Ever wonder why the new year officially starts on January 1? Turns out, you can thank Pope Gregory XIII—and Julius Caesar.

What September lacks in major holidays, it more than makes up for in birthday parties—here’s why that could be.

Millions of Americans will say “no” to booze this month—all thanks to one British woman who decided to swear off alcohol as she prepped to run a half-marathon.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deported a man who a judge said had a "substantial" claim to U.S. citizenship, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), wrote in a statement provided to Newsweek that he was deported before a judge made that order. "To the media's chagrin, there was no mistake. This [temporary restraining order] was not served to ICE until after the criminal illegal alien was removed," she said.

Immigration authorities did not receive word of a court order blocking the removal of a man living in Alabama until after he had been deported to Laos, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday, dismissing claims that officials violated the order. Chanthila "Shawn" Souvannarath, 44, was deported on Friday, according to his attorneys, a day after a federal judge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, told U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to keep him in the country so that he could present what the judge called a "substantial claim of U.S. citizenship."

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In 1987, Andrews revisited the world of the Von Trapps.

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