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It’s that time of year, when families and friends come together to share their holiday cheer and a few circulating pathogens.

Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco, said people should be ...Read more

Americans are more optimistic about 2025 than they were about 2024 — in large part because of President-elect Donald Trump, according to new polling.

In a December CBS News/YouGov poll, 57% of respondents said that, ...Read more

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handpicked school board was blocked from modifying Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez’s duties by a Cook County Judge on Tuesday, giving the embattled schools chief a victory as he ...Read more

BALTIMORE — As Baltimore sunsets a decades-old committee probing police misconduct, the city’s three civilian-led law enforcement accountability boards are at odds with Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration over the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two San Fernando Valley men, who were sentenced to death over a decade ago for killing five people, had their sentences commuted to life in prison on Monday by President Joe Biden.

In 2007, Iouri Mikhel ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A squadron of fighter jets that belong to the District of Columbia Air National Guard will transfer to the Maryland National Guard, Gov. Wes Moore and other Maryland leaders said Monday night.

Transferring ...Read more

Families often discover during the holidays that loved ones are struggling with dementia and memory loss, and these cognitive issues are becoming yearlong concerns for employers, too, as they encounter an aging U.S. ...Read more

CHICAGO — On quiet nights during the Christmas season, Ed O’Malley enjoys visiting the Nativity scene he helps set up every year in an Arlington Heights park.

He’ll check whether the wind has blown over a statue, or...Read more

Wendy Williams' family is "fighting" to get her back home from a facility where she's receiving treatment for her health issues, her son said.

The former daytime talk show host's son Kevin Hunter Jr. on Monday shared an ...Read more

A federal judge signed off last week on a consent decree between the Department of Justice and the Johns Hopkins Health System to resolve allegations that the medical system’s coronavirus-pandemic-era visitor ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mariah Carey, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Christmas,” just earned herself another gift this year in the form of two new Billboard records.

Carey’s upbeat holiday pop song, “All I Want for ...Read more

Last December, a farmer was burning dry grapevines in his vineyard in Deir Mar Moussa, a hill town a dozen miles east of Beirut known for its 18th century monastery and stands of pine forest. Usually this would be ...Read more

NEW YORK — An NYPD lieutenant suspended from the force following a Daily News report detailing the more than $200,000 in overtime pay she accrued last year is demanding she be reinstated, claiming she deserves special ...Read more

American Airlines Group Inc. said a technical vendor glitch was the cause of a brief groundstop on all U.S. flights on Christmas Eve, one of the busiest days of the holiday travel season.

The carrier said Tuesday the ...Read more

A Starbucks Corp. barista strike has shut down about 170 cafes, according to the coffee chain, disrupting service at locations nationwide during the final days of the crucial holiday shopping season.

The union said it ...Read more

Workers at more than a dozen Chicago area Starbucks were on strike Christmas Eve, union organizers said, as baristas escalated a national walkout that began in three cities, including Chicago, on Friday.

Across the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Tallulah Willis, the youngest daughter of actors Bruce Willis and his ex-wife Demi Moore, is engaged.

Willis, 30, on Monday made the announcement on Instagram, confirming that she and musician Justin Acee ...Read more