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Retail sales have been weak this holiday season, but store owners have another chance to move goods. With Dec. 26 falling on a Friday, stores are trying to create a three-day weekend to celebrate shopping. The day began with early-morning door-buster sales and deep discounts.

The American Red Cross forced out a top official amid sexual misconduct accusations, but it still gave glowing references when asked by an aid organization seeking to hire him, ProPublica reports.

Roughly 7,500 people have sought shelter after Hurricane Harvey at state parks in Texas.

A coalition of wildlife, conservation and outdoor recreation business groups has launched an effort to find ways to fund conservation and maintenance…

Pfzier-BioNTech and Moderna are asking the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the new omicron boosters for young children.

The council of rabbis that regulates everything connected with Jewish religious law in Israel now wants to change the shape of bourekas, a type of stuffed pastry popular among Israelis. The move is aimed at helping people keep kosher. But if the rabbis succeed, says one cafe owner, "there really is no limit to their power."

In Maine, an unusual and historic process is under way to document child welfare practices that once resulted in Indian children being forcibly removed from their homes. Many of the native children were placed with white foster parents. Chiefs from all five of Maine's tribes, along with Gov. Paul LePage, have created a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help heal the wounds.

Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a judge to dismiss their cases, arguing prosecutor Lindsay Halligan was illegally appointed.

NPR's pop critic and correspondent shares her favorite albums of this year.

South Korea promises a "compromise solution" in a bid to end a thorny standoff between North Korea and the United States over the North's nuclear ambitions. U.S. officials say they want a diplomatic solution, but won't abandon a 1994 accord in which North Korea agreed to close a nuclear plant it is now moving to reopen. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.