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Americans like artificial Christmas trees even though few are made in US and prices are up 12/16/2025 12:08am • On a recent December day, Mark Latino and a handful of his workers spun sheets of vinyl into tinsel for Christmas tree branches. They worked on a custom-made machine that���s nearly a century old, churning out strands of bright silver tinsel along its 35-foot (10-meter) length. Latino is the CEO of The Latest: Trump sues BBC for defamation, asks for $10 billion in damages over Jan. 6 speech edit 12/15/2025 09:47pm • President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices. The lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a ���false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and mal 9 Best Cheap Stocks to Buy Under $10 12/15/2025 07:00pm • Stocks trading under $10 can be attractive for investors looking to scoop up some cheap shares. Unfortunately, quality stocks trading for less than $10 are few and far between. Stock prices at this level can be a red flag for investors that something serious is wrong with a company. Many of these st 5 Reasons to Take Social Security at Age 62 12/15/2025 07:00pm • The earliest age you can collect Social Security retirement benefits is 62, and about a quarter of people begin payments as soon as they are eligible. "I want to take it now to get my money back," is a common rationale, according to Dustin Wolk, client advisor with Crescent Grove Advisors in Milwauk How to Get a Personal Loan With No Income Verification 12/15/2025 07:00pm • Some people who need money fast to pay for unexpected expenses or large purchases turn to personal loans. In most cases, lenders will verify your income to ensure that you have enough money to repay a personal loan. That can present a hurdle for some borrowers, such as those who are unemployed, self Ford scraps fully-electric F-150 Lightning as mounting losses and falling demand hits EV plans 12/15/2025 05:58pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� Ford Motor Co. is pivoting away from its once-ambitious electric vehicle plans amid financial losses and waning consumer demand for the vehicles in lieu of investment in more efficient gasoline-engines and hybrid EVs, the company said Monday. The Detroit automaker, which has poured New York City is getting its first 3 Las Vegas-style casinos 12/15/2025 04:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The New York Mets��� ballpark in Queens. A Bronx golf course once operated by President Donald Trump ���s company. A slot parlor on a horse racing track near John F. Kennedy International Airport. The three disparate sites, located far from the tourist hub of Manhattan, will become Sabres fire general manager Kevyn Adams and promote Jarmo Kekalainen to replace him 12/15/2025 03:08pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ��� The Buffalo Sabres fired general manager Kevyn Adams on Monday in a move made 2 1/2 months into his sixth season, with the team sitting at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings and already in jeopardy of extending its NHL-record playoff drought to a 15th year. The dec Hallmark holiday movie fans are flocking to Connecticut's quaint filming locations 12/15/2025 01:20pm • WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (AP) ��� ���Christmas at Pemberley Manor��� and ���Romance at Reindeer Lodge��� may never make it to Oscar night, but legions of fans still love these sweet-yet-predictable holiday movies ��� and this season, many are making pilgrimages to where their favorite scenes were filmed. Rob Reiner, son of a comedy giant who became one in turn, dies at 78 12/15/2025 12:59pm • Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who became one himself as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation with movies such as ���The Princess Bride,��� ���When Harry Met Sally ������ and ���This Is Spinal Tap,��� has died. He was 78. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found fa US tariffs are having an uneven effect on holiday prices and purchases 12/15/2025 12:58pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Ah Louis Store in San Luis Obispo, California, turns into a winter wonderland every holiday season. Green garlands, giant nutcrackers, baubles and bows go up in early November on the historic downtown building that houses the gift shop. Inside, customers can choose from over 50 Hunter Biden disbarred in Connecticut following complaints about his gun and tax convictions 12/15/2025 12:55pm • WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) ��� A judge on Monday disbarred Hunter Biden in Connecticut for violating the state's attorney conduct rules, a decision that comes after complaints were made about the federal gun and tax charges Biden was convicted of before being pardoned last year by his father, former Pres Church Nativity scenes add zip ties, gas masks and ICE to protest immigration raids 12/15/2025 12:09pm • DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers in tactical vests labeled ���ICE.��� Iran hosts regional talks on Afghanistan but Kabul stays away 12/15/2025 09:14am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Afghanistan's neighbors met in Iran and agreed to deepen regional coordination to address political, economic and security challenges, as well as calling for sanctions on Afghanistan to be lifted. The only absent party? Afghanistan itself. China, Pakistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan Ruben Gallego emerges as key Democratic figure in Latino voter outreach 12/15/2025 08:40am • MIAMI (AP) ��� On a warm Sunday morning in Miami, Sen. Ruben Gallego stepped out of a car and approached parishioners exiting a church beneath palm trees, handing out flyers in this Dominican neighborhood. Gallego left some of his staff members behind as he drummed up support for a fellow Democrat r