The new year opens with six planets strung across the evening sky and delivers two total lunar eclipses, a pair of partial solar eclipses, three supermoons and strong aurora chances in 2025.

President-elect Donald Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party that he was invited to Jimmy Carter’s Jan. 9 funeral at Washington National Cathedral and plans to be there.

Tens of thousands of people marched to Istanbul’s Galata Bridge after dawn prayers on New Year’s Day, waving Turkish and Palestinian flags and demanding an end to Israel’s war in Gaza.

Harry Chandler was raising the flag at a naval hospital when Japanese planes appeared over Pearl Harbor. He spent that day pulling wounded men from oil-covered water. He died Monday in Florida at 103.