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The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits rose 68,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 368,000, the largest increase in more than a year.

Michael Chong pulls a sepia-coloured photograph down from the wall of his Parliament Hill office.

A Minnesota National Guardsman faces federal fraud charges in connection with the theft of names, Social Security numbers and security clearance levels of roughly 400 members of his former Army unit in Fort Bragg, North Carolina The Iraq War veteran intended to use the confidential material to create fake IDs for his militia, court documents say.

The city of Oakland has agreed to settle a claim by an Iraq War veteran who was beaten by a police officer during an Occupy Oakland protest two years ago.

If you know you are going to a party in the evening, experts advise eating a healthy breakfast and lunch.

The House passed legislation Wednesday that instructs the Veterans Affairs Department to unearth the remains of an Army veteran buried with military honors last year even after police said he killed an Indianapolis woman and injured three others before taking his own life.

In protest of a Nativity scene at the Florida Capitol, Chaz Stevens has put up a Festivus pole with beer cans around it.

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.