When should you take your Christmas tree down? It's an age-old debate, but one tradition says now is the right time.

Not sure how much longer you should leave your tree up? Here’s what tradition says — and when most people say they take theirs down, tradition or otherwise.

As a child-free couple with remote jobs, we choose not to spend Christmas and New Year's gathering with family. Instead, we travel somewhere new.

The sisters, wearing candy cane-striped ribbons in their hair and matching red sweaters emblazoned with reindeer and hearts, had made the traditional trek to Times Square from the Upper East Side of Manhattan with their parents. They posed for annual pictures with Santa Claus – and assured him they had been very good this year.

The devastation has loomed over the celebrations for the tiny Christian community in Gaza, with much of the population living out of tents and food supplies still limited.

Government officials have traditionally steered clear of such overtly religious language, as the Constitution prohibits the establishment of an official state religion.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated the first Christmas since his election by denouncing the suffering of people of Gaza – taking shelter in tents from the “rain, wind and cold” – and by calling for the guns to fall silent in Ukraine.

The 2023 and 2024 celebrations were canceled with a "broken heart and a broken soul," Bethlehem's mayor told NBC News, but the ceasefire has reignited "the spirit of Christmas."

Britney Spears turned what is usually a season of truce into another flashpoint in her long running family rift, using a belated Christmas message to call out relatives she described as “innocent” and “beautiful” with unmistakably sharp sarcasm.

To wrap up the holiday season, Carey returned to Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest on Wednesday, Dec. 31 nine years after dealing with a technical difficulty during a set of "Auld Lang Syne," "Emotions" and "We Belong Together" on the same show.