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It’s eggnog season. The boozy beverage dates back to medieval England but remains a holiday hit

By TERRY CHEA, STEPHEN SMITH and STEFANIE DAZIO
Dec 21, 2024 8:01 pm - At Scoma’s Restaurant in San Francisco, this holiday season’s batch of eggnog began 11 months ago. Is it worth the wait? Customer Phil Kenny seems to think so.
Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Dec 21, 2024 7:54 pm - WASHINGTON — A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to es...
Trump taps ‘Apprentice’ producer, Mark Burnett, as special envoy to the United Kingdom

By WILL WEISSERT
Dec 21, 2024 6:34 pm - WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with “The Apprentice,” is being tapped by t...
Germans mourn the 5 killed and 200 injured in the apparent attack on a Christmas market

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, GEIR MOULSON and VANESSA GERA
Dec 21, 2024 2:44 pm - MAGDEBURG, Germany — Germans on Saturday mourned the victims of an apparent attack in which authorities say a doctor drove into a busy outdoor Christmas market, killing f...
Biden signs bill that averts government shutdown and brings a close to days of Washington upheaval

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MATT BROWN
Dec 21, 2024 10:31 am - President Joe Biden on Saturday signed legislation that averts a government shutdown heading into Christmas, bringing a final close to days of upheaval in Washington after Congress passed a bipartisan budget plan just past the deadline and rejected Donald Trump's core demand in the negotiations.
Indiana man sentenced to the maximum of 130 years in prison for 2017 killings of 2 teenage girls

By RICK CALLAHAN
Dec 20, 2024 9:55 pm - INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during a winter hike was sentenced to a maximum of 130 years in prison Frid...
Trump adds Europe to the list of US trade partners he’s threatening with tariffs

By JOSH BOAK and RAF CASERT
Dec 20, 2024 9:54 pm - WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday added the 27 countries that make up the European Union to the list of trade partners he's threatening with ...
At least 2 dead and 60 hurt after a car drives into a German Christmas market in a suspected attack

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI, CHRIS STERN and GEIR MOULSON
Dec 20, 2024 9:53 pm - MAGDEBURG, Germany — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at leas...
Trump taps West suburban Catholic school leader as next Vatican ambassador

By Mitchell Armentrout
Dec 20, 2024 8:53 pm - President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced he’ll nominate West suburban Catholic school board leader Brian Burch as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Burch, ...
Floating a new plan, Speaker Johnson insists there will be no government shutdown

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MATT BROWN
Dec 20, 2024 1:44 pm - Veering toward a midnight Friday government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson is proposing a new plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but punts President-elect Donald Trump demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.

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