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The Echo Pop is a tiny speaker with Alexa-enabled smarts, and is currently down to its best price. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Believe it or not, we’re now just a few days away from Christmas. Don’t panic if you’ve yet to start your holiday shopping, though! While it might be too late to order some of the gifts on your holiday wish list, plenty of other great presents will arrive in time.. if you know where to look.

A contestant's incorrect answer on a recent Christmas-themed episode of "Wheel of Fortune," in which he guessed "Chocolates, chestnuts and chickens," had viewers buzzing on social media.

Almost a year after revealing her dementia diagnosis, she showed up to watch Kevin Hunter Jr.’s ceremony at Florida International University.

NOBBLE your nibbles with a hit of spice this Christmas!

It is easy to buy your own nuts and coat them for extra flavour.

Serve as an easy snack that’s sure to impress your guests . . . 

NUTTY PROFESSOR: It’s great to experiment with different flavours and nuts to find a mix you love. Use plain unsalted nuts, such as cashews, pecans, peanuts, macadamia, almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts and Brazil nuts.

Mix up different spices to get Indian-, Moroccan- or Mexican-style snacks. Читать дальше...

(Photo credit: Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images) The Sacramento Kings hope limiting turnovers and fouling less can make a difference when they seek to split an NBA-style doubleheader with the Los Angeles Lakers in a rematch Saturday afternoon in the California capital. When the Kings and Lakers met at Sacramento on Thursday, Austin Reaves had 25 points, Anthony Davis 21 and LeBron James 19, but the biggest difference-making n

The government intends to stimulate economic growth in order to address household debt problems sustainably, according to Finance Minister Pichai Chunhavajira.

1. Italian deputy PM acquitted of charges over refusal to let migrant ship dock  The Guardian
2. Matteo Salvini: Italy's deputy prime minister found not guilty of illegally detaining migrants on rescue boat  Sky News
3. Italian deputy PM Salvini acquitted of migrant kidnapping charges  Reuters
4. Italy’s deputy PM Matteo Salvini cleared over 2019 stand-off with migrant ship  Financial Times
5. Italy's Salvini awaits verdict in trial over blocking migrants at sea  Euronews

Disney had enormous success in 2019 with Jon Favreau’s “The Lion King,” a remake of the beloved 1994 animated movie that used photorealistic CGI and virtual production techniques to appear as if it was shot in “live-action.” The movie earned $1.6 billion worldwide and remains the 10th highest-grossing movie of all time, unadjusted for inflation. […]

If President Biden gives pardons to potential targets of the Trump administration, would accepting them mean admitting guilt?

Why was Hanukkah assigned blue? Take a deeper dive into the history of the color, plus the commercial effect of the holiday in stores.

Two brothers who helped stage a hate crime attack against actor Jussie Smollett won’t be able to collect damages from Smollett’s lawyers for defamation, a federal judge in Chicago ruled Friday.

On This Day: The Greatest To Ever Do It Wins His First World Title – Sugar Ray Robinson @ Boxing News 24/7

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- A Lackawanna father and son were convicted by a federal jury of a kidnapping conspiracy after they allegedly confined their female relative in Yemen for over a year to force her into marriage, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced. Sentencing is scheduled for June 17, 2025. Conspiracy to kidnap a person in [...]

Teniki Steward is charged with four felonies after prosecutors and police allege she was speeding and ran a red light causing a crash that killed two women and sent a juvenile to the hospital.

The "Better Man" tune was disqualified after the Academy learned it “incorporates material from an existing song that was not written for the film"

ORLANDO, Fla. — Parker Navarro ran for three touchdowns and passed for a fourth in the first half and Ohio held off Jacksonville State 30-27 on Friday in the Cure Bowl, the only bowl game featuring two conference champions.

Hideko Hakamata spent decades fighting to save her brother: the world's longest-serving death row inmate.

For a decade and a half, Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal has been advocating for the...

The man allegedly hit two teenagers and one bicyclist with a vehicle.

‘We will not have a government shutdown,’ Mike Johnson said.

When you get to the level of multi-million dollar cars like the Bugatti Chiron, the sky is basically the limit in terms of spec and customization. Whatever color combination, special artwork or one-off trimmings you ask for, Bugatti can do it. The company will even create custom parts for you after your car has been…

Indiana-Notre Dame, SMU-Penn State, Clemson-Texas and Tennessee-Ohio State kick off a new playoff system that matches college football's wonderfully chaotic season.

Jeffrey Epstein victims and their lawyers have demanded an explanation as to why Peter Mandelson has been appointed UK ambassador to the US given his friendship with the late paedophile

Judge dreadful

IT is perhaps the most chilling court ­ruling we can recall.

The High Court’s Mr Justice Williams hid the identity of another judge who handed Sara Sharif to her abusive father in 2019 because, he said, the media couldn’t be trusted with it.

It is the duty of a free Press to question whether that family court ruling ultimately led to the circumstances which ended in the child’s torture and death. Читать дальше...

People with no connection to the Post Office avidly followed the inquiry, both online and in person.