Mariah Carey relishes the fact that she has become culturally synonymous with Christmas.

It doesn’t feel like Christmas in Venezuela.

The world’s attention on Venezuela has focused lately on the fallout from a highly contested presidential election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won, the persecution of critics and the arrest warrant issued this week against the former opposition presidential candidate.

These should be historic occasions in 2024.

Some Eastern Orthodox churches will be observing Christmas on Sunday.

A survey of factory managers in China shows manufacturing contracted in December in the latest sign the world's second-largest economy remains sluggish.

Eurostar services to and from London have been canceled after a tunnel under the River Thames became flooded, disrupting festive travel plans for scores of people.

Antwan Hampton would have turned 19 in February, but a Miami shooting killed him about five days before Christmas.

A Florida woman holding her 11-month-old son in a baby carrier was fatally shot by her 14-year-old brother while trying to defuse an argument over Christmas gifts he was having with a 15-year-old brother who also was armed, authorities said.

A man arrested in Broward County just before Christmas is accused in federal court of being one of the masterminds behind a cryptocurrency “Ponzi scheme,” according to an indictment unsealed late Tuesday.

Thousands of shoppers continue to flock to malls all across South Florida just one day after a busy Christmas weekend.

Police say a Miami Gardens couple got a knock on the door Christmas night. It wasn’t a family member or a caroler, they say, but an armed home invader.

Miami Dolphins players spread their Christmas joy with Local 10 News after clinching a playoff spot in Sunday’s 22-20 win over the Dallas Cowboys.

Christmas carries more than spiritual weight for many Ukrainians this year: for the first time, the country is observing it as a public holiday on Dec. 25, rather than the later date followed in Russia.

Pompano Beach firefighters teamed up with community members to hand out gifts to hundreds of children on Christmas morning.

Flames damaged a Baptist church in Fort Lauderdale leading up to the Christmas holiday.

Erik Spoelstra was part of 12 Christmas games as a staff member, assistant coach or head coach in his first 20 seasons with the Miami Heat.

From Jesus' biblical birthplace of Bethlehem to New York City, many Palestinian Christians this Christmas season are gripped with helplessness, pain and worry amid the Israel-Hamas war.

North American military assets are keeping a sharp eye on Santa's travels.

Holiday travel is expected to hit its peak right around now.

Some traditions on the list are centuries old, and others are newer but no less cherished.

As Christmas approaches, Catholic nuns and monks are busy preparing the traditional delicacies they sell to a loyal fan base even in rapidly secularizing countries.

Bethlehem is gearing up for a subdued Christmas without the festive lights and customary Christmas tree towering over Manger Square.

Both Russia and Ukraine have reported dozens of attempted drone attacks in the past day.

Someone playing the part of a holiday Grinch is causing a nightmare before Christmas in South Florida.

Sandy Alcántara, a Dominican professional baseball pitcher, was helping Santa Claus on Monday in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood.

Airports and highways are expected to be busier this Christmas season than they were a year ago.

The Grinch’s helpers are at it again in Broward County. Police officers are searching for the two women who are now known as The Hollywood Grinch duo who stole a single mother’s Christmas.

Pope Francis has made his first public appearance outdoors since being stricken by bronchitis two weeks ago, which forced him to cancel a planned trip to the COP-28 climate conference in Dubai.

Join the Local 10 Big Bus Toy Express team’s effort to help children feel the love of Christmas and deliver an unwrapped new toy to one of the nine pickup locations.

Get your tissues ready, Publix has released its 2023 Christmas commercial.

The Hyatts brought Christmas joy to South Florida with their over-the-top holiday light displays at their Plantation home. But it turns out, the property wasn't actually theirs, officials are now saying.

Have you ever wondered how foster children celebrate Christmas? For many of them, the holidays are filled with despair from having been separated from a parent or sibling.

There will be no strike by American Airlines flight attendants around the Christmas and New Year's holidays.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on Las Olas.

