Look At All These Guns People Got for Christmas
Without further ado: Pictures of people standing in front of Christmas trees with their brand new guns.
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Today in entertainment news: The former VP candidate is writing a war-on-Christmas book, The Bible is still a big hit, and David O. Russell's mega-cast movie looks destined for Oscar season.
Without further ado: Pictures of people standing in front of Christmas trees with their brand new guns.
During his annual Christmas address at the Vatican this year, the Pope prayed for peace in Syria, something that doesn't look likely any time soon.
The holidays have been rough for the Newtown Police Department, which is why officers from across Connecticut joining forces, so that not a single Newtown officer has to work on Christmas Day.
Discovered: the new secret of mistletoe; it's actually the lack of thought that counts; why holiday shoppers are so rude; miracle at Christmas market.
Normally you'd be in a panic, but not this Christmas. This Christmas you will find that neglected someone in your life, and you will find them something perfect.
Today is the busiest day of the year for UPS, so you kind of have to wonder what it's like for the folks up there in the North Pole.
There are two Santa trackers in town — er, space — this Christmas: the trusty ole eyes at NORAD and Google's new version, the simultaneous existence of which could lead to some very confused children next Monday night.
Online retailers that for years have championed e-commerce over brick-and-mortar are now opting to build their stores as well. But what does that mean for actual last-minute holiday shopping?
The first question to ask oneself, right now, is "Am I a Christmas tree type of person?" If you are, read on! If you're not, read on, too, because you may find yourself becoming one.
Authorities have identified the shooter and are saying they don't have a motive yet — that it was a random act of violence — but we stumbled across what appears to be his Facebook page and discovered, well, a lot of violent signs.
Imagine going Christmas shopping at your local mall, and someone starts shooting. That's exactly what happened in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday, when a lone gunman killed three, including himself.
Many of us are cutting to the chase and simply buying gifts for ourselves this season, according to the market research. 'Tis the season for getting yourself a little something, apparently.
The "War on Christmas" flames were again stoked today over a statistic citing a majority of Americans wanting to shift the holiday's emphasis from Santa to Jesus. One commenter says neither figure represents his love for the sinister side of Christmas.
In a poll made for Fox Nation and the ongoing War on Christmas, a survey has found a majority of Americans want Christmas to be less about the man in the Coca-Cola ads and more about the one with the birthday.
The most wonderful time of the year is also the time of the year in which we are bombarded with the most sexist commercials on television. Let's take a stroll through the Ghosts of Christmas Jewelry Ads Past.
Slate's Katy Waldman has cast a cold, malevolent eye upon grapefruit this mid-winter morn and declared it "disgusting," a gift you should never give to anyone you care about. But surely there are worse gifts. Like these.
Holidays seem to be Instagram's bread and butter, so it makes sense that Twitter would fire their first shot in the war on Instagram when the app is at its most vulnerable.
The Fox News host continued his misguided fight Thursday night. When will he see the light?
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced Wednesday afternoon that the House can't go home for the holidays until the fiscal cliff is resolved, which sounds horrible, but maybe isn't totally. We asked Sen. Claire McCaskill's daughter.
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Whether or not Bill O'Reilly's War on Christmas is fake, he's fighting on the wrong side this year.
Did you hear? Did you hear? I'll tell you everything, my dears. The pope didn't cancel Christmas after all!
The White House has released an adorable (and kind of trippy?) video of the president's dog Bo "inspecting" the decorations, all to the tune of The Nutcracker's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy."
Heading into what could be third straight year of record-setting sales — and fever-pitched hyperbole — Cyber Monday is still fighting off the fake-holiday accusations. Has it become the Valentine's Day of Christmas? We look at the numbers.
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Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker was sentenced to prison for using his followers' faith to sell them goods of dubious value, so it's odd that now that he's free he's using warnings about the coming End Times to sell fans thousands of dollars of survival gear.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
We couldn't imagine how the story of the murder-suicide that left seven dead on Christmas Day could be even more heartbreaking -- not until we read the Associated Press's retelling of the events based on text messages sent by a 22-year-old victim.
In a brilliant (and frightening) display of our current holiday spirit, writer Jon Hendren spent his Christmas night re-tweeting anyone who complained about not getting — or worse, getting and not being happy about — expensive unneeded gadgets.
Increasing numbers of single adults are choosing to spend the holidays with their friends, rather than travel home to hang out with their biological family.
We can't give you this year's Christmas Day weather forecast in your hometown -- for that you'll have to check in with the local TV stations, or if you're under 30, Google. But we can show you historically where Christmases are most likely to be white in the U.S.
Online shopping's all easy and fun until Best Buy cancels gift orders and ruins Christmas.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention, but today in honor of the holiday, it's all Christmas and puppies. Merry Xmas!
Hope you have a Merry Christmas, America, because you've been extremely naughty at the mall this year.
In this year's edition of their annual gag very serious press release, the Department of Transportation has announced today that, as far as the Federal Aviation Administration is concerned, all systems are go for Santa Claus's flight across the world.
Because of a lack of supply sparked by climate change the Texas drought, this holiday season will not feature much mistletoe, and no one will even notice it's gone.
That Christmas tree ban that Shimon Gapso, the mayor of the Israeli town of Nazareth Illit, enacted last year still stands.
New York City can be a real grinch sometimes, especially if you're a protest movement with a history of antagonizing the authorities.
All the new shows have stopped until after the new year, so what is there to watch?
The "Christmas Price Index," the collective cost of all the gifts one clearly-trying-too-hard man buys his sweetheart in the carol "The 12 Days of Christmas," hit a record high this year.
Being a Republican politician often requires denouncing homosexuality as a threat to the existence to the American family, but staffing a campaign requires hiring gay staffers. That's when the trouble begins.
It's not something the federal government likes to admit but every December, the faceless men and women of the U.S. government are allotted a holiday party to toast the year's successes.
You no longer have to wonder what gadget to get the tikes on your holiday gift list this year: the far-and-away most popular electronics product the kids are clamoring for in 2011 is the iPad.
The White House had to reverse course today on a Christmas tree-related tax, but its not the first Tannenbaum-related scandal this administration has faced.
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