The seasonal greeting "Merry Christmas" is made possible by the ... that typifies our legal and cultural framework. In the United States, the First Amendment protects both the free exercise ...

comes a day after Christmas and a week after major military shake-ups within the Trump administration. One week ago, Trump announced he was pulling roughly 2,000 US troops out of Syria.

For people living on remote islands across the Pacific, Christmas is the sound of C-130s roaring overhead as boxes of food, clothing, toys, and more parachuted from the holds drop down from the sky.