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For the second year, the Christmas eve celebration in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem was muted by the pandemic precautions.

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When cows overgraze it's bad for the soil and the climate. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is experimenting with virtual fencing to help avoid overgrazing.

During the pandemic, some secular Jews have taken up learning Yiddish to reconnect to their heritage.

Scott Simon notes Alligator Records' 50th anniversary year with founder Bruce Iglauer.

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The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from French Guinea at 7:20 a.m. ET on Saturday, Dec. 25. The NASA mission was decades in the making and should reveal the earliest galaxies in the universe.

With the usual throngs of foreigners absent, Palestinian Muslims and Christians gathered in Manger Square and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas.