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WASHINGTON — The evidence accumulates that the Republican Party is sobering up — cotton-mouthed and slightly disoriented — from its recent ideological...

WASHINGTON — “Blah, blah, blah, blah,” said the speaker of the House. Ohio Republican John Boehner, drawing out the words in a tone of ennui, was spea...

Sometimes you have to be a real man like on those Old Spice commercials. I really thought Duke was going to take Syracuse to the woodshed last Saturda...

WASHINGTON — The many jaundiced assessments of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on the fifth anniversary of its enactment were understandabl...

WASHINGTON — This town can get pretty wound up when a politician misbehaves. Given some of the reactions to Bobby Jindal’s off-script remarks Monday, ...

As I look out into my front yard, I notice the piles of snow in front of my driveway. They seem to grow a little bit every day, and never seem to melt...

The concept is simple, provide them with opportunity and they will come. Youth mentoring programs have proved to be a huge success. Today it is possib...

Barely two days after Joaquin “El Chapo” (Spanish for “Shorty”) Guzman Loera’s arrest, Entertainment Weekly polled its readers as to who should play t...

WASHINGTON — In his more than 58 years in Congress, John Dingell has never been known to mince words. So it was no surprise that the 87-year-old Michi...

WASHINGTON — Each of the GPS satellites that allow me to navigate to a new restaurant carries an atomic clock that needs to be accurate in order to tr...

Heirs care about how their parents are remembered, although they have very different ways of showing it. The daughters of President Lyndon B. Johnson,...

WASHINGTON — We’ve heard much about the Republican war on women. Exhaustingly. Lately, we’ve also heard about the war on men. The war on men-on-women-...

Marcus Smart went to block a shot and landed near the crowd. It was the final seconds of a college basketball game that his team, Oklahoma State, was ...

WASHINGTON — The deal, for a company you’ve probably never heard of, is worth at least $16 billion. To put this number into perspective, the market va...

WASHINGTON — One hundred years ago this coming Aug. 4, the day Britain declared war on Germany, socialists in the German Reichstag voted for credits t...

ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — In a section of the camp designated for newcomers, I’m surrounded by about 20 men from the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, e...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — In a season of almosts and what ifs, of St. the Bonaventure men’s basketball team’s eight heart-breaking losses — six points o...

Sometimes the simplest things are grossly misunderstood. In my younger days my travels with my Dad would take me through and across some of the best f...

It’s official. People who leave ugly comments on the Internet are sadists and psychopaths, a Canadian study says. That’s more elegant than what I call...

WASHINGTON — Republicans have excelled at concealing their brilliance in recent years and Democrats have exalted in their own good fortune. Whether di...