LeBron James will play his first game with Philadelphia 76ers on the NBA’s opening night against the NBA champion New York Knicks.
Pope Leo XIV has baptized 20 babies in the Sistine Chapel, continuing an annual tradition marking the end of the Christmas holiday at the Vatican.
More than a thousand flights have been canceled or delayed across the Northeast and Great Lakes as a winter storm disrupted one of the busiest travel weekends of the year between Christmas and New Year’s.
The shopping rush leading up to Christmas is over and in its place, like every year, another has begun as millions of people hunt for post-holiday deals and get in line to return gifts that didn’t fit, or didn’t hit quite right.
We have declared a 4Warn Weather Alert for Metro Detroit for the first half of the day on Friday, Dec. 26, 2025.
It started as a simple weed growing in a parking lot near Detroit Metro Airport, but for dozens of travelers around the holiday, it grew into much more.
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell previewed the team’s upcoming road game against the Minnesota Vikings on Christmas, noting the challenge of facing a team on a three-game winning streak.
Gaza’s tiny Palestinian Christian community is trying to capture some of the Christmas spirit under a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
Roseville police officers made a surprise Christmas visit to the two young sons of missing mother Ashley Elkins on Monday evening, surprising the family with toys, a ceremonial key to the city, and a personal visit with Santa Claus, as her loved ones mark the first holiday without her.
A suspected cyberattack has knocked France’s national postal service and its banking arm offline during the busy Christmas season.
President Donald Trump visited the eastern North Carolina town of Rocky Mount on Friday, the second time this month he traveled to a presidential battleground state to focus on the economy and affordability concerns.
Christmas is one week away, and for some, that means endless Christmas parties and maybe overindulging on one too many spiked eggnogs or cocktails -- which could lead to a not-so-friendly next morning.
The classic Christmas movie is heading to the stage at the Fox Theater, and we are giving one lucky Insider the opportunity to win 4 tickets!
The Michigan State Police are joining one of the most meaningful events of the year, Operation Good Cheer, to help deliver gifts to children in need.
As the countdown to Christmas begins, the cast and crew at Downriver Youth Performing Arts Center are putting the finishing touches on their high-energy production of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer -- and this year the show is more accessible than ever.
Melania Trump has decorated the White House for the holidays, and her theme is “Home Is Where the Heart Is.”.
With Thanksgiving and the formal launch of the holiday shopping season, Americans will again take to the road for holiday gatherings before knocking off items on their Christmas gift lists.
Spirit Halloween is switching gears from spooky to seasonal, turning some of its Halloween stores into Christmas shops just in time for the holidays.
Authorities are pulling submerged vehicles from the Columbia River, including a car thought to have belonged to a Portland couple who vanished in 1958 while out for a drive with their three daughters.
A Michigan woman bought several scratch-off lottery tickets as Christmas gifts for family members and ended up winning a $1 million prize on the one she kept for herself.
A Michigan woman bought several family members scratch-off lottery tickets for Christmas and ended up winning a $1 million prize on the one she purchased for herself.
A 25-year-old Indiana woman won a $500,000 prize from the Michigan Lottery on a Detroit Lions scratch-off lottery ticket, which she received during a white elephant gift exchange with her family.
Americans still dreaming of a really big Christmas present can keep that dream alive during Friday’s Mega Millions drawing for a jackpot worth an estimated $1.15 billion.
Mikal Bridges scored a season-high 41 points, and the New York Knicks overcame 42 from Victor Wembanyama in a monster Christmas debut to edge the San Antonio Spurs 117-114 on Wednesday.
Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus paid a visit to the babies at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to celebrate their first Christmas on Earth.
Local authorities say a Russian ballistic missile struck a residential building Tuesday in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih and at least one person was killed.
Mourners are laying flowers near the scene of the deadly Christmas market attack as investigators puzzle over the motive of the suspect and his previous encounters with authorities are scrutinized.
The city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, will not have the usual trappings of the city's favorite holiday: no public Christmas tree, no raucous scouts march, no decorations and no twinkling lights, in deference to the ongoing war in Gaza.
Santa Claus has braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts to the children of a small village near the Brazilian city of Manaus.
Will Howard threw two touchdown passes to freshman Jeremiah Smith and Ohio State routed Tennessee 42-17 on Saturday night in a first-round College Football Playoff game, setting up a New Year’s Day rematch with No. 1 Oregon at the Rose Bowl.
Officials say four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed when a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the German city of Magdeburg.
Police are treating a car-ramming at a Christmas market in Germany that killed at least five people as an attack.
Church bells rang out in the German city of Magdeburg exactly 24 hours after authorities say a man drove into a busy Christmas market, killing five people and injuring 200 others.
Authorities in the German city of Magdeburg say at least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market what officials called a deliberate attack.
Two days after dropping 16 points to lead the Detroit Pistons to an overtime win over the Miami Heat, former Michigan Wolverines star Tim Hardaway Jr. visited Henry Ford St. John Children’s Hospital to spread some Christmas cheer.
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As we approach the Christmas holiday, and after experiencing a few rounds of snow across Southeastern Michigan, what are our chances of seeing a white Christmas?
Have you ever watched a holiday rom-com on Hallmark Channel or Lifetime — or any of the other many networks and streaming services that now air them — and thought, “I could write that”.
The griping Vatican-based movie thriller “Conclave” about picking a new pope and Stephanie Hsu starring in the dark comedy series “Laid” as a woman whose former lovers keep unexpectedly dying are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases.
Travel back to the Village and experience Christmas from the 1850s-60s as costumed reenactors perform activities of the season, such as playing games, decorating, exchanging gifts, and calling on friends.
The holiday shopping season is underway, and this year small businesses have less time to capitalize on the busy shopping period.
Thanksgiving is just days away, and then Christmas will be here before you know it! Here's a live countdown to track the days until Christmas, plus information on some of the holiday festivities you can partake in around Metro Detroit.
We know Santa can’t visit everyone’s house before Christmas, so he has helpers that use his name, and one particular Santa has run into a problem.
It’s not too early to start looking ahead to what is shaping up to possibly be a much different winter in Metro Detroit this year compared to last year. What does that mean?
The world’s attention on Venezuela has focused lately on the fallout from a highly contested presidential election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won, the persecution of critics and the arrest warrant issued this week against the former opposition presidential candidate.
Bill Ford Jr. got involved in 2018, but another Detroiter, Stanley Christmas, 75, put his flag in the ground to save Michigan Central Station nearly a decade earlier.