Here are selections, made with your help, of the 125 people who were vital parts of Orange County’s story for 2025.

It's always cool when a legendary act covers a much younger peer, and it's even cooler when it happens on an underground level. That's what's going on here. Last year, the Softies, a '90s ...

Brooklyn-via-Florida underground rapper Niontay isn’t done with 2025 yet. He just announced a new mixtape, Soulja Hate Repellent, arriving December 16 (his second project of the year). The first ...

With a determined effort, Polo Muñoz shuffled across the floor, gripping his cane, and approached the microphone. “Speak loudly into the mic like you're talking to me at Bill’s,” Margaret France, the ...

Lithuania will cover all the costs associated with hosting U.S. troops in the country, where a new barracks is among the improvements made for American forces deployed along NATO’s eastern edge. The ...

Those six Democratic members of Congress who last week managed to provoke more hysteria from President Trump by noting that American soldiers can disobey "illegal orders" would have been far more ...

On Nov. 13, Layli Long Soldier, an Oglala Lakota poet and author, shared work from her upcoming poetry collection along with several visual art pieces in front of a full crowd in the Old Chapel at the ...

New books and a National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene play reclaim the poet-parachutist for an era marked by antisemitism and moral drift, writes a rabbi and author. More than 80 years after she ...

The Department of War received an anonymous donation of $130 million Thursday to go toward paying U.S. troops during the government shutdown — but Congress may need to get involved for it to actually ...

The only poem that Artem Chapeye wrote as an adult began with the line, “When war comes, I’ll be a deserter.” Growing up in the late 1990s in western Ukraine, he could find translations of French left ...

The new infantry squad vehicle can haul troops through pretty much any terrain in any conditions, but there’s a couple big things it can’t do: protect soldiers from an ambush or allow someone to ...

The story of Mamman Jiya Vatsa is one that has refused to be bottled up or suppressed; ever since his tragic execution in March 1986 over an alleged involvement in an intended coup against the ...