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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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The 3-D animated winter musical had a massive opening over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, yet not enough to eke out a win over the latest entry in the popular young-adult franchise.

Scientists believe the seed proteins could be used in large and small water treatment plants in both industrialised and developing countries Proteins extracted from Moringa oleifera seeds can be used to sift out impurities and bind them together in clusters called flocs, research has shown.

A San Diego man has gotten a jump on ringing in the New Year after he spent a record 105 hours ringing a Salvation Army kettle bell.

The last time Morton Chalek visited Bernard Madoff's office, the then-trusted investment adviser gave him the customary warm welcome.

In 1223, St. Francis, while visiting Grecio, Italy, created an outdoor scene recreating the nativity for Christmas Midnight Mass.

Snow, ice and freezing rain will strike states from Texas to New England through Tuesday, promising icy roads, power outages and general unpleasantness for much of the country.

Tributes will be paid to Neslon Mandela at a service of thanksgiving for the life of the former South African president today.

A highway department in Central Wisconsin is trying something unconventional that they say will help keep roads clear this winter.

A luxurious display of a rustic dinner party themed around the Partridge in a Pear Tree.

It took some tugging for pilot Bob DeLong of San Clemente to pull one hairy passenger aboard a flight from Van Nuys to Bellingham, Wash.

They drove the same highways, crisscrossed the same towns and shouldered the same Texas droughts and freezes, never knowing that they shared a remarkably similar history.

When George Washington Vanderbilt, a descendent of the prominent Vanderbilt family, moved into his expansive new home in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1895, he invited friends and family over for a lavish party on Christmas Eve.

SHREVEPORT, La. -- You could hardly escape reminders of it during World War II. And over the course of decades since, Dec. 7 has meant one thing to generations of Americans: But that message has become muted over the past few years by the thinning of the ranks of the men and women who survived the assault that Sunday morning on U.S. military ... (more)

A runaway reindeer broke free from Santa Claus at a Colorado mall Thursday while the Big Man was inside visiting with children.

North Korea said Saturday it has deported an elderly U.S. tourist and war veteran detained for more than a month for alleged hostile acts against the country.

Christopher Ferrell told police he fatally shot Mills in self-defense in the pre-dawn hours of Nov. 23 after the two got into an argument over the musician smoking a cigarette in a no-smoking area of Ferrell's Pit and Barrel.

Vitamin D supplements don't help prevent chronic diseases unrelated to the bones, according to a review of published research that challenges the prevailing wisdom held by proponents.