Here’s a list of some of the major restaurant and fast food chains and whether they’ll be open on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, and Christmas Day, Dec. 25. It’s always best to confirm if your local restaurant is open, as well as its holiday hours, before venturing out with the family or placing a takeout order.

The so-called atmospheric river will hit the San Francisco Bay area first, possibly dropping a month’s worth of rain in a few days, weather forecasters say. The system will then sink into Southern California, edging into North County late Tuesday night then hitting hard through Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day.

Isro is set to launch its powerful LVM3 “Bahubali” rocket on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025, from Sriharikota, carrying the BlueBird Block-2 satellite into Low-Earth Orbit and marking a key milestone for India’s commercial space launch capability.

While you're spending all your money on last-minute gifts, don't forget that the U.S. stock market will be closing early on Christmas Eve and staying closed on Christmas Day. The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will close at 1 p.m. ET Wednesday, Dec. 24, and reopen the normal times on Friday morning after the holiday.

A man trapped in a freight elevator assume he was going to freeze to death on Christmas Eve until an unseen savior intervened.

T.I. is aiming for some Christmas Eve calamity in households everywhere -- with the release of his debut stand-up comedy special!!! On Friday, Tip dropped the trailer for "Cheaper Than Therapy" ... his all-jokes,

The “Despacito” singer will narrate the Christmas story at EPCOT during the Festival of the Holidays for two nights.

At midnight on Christmas Eve, the hymn “The Night of Christmas” will ring out in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was born