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Back view of a man wearing a Santa Claus costume in the street. File photo credit: NeydtStock via Shutterstock.

Neo-Nazi ‘Santa’ plot aimed to kill children; poisoned-candy suspect arrested

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building on May 6, 2021 in New York. The New York Times Co. is buying sports site The Athletic for $550 million, drilling down on subscriptions as the newspaper print ads business fades. The Athletic covers national and local sports — more than 200 teams, according to the Times' press release. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

New York Times buys Wordle puzzle game for seven figures

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young (11) goes past Denver Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon (50) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

NBA postpones five more games due to rising COVID-19 numbers

By Tim Reynolds - Associated Press

Brooklyn Nets head coach Steve Nash talks to Nets' Joe Harris (12), Jeff Green, Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot (9) and Caris LeVert (22) during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, in New York. The Thunder defeated the Nets 129-116. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) **FILE**

Nets don’t expect issues meeting New York vaccine mandates

By Brian Mahoney - Associated Press

Audrey Strauss, acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks during a news conference to announce charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein, Thursday, July 2, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Feds charge 4 in Iranian plot to kidnap U.S. journalist

By Larry Neumeister

In this September 2016 photo provided by Kim Calderwood, Mollie Tibbetts poses for a picture during homecoming festivities at BGM High School in her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the man charged with killing Tibbetts while she was out for a run in July 2018, will stand trial for first-degree murder on Monday, May 17, 2021, in Davenport, Iowa. (Kim Calderwood via AP)

Fairness issues loom over trial in Iowa student’s slaying

By Ryan J. Foley - Associated Press

New York Knicks forward Reggie Bullock (25) is congratulated by forward Julius Randle after making a 3-point basket during the first half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Orlando Magic on Thursday, March 18, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, Pool)

Randle’s third triple-double lifts Knicks over Magic

By DENIS P. GORMAN - Associated Press

Dogs play around a social distancing sign during off-leash morning hours at the Long Meadow in Prospect Park, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Go to any dog park right now and you’ll probably find lively pandemic puppies, along with new owners learning the ins and outs of off-leash play. One of the silver linings of the pandemic is that many people are discovering the joys of dog ownership. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

New pups hit the dog park; owners are nervous wrecks

By BETH HARPAZ - Associated Press

Indie bookstores launch anti-Amazon ‘Boxed Out’ campaign

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

Dayton's Obi Toppin (1) dunks over George Washington's Jameer Nelson Jr (12) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, March 7, 2020, in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Tribble)

No. 3 Dayton buries GW in season finale, looks to postseason

By MITCH STACY - Associated Press

US charges Malian in al-Qaida hotel attack in Burkina Faso

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, photo, a group of orthodox Jewish children cross the street in Monsey, N.Y. With the rapid expansion of Orthodox communities outside New York City has come civic sparring, and some fear the recent violence in the area may be an outgrowth of that conflict. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Anti-Semitism grows in Jewish communities in NYC suburbs

By Mary Esch and Ryan Tarinelli - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 18, 2019, file photo, Moulard ducks, a hybrid white farm Peking duck and a South American Muscovy duck, are caged and force-fed at Hudson Valley Foie Gras duck farm in Ferndale, N.Y., to fatten their livers to produce foie gras. A day after the New York City Council voted to ban the sale of foie gras, animal rights activists sued the biggest U.S. distributor of the French delicacy for inhumane treatment of ducks, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Animal rights activists sue biggest US foie gras distributor

By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

This photo provided by Betsy Olmsted Design Studio shows some of the Saratoga Springs, N.Y.-based artist and designer's designs. Betsy Olmstead planned to become a naturalist. Now she translates that early passion for living things into a delightful collection of watercolor, gouache and ink drawings for table linens, pillows, wallpaper and fabric by the yard. There are woodland creatures like foxes, hedgehogs and turkeys on offer as tea towels, for example, as well as an intriguing wallpaper pattern called Curio on which glass cloches hold beautifully-rendered mushrooms, coral, antlers and moths as well as fungi and flora. (Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes/Betsy Olmsted Design Studio via AP)

RIGHT AT HOME: The look of hand-drawn art is hot in decor

By KIM COOK - Associated Press

The Latest: US citizen charged with training IS detained

Associated Press

A woman, right, who identified herself as Ester, passes a group of boys, Tuesday, April 9, 2019, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. Ester says that she does not believe that the measles vaccination is safe. The city health department ordered all ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools in a neighborhood of Brooklyn on Monday to exclude unvaccinated students from classes during the current measles outbreak. In issuing the order, the health department said that any yeshiva in Williamsburg that does not comply will face fines and possible closure.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NYC orders mandatory vaccines for some amid measles outbreak

By JENNIFER PELTZ and VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2018, file photo, a poster for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business in Brooklyn, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

APNewsBreak: 4 faced scrutiny before arrest in Tibbetts case

By RYAN J. FOLEY - Associated Press

Brooklyn Nets guard Caris LeVert (22) is tended to after an injury during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Hannah Foslien)

‘Obviously, I’m very blessed’: Nets’ LeVert discusses injury

By TIM REYNOLDS - Associated Press

George Mason's Otis Livingston II, center, looks to evade Richmond''s Nathan Cayo (4) during an NCAA college basketball game in Richmond, Va., Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018. (Joe Mahoney /Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) **FILE***

George Mason picked fourth in Atlantic 10

By David Driver — Special to The Washington Times

People leave Mollie Tibbetts' funeral at Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom High School, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018, in Brooklyn, Iowa. Cristhian Bahena Rivera is charged with first-degree murder in Tibbetts' death. Authorities have said Tibbetts was abducted while running in July, and an autopsy showed that she died from stab wounds. (Kelsey Kremer/The Des Moines Register via AP)

The Latest: Slain student’s father thanks Hispanic community

Associated Press