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Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza.

The bald eagle, a symbol of the power and strength of the United States for more than 240 years, earned an overdue honor on Tuesday: It officially became the country’s national bird.

NewsGuard, which prizes its nonpartisan criteria, has become a prime target of the GOP’s battle against disinformation watchdogs.

America is suddenly getting healthier. No one knows why.

The billboards, which will be posted in Mexico and Central America, come as Texas seeks to offer a blueprint for Trump’s planned crackdown on immigration.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado typically scans the heavens for potential threats. But on Christmas Eve, volunteers are fielding questions like “When is Santa coming to my house?”

The 78-year-old ex-president was admitted on Monday afternoon with a fever.

Federal immigration officials say 33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta is a Guatemalan citizen who entered the U.S. illegally after previously being deported in 2018.

The set of beliefs has overtaken traditional theologies centered on the poor.

Three U.S. judges appointed by Democratic presidents have withdrawn plans to retire, and President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to create dozens more judgeships.

The upheaval triggered by Bashar al-Assad’s ouster has raised urgent questions about the 2,000 troops who serve as a bulwark against ISIS and Iran.

The bill authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China’s growing power and boosts overall military spending to $895 billion.

High surf was blamed for fatally trapping a man beneath debris on a beach and later partially collapsing a pier in Santa Cruz, tossing three people into the ocean.

Members of the Nordstrom family are taking its namesake department store chain private with Mexican retailer El Puerto de Liverpool, in a deal announced Monday that values the company at $6.25 billion.

The House Ethics Committee’s long-awaited report into Rep. Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegations of misconduct, including sex with an underage girl, that tanked the Florida Republican’s nomination to lead the Justice Department.

The Arctic island is not for sale, as its own government and that of Denmark continue to emphasize.

Prewident Joe Biden changed the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on death row to life without parole, saying he was convinced “that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.”

The 78-year-old was hospitalized in the “afternoon for testing and observation,” Angel Urena, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, said in a statement.

Approximately 1 million taxpayers will automatically receive special payments of up to $1,400 from the IRS in the coming weeks. The money will be directly deposited into eligible people’s bank accounts or sent in the mail by a paper check.

Donald Trump has promised to undertake mass deportations. That job would largely fall to the approximately 6,000 federal enforcement and removal officers nationwide.

The eruption was confined to the volcano’s summit caldera, in a remote, closed area of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, the Hawaii Volcano Observatory reported.

Shane Lamond, a 24-year department veteran, helped the far-right group when he leaked word to leader Henry Tarrio that a warrant had been signed for his arrest for burning a Black Lives Matter flag stolen from an African American church.

Some customers of Alphabet’s Waymo recount feeling unsafe when strangers interfered with their robot chauffeur.