages stolen off their front porch were soon returned to them — apology included.

A donor in Aurora, Colorado, presented a school district with a much-needed gift to help students and their families this holiday season. 

A Florida man who once spent Christmas without power is literally paying it forward by paying off the power bills for 36 families with accounts that were past due.

President Joko Widodo of Indonesia warned the nation’s devout Muslims on Tuesday not to use violence to enforce a fatwa handed down by the nation’s Islamic council in 2016 against Christmas celebrations, urging tolerance for other faiths.

First Lady Melania Trump stepped out in a pair of red velvet stilettos and a 1970s-inspired coat as she and President Trump greeted the president of Guatemala and his wife to the White House on Tuesday.

Teen Vogue is recommending Christmas gifts for transgender friends that include chest binders and scar cream for post-op sex change.

President Donald Trump will not require federal employees to show up for work on Christmas Eve in 2019. The president issued the un-Scrooge-like executive order on Tuesday. 

A California second-grader was in for the surprise of his life when he reunited with his sister, who had been away serving in the military, in time for Christmas.

Christian rap superstar and fashion mogul Kanye West is openly expressing his Christian faith in the holiday season and is set to bring his opera production Mary to the Lincoln Center in New York City, just three days before Christmas.

An online petition protesting a Netflix Christmas special that portrays Jesus Christ as a gay man has reached two million signatures, putting pressure on the streamer to pull the show.

A cardiologist is turning into Santa this holiday season to bring some Christmas cheer to premature babies in the neonatal unit at the Mayo Clinic Hospital.

An unnamed Melbourne suburban couple recovered wedding and engagement rings in time for the holidays thanks to the goodwill of local sanitation workers.

A U.S. Army veteran in East Peoria, Illinois, is giving back to his fellow servicemen in a unique way this Christmas season.

Christmas came early for more than 300 Baltimore families in need thanks to 250 donors who did their part to spread Christmas cheer through the spirit of giving.

A Florida mother claimed that a neighbor’s Christmas light display inspired her nonverbal daughter with autism to speak her first phrase.

First Lady Melania Trump was an angel in the White House as she and President Trump welcomed guests to one of their many Christmas parties this holiday season. 

Axios identified six House Democrats at the White House for the annual event who had voted to begin the impeachment process in October.

A generous Secret Santa paid off $20,000 in layaway accounts at an Auburn, Alabama, Walmart on Monday morning, focusing on accounts with children’s toys.

A secret Santa in Rigby, Idaho, is making the holidays a little easier this year for a widow and her teenage grandson. 

Christians don’t lop off people’s heads, which is why it is always open season on us, which is to our credit.

A mystery woman recently made the Christmas season a little easier for a single mother of three in Warrington, Pennsylvania.

The holiday season and surging consumer sentiment is not pushing up prices. Prices received by U.S. businesses were unchanged in November, indicating extremely low inflationary pressure in the economy despite very low unemployment, recent tariff hikes, and rising wages, according

Hundreds of rescue pets found new homes last week after an animal shelter in Hazard, Kentucky, asked for community help.

A woman’s Christmas light display in Lenexa, Kansas, is rubbing neighbors the wrong way because of its graphic nature.

Tariffs weren’t the Grinch who stole Christmas after all. Prices of phones, computers, televisions, and toys are down while wages are up.

A homeowner in Fort Wayne, Indiana, shot at Christmas carolers who allegedly tried to kick in his door last Thursday.

Employees of a Baltimore, Maryland, real estate firm got a surprise bonus for Christmas this year.

Spoiler alert warning for Hallmark Channel’s A Christmas Love Story, starring Kristin Chenoweth. She said her new Christmas movie reflects her own life story of her birth mother giving her life and allowing her to be adopted so that she could have “the right parents.”

Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro delivered his annual Christmas message on Sunday, with wife Cilia Flores declaring a “climate of union, happiness, and peace” despite widespread hunger, disease, and general societal collapse.

A poll has found that a majority of people in Germany would scale back or scrap their festive Christmas lights altogether to combat allegedly man-made climate change.