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With just over two weeks until Christmas, we interrupt the festive mood with a dark and daunting message from Santa Claus himself .

This Dec. 4, 2013 file photo shows the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in New York.

A Virginia teen set to have brain surgery in Ohio has collected thousands of toys for patients who will be in the hospital with her at Christmas.

The 44-year-old actress and her fiancA©, Justin Theroux, held their third annual tree trimming fiesta on December 8, and invited some of Aniston's old "Friends" and one of Brad Pitt's exes over for Christmas-y fun.

RA©gine Chassagne of Arcade Fire performs onstage during The 24th Annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas at The Shrine Auditorium on December 8, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

Top-selling frozen pizza brand DiGiorno and its cheese supplier cut ties with a Wisconsin dairy farm Tuesday after an animal rights group released undercover video showing workers beating, kicking, stabbing and whipping sick and injured cows.

People should lose their sweet tooth if they want the best chance of keeping a full set of molars, say scientists.

Singer Mariah Carey holds hands with Santa Claus as she performs at the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony, attended by President Barack Obama and his family, at the Ellipse in Washington, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013.

The Clegg family Christmas card features a photograph of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg with his wife Miriam with Christmas doodles added by their children Nick Clegg's children have created a festive doodle for the Deputy Prime Minister's Christmas card - giving the Liberal Democrat leader a Santa hat and beard.

In Nov. 29, 2013 photo taken from video, siblings Maddie, 5, Mackenzie, 15, and Caleb Bunn, 18, from Rocky Mount, N.C., pose for a photo with "Santa" Cliff Snider at the Christmas Carousel show in Raleigh, N.C. .

Where does Santa Claus learn to chortle "Ho, ho, ho!" and listen to the wishes of children all over the world? Each year at the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School, dozens of prospective St. Nicks come to learn the art of being Santa.

More than three decades after reversing its prohibition of black priests, the Mormon church has disavowed the ban, saying it was put into place during an era of great racial divide that influenced early teachings of the church.

ALEXANDRA, SOUTH AFRICA a?? Tucked behind a black steel gate and a partially collapsed cement wall with barbed wire sits Nelson Mandela's first house when he moved to Johannesburg in 1940.

George Zimmerman asked a judge on Monday to change the terms of his bond so he can have contact with the girlfriend he's accused of assaulting.

Q: I hear that incorporating flax into my eating plan is healthful. I see flaxseed oil, ground flaxseeds and whole flaxseeds available.

Relatives of more than half the 26 victims said at a news conference that they planned to light a candle on Friday night in honor of their lost loved ones.

Eighteen different grades of maple syrup are displayed in East Montpelier, Vt. Vermont lawmakers are considering whether to drop the state's traditional maple labeling system in favor of an international one.

For kids, Christmas can be a magical time of year, filled with both seasonal sights and sounds.

The annual Kennedy Center Honors Reception isn't normally a place to break news, but President Obama opted Sunday to publicly mention Area 51 -- the installation where the government is supposedly storing UFOs and alien life, the inspiration for innumerable conspiracy theories.

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