
The community where I live doesn't make international headlines very often, but last week the managers of a local residential complex for seniors earned a large-print banner at the top of the Drudge Report.
A Utah State basketball player who nearly died after collapsing during practice Tuesday is expected to be able play again.

This year's Red Kettle Campaign has begun, the annual Christmas fundraiser that helps The Salvation Army collect money to meet human needs in local communities across the country.
Better known in the West for promising to "bury" the capitalist world, Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev is also remembered by Russians for banning works that didn't conform to the Communist Party's notion that art should be straightforward, realistic and appeal to workers and peasants.

Sunday was the first of Advent, the season of preparation for Christmas. We all know how to get ready for Christmas: Shop til you drop, make an appearance at every holiday party, decorate your home like in the magazines. It's go, go, go: get stressed out, exhausted, sick, and then spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s in bed trying to recover.
As 2012 comes to a close, America is still in its longest war, contending against Islamists who struggle for worldwide, theocratic rule.
As 2012 comes to a close, America is still in its longest war, contending against Islamists who struggle for worldwide, theocratic rule.

Santa Monica officials snuffed the city's controversial life-sized nativity display this year rather than referee the religious rumble, prompting churches that have set up a 14-scene Christian diorama for decades to sue over freedom of speech violations.

Mitt Romney's run for president in 2012 has blazed a new path for Mormons, making him the first member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to fight his way to the top of a major-party ticket and into the hearts of millions of Americans on the biggest of political stages.