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Mediocre help is hard to find. Regretfully I had to sack an intern over the weekend after guilty party made an erroneous pick in last week's column. A...

NEW DELHI (AP) — It is the world's largest producer of milk and also the largest consumer. And for good reason. Because in India, milk is not just the...

BERLIN — It would be a good idea for Ben Carson to spend some time in this city. Some recommendations for the Carson tour: — The 1936 Olympic stadium,...

WASHINGTON — When all else is failing, reinvent yourself. This is the new strategy of Jeb Bush's campaign. He's not going to be so nice anymore. Emerg...

WASHINGTON — Who the blast is Sidney Blumenthal? Doubtless many watching Thursday's House select committee hearing on Benghazi must have wondered the ...

WASHINGTON — The end is near. Or not. At various points in American history, popular preaching has warned that history itself was about to culminate a...

TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Thank goodness Dale Earnhardt Jr. showed dignity in defeat after he was bounced from NASCAR's playoffs. The class shown by NASC...

WASHINGTON — The debate over measures to reduce gun violence poses a cruel paradox. The most effective steps are politically unthinkable and likely un...

WASHINGTON — The Republican Party, like Sisyphus, is again putting its shoulder to a boulder, hoping to make modest but significant changes in the Ele...

The national news media — and their sidekicks, the cackling pundits — had been asking the same questions the past six months. “Will he? Won’t he? Shou...

NEW YORK (AP) — While some of the predictions made in "Back to the Future Part II" eventually came true, like Skype and fingerprint scanners, one of t...

WASHINGTON — Having tested the thickness of the political ice, Paul Ryan seems convinced it will support the weight of a House speaker. Given the natu...

NEW YORK (AP) — It's crunch time for thousands of small business owners who must comply with requirements of the health care law for the first time. C...

WASHINGTON — A supremely important presidential issue is being generally neglected because Democrats have nothing interesting to say about it and Repu...

There was Roy Burgess in 1974. Zach Harten in 2004. Jared Feura in 2005. Matthew White in 2009. Aziz Yousif in 2011 and ‘12 and Logan Caruso in 2014. ...

WASHINGTON — When Dale Russakoff began writing about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million gift to help fix the failing schools in Newark, N...

WASHINGTON — It might be time for Katie Couric to ask Jeb Bush what he reads. Not this column, obviously, where last May I sagely, if humbly, urged hi...

WASHINGTON — With the latest poll numbers tallied and political pundits having spoken, a consensus has emerged: Hillary Clinton won the first Democrat...

BEIRUT — The airport here is in territory controlled by Hezbollah. Driving across Beirut, you see affiliations declared by large posters hung on lampp...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — With their starting quarterback out, plus their No. 2 running back and wide receiver, there was only one way the Bills seemingly ...