Holiday Season | featured news

It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas! The holiday season has started early this year with the release of Justin Bieber's new holiday single, "Mistletoe," which premiered this morning on Ryan Seacrest's radio show and is now available for download on iTunes. You can also check out the video sneak peak from the studio that he posted yesterday on Twitter.

The holiday season may be in full force, but it's not too late to book a quick winter vacation.The CBS Early Show outlined a handful of tips to get the best deals on winter trips, even booked now at this late stage in the season (watch the report below)."You can't get any more last minute than Dec. 20th," says Early Show Travel Editor Peter Greenberg, adding there are some great deals out there still.

Actor Wesley Snipes is asking the federal judge who ordered him to report to prison by Dec. 9th, to let him put off the start of his three year sentence on tax charges until Jan. 6th. In an “Emergency Motion To Stay Self Surrender” filed Friday, Snipes argues that as the father of four children, aged 4 to 9, he shouldn’t be forced to turn himself in “in the middle of the holiday season.”

Republicans in the House have blocked a bill that would have extended jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed beyond the holiday season.

Toy safety regulators say one of the holiday season's hottest toy crazes — Zhu Zhu Pets — do not violate federal safety standards after all.

Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from ...

The latest e-book from Stephen King is no bargain. Scribner announced Wednesday that the digital edition of King's "Under the Dome," a 1,000-plus page novel, would not be released until Dec. 24, virtually the end of the holiday season and a month after the hardcover.

A key measure of consumer confidence fell in September, after a gain in the previous month, raising concerns about retail sales in the upcoming holiday season, a research group said Tuesday.