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What you need to know if you plan to give animals as gifts during the holidays 12/20/2025 04:42am • During the holidays, some families may consider adding a new family member and bringing home a pet as a gift for their loved ones. But is it a good idea? Tiffany Cotton, chief operating officer for the Humane Rescue Alliance, said that when the decision is planned out, bringing home a pet duri Luigi Mangione���s lawyers say Bondi���s death penalty decision was tainted by conflict of interest 12/20/2025 01:46am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Luigi Mangione���s lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi���s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer���s parent company. Bondi w Los Angeles Angels settle lawsuit with family of pitcher Tyler Skaggs over fatal overdose 12/19/2025 07:10pm • SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) ��� The Los Angeles Angels reached a confidential settlement Friday with the family of late pitcher Tyler Skaggs after a lengthy trial that detailed drug use by players. The two-month trial centered on whether the Angels bore responsibility for Skaggs' 2019 overdose death on a Young conservative women find a home in Turning Point with Charlie Kirk's widow at the helm 12/19/2025 06:30pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Camdyn Glover used to be a quiet conservative. She worried what her teachers would think or if she would lose friends over her convictions. But she said something changed when Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September, and she started crying in her classroom at Indiana University w No. 17 Tulane coach Sumrall mourns father's death day before facing No. 6 Ole Miss in playoff debut 12/19/2025 05:35pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Tulane coach Jon Sumrall mourned the death of his father on Friday, a day before the No. 17 Green Wave make their College Football Playoff debut against No. 6 Ole Miss. Sumrall said his father died in his sleep on Thursday night after lengthy health issues. George Sumrall was 77 If you're flying out for the holidays, expect a lot of company 12/19/2025 05:20pm • If you���re flying out for the holidays, you should expect a lot of company. That's because the Federal Aviation Administration said that as many as 52,000 flights will carry millions of people to their holiday destinations on Friday. The FAA says it also expects at least 440,000 flights will Adding to your family soon? Here's a new guide from Consumer Reports on how to baby-proof your home 12/19/2025 04:22pm • There's a new guide to baby-proofing from Consumer Reports and it's organized so you can get an early start to your checklist, especially if there's going to be a young one around with visitors coming over for the holidays. "We broke it down by age and by room," said Jessica D'Argenio Waller, the Pope names pro-immigrant pastor bishop of Florida diocese where Trump's Mar-a-Lago is located 12/19/2025 02:53pm • Pope Leo XIV on Friday named the Rev. Manuel de Jes��s Rodr��guez, currently pastor of a predominantly Hispanic church in the Queens borough of New York City, as bishop of Palm Beach, Florida. The diocese is home to the Mar-a-Lago estate of President Donald Trump, whose get-tough immigration policie Stage jitters replace fear of falling in ���Eddie the Eagle���s��� latest act 12/19/2025 12:34pm • GLOUCESTER, England (AP) ��� Waiting in the wings on opening night of ���Beauty and the Beast,��� Michael Edwards felt the nerve-wracking jitters he experienced four decades earlier staring through thick glasses down a perilously steep ski jump. The athlete-turned-performer better known as ���Eddie '6-7,' Dubai chocolate, Labubu: You took 2025, now scat! 12/19/2025 09:26am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� With Labubus hanging from our bags, Dubai chocolate in our bellies and ���6-7��� ringing in our ears, it's almost time to bid farewell to a few things that went hard in 2025. Scat. Don't follow us into the new year. You've had your 15 minutes. We're over you. Deep six the ���6-7��� Trump gave an unusually partisan White House address. Should networks have given him the TV time? 12/19/2025 08:25am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� When Donald Trump delivered the first White House address of his second presidency Wednesday night, all major U.S. networks beamed his image and voice onto their airwaves, cable feeds and online platforms. Americans ended up watching the Republican president stand in the Diplomatic Nodding off is dangerous. Some animals have evolved extreme ways to sleep in precarious environments 12/19/2025 08:01am • Every animal with a brain needs sleep ��� and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep. Sleep is universal ���even though it���s actually very risky,��� said Paul-Antoine Libourel, a researcher at the Neuroscience Research Center of Lyon i Gary Woodland is playing the PNC Championship with his father. It's a celebration for both 12/19/2025 06:00am • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� Gary Woodland returned to golf four months after doctors had to cut a baseball-sized hole in his head to remove a lesion on part of the brain that caused unfounded fears of dying. He felt fortunate to still be playing, and the emotions were strong. Turns out the former U.S. Op Hong Kong mourns firefighter killed in city's deadliest fire in decades 12/19/2025 02:42am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kongers offered flowers and bowed outside a funeral parlor on Friday to pay tribute to a firefighter who was among the 160 people killed by the city's deadliest fire in decades. Ho Wai-ho lost his life battling the massive blaze that engulfed seven buildings of a housing com Mourners grieve 10-year-old killed in Bondi mass shooting as Australian leader pledges new hate laws 12/18/2025 09:43pm • SYDNEY (AP) ��� Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Matilda, whose last name is being withheld at