December 23, 2018

As thefts at nativity scenes rise, communities are turning to elaborate security measures. “People aren’t living the gospel,” one pastor said of the heists.

In a new book, the former wife of the Colombian drug kingpin talks about the pivotal role Salvador Dalí’s “The Dance” played in her life.

Chris Rock made a comeback, Michelle Wolf made Washington nervous, and Hannah Gadsby changed the comedy landscape.

As the second anniversary of the Women’s March approaches, charges of anti-Semitism are overshadowing the movement and plans for more marches.

With a resolution further out of grip, a sense of resignation settled over lawmakers, in a sharp contrast to the frenzied political warfare of previous shutdowns.

Mr. Trump, in a Twitter post, said that Patrick M. Shanahan, Mr. Mattis’s deputy, would serve as the acting defense secretary.

“We don’t work as Democrats or Republicans,” he has said, a theme he has returned to while trying to strike a delicate balance as the chief justice.

Is Netflix killing ticket sales? Not this year. They are expected to hit $11.8 billion, a 6 percent increase from 2017.

A backlog at the printing presses, plus a surging demand for popular hardcover titles, has hurt publishers at peak sales season, with popular titles out of stock in some stores.

A Japanese court allowed prosecutors to keep Mr. Ghosn in custody until at least Jan. 1 as they widen the scope of their investigation into his management.

The museum and other cultural organizations were singled out in a paper demanding that the German government cut funding to groups hostile to Israel.

A ship contracted by Exxon Mobil suspended operations after it was approached by a Venezuelan navy vessel in a renewal of a century-old border dispute.