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Trump chooses adviser Kellyanne Conway as White House counselor

President-elect Donald Trump has named close adviser Kellyanne Conway as his White House counselor, elevating the woman who led his campaign to victory to a senior West Wing position.

Jeopardy! run ends for cancer-stricken contestant who died

A woman who died of cancer just days before her appearance on “Jeopardy!” aired won six contests in a row and more than $103,000, some of which she donated to cancer research.

In Christmas speech, Pope offers blistering commentary on resistance to reform

Pope Francis on Thursday denounced the “hidden” resistance he’s encountering in reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, saying some of it is inspired by the devil and that the prelates who work for him must undergo “permanent purification” to serve the Catholic Church better.

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Just in time for Christmas: El Gordo lottery winners share $2.4 billion

MADRID — Celebrations were guaranteed Thursday in Madrid after all the tickets bearing the top prize number of 66513 in Spain’s 2.3 billion euros ($2.4 billion) Christmas lottery were sold there.

Trump denounces recent attacks, promises to invoke tough immigration plan

Denouncing the deadly attack on a Christmas market in Germany, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his vow to stop radical terror groups and appeared to suggest a willingness to move ahead with his campaign pledge to ban temporarily Muslim immigrants from coming to the United States.

Trump taps billionaire Carl Icahn to be special adviser on regulatory issues

Billionaire Carl Icahn will advise Donald Trump on rescinding what the activist investor called “excessive regulation” on U.S. businesses, the president-elect’s transition team announced on Wednesday.

Uber parks self-driving cars in California

California has put the brakes on Uber’s weeklong experiment with using self-driving cars on the streets of San Francisco.

 
Mexicans search for loved ones, answers after deadly fireworks blast

Relatives of workers at a fireworks market flattened by a deadly chain-reaction explosion searched hospitals for loved ones Wednesday as attention focused on apparent lax security that allowed vendors to display their dangerous wares in the passageways between stalls.

 
It actually has snowed in the Sahara Desert twice since 1979 — VIDEO

Multiple news sources have said the Sahara Desert hasn’t received snowfall since 1979, but according to the Weather Channel, the sandy stretches of North Africa received dustings of snow in 2005 and 2012.

Final evacuation of Aleppo gets green light

Syrian rebels said they have reached an agreement with the government in Damascus on Wednesday to complete their withdrawal from Aleppo.

 
YouTube star says Delta kicked him off flight for speaking Arabic

Nearly 200,000 people have posted on Twitter using #BoycottDelta after a video surfaced showing two men being removed from a Delta Air Lines flight for reportedly speaking Arabic on the phone and making passengers uncomfortable.