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,
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,
Noting VOA’s Cold War mission to fight communism, she said she’d like a investigative unit dedicated to probing the CCP and Beijing’s transnational corruption. Kari Lake has described how she intends to reshape Voice of America (VOA), committing to unbiased, editorially independent coverage while reiterating her loyalty to President-elect Donald Trump. Trump tapped her earlier
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, building to a blaze by early December, and roaring up into
The bill heads to Biden’s desk. It includes $110 billion in disaster aid, $30 billion in farm aid, and extends the farm bill for one year. WASHINGTON—Both chambers of Congress on Dec. 21 passed a last-minute funding package that would extend government funding to March 14, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk. The legislation,
The bill eliminates two provisions that prevented public sector employees from receiving full Social Security benefits, which their unions strongly opposed. WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate on Dec. 21 passed a bipartisan bill that will enable government employees, their survivors, and disabled persons to receive more money from the Social Security program, which will cost up to
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, brought some Christmastime cheer to patients and their families at a children’s hospital on Friday but a toddler in a light blue jumper entertained, too. The president and first lady visited privately with patients and their families for photos at Children’s National Hospital before Jill Biden read “’Twas