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However, like much of the U.S., fast food restaurants can alter their opening hours or even shut completely on Christmas Day, making it important to plan ahead. And to complicate matters further, outlets in some chains will shut while others remain open on December 25. We have compiled the Christmas Day opening hours of some of America’s most popular fast-food restaurants, from KFC to Krispy Kreme. Please note, while Newsweek has contacted all the restaurants featured in this article, some have yet to respond, so please confirm the opening times with your local branch before making the trip....

The earthquake measured 6.8 magnitude on the Richter scale, with its epicenter located around 50 miles southwest of the city of Davao on the island of Mindanao, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Officials said that the quake had caused damage to buildings in the city and left several people injured, Reuters reported. According to Vincent Fernandez, mayor of Matanao town near the epicenter in Mindanao’s Davao del Sur province, a six-year-old girl was killed when a concrete wall collapsed on her....

The mother in the situation, u/bear651, shared the story to the popular Reddit forum r/AmITheA**hole to figure out who was wrong. She earned over 5,100 upvotes and 1,500 comments for her post “AITA for forcing my husband to fly back to Greece to get our toddler’s teddy bear that he left behind on purpose?” The original poster (OP) explains that the couple’s son is attached to an old teddy bear that has absorbed all the love and abuse a toddler can give, and is now somewhat ratty....

Emergency services raced to the Whispering Wall tourist attraction in South Australia’s Barossa Valley on Wednesday afternoon after they were alerted by witnesses. When they arrived at 4:30 p.m. officers and paramedics found 38-year-old Henry Shepherdson had died and his 9-month-old daughter Kobi had suffered serious injuries. Police performed CPR on Kobi, but were unable to save her life. Investigators later said the 118-foot fall was a suspected murder-suicide....

During a press conference on Tuesday, officials with Crime Stoppers of Houston and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office announced that the reward for information on the 2019 murder of Elizabeth “Liz” Barraza has increased to $50,000. Barraza’s father, Bob Nuelle spoke during the press conference and said, “nearly three years ago, we all stood here around this podium to share the news of the murder of my beautiful daughter.”...

Thirty years later, Sheridan has released “In the Name of the Father,” which makes it clear he knows precisely where England is. “Father” is a corrosive indictment of the British judicial system. It is the brutal–and true–story of the “Guildford Four,” a group of apolitical layabouts whom British authorities allegedly tortured and convicted for IRA bombings they knew nothing about. In particular, it’s the story of a scruffy Belfast petty thief named Gerry Conlon, who was imprisoned along with his fragile, devout father, Giuseppe....

Fauci, a heavy favorite at 4/5 early in the day and dropping to even odds at post time, couldn’t close enough ground down the stretch from the No. 3 position and finished second in the five furlong race for 2-year-olds. Garoppolo, from the No. 1 spot, faded fast in the five-horse contest. The winner was Prisoner, who had the second-best post odds at 6/5 working from No. 2 and trained by three-time Belmont Stakes winner Todd A....

What a difference four years makes. Then the world, including Newsweek in a cover story on the 14-year-old phenom, dubbed Capriati the ““Can’t-Miss Kid.’’ She had a winning smile to go with her perfect strokes. Before she even made her debut as a pro at the age of 13 and 11 months, she had cut commercial deals with Diadora, the Italian sportswear company; Prince, the racquet manufacturer, and HBO. For a while, Jennifer didn’t miss much....

Detectives have published two photos of the man they say was involved in the attack on Hodges, who was seen on video being crushed in a doorway during the Capitol riot. “During the insurrection at the United States Capitol, the suspect assaulted and used a clear police shield to pin MPD Officer Daniel Hodges in a door jam,” police said in a statement on Friday. The man has longish hair and is wearing glasses in the two photos....

To justify the unprecedented raid on a former president’s residence and protect the source who revealed the existence of Trump’s private hoard, agents went into Trump’s residence on the pretext that they were seeking all government documents, says one official who has been involved in the investigation. But the true target was this private stash, which Justice Department officials feared Donald Trump might weaponize. “They collected everything that rightfully belonged to the U....

John Pulcastro, a supervisory analyst at the Pittsburgh FBI, described how Pittsburgh has become a “hub” for the far-right and neo-Nazi groups during a “When Hate Hits Home” Zoom presentation presented by the Cyril H. Wecht Institute. “It’s important to understand that it is here,” said Pulcastro, via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pulcastro warned that groups such as Patriot Front—described as an “image-obsessed organization” who rehabilitated the “explicitly fascist agenda” of Vanguard America with extremist patriotism by the Southern Poverty Law Center—are among those holding events and recruiting in the city....

During the filming of 1982’s Blade Runner , Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford had repeated run-ins on the set. Eventually, it got to the stage where Ford went above the director’s head and complained to the studio, resulting in the executives making changes to the final film without Scott’s involvement. Hollywood is filled with stories such as these: directors feuding with actors; actors becoming more powerful than the directors; and even actors conspiring to have directors fired or replaced....

Under pressure from conservatives such as Jesse Helms, the FCC has been increasingly hostile to “shock radio” in recent years. Last year it fined Infinity $6,000 after one of Stern’s guests played the piano with his penis. But last week’s fine upped the ante. “This is the first skirmish in a war against that trash,” says Terry Rakolta, head of Americans for Responsible Television, the group that lobbied for even harsher remedies....

The Pixel by Labcorp COVID-19+Flu+RSV Test Home Collection Kit earned emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week. It will be available beginning in June online through Labcorp OnDemand without a prescription. “While the FDA has now authorized many COVID-19 tests without a prescription, this is the first test authorized for flu and RSV, along with COVID-19, where an individual can self-identify their need for a test, order it, collect their sample and send it to the lab for testing, without consulting a health care professional,” Jeff Shuren, MD, JD, director of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in a statement....

The medication is meant to treat adults who have plaque psoriasis severe enough to make them candidates for systemic therapy and phototherapy. Many of the drugs that are available to treat severe cases of plaque psoriasis are biologics that are injected or administered intravenously. These can be expensive and often require patients to routinely visit a provider to be treated and monitored. Even oral immunosuppressant options can increase the risk of infection and other undesirable side effects....

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recalling certain Sportmix products after batches were found to contain potentially fatal levels of aflatoxin. Aflatoxin is a toxin produced by mold that can grow on corn and other grains used as ingredients in pet food. Symptoms can include sluggishness, loss of appetite, vomiting, jaundice, and diarrhea. Pets may also suffer liver damage but not show symptoms, the FDA said. Both cat and dog food products are among those being recalled....

Though hand sanitizer is commonly recommended to help keep your hands clean while in public—or even inside your home—so many of them have been discovered to have methanol, which can be toxic if either ingested or infiltrated wrongly through skin. For people wanting to continuously stay clean, the FDA and CDC recommend that you wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds—as needed, or several times a day—and to practice good hygiene....

FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub on Monday urged “young, healthy” Americans to volunteer to be poll workers to help those doing in-person voting, but she also stressed that mail-in voting is “absolutely” safe and effective. Weintraub confirmed to CNN’s New Day that U.S. intelligence reports are continuing to highlight Russian disinformation campaigns that are aimed not only at skewing voters’ decisions, but are also intended to disrupt America’s democratic process as a whole....

Rather than rule on the DOJ’s injunction request right away, Judge Robert Pitman set a hearing for October to hear arguments on whether to allow the restraining order, according to The Texas Tribune. The following day, September 16, Pitman denied the Justice Department’s opposed motion for an expedited briefing that hoped to move the hearing up. In his order, Pitman, an Obama appointee, said that Texas “wished to be heard....