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Although he wrote it for Easter, George Frideric Handel's Messiah is a December fixture in concert halls across the country. According to legend, King George II was so moved during the Hallelujah chorus that he leapt to his feet, thus starting the tradition of…

Christmas burns. It's an inferno that would consume the entire world, if it could: a riot of color and fantastical shapes, like the ballerinas of flame that dance in a fireplace. Just a flicker that starts around November to lick at the season's kindling,…

President Joe Biden's Department of Education reached an agreement with the University of California system to settle civil rights complaints that alleged widespread discrimination against Jewish students. To do so, the university system agreed to develop…

A dark money fund backed by Hollywood elites is the lead benefactor of Climate Defiance, the environmentalist group known for blocking highways and disrupting high-profile events in Washington, D.C., and across the country, according to the fund's annual…

TEL AVIV—Israelis overwhelmingly feel safer and are prepared to take risks for peace following Donald Trump’s election as president, according to a recent poll. Three-quarters of the Israeli public says Trump will "strengthen Israel’s security,"…

Polish officials said they will arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in compliance with a warrant from the International Criminal Court if he attends the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.…

Senate Democrats blocked Sen. Tom Cotton's (R., Ark.) resolution Thursday to condemn President Joe Biden’s decision to grant clemency to a former Pennsylvania judge who sent juveniles to prison in exchange for millions of dollars of kickbacks.…

Kara Swisher, the tech journalist who once described herself as the "liberal lesbian Donald Trump of San Francisco," wants to buy the Washington Post from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The idea has the hallmarks of Silicon Valley delusion in the pre-Trump era…

As his presidency nears its end, Joe Biden is abandoning his embattled plan to cancel student loans for over 38 million Americans, the Associated Press reported. …

Lee Edwards, who died last week at the age of 92, was right from the beginning. When Soviet tanks rolled into Hungary in 1956, crushing an anti-Communist rebellion, Lee was serving his country as a U.S. Army officer in West Germany. He had no trouble…

An Indiana University class required students to determine their "privileged" and "dominant" identities—like being white or male—so that they could "address issues of oppression." The mandatory exercise was part of a course that fulfills the school's…

Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis’s case against President-elect Donald Trump is "effectively dead," according to legal experts, after a Georgia appeals court disqualified her from the investigation in a Thursday ruling. The court disqualified…

The View’s Whoopi Goldberg apologized on-air Thursday after suggesting Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Elon Musk want to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump by tripping him downstairs. …

New York City mayor Eric Adams’s chief adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, was indicted Thursday on charges of conspiracy, bribery, and money laundering.…

An environmental nonprofit led by former Chinese Communist Party officials is funding federal climate research in the United States, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of tax filings and government documents.…

A Georgia Court of Appeals on Thursday removed Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis from the 2020 election interference case against President-elect Donald Trump due to her romantic relationship with the case’s lead prosecutor.…

With just weeks left in office, President Joe Biden announced on Thursday an aggressive new climate goal to reduce U.S. carbon emissions by two-thirds by 2035, a move that the incoming administration is likely to ignore.…

Two weeks after President-elect Donald Trump’s November election victory, the Biden-Harris State Department issued an internal diplomatic cable that touted sweeping diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across the agency, including dedicated…

A Maryland woman dubbed the "Black Widow" for murdering two husbands and a boyfriend for insurance money is now free after President Joe Biden commuted her 40-year prison sentence, undercutting the White House's claim that Biden released only "non-violent"…

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle on Friday scorched Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign for being unreachable ahead of the November election. By contrast, she said she could readily contact President-elect Donald Trump.…