Planes have begun landing again in the New York metropolitan area after a blizzard clobbered the Northeast and closed the region’s three airports. Mass transit services are also slowly resuming. (Dec. 28)
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Elton John and husband David Furnish have become parents to a 7-pound, 15-ounce baby boy born on Christmas Day. Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born in California via an unidentified surrogate. (Dec. 28)
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A late touchdown lifted New Orleans over Atlanta 17-14 Monday, giving the Saints a playoff spot and preventing the Falcons from clinching the NFC South. (Dec. 28)
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Drenching rains pounded communities across northeastern Australia on Tuesday, flooding major highways and prompting hundreds of evacuations. (Dec. 28)
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A tow truck operator in South Carolina faces manslaughter and weapons charges after investigators say he shot a man during a Christmas Eve dispute over a parking violation. (Dec. 27)
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President Barack Obama made the first public appearance of his vacation Monday, stopping by one of his favorite local shops for a Hawaiian snow cone known as “shave ice.” (Dec. 28)
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President Woodrow Wilson is born; John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president of the United States to resign; Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago” is published; Actor Denzel Washington and comic book creator Stan Lee are born. (Dec. 28)
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Five young men have been found dead inside a South Florida motel from what authorities believe was carbon monoxide poisoning. (Dec. 27)
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Police in Duluth, Minnesota have arrested a person of interest in a fire that destroyed an auto body shop and about 30 vehicles inside the building early Monday. It took more than 2 dozen firefighters to put out the blaze. (Dec. 27)
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The blizzard that left New York under a thick blanket of snow wasn’t all bad news. The storm brought dozens out to New York’s Central Park for a day of sledding and skiing. (Dec. 27)
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