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President-elect Joe Biden announced appointments to his White House team Tuesday, filling top positions with longtime aides and senior campaign staff. Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond, an early and vocal Biden campaign supporter, is leaving the Capitol to run the White House office of public engagement. Richmond's team will...

Back in February, Jeffrey Bezos posted a picture of the Earth on Instagram. In the caption, the world’s richest man announced his new project to save the world: the Bezos Earth Fund, an initiative to support scientists, activists, nonprofits, and anyone else who seems to have a good idea...

A wealthy Chinese pigeon racing fan has put down a world record price of $2.6 million for a Belgian-bred bird. Three-year-old hen New Kim was the focus of a two-week auction and the final price was reached as the bidding came to an end on Sunday. During a frantic last half-hour,...

And how the bidders loved him! A buyer shouted out with glee that they would pay $368,000 for the Rudolph and Santa Claus figures used in the perennially beloved Christmas special “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.” Bidding for the figures soared past the projected sale price of between $150,000 and $200,000...

At the lowest point on earth, in the middle of a giant salt lake where animals and plants have no chance of surviving, a jolly man dressed in red with a flowing white beard stuck a Christmas tree in the ground and went for a swim. Santa Claus came to...

A hiker on Mount Rainier was lost overnight and found with barely a faint pulse, only to make an astonishing recovery after being 'dead' for 45 minutes. Michael Knapinski, 45, remembers little beyond being lost in a whiteout on the mountain on November 7. When he opened his eyes on Tuesday...

President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that Joe Biden had "won" the presidential election while saying that the election was rigged — a claim that has been widely debunked. "He won because the Election was Rigged," Trump wrote before falsely claiming that no watchers or observers had been allowed. It was not...

At least 20 people were arrested as pro-Trump demonstrators and counterprotesters gathered in the nation's capital on Saturday. The majority were arrested for minor incidents. However, late in the day, as the crowds thinned and the scene got more violent, police said one protester was stabbed multiple times. Seven guns...

A chain of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic will set aside a stretch of ocean almost three times the size of the UK to protect nature – creating the world’s fourth-largest marine reserve. The government of Tristan da Cunha, often described as the most remote inhabited islands in the...

The Miami Marlins announced Friday that they had hired Kim Ng as their new general manager, making Ng the first female GM in MLB history. According to ESPN, Ng is now the highest-ranking woman employed by any of the 30 MLB teams and is likely the first woman to hold...