First lady gives kids a special thrill for Christmas
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Kids anxious to learn when Santa would arrive got an update from a surprise guest this year when first lady Michelle Obama fielded their phone calls.
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Alabama dad ‘shocked’ by BCS Christmas gift
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For Alabama fan Don Buckhannan the Christmas gift of a fedora just like the one the legendary Coach Bear Bryant used to wear was pretty great — and then he looked inside the hat to find tickets to the sold-out BCS national championship. He and his son Daniel talk about the thrilling surprise.
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President Obama greets Marines in Hawaii on Christmas
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KANEHOE, HAWAII – President Obama spent part of his last full day in Hawaii participating in an annual tradition for his wife Michelle and him: greeting Marines at the base near his vacation home here.
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Christmas around the world
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Santa Claus water-skis on the Potomac River with a “reindeer” on Dec. 24 at National Harbor in Maryland, near Washington D.C., during the 27th Annual Water Skiing show.
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Inside NORAD’s command center as Santa trackers follow Santa’s progress
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Over a thousand volunteers at NORAD handle more than 100,000 thousand phone calls from children around the world every Christmas Eve as NORAD charts Santa’s progress around the globe.
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‘Sandy Claus’ delivers toys to storm-stricken kids
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The Associated Press reports — From his toy-cluttered Brooklyn apartment, the man in the red suit was making his list and checking it twice. But he made no distinction between naughty or nice: Every child on it would receive a gift from this Santa Claus.
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Photo of baby sleeping on Santa goes viral
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Moms everywhere snap — and cherish — photos of their squishy, adorable babies. But sometimes, in the rarest of circumstances, a mother captures her own infant in an image so moving that it makes hundreds of thousands of people around the world gasp.
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16 million bulbs for Christmas lights exhibition in Colombia
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People attend the Christmas lights in the Medellin river on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2012. The Medellin’s Christmas lights exhibition is one of the most impressive in Colombia.
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A 90-year tradition: Obama lights National Christmas Tree
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President Barack Obama lit a new National Christmas Tree at a traditional ceremony Thursday outside the White House that officially kicks off the holiday season in the nation’s capital.
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2012 White House holiday card stars Bo
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An artist from Iowa designed the official 2012 greeting, which features the Obamas’ Portuguese water dog traipsing through the snowy lawn of the White House.
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WATCH LIVE: President Obama and his family participate in the lighting of the National Christmas Tree at the White House
Hosted by Neil Patrick Harris with performances by Colbie Caillat, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, The Fray, Ledisi, Jason Mraz, Phillip Phillips, James Taylor and more.
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Cops replace sick girl’s Christmas lights stolen by ‘Grinch’
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When thieves snatched the holiday lights off of a terminally-ill child’s home, Phoenix police officers made sure that no “Grinch” would steal Christmas from the 5-year-old.
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Thousands sign online petition against high-tech Christmas tree
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Instead of a traditional pine tree, a high-tech light installation vaguely shaped like a Christmas tree stands in the the city center of Brussels. And the 82-foot sculpture is causing quite a stir, with thousands of signatures appearing on an online petition against it.
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