A brazen thief was caught on camera stealing Christmas gifts from the trunk of a car in Coconut Grove.

“Ted Lasso” star Hannah Waddingham returned home to London to tape her first holiday special for Apple TV+.

A 19-year-old woman from Hialeah was arrested Sunday after throwing bricks at a church, authorities said.

Christmas is back on at Tropical Park. According to a brief sent to Local 10 News on Friday, a judge has denied Santa’s Enchanted Forest’s preliminary lawsuit against the new Holiday themed park, Christmas Wonderland.

If someone bought me this for Christmas, I could tell that we’re going to be friends pretty quickly.

If you’ve driven past Tropical Park in Westchester on the Palmetto Expressway during the Holidays over the last few years you may have missed the Christmas lights, but a new Holiday experience is bringing Christmas back for 2023.

A plastic container with a stranger’s Christmas decorations floated into Barbara J. Gibbs’s property. There was also an abandoned red life vest on the grass right next to the muck left behind on Thursday.

Maximizing player rest and limiting travel demands were again part of the NBA’s formula for the coming regular season.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is moving to revoke the liquor license of a Miami hotel that hosted a Christmas drag show.

A nature photographer had just finished taking pictures of nesting birds in Central Florida, when she happened on a very frightening scene.

A new study says drenchings like those California has been getting since Christmas will only get wetter and nastier with climate change.

Thousands of people in the Philippines remain in emergency shelters in the wake of devastating Christmas flooding as the death toll climbed to 51 with 19 missing.

A 10-year-old boy received his Christmas miracle granted after a U.S. Postal Service worker noticed his letter.

A pair of grinches were arrested Friday after being accused of stealing multiple Christmas gifts from a mail truck in Key Biscayne.

Heavy rains and floods that devastated parts of the Philippines over the Christmas weekend have left at least 29 dead and 25 missing.

A cold snap blanketing the Deep South has upended water systems as local officials struggle to repair widespread leaks and broken pipes.

Holiday sales were up this year despite high inflation, according to Mastercard, and even though Christmas is over, malls are expected to be packed this week.

President Joe Biden is celebrating a quiet Christmas with his family at the White House and has spoken with American service members stationed around the world.

Pope Francis has used his Christmas message Sunday to lament the “icy winds of war” buffeting humanity.

Tens of thousands of migrants who fled violence and poverty are spending Christmas in crowded shelters or on the dangerous streets of Mexican border towns.

The biblical town of Bethlehem is marking what is shaping up to be a merry Christmas.

An Arctic Cold Front is on track to gift South Florida with a Christmas that may rank among the top 10 coldest for Miami.

Whether it was a trendy gift or something particularly sentimental, we wanted to hear about it.

Miami-Dade Mayor Danielle Levine Cava presented Darryl Williams, of Miami, with a $50,000 check so that his home could be renovated for the holidays.

Spain has kicked off the winter holidays with its huge Christmas lottery known as “El Gordo.”.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava pardoned two young pigs Wednesday, giving life to the animals ahead of the Christmas holiday.

If caroling is on your mind, here are five tips to know before warming up those vocal cords.

The British government says it will dispatch 1,200 troops to fill in for striking ambulance drivers and border staff as multiple public sector unions walk off the job in the week before Christmas.

In many ways, the service at the Catholic Church of Our lady of the Rosary feels like a standard Sunday Mass.

Patti LaBelle was abruptly rushed off stage just a couple of songs into her Christmas concert in Milwaukee after a bomb threat forced authorities to evacuate the theater.

From a dank Kyiv bomb shelter to the bright stage lights of Europe’s theaters, a Ukrainian youth choir’s hymns in praise of freedom offer a kind of healing balm to its war-scarred members.

Important dates to know if you plan on sending packages to loved ones for holiday season.

A Christmas tree lot owner in Aventura is stepping up to bring some Christmas cheer to Key Biscayne.

