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BROOKLYN — Youssou Ndoye glanced up at the scoreboard and took a deep breath. The baby-faced 7-footer, then just a freshman, was set to check into his...

WASHINGTON — For what she says is the sake of “convenience” — who wants to have to fiddle with two hand-held devices when one will do nicely? — Hillar...

SAN DIEGO — Fox News host Megyn Kelly and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., are quite the political odd couple. They came together recently when Gutierrez ...

WASHINGTON — Conservatives’ next disappointment will at least be a validation. The coming reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank will confirm their...

WASHINGTON — With a few tweaks to Scripture, herewith today’s relevant verse: What therefore President Obama hath joined together, let Republicans put...

WASHINGTON — So it turns out Hillary Clinton will face a serious challenger in the primaries, after all. Her name is Hillary Clinton. This week’s reve...

WASHINGTON — The juxtaposition of the Justice Department’s damning Ferguson report and President Obama’s fine speech to mark the 50th anniversary of B...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Two races is just too early to form a definitive opinion about NASCAR’s new rules package, which was tweaked as part of a conce...

It’s great that Hillary Clinton has asked the State Department to release her official emails. Still, belated disclosure isn’t going to make the story...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf fleshed out the centerpiece of his election campaign this week, unrolling a bold blueprint for raising and spending bi...

WASHINGTON — Michael Froman received from a Harvard Law School classmate, Barack Obama, a job that validates the axiom that the unlikelihood of any ne...

WASHINGTON — Over the years, President Obama has been criticized and praised — but mainly praised — for lacking a driving foreign policy ideology. It ...

WASHINGTON — “At least nobody died,” we often hear in politics to explain away some regrettable act. As in: So, yeah, maybe President Obama wasn’t tel...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Peter Roskam is now chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee whose jurisdiction includes oversight of the Internal Revenue Servic...

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously observed, “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” Pennsylvania Gov...

WASHINGTON — Will Justice Anthony Kennedy’s solicitude for states trump his antipathy to the Affordable Care Act and save the day for Obamacare? With ...

WASHINGTON — I’m getting that deja vu feeling as House Republicans these past several days have failed to alter the public’s perception that they’re i...

I have always been interested in .264 bullets for some reason. It probably started when I read the ballistics on the .300 Weatherby case necked down t...

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton may not have a serious opponent for the Democratic nomination —except herself. The Clintons’ unfortunate tendency to be t...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — After a storied history of revolutionary defiance toward America — in which Tanzania played host to Angela Davis, Huey Newto...