Christmas
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With the Washington Monument in the background, spectators gaze at the National Christmas Tree on Christmas Eve 2021. (© Jose Luis Magana/AP Images) A White House Christmas tradition — with lights, decorations, music and an appearance from the sitting president — turns 100 this year.
Have you got the gift cards and presents for your tree? But did you know the Christmas event of the Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) Metaverse is now showing in Career Communications Group’s virtual world? During the holidays, BEYA alumni will be having the time of their […]
Thomas Massie: US Congressman condemned for Christmas guns photo BBC News Source link
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) in a Christmas photo of his family holding guns, in this image obtained from Twitter, posted on December 4, 2021. Courtesy of Twitter @REPTHOMASMASSIE / Social Media via REUTERS Register now for FREE unlimited access to reuters.com Register WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – A U.S. congressman on Saturday posted a […]
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is once again calling for people to spend their money over the festive period on Black-owned businesses as part of their “Black Xmas” campaign. Beginning in 2014, the movement has urged people to stand against “white supremacist capitalism” by purchasing items via Black-owned businesses from Black Friday through to […]
Love visiting Chicago’s annual Christkindlmarket during the holiday season? You aren’t alone. Global travel site Big 7 Travel just released its list of the best 25 Christmas markets in the USA for 2021, and Chicago’s Christkindlmarket is on it — in the number one spot. This year’s top Christmas markets were ranked . . .
Days after reports of shortages of Thanksgiving turkeys proved premature, the American Christmas Tree Association was moved to promise Americans that “Christmas will not be cancelled”, amid reports of looming problems. The statement from ACTA, which represents the artificial tree industry, came amid concern that supplies of both plastic trees and live Noble, Frazer and […]
© Dubes Sonego Junior Dreamstime.com By Ian Putzger in Toronto 24/11/2021 This week, Walmart and other US retailers kicked off the season of frenzied bargain shopping with steep discounts on some products. Normally Black Friday (due at the end of this week) marks the shopping season going into hyperdrive, but some players apparently decided not […]
Facebook pages and GoFundMe appeals hinted at the damage: A multisport athlete at Waukesha South High School with “a broken femur, skull fracture, broken ribs, C4 vertebrae fracture, a bruised lung, and a pneumothorax (collapsed lung).” An 11-year-old girl with a fractured left leg and a head injury and in intensive care in a different […]
A sports utility vehicle has ploughed through a Christmas parade in the US state of Wisconsin, striking more than 20 people, including children and causing “some fatalities”, police said. The incident occurred at around 4:39pm (22:39 GMT) on Sunday in the city of Waukesha, about 32 kilometres (20 miles) west of Milwaukee. Waukesha Police Chief […]