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Pig roasts, hockey games and family: Lawmakers share favorite Christmas traditions

House Republicans told Fox News Digital about their favorite Christmas traditions, from friendly competition to cooking elaborate meals.

Yemen would be a war too far

It was piracy on the high seas that drove the infant United States into its first foreign war. In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with the Barbary States, which had been kidnapping American sailors. The U.S., they said, was a new nation, and had done the people of North Africa no wrong. The Tripolitanian representative, Sidi Haji Abdrahaman, told them in reply: “It is written in the Koran that all nations which have not acknowledged the Prophet are sinners, whom it is the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave.”

And the Word dwelt among us, full of grace and truth

The Gospel of John opens with these words: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

Every state’s most-searched Christmas movie revealed in new analysis

'Tis the season for cozy socks and holiday movies, which begs the question: Which is your favorite Christmas flick?

Al Gore foreshadows 1 billion ‘climate refugees’ crossing borders from global warming

Al Gore offered a grim outlook Sunday for world migration patterns, predicting that migrants "crossing international borders in larger numbers" might soon be the result of climate change.

Decision on Trump’s immunity claims could be months away, former prosecutor warns

The Supreme Court's refusal to fast-track a hearing on Donald Trump's immunity claims has set up a legal battle that could drag on for months, a prominent former federal prosecutor warned Sunday.

Like Santa’s reindeer, C-130 cargo planes spread Christmas joy across the Pacific

"Operation Christmas Drop is the Department of Defense's longest-running humanitarian airlift operation. The tradition began during the Christmas season in 1952 when a B-29 Superfortress aircrew saw islanders waving at them from the island of Kapingamarangi, 3,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. In the spirit of Christmas the aircrew dropped a bundle of supplies attached to a parachute to the islanders below, giving the operation its name. Today, air drop operations include more than 50 islands throughout the Pacific," notes a written report from Andersen Air Force B ase on Guam.

Israel intensifies strikes in central Gaza, killing dozens

In one of the war's deadliest strikes, at least 68 people were killed by an Israeli strike in central Gaza on Christmas Eve, health officials said Sunday. Meanwhile, the number of Israeli soldiers killed in combat over the weekend rose to 15, according to The Associated Press. The strike occurred on the Maghazi refugee camp...

Trump releases Christmas TV ad in early voting states

Former President Trump, the front-runner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, released a new television ad Sunday afternoon that is set to air in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. In the one-minute ad spot, former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders described Trump’s surprise Christmas visit in 2018 to Iraq. The ad emphasized...

Why is Christmas abbreviated as ‘Xmas’?

Contrary to popular belief, Xmas is not a way of shortening the word to save space.

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