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"What's really going on here is that over the last 20 years marijuana went from being used like alcohol to being used more like tobacco, in the sense ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Fourteen-year-old Malik Causey loved the way gangs took what they wanted from people on the street, the way members fought for each oth...

WASHