For enslaved people in the Americas, the holiday season was a time of both rare festivity and calculated resistance.

According to tradition, it marks the visit of the Three Wise Men to baby Jesus. The three kings —Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar — gifted baby Jesus gold, frankincense, and myrrh, respectively. For ...

Video. A large crowd watched on as dozens of swimmers rushed to retrieve a wooden cross thrown by a priest into the water, in ...

Video. Santería practitioners in Cuba, the country's most practiced faith rooted in African traditions, warn of a troubled ...

Even if you aren’t religious, anyone is willing to believe that the baby Jesus would have wanted more tamales and more ...

Firefighters from four different Fulton County departments worked on New Year’s Day to battle an apartment fire in Downtown ...

Across the USA, residents look forward to the countdown to midnight on New Year's Eve. As the countdown ensues, a Waterford ...

More than a billion people are set to tune in to watch the Times Square ball drop tonight. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

From a donut that protects against witches to a pastry that will tell your fortune, cultures around the world often start the ...

Celebrations will echo around the globe as the New Year arrives in different time zones, with American Samoa among the last ...

The island operates 14 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and 8.5 hours ahead of India. This means that when it was ...