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Oil prices settle up as US begins holiday weekend
Oil prices settled higher on Friday as some investors covered short positions ahead of the three-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend in…
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Holiday shoppers spent a record amount online, searching out deals amid economic anxiety
Consumers splurged this last holiday season, enticed by good deals even as they worried about growth and inflation. Online shoppers spent…
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Christmas music driving you nuts? Why holiday playlists are everywhere
If it began to sound a lot like Christmas earlier than usual this year, it wasn’t your imagination. Halloween wasn’t even over before…
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US airlines see record holiday travel even as airfares climb
A daily average of 2.9 million passengers will travel between Dec 19 and Jan 5, up 1.5% from a year earlier US airlines expect to ferry a…
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Climate Change Is Coming for Your Favorite Holiday Foods
Chocolate, vanilla, coffee, cinnamon: The ingredients for your favorite holiday foods are becoming increasingly harder to grow because of…
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A Holiday Gift Guide: Puzzles and Games Galore
For the word gamer with old-school tastes and ample storage space, consider a Monogrammed Deluxe Scrabble set ($170), paired with a…
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A Holiday Gift Guide: Treasures That Are Old, or Old at Heart
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A Holiday Gift Guide: Gear for the Coffee Nerd
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Thailand lifts ban on afternoon alcohol sales in time for year-end holiday festivities
Thailand on Wednesday lifted a 53-year-old ban on the afternoon retail sale of alcoholic drinks, a move expected to help boost year-end…
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A Holiday Gift Guide: Presents for Music Lovers
It’s easy to think of music as ephemeral and essentially free, rather than a thing you can dotingly select, acquire, and present to your…
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Jet2 relaunches flights to popular holiday destination for first time since 2011
Jet2 is set to launch new flights to destinations in Egypt for the first time since 2011. The country’s government announced a programme…
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The secret behind the most comfortable heels you’ll wear this holiday season
Holiday party season is officially underway, which means so is the annual cycle: buy the pretty heels, wear them for an hour, take them…
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A Holiday Gift Guide: Presents to Thank Your Host
For the pet-lover who hates taking care of pets: a self-sufficient ecosystem containing two or three miniature unneedy shrimp that can…
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A Holiday Gift Guide: The Newest, Strangest Gadgets and Apps
We are entering a Surrealist phase of personal technology. Any device you might imagine can be found online courtesy of an obscure Chinese…
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A Holiday Gift Guide: Tools, Treats, and Trifles for Food Lovers
I don’t think I viscerally understood the importance of a Christmas tree, or a Hanukkah menorah, or a St. Lucia’s crown until I moved into…
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A Holiday Gift Guide: Presents for Kids
In theory, buying gifts for children is a snap. If they’re old enough to talk, but not old enough to ignore you completely, they will…
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Deck the malls: Tariffs, economic doubts won't flatten holiday shopping season, forecasters say
Consumer sentiment is falling and tariffs will increase some gift prices this holiday season, but retailers don't expect it to ruin…
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These Delicate Glass Flower Drop Earrings Are Now Only $43 — Just in Time for Holiday Shopping Season
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EVs put an end to China's usual holiday surge in gasoline use
By Sam Li and Lewis Jackson BEIJING (Reuters) -Tianyu Jiang took a 2,000-km (1,200-mile) road trip this month during China's national…
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The Media’s Nazi-Symbol Hunters Take a Holiday
Outlets that have engaged in a decades-long moral panic over alleged Nazi symbols from the right suddenly decide to show grace in the case…
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Ryanair ground staff on strike in Spain as holiday season hits peak
Ground staff in Spain responsible for handling Ryanair flights went on strike across the country's main airports on Friday, though…
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IHG’s Holiday Inn Express hotel brand expands in Nepal
IHG Hotels & Resorts has reached a management agreement with Hotel Eastern Nepal to establish a new Holiday Inn Express & Suites in…
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A Child Left Their Stuffed Animal Behind at a Holiday Inn. Then the Staff's Attempts to Find Its Owner Went Viral
NEED TO KNOW A Holiday Inn has been trying to reunite a lost stuffed animal with one of their guests who left it behind during a recent…
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Upcoming Italian and Spanish weekend strikes could disrupt holiday plans for thousands
Thousands of travellers could see their summer holiday plans thrown into mayhem this weekend due to planned Italian strikes. Airport…