Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that over 3,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded fighting against Ukraine’s incursion in Russia’s Kursk region. Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops to reinforce the Russian military, including in the Kursk border region where Ukraine mounted a shock border incursion in August. Zelensky wrote on X […]

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President-elect Trump said Sunday evening on social media that the U.S. owning Greenland “is an absolute necessity,” in a statement announcing Ken Howery as his nominee to serve as ambassador to Denmark. Howery, a tech investor who co-founded PayPal, was ambassador to Sweden in the previous Trump administration. “For purposes of National Security and Freedom […]

Retirement has been tough for former Seattle Seahawks safety Earl Thomas. The 35-year-old reportedly lost more than $2.7 million in a fraud scheme orchestrated by his ex-wife, according to multiple reports.  Nina Thomas was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft, according to court documents obtained by […]

For Sen. Rand Paul, the holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year — to air his grievances about wasteful government spending. The Kentucky Republican is highlighting $1 trillion in questionable use of taxpayer dollars in the tenth annual installment of his “Fetivus Report” — a tradition inspired by an episode of the […]

SOUTHERN ISRAEL—On December 11, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down NASDAQ’s diversity rules for corporate boards. The rules, which had been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), required boards to have at least one member who identifies as a minority or LGBTQ. The decision was another high-profile victory for Edward Blum, […]

How a composer’s life can be a template for the West Handel statue (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) 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, […]

Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Israel Alone contains much truth, but its title is fundamentally false. And this means that as insightful and eloquent as the author of this volume often is about the threats Israel faces, his thesis reveals that there is much about the world, and the Jewish place within it, that he does not understand. […]

As a seminarian in the order, I heard whispers of the conservative titan among the ranks of Midwestern Jesuits. Everyone I trusted told me I needed to meet him. While in Chicago, I met an unassuming priest who introduced himself simply as “Paul.” We spoke briefly and parted ways. I was told later that I’d […]

REVIEW: ‘The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party’ Senator Mitch McConnell speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) December 22, 2024 Mitch McConnell is perhaps the most important conservative politician of the post-Reagan era. Both George W. Bush and now Donald Trump […]