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People wait to vote in person at Reed High School in Sparks, Nev., prior to polls closing on Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File)

Support slipping for adding Election Day to the annual holiday list

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Tourists visit the Hongyadong scenic zone during the weeklong national holiday in southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Sept. 30, 2023. Tourism in China bounced back to pre-pandemic levels during a recent eight-day national holiday, giving a temporary boost to the nation's flagging economy. (Chinatopix via AP)

China’s flagging economy gets a temporary boost as holiday travel returns to pre-pandemic levels

Associated Press

People walk past a mural in the colors of the Serbian flag in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Serbia has kicked off a new holiday celebrating national unity with a display of military power, triggering unease among its neighbors. The new holiday comes decades after similar calls for unity led to the bloody wars in the Balkans in the 1990s. Serbs in the region were told to display thousands of red, blue and white national flags wherever they live in the region or the world to mark “The Day of Serb Unity, Freedom and the National Flag.” Serbian officials are calling for the creation of a “Serb World,” or political unification of an estimated 1.3 million Serbs who live in Bosnia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Croatia with Serbia. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Serb unity day triggers worries across the Balkans

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, addresses marchers during his &quot;I Have a Dream&quot; speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The annual celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in his hometown in Atlanta is calling for renewed dedication to nonviolence following a turbulent year. The slain civil rights leader's daughter, the Rev. Bernice King, said in an online church service Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, that physical violence and hateful speech are “out of control” in the aftermath of a divisive election followed by a deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol in Washington by supporters of President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/File)

How Stevie Wonder’s ‘Happy Birthday’ helped form US holiday

By SAFIYA CHARLES and Montgomery Advertiser - Associated Press

Budweiser and Major League Baseball have launched a White House petition to have the league's opening day declared a national holiday. (Budweiser/Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Baseball lobs one to the White House

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Column: Could football end up killing itself?

By TIM DAHLBERG - Associated Press

Belarus blocks social media sites on holiday

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press