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Pope Francis kicks off yearlong Jubilee  POLITICO Pope at Christmas Urbi et Orbi: May we become pilgrims of hope, peace, and unity  Vatican News – English New restoration brings fresh light to St. Peter’s Basilica for Christmas Eve Mass  CBS News Pilgrims traverse

Trump’s election sparks fight over judicial retirements, new judgeships  The Washington Post Top Biden ally ‘disappointed’ by president’s veto on bill to increase number of US judges  Fox News Biden vetoes bill to add dozens of new federal judgeships  CBS News Mitch McConnell

Fate of Trump’s Cabinet picks unclear as Republicans prepare to take power in Senate  The Associated Press

Syrian Christians attend first Christmas Eve service since al-Assad’s fall  Al Jazeera English For Syria’s Christians, Christmas is a time to grapple with hope and fear  The Washington Post Syrians in Christian Neighborhoods Protest After Christmas Tree Is Burned  The New York Times

Syrian Christians attend first Christmas Eve service since al-Assad’s fall  Al Jazeera English Syrians in Christian Neighborhoods Protest After Christmas Tree Is Burned  The New York Times For Syria’s Christians, Christmas is a time to grapple with hope and fear  The Washington Post

Syrian Christians attend first Christmas Eve service since al-Assad’s fall  Al Jazeera English For Syria’s Christians, Christmas is a time to grapple with hope and fear  The Washington Post Syrians hope for a new era of peace in first Christmas after Bashar

A Complete Unknown, out in theaters on Dec. 25, stars Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in a highly-anticipated biopic that traces the singer’s rise in the New York City folk music scene of the 1960s. Focusing on the period between

Touching in our optimism, we often call age 50 midlife, but who are we kidding? While it’s true that a not inconsiderable number of people make it to age 100, most of us are likely to poop out before then.

Trump faces roadblocks to ambitious border crackdown  The Hill

The Bob Dylan of James Mangold’s extraordinary anti-biopic A Complete Unknown—who may or may not be an accurate version of the real Bob Dylan—is a jerk. He blows into New York in 1961, at age 19, having hitched a ride