“Sleigh Ride” is unequivocally the best Christmas song of all time. And it’s not even a Christmas song — it’s a holiday song, a celebration of the winter season despite folks like the Carpenters and Sesame Street trying to change a lyric from “birthday” to “Christmas” and claim it for the all-consuming tinsel avalanche of Christmas ubiquity. No, this is a song about a sleigh ride: of eating pumpkin pie with pals, of feeling warm despite the cold.

"My father was born with this instrument," Laemouahuma Daniel Jatta says. "This is part of our history." Jatta, 55, is from Gambia, a member of the Jola people. He's holding an akonting: a three-stringed instrument with a long neck and a body made from a calabash gourd with a goat skin stretched over it. Jatta's father and cousins played the instrument, but he didn't think much about it himself until 1974, when he was visiting the U.

Alabama This article is more than 2 months oldUS Catholic priest who avoided charges marries teen he fled to Italy withThis article is more than 2 months oldAlexander Crow, 30, married 18-year-old high school graduate on Friday, according to license filed in Mobile county, Alabama A Roman Catholic priest in Alabama who was investigated by law enforcement after fleeing to Europe with a recent high school graduate he met through his ministry legally married her after he returned to the US with her, a document provided to the Guardian showed.

Last month, inflation hit its highest level in nearly 40 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Everything from coffee to toilet paper is getting more expensive and customers are feeling the pinch. Self Financial broke down how the value of $1 has changed since the 1900s based on 10 everyday purchases. Bread Courtesy of Self Financial One dollar in the 1900s would be worth over $33 today, according to an inflation calculator.

Former "One Life to Live" star Scott Evans has pled GUILTY to attempted cocaine possession following his arrest last month -- but TMZ has learned, he won't spend a day in the slammer. We broke the story ... Scott -- brother of "Captain America" Chris Evans -- was busted last month and charged with one count of attempted possession of a controlled substance after trying to buy coke from an undercover cop.