European Union and British negotiators worked through the night and right into Christmas Eve to put the finishing touches on a trade deal that should avert a chaotic economic break between the two sides on New Year's Day.

“Your failure to terminate the very dangerous national security risk of Section 230 will make our intelligence virtually impossible to conduct without everyone knowing what we are doing at every step,” Trump wrote.

President-elect Joe Biden offered a bleak, pessimistic message during a press briefing on Tuesday, telling Americans that the worst is yet to come in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

While the imminent dissolution of Israel’s Knesset was keeping the country on tenterhooks Tuesday, another smaller, but arguably no less significant, development was taking place in its Supreme Court. For the first time ever, the court debated the legality of a Basic Law — essentially challenging its own constitution — in a move that has been denounced as the “quiet death of democracy.”

The world yawns. This doesn’t fit the establishment media narrative, which holds that Muslims are always victims and Christians always aggressors, and so down the memory hole it will go.

....Every Christmas liberals have tried to make the Christmas story about some Leftist program. It’s almost the only time in the year when Leftists use the Bible for propaganda purposes.

Many Americans celebrate President Trump as the most significant champion for religious freedom in a lifetime. His actions gave Christians a sense of security, but now secularists, humanists, and others feel empowered to begin unraveling Trump-era protections.

New report describes methods and names names of those repressing secret Christian believers—and other faiths.

A viral Twitter thread breaking down incoming first lady Jill Biden's 2007 dissertation to earn her doctorate in education outlined examples of poor writing and math errors.

As church attendance and religious affiliation continue to decline across the West, many have lamented the spiritual and social side effects, including a weakening of civil society and the fragmentation of community life. What is less discussed, however, is the economic impact of such a shift.

In modern times, there has never been a Christmas like this in America.

....In November, the six presidents of SBC seminaries released a joint statement calling critical race theory “unbiblical” and “incompatible” with SBC beliefs.

Is America, with all its sins and virtues and all its achievements, a country to be cherished, loved and defended? Or, is America a country of whose history we should all be ashamed?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spoke from the House floor Monday and criticized some of her opponents, whom she accused of using their faith to oppose “science.”

People who refuse a vaccine for COVID-19 could find normal life curtailed as restaurants, bars, cinemas and sports venues could block entry to those who don't have proof they are inoculated.

....Joe Biden’s pick for surgeon general is insisting that the vaccines that have been developed will likely work against this version of the virus as well...But the truth is that until testing is done, nobody really knows whether the current vaccines will be effective against this new strain or not.

Britain went into a Tier 4 lockdown on Sunday, including banning activities during Christmas, amid a newly identified strain of COVID-19 that a top health official describes as “out of control.”  Subsequently, several European nations, including France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, have temporarily banned travel from Britain.

....The focus was on self, wealth, and Hollywood celebrities who were attracted to the no rules, ‘come as you are and stay as you are’ false doctrine preached from their pulpits. Now the entire, ungodly mess has imploded and is under investigation amid claims of rampant sexual abuse of its members. No surprise here.

....Houses of worship have faced difficult decisions during the pandemic and those challenges have been exacerbated as new cases peak during Christmastime, with thousands of Americans dying from the virus every day.

....“Is there a way for someone to easily show that they have been vaccinated – like a barcode they can download on their phone? There ought to be,” Yang wrote on Twitter.

...Insisting on being called “Doctor” when you don’t heal people is, among most holders of doctorates, seen as a gauche, silly, cringey ego trip.

...Should a federal government $27 trillion in debt, forgive multi-million dollar loans to cash-rich non-profit organizations?

At the turn of the 20th century, Judeo-Christian values were promoted in this nation. By the 1950s, they were celebrated. By the '70s and '80s, they were tolerated, and by the late 2000s, they were hated in popular secular culture.

Echoing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned city residents this week to prepare for a "full shutdown" as part of ongoing efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19. The two elected officials better not hold their breath waiting for compliance. Evidence from around the country shows that many Americans are thoroughly sick of impoverishing, socially isolating lockdown orders, and are revolting against the often-hypocritical politicians who issue them.