Let's get the Elf on the Shelf to work for us this year (and hopefully every year moving forward).

It all comes at you so quickly: One minute, you’re making grocery lists and setting the menu for Thanksgiving, and then, in the blink of an eye, the holiday has arrived, only to be followed by Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday -- and then your tree goes up and Christmas morning is here.

The Grinch’s followers will be on the prowl as Santa Claus helpers take advantage of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday online sales.

October is over with, which means the holidays are just around the corner. That also means it’s time for Mariah Carey to come out of hiding and sit upon the throne of Christmas.

It’s October, but it’s never too early to get into the Christmas spirit. International superstar Gloria Estefan and her family are getting us there with a Christmas album that features songs in English and Spanish.

The Memphis Grizzlies are in line to be part of the NBA's Christmas showcase for the first time.

What better time to take a quiz on Garfield the cat than National Lasagna Day?

Just ask anyone who has traveled in the past few weeks and they will tell you that having your flight changed, canceled or redirected is becoming more and more common these days.

The omicron variant is sickening so many sanitation workers around the U.S. that some cities have had to delay or suspend garbage and recycling pickup, angering residents shocked that governments can’t perform this most basic of functions.

The Serbian Orthodox Church says the Patriarch, Porfirije, has tested positive for COVID-19.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says it's time to consider whether to move away from the detailed tracking that the pandemic has required until now to a flu-like monitoring system.

The United Kingdom will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne with a military parade, neighborhood parties and a competition to create a new dessert for the Platinum Jubilee.

Florida apparently held on to 1 million COVID-19 test kits because "there was no demand," according to Florida’s Director of Emergency Management.

The U.K. government has been making contingency plans in case hospitals, schools and other workplaces are hit by major staff shortages amid the latest record spike in coronavirus infections.

Wintry weather combined with the pandemic is frustrating air travelers again, whose return flights home from the holidays were canceled or delayed in the first days of the new year.

Detectives are searching for suspects in three shootings over the Christmas weekend in Broward County — including a man’s murder and a police-involved shooting.

France recorded more than 100,000 virus infections in a single day for the first time since the pandemic struck and COVID-19 hospitalizations have doubled over the past month.

Kemba Walker became the seventh NBA player with a triple-double on Christmas, and the New York Knicks beat the depleted Atlanta Hawks 101-87 for their first win on the holiday in a decade.

The world's largest and most powerful space telescope has blasted off on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies.

A worldwide surge in COVID-19 infections thanks to the omicron variant is tempering Christmas celebrations.

The holiday scene at the White House has been a little less merry under under COVID-19's shadow.

The NBA’s Christmas message to its teams was a refrain it has been using for weeks: Get boosted.

With Broward County test sites closed through Saturday in observance of Christmas, the search and scramble is on for people looking for alternatives.

Two New Hampshire brothers have gotten their holiday regifting skills down to an art by passing the same hard candy back and forth since 1987.

Germany’s health minister says the proportion of coronavirus infections with the new omicron variant will increase sharply in the days ahead.

Tulane University in New Orleans is delaying the start of its spring semester because of the latest surge in coronavirus cases, and another private school says students must get booster shots before returning.

Essie “Big Mama” Reed was in tears when she talked about the struggles families are facing during the coronavirus pandemic. She and her helpers, some of whom consider her a surrogate mother, helped her to distribute toys during her annual Christmas event.

During this time of year, kids are told a man in a big red suit will make all their Christmas wishes come true. However, as Local 10 discovered, a very generous man, not from the North Pole, but from right here in South Florida, is making a difference for dozens of deserving girls.

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With the omicron variant rapidly spreading and lines of people swarming testing sites before Christmas, Florida almost set a new record with 26,811 new COVID-19 infections in a day.

Pope Francis has urged Vatican cardinals, bishops and bureaucrats to embrace humility this Christmas season.

A jury has ended an abbreviated first week of deliberations without reaching a verdict at the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell.