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CONCORD, N.H. — Donald Trump says Ted Cruz is a "nasty guy." The Texan's Senate colleagues agree. Yet here's the surprise from watching Cruz on the ca...

WASHINGTON — The outbreak of hostilities between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz may not be edifying, but it is clarifying. Cruz represents the arrival of t...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — By broad consensus, the winner of Thursday night's GOP debate was Donald Trump, followed by Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, with most of ...

WASHINGTON — Iowa and New Hampshire together have just 1.4 percent of the U.S. population, which is actually why it is fine for them to begin the pres...

HARRISBURG (AP) — With a Feb. 16 deadline looming for would-be candidates to gather the voter signatures they need to get on Pennsylvania's primary el...

WASHINGTON — Carly Fiorina has dwindled to near irrelevance in the Republican primary field, as illustrated by her demotion to the undercard debate. B...

Where is Bill Nye “The Science Nerd” when you need him? This weekend I noticed the Minnesota Vikings’ uniforms seemed dark blue in the shade and then ...

The first words out of my mother’s mouth the other morning, “We can’t find Oscar,” were said with maternal concern as the family cat is viewed as anot...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Antonio Brown leaned back in his locker recently and allowed himself a brief moment of introspection. Fresh off the most productive ...

For at least 17 years, the officials of Monroeville, Pa., a 30,000 population Pittsburgh suburb, have recited the Lord’s Prayer before every council m...

WASHINGTON — Now let us praise laundry lists. Every year at State of the Union time, the president and his staff say the speech will not include them....

WASHINGTON — President Obama's final State of the Union address was part stump speech for the third term he'll never have and part melancholy addendum...

WASHINGTON — What boxer Sonny Liston's manager said of him (Sonny had his good points, the trouble was his bad points) is true of Marco Rubio. His str...

WASHINGTON — Reports of Jeb Bush's political death may be greatly exaggerated. Not only is Bush essentially locked in a statistical tie for second pla...

Some questions are ubiquitous in American culture — “what were you doing when you heard about 9/11” may be the most serious one of modern times. Yet t...

WASHINGTON — In the eighth year of a presidency, who is qualified to begin delivering a historical judgment? President Obama and those who serve at hi...

WASHINGTON — Fair play can sometimes be a raunchy racket. In the midst of Hillary Clinton's promising presidential bid, a blast from the past blew thr...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has us all spun up in a bogus debate over the meaning of what constitutes a "natural born" citizen and whether Canadian-born...

WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court contemplates changing its mind, it must weigh the institutional interest in the law's continuity against evidence ...

Thank you Buffalo for chicken wings, beef on weck and beating the New York Jets on Sunday. I haven’t rooted for those sad sacks since O.J. Simpson pla...