holidays

Laura Landerman-Garber has transformed a family tradition into a project that will ship 100,000 cards this holiday season.

With the holiday season only weeks away, online retailer Amazon and its oft time shipping partner UPS have announced new job fairs to hire 130,000 seasonal employees.

The quintessential American holiday bookends are Memorial Day, kicking off the summer, and Labor Day, marking the back-to-work and school season.

A Syrian refugee living in Germany complained on social media about not being able to go on holiday to Syria because he had “something important” to do.

The organization is instructing parents that suggesting to a child that she give a thank-you hug to a relative for a gift may plant the seed that she owes sexual favors later on in her life when someone takes her to dinner.

“Why are we having holiday parties at all?” complained Weiner to Gayle King on Monday morning. “Wouldn’t you rather have an extra $100 in your paycheck than have to put on the Spanx, put on the heels, be social with the guy with, like, the stale coffee breath who’s looking at your backside every time you go to the copier. You know how that is.”

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump wished Jews a “Happy Hanukkah” on Sunday, just before families and communities gathered to light the first candle of the eight-night holiday.

President Trump praised the men and women of the American armed forces who are overseas during the Christmas season, expressing that “every American heart is thankful” for their service to the nation.

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis began a pre-holiday tour of military bases at the American Navy facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, offering holiday cheer to the troops tasked with operating the jihadi prison on the island and urging them to be ready for war.

The Commerce Department said Thursday that retail sales rose by more than expected in November and October sales were revised up.

First Lady Melania Trump dazzled in a winter wonderland ensemble by Max Mara and Hervé Pierre as she made a pre-Christmas visit Thursday to Children’s National Hospital.

A humanist, atheist organization is demanding that a local Texas courthouse remove a Christmas nativity scene display, saying it unconstitutionally endorses Christianity. The organization claims the nativity was bought with taxpayer dollars and clearly endorses the Christian faith.

GRANT PARISH, Louisiana – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is attacking a public Christmas display, this time targeting a small, Louisiana town’s nativity scene.

The Indonesian city of Banda Aceh has banned celebrations of Valentine’s Day this weekend, arguing the holiday violates Islamic law.

After reporting severely disappointing holiday sales figures, Macy’s is undertaking a plan to close dozens of stores and fire more than 4,800 workers.

A mailman in Queens is being accused of throwing away dozens of pieces of mail and Christmas packages instead of delivering them, all because the high amount of mail “overwhelmed” him, court documents say.

Long Island’s Roosevelt Field Mall and Charlotte’s SouthPark Mall decided to use glacier decorations for their Santa pictures instead of typical Christmas items in order not to offend anyone.

The classic tale about a little old lady who lived in a cottage and decided to bake a gingerbread man out of boredom has gone naughty.

The cancellation of Queen Latifah’s day time talk show was announced last month, but that won’t stop the show’s former host from paying her staff through the holidays, reports E! Online. The Queen Latifah Show will continue its final run