PHOTOS: Christmas Day 2023
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US President Joe Biden (C), his son Hunter (R), his grandson Beau (2nd R), Hunter’s wife Melissa Cohen Biden (2nd L) and Ashley Biden leave the White House to board Marine 1 on the South Lawn of the White House on his way to Camp David Maryland to spend Christmas on December 23, 2023. The President, First Lady Jill Biden and family, are going to Camp David in Maryland, where they will remain through the Christmas holiday. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)
(Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
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This illustration photo shows a cell phone with NORAD’s Santa Tracker on screen, nestled in a Christmas tree in Los Angeles on December 24, 2023. The joint US-Canadian military monitoring agency has continued its decades-long Christmas tradition of tracking Santa’s whereabouts, helping children around the globe find out when his reindeer-powered, present-filled sleigh is coming to town. A 3-D, interactive website at www.noradsanta.org showed Santa Claus and his reindeer on their imagined worldwide delivery route, allowing users to click and learn more about the various cities along the way. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP)
(Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)
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OHKAY, OWINGEH – DECEMBER 24: People bond together at the conclusion of a Matachinas dance in celebration of the Christmas season on December 24, 2023 in Ohkay Owingeh. Pueblos throughout the Rio Grande region continue gathering together to celebrate Christmas and native customs in observance of the holiday season.
(Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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OHKAY, OWINGEH – DECEMBER 24: Members of the Ohkay Owingeh pueblo participate in mass during celebration of the Christmas season on December 24, 2023 in Ohkay Owingeh. Pueblos throughout the Rio Grande region continue gathering together to celebrate Christmas and native customs in observance of the holiday season.
(Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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Men dressed as Santa Claus and his reindeer perform during the Water Skiing Santa Show in Alexandria, Virginia, on December 24, 2023. The show, including a waterskiing Santa, reindeer, elves, the Grinch and Frosty the Snowman, has been performing on the Potomac River on Christmas Eve for 38 years. (Photo by Julia Nikhinson / AFP)
(Photo by JULIA NIKHINSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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People dressed as Santa and the Grinch attend the 15th annual “Surfing Santas” event in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on December 24, 2023. (Photo by Eva Marie UZCATEGUI / AFP)
(Photo by EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Attendees watch the surfers during the 15th annual “Surfing Santas” event in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on December 24, 2023. (Photo by Eva Marie UZCATEGUI / AFP)
(Photo by EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images)
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A surfer dressed as Santa carries a surfboard during the 15th annual “Surfing Santas” event in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on December 24, 2023. (Photo by Eva Marie UZCATEGUI / AFP)
(Photo by EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP via Getty Images)
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A reveler releases a sky lantern at Kotzia square, in central Athens, Greece, on Christmas Eve, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.
(AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
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A woman photographs the Nativity scene installed for upcoming Christmas celebrations in Cathedral Square in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023.
(AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
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Christians attend midnight Christmas mass at St. Andrew’s Church in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.
(AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Crowds gather for the Surfing Santa event Christmas Eve morning in Cocoa Beach Fla., on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. The tradition started in 2009 when George Trosset and his son, George Jr., went surfing in a Santa suit and an elf costume on Christmas Eve. Friends found out about it and joined them the next year. The event grew each year and now in its 15th year the event attracts thousands and has become a fund raiser for the Florida Surf Museum and Grind for Life, an organization that provides financial assistance to cancer victims.
(Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via AP)
Crowds gather for the Surfing Santa event Christmas Eve morning in Cocoa Beach Fla., on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. The tradition started in 2009 when George Trosset and his son, George Jr., went surfing in a Santa suit and an elf costume on Christmas Eve. Friends found out about it and joined them the next year. The event grew each year and now in its 15th year the event attracts thousands and has become a fund raiser for the Florida Surf Museum and Grind for Life, an organization that provides financial assistance to cancer victims. (Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via AP)
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Palestinian scouts hold signs in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip calling to end the Israel-Hamas war, near the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus, on Christmas Eve in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. Bethlehem is having a subdued Christmas after officials in Jesus’ traditional birthplace decided to forgo celebrations due to the Israel-Hamas war.
(AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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People walk and play at a park decorated for the New Year and Christmas festivities with an Orthodox Church in the background in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.
(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Iraqi Christians attend a Christmas mass at the Mother Teresa Catholic Church in Basra, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.
(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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Priest Ivan Rybaruk prays with the family of fallen Ukrainian soldier Victor Ivanov at the cemetery during Christmas celebration in Kryvorivnia village, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. Ivanov was killed by Russian armed forces near Bakhmut on October 2022.
(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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People drink as they swim with Santa hats in 8-degree water in Lake Leman at Bains des Paquis on Christmas Eve, in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.
(Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
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A woman with her children walk after church Christmas service in Kryvorivnia village, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.
(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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Nuns hold candles during the Christmas Eve mass at Graha Maria Annai Velangkanni Church in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.
(AP Photo)
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People take selfies in front of the decorated St. Joseph’s Cathedral on the eve of Christmas in Prayagraj, India, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. Although Christians comprise only two percent of the population Christmas is a national holiday and is observed across the country as an occasion to celebrate.
(AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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Mike Womack, 52, puts the final touches on a Christmas tree along Sunset Beach Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023 in Tarpon Springs, Fla. For the past nine years Womack has set up a tree along the beach for local residents to enjoy.
(Chris Urso/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
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Dogs rest in front of a house with a tree decorated for Christmas in Shangshak village, in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. Nagas are an indigenous people inhabiting several northeastern Indian states and across the border in Myanmar. In a largely Hindu country, most Nagas are Christians.
(AP Photo/Yirmiyan Arthur)
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A woman attends midnight Christmas mass at St. Andrew’s Church in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.
(AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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A child attends Mass at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.
(AP Photo/Sayyid Abdul Azim)
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Tito Perez gets helps with his Santa Claus costume as he readies for a pre-Christmas celebration organized by “Los Chicos de la Via” soup kitchen, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023.
(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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A child looks at a Santa craft at a pre-Christmas celebration organized by “Los Chicos de la Via” soup kitchen, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023.
(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Children sing traditional “Kolyadky” songs during a Christmas celebration in Kryvorivnia village, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.
(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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A boy walks at the cemetery after church Christmas service in Kryvorivnia village, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023.
(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A boy walks at the cemetery after church Christmas service in Kryvorivnia village, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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Pope Francis presides over Christmas eve Mass, at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday Dec. 24, 2023.
(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Francis presides over Christmas eve Mass, at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday Dec. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)