Day: December 26, 2024

An Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38. The airline’s chief hailed the pilots’ heroism after 29 passengers survived.

A taxicab hit six pedestrians in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, police said, with three people — including a 9-year-old boy — transported to hospitals for their injuries.

Once a red state, California has been heavily Democratic since the 1990s. Vice President Kamala Harris narrowly lost the 2024 election to President-elect Donald Trump, but she carried California by 20 percent (according to the Associated Press). Yet some Californians in the agricultural industry backed Trump because of his promise to lift water res…

Syria’s new authorities on Thursday launched a security crackdown in a coastal region where 14 policemen were killed a day before, vowing to pursue “remnants” of the ousted Bashar al-Assad government accused of the attack, state media reported.

The Russia-bound passenger plane went down in Kazakhstan with the loss of 38 lives.

The Financial Samurai decided to sacrifice FIRE for “desire.”

LeBron James claims a history-making Christmas Day win as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Golden State Warriors.

The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed near Kazakhstan’s Aqtau on Christmas Day – while en route from Baku to Grozny in Russia – may have been “accidentally struck” by a Russian surface-to-air missile or antiaircraft fire.

On December 26, 2004, a powerful earthquake off the coast of Aceh in Indonesia triggered a series of waves that inundated coastal communities and killed 230,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and others.