By JOSH LEDERMAN (HONOLULU, AP) — Warning from President Barack Obama to congressional Republicans: I have a veto pen and, come January, I won’t be afraid to use it. Since… Read more »

(LOS OSOS, Calif., AP) — A man surfing on the Central California coast was dragged under water by a juvenile great white shark and bitten in the hip on Sunday… Read more »

By JOSH LEDERMAN (KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii, AP) — President Barack Obama marked the end of more than a decade of combat in Afghanistan by paying tribute to America’s military, telling… Read more »

(PHILADELPHIA, AP) — A pair of Philadelphia transit police officers rushed onto a downtown subway train on Christmas and helped make a special delivery: a baby boy. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation… Read more »

(JACKSON, Miss., AP) — Emergency workers in Mississippi planned to go out Christmas Eve and survey the damage caused by storms that hit the South a day earlier, killing at… Read more »

(BETHLEHEM, West Bank, AP) — Christian pilgrims from around the world have begun to gather in the biblical town of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations at the traditional birthplace of… Read more »

By TIA GOLDENBERG (BETHLEHEM, West Bank, AP) — It’s Christmas season and the little town of Bethlehem is jammed with a big-city problem: Traffic snarling streets everywhere, including around the… Read more »

(LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J., AP) — Twitter users anywhere in the world can control the lights on a holiday display in New Jersey. Tweets will turn on a 9-foot Christmas tree, menorah… Read more »

By DAN ELLIOTT (DENVER, AP) — Researchers say they’ve collected promising weather data by flying instrument-laden drones into big Western and Midwestern storms. Now they want to expand the project… Read more »

(LAKE WALES, Fla., AP) — Authorities say a man faked a heart attack inside a Florida Wal-Mart store so his friend could steal toys. The men — 30-year-old Tarus Scott… Read more »