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WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP is a party in chaos, desperately in search of a leader. In the unruly U.S. House, Republicans enjoy a near-historic majority...

Shortly after the mass murders at Umpqua Community College near Roseburg, Ore., President Obama predicted the extreme right wing would crank out press...

WASHINGTON — Other than in its original application, most exercises in WWXD — "What would X do?" with X being, say, Lincoln, or Martin Luther King Jr....

It was a subject Frank Williams was finally eager to discuss. For the last two years, the Don Raabe Big 30 Charities Classic has not had a functioning...

This is what happens when you hand out a compliment. The last compliment given was back in kindergarten when I told Suzie she could cut diamonds with ...

WASHINGTON — "Look," wrote Lois Lerner, echoing Horace Greeley, "my view is that Lincoln was our worst president not our best. He should (have) let th...

OXFORD, Md. — Long before there was a "Black Lives Matter" movement, there was Ruth Starr Rose — an activist artist whose paintings nearly a century a...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As late-morning sun streams through narrow prison windows, convicted killer Scott Abram stands beside a fellow inmate, speaks qu...

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton is facing one of the most fateful decisions of the presidential primary season: what to say about the Trans-Pacific Partn...

The words blindsided just about anyone who knew him … who played with him … who coached alongside him. And it wasn’t just the unfortunate news itself,...

WASHINGTON — Following the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College, a "smoldering" (as one commentator put it) President Obama gave a revealing spee...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Buried in the 1,915-page defense policy bill are significant changes that could affect more than 1 million members of the military a...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - We’ve suspected it ever since Tom Brady and the Patriots ran up 507 yards total offense in a 40-32 victory two weeks ago. But now...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The question struck an emotional chord with Rex Ryan. When asked about the numbing 17 penalties for 135 yards in Sunday’s 24-10 l...

WASHINGTON — The lede to this column is a deep, guttural groan that originates in the throat and expands into the lungs before collapsing in the pit o...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The utter breakdown in state budget negotiations in Pennsylvania didn’t happen overnight, but was produced by diametrically opposed ...

BALTIMORE — Twinkling stars are pretty but, for astronomers, problematic. Twinkles are caused by the interference of Earth's atmosphere with light rad...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After seven years of the political drama known as "Obamacare," you might think voters would be tired of big ideas for revamping heal...

The clue in the New York Times crossword puzzle was "Tossing sport" and the answer was "Quoits." What the heck is quoits and where would we learn abou...

WASHINGTON — A confession: When the news of Thursday's mass shooting in Oregon broke, it did not occur to me to write about it. I was thinking about P...