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Santa and his workshop are, like America, having a bumpy sleigh ride transitioning to the incoming Trump administration. Elon Musk's DOUCHE program makes it worse.

BBC reporters are in open revolt over the bias in BBC management in its Palestine coverage

Written and recorded in 1962 for Bob Dylan's second studio album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the song famously prophecies dark days. See also the Dylan bio-pic A Complete Unknown. 

And why so many of them are shot in Vancouver.

Syrian helicopters dropped chlorine gas on the town of Douma on April 7, 2018. At least 43 people choked to death. The town grieved in silence ... until now.

Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, by James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbaro. Only in theaters Christmas Day. #ACompleteUnknown

SCOOP: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike to attempt to win their first union contract right before Christmas — the company's busiest time.

Beauty and hope in a musical package: Yasmin Williams' "Hummingbird," from her new album 'Acadia'  

A new filing by the NY District Attorney stakes out a position and legal argument that Trump's NY felony fraud convictions should not go away.

Unfortunately, many Western politicians and commentators misunderstand Russia's ambitions because they primarily see it as a war about territory.