Brian Raftery's investigation of the serial killer, cannibal, gourmand, and pop cultural icon Hannibal Lecter is a very good book that sounds as if it should be a very bad one. When I first heard that Raftery, a respected entertainment journalist, was writing what purported to be a biography of Lecter, I both groaned and wondered about copyright law. After all, Lecter's creator Thomas Harris is still alive, and the four novels he has written that feature the character—Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, and Hannibal Rising—remain perennially popular, selling tens of thousands of copies a year in the United States alone. Was Hannibal Lecter: A Life going to be some accursed piece of fan fiction, unaccountably published by a major house and leading the opportunistic Raftery to deserve a visit from a hungry, understandably aggrieved Dr. Lecter some dark and stormy night?

Tomorrow marks the end of one of the great seasons in sports, one that only comes every four years. Two weekends ago, the Winter Olympics opened in northern Italy just before Super Bowl Sunday. The closing ceremony occurs tomorrow.

A judge has authorized police to begin evicting residents of the Prince George’s County, Md., condominium complex besieged by an open air drug market, putting hundreds of people at risk of homelessness ahead of a possible winter storm.

Maryland district court judge Bryon Bereano had provisionally greenlit the Marylander Condominiums evictions earlier this month after vagrants allegedly vandalized the condo’s boiler room, leaving 100 units without heat. On Thursday he signed a final order authorizing "all action necessary" to vacate those units, which were deemed "unfit for human habitation" by the county’s Department of Permitting, Inspections, and Enforcement in December.

Ian Sams may finally have some competition for the title of worst Democratic aide of the 21st century. The notoriously incompetent communications adviser has fallen off the radar after guiding Kamala Harris to a tremendous defeat in 2024. Sams has been "self-employed" ever since.

For much of the past year and a half you couldn’t open the New York Times or approach an elite university campus without hearing a panic about how President Donald Trump was becoming a dictator with "no guardrails" to curb him. After today’s 6-3 opinion from the Supreme Court striking down Trump’s tariffs, that complaint looks more foolish than ever. Trump called the opinion "terrible," "a shame," "ridiculous," and "totally defective."

Iran has spent the past several months fortifying two nuclear sites against an aerial strike and excavating areas the United States and Israel destroyed last June, according to recent satellite imagery analyzed by the Institute for Science and International Security.

Qatar more than tripled its funding of U.S. colleges and universities between 2024 and 2025 after becoming the largest foreign financier of higher education in the United States in 2022, according to Department of Education disclosure records.

Al Jazeera prohibits its staff from referring to al Qaeda, ISIS, and Boko Haram as "terrorist," "Islamist," or "extremist" groups, instead requiring reporters to use "neutral terms" like "fighters" and "armed groups," according to a copy of the outlet’s style guide obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

A UCLA political science professor threatened to resign from her leadership role at the university's research center for international relations if CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss is allowed to deliver an annual lecture about the future of journalism.

Yale University said it is investigating an incident in which anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted into the snow on major campus quads, a university spokeswoman told the Washington Free Beacon.

The latest business to pick up and leave the high-tax, high-regulation, high-crime nightmare of Illinois may be its iconic professional football franchise.

U.S. Virgin Islands delegate Stacey Plaskett (D.) visited Jeffrey Epstein at the Virgin Islands office that served as the base for a network of shell companies the sex offender used to defraud the Virgin Islands government out of hundreds of millions of dollars, according to emails and court filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.