• Celebrities Decry and Refuse to Perform at Trump-Inauguration, Trump Responds

  Meryl Streep isn't going to let Donald Trump settle into presidency---at least, not without first decrying him publicly at the Golden Globes award ceremony. Streep utilized her reception of the Cecill Demille award as a political platform to exhort like-minded celebrities to keep a Trump Administration accountable: "Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence insights violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose."

  

• Star Wars Darling and Hollywood Royalty Carrie Fisher Dies at Age 60 Following Heart Attack

  Carrie Fisher, still known to her many Star Wars fans as "Princess Leia," is dead following a heart attack which occurred last Friday, December 23.

  

• Bill Clinton Attributes Wife's Loss to Racism,Trump's Cabinet-Election List Lengthens

  The validity of Donald Trump's election has been officially confirmed, and Bill Clinton is not conceding peacefully. The charitable verbiage towards the toleration, unity, and peaceful concession that trademarked his wife's presidential ambitions earlier is nowhere to be found as former president Clinton compounds on his wife's description of those "deplorables" he considers responsible for Trump's victory. In a racist rant, Bill Clinton attributed a Trump Administration to "angry white men.

  

• Homemaking: The Job that Few Recognize, but One of Many that God Honors

  When I was a girl, I loved being home, but did not realize the value of it as I do today-increasingly. I used to watch my mama dart like a bee from one end of the house to the other, nourishing us physically, emotionally, spiritually. I always admired it, but never applied it to myself specifically. But now, thanks to God, there is nothing I love more.

  

• Juveniles' Sentence Pending on Gatlinburg Arson Charges

  The juveniles were taken into custody Wednesday. Because the suspects were not from Sevier County, more personal information is yet to be disclosed. It is also undecided whether they will be charged as juveniles or adults---or even whether there remain "more arrests." At this time, it would appear that the prosecutor expresses slant towards trying them as adults.