Dec 26 RedditGifts Hopes to Unwrap Guinness Record for Largest Secret Santa Swap EmbedVideo(2270, 482, 304); If you think organizing a secret Santa exchange for your office is tricky, try organizing one for the entire globe. As people across the world finish unwrapping Christmas gifts, almost 40,000 people have also… Continue reading
Dec 23 Watch Minn. Church Recalls How Christmas Carols Saved Some U.S. Lives in World War II A Minnesota congregation celebrated Christmas this year by retelling the true story of a Christmas Eve attack on the SS Leopoldville troop-transport ship during World War II's Battle of the Bulge. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the… Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch Making Sen$e: Rich Shopper, Poor Shopper As part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, business and economics correspondent Paul Solman explores how retailers are faring in an economy that's increasingly divided between the haves and the have-nots. Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch Boehner on Payroll Tax Cut Deal: 'Our Members Waged a Good Fight' Boehner on Payroll Tax Cut Deal: 'Our Members Waged a Good Fight'… Continue watching
Dec 21 Watch Poet Mark Doty Reflects on Community Bonds Forged by Handel's 'Messiah' Poet Mark Doty, winner of the National Book Award, reflects on one of the great traditions of the holiday season: Handel's "Messiah."… Continue watching
Dec 21 Watch Poet Mark Doty Reflects on Community Bonds Forged by Handel's 'Messiah' Poet Mark Doty Reflects on a Community Uniting to Peform Handel's Messiah… Continue watching
Nov 24 Watch Retailers Kick Off Holiday Shopping Season Early Friday is the traditional kickoff of the holiday retail season, but some stores are opening a day early. Correspondent Tom Bearden looks at how that's playing out in Denver, Colo., where some say the rush to start shopping is infringing… Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch Abdulmutallab May Not Talk Much in 'Underwear Bomber' Trial The trial of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is charged with trying to detonate explosives hidden in underwear on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009, began Tuesday. Gwen Ifill discusses the opening day of the case with WDET Public Radio's… Continue watching
Dec 27 Weekly Poem: 'Burning the Christmas Greens' By Tom LeGro Born in Rutherford, N.J., in 1883, William Carlos Williams was as a revolutionary figure in American poetry, an experimenter, an innovator and one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement. Continue reading
Dec 24 Watch News Wrap: Christmas Celebrations Around the World Christmas celebrations started around the world today. Continue watching