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WASHINGTON — The most fateful, unanswered question of the 2016 campaign: Is this a populist moment in America? It certainly sounds like one. The "esta...

WASHINGTON — "I don't want to leave my successor a dirty barn," John Boehner, the soon-to-depart Speaker of the House, told CBS News' John Dickerson. ...

WASHINGTON — The Navy's operations, on which the sun never sets, are the nation's nerve endings, connecting it with the turbulent world. Although the ...

WASHINGTON — The Republican Party's "Freedom Caucus," which has several less-charitable nicknames on Capitol Hill, is the dog that caught the car. Now...

WASHINGTON — Bill Gates is now focused on the eradication of malaria, and parasites everywhere have reason to fear. There are, he tells me, two possib...

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The multitudes of Chinese students attending American universities are approaching college as less of a life experience and more ...

Thank you, coaches. We had a great response from our area high school football coaches Friday night, following a critical column I wrote last week in ...

It was a late afternoon years ago when my delivery of food to a Meals on Wheels recipient turned into an unusual request for help — and a memory that ...

WASHINGTON — No wonder John Boehner wept. The speaker of the House, the Catholic son of a tavern owner, had not only fulfilled the dream of having the...

Some Bills fans are just never satisfied. It’s fascinating that some of the same people who said they’d give anything for the team to start winning co...

WASHINGTON — "Oh, so you drank the Kool-Aid," my neighbor superciliously sneered from the stoop he occupies each afternoon to sip wine and critique pe...

WASHINGTON — America's loopy left is enamored of someone who becomes cranky about bobblehead figurines. Sober Democrats are queasy about nominating Hi...

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis did not come to Washington to side with one political party — and, predictably, there was something in what the pope had to ...

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis has delivered to Congress his State of the Soul address — historically sophisticated, gracefully appropriate, morally ambiti...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — When Jonathan Huynh heard the haunting story of two young Syrian boys and their mother fleeing their country and drowni...

Beneath a three-column headline in my local newspaper was a barely-edited press release. That’s not unusual. With the downsizing of newsrooms, there’s...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — So are you curious about the bizarre trade of Bills backup quarterback Matt Cassel to Dallas on Tuesday? Me too. Clearly the Cowb...

CAMERON, La. (AP) — Vacant slabs, weed-choked lots and solitary stairs to nowhere permeate this tiny town in southwest Louisiana. All that remains of ...

WASHINGTON — The 18-year-old U.S. Navy enlistee, thinking it sounded less boring than the dull training he was doing in 1944, volunteered for service ...

Area high school football coaches are failing miserably in getting results called into The Era on Friday nights. I’ve written in this space before abo...