This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...

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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will participate in the annual lighting of the National Christmas Tree on Thursday evening. The ceremony includes performances by Alana Springsteen, Brett ...

Christmas celebrations publicly returned to Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, for the first time since the outset of the war in Gaza. The city, where Jesus Christ was born, is decking the halls ...

A rescue dog’s reaction to seeing a Christmas tree lit up for the first time has melted hearts across the internet. There are many firsts for shelter dogs after finding their forever home—from their ...

New Yorkers and tourists alike swarm Midtown Manhattan for a glimpse of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree that towers over the plaza it stands in. They may be wondering — along with viewers at ...

There are late bloomers, and then there’s talipot palms. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a crop of imported palms is flowering for the first and only time after being planted by renowned Brazilian ...

Both Robinson's defense team and the Utah County Sheriff's Office have previously asked the Court to ban cameras from the hearings. Utah enjoys warming trend as New Year's Day approaches, no snow ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx ...

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