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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, the billionaire real estate investor who began his run for the presidency and was one of the clowns who campaigned on promi...

WASHINGTON — After every major Trump speech or event, the person I was before it seems desperately naive. I have been a consistent Trump critic, but m...

Local state lawmakers say they have a packed agenda for 2017-18, including putting together a balanced budget, continuing to fight the opioid crisis a...

WASHINGTON — Viewing 2016 in retrospect — doing so is unpleasant, but less so than was living through it — the year resembles a china shop after a vis...

"The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world. ... The worst thing in the world varies from individual to individual." — George Orwel...

Whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump was elected, the environment is going to suffer. Both have supported horizontal fracking, the destruction of t...

Starting next month, the United States will have a minority government. This assertion flies in the face of just about everything you have read, becau...

WASHINGTON — On Saturdays in synagogues across the United States, Jews recite a prayer for our country. In my synagogue, the custom is that the congre...

NEW YORK (AP) — The explosion that tore through two New York City apartment buildings killed at least eight people, including a young woman making her...

ATLANTA (AP) — Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such exp...