President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Friday spread the season's cheer with a visit to a children's hospital in Washington D.C., meeting with youngsters too sick to spend the holidays at home. At least two people are dead and more were were injured Friday after a car plowed into a crowded Christmas market in the central German city of Magdeburg, local authorities said. The CEO of retailer Party City, which operates more than 700 company-owned and franchise stores across North America, says the company is going out of business, CNN reported Friday, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport issued a "ground stop" early Friday as a winter storm spread over the region a day after the Upper Midwest was socked by as much as 11 inches of snow. An outbreak of salmonella linked to cucumbers has now been tied to 100 known cases of the illness across 23 states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported. The Boston Red Sox agreed to a two-year, $18.2 million deal with free agent left-handed pitcher Patrick Sandoval. Ahmad Sharaa, the head of the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, will have real success by not making the same ousted regime's mistake: monopolizing power, Syrian political and civil rights activists said. The Oakland Athletics agreed to sign veteran infielder Gio Urshela. A Christmas tree in Virginia got a special tree-topper when a Barred Owl entered the home Thursday. U.S. billionaire Elon Musk said Friday said "only" the far-right Alternative for Germany party, currently running second in German polls with around 19% support nationwide, can "save" the country. Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx are teasing their upcoming movie, "Back in Action," which lands Jan. 17 on Netflix. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks on Friday made holiday calls to service members of the Air Force, Army and Navy, Pentagon officials said. Three of the largest U.S. banks rushed the Zelle digital payment system to market "without implementing effective consumer safeguards," according to a lawsuit filed Friday by a federal government agency. Bailey Chase says he wanted to play a former Green Beret hired to protect a rich man's Rocky Mountain compound after a California nuclear attack in "Homestead" because the role was unlike anything he has done. This past weekend, during a routine inspection at the Interstate-25 checkpoint, U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 37 undocumented migrants concealed inside a tractor-trailer, officials said. The final chapter of "Stranger Things" has officially finished filming. Richard Allen was sentenced to serve 130 years in prison Friday for the 2017 killing of two teenage girls in Indiana. A Texas horse is safe after becoming stuck in a cattle guard Friday. The English soul singer announced in an Instagram video on Thursday that she is pregnant with her fourth child, just weeks after adopting her third. A library book that has been overdue for more than three decades was finally returned to the U.K. library where it belongs. Anis Kassissieh, a Christian Arab, made his appearance dressed as Santa Claus in Jerusalem for the 15th consecutive year as he says he hopes to relieve some stress in a land at war. Tilda Swinton will be fêted with the Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Jared Goff is among UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler's four must-start fantasy football quarterbacks for Week 16. The Personal Consumption Expenditures index climbed by 0.1% in November on a month-over-month basis, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said in a statement Friday. |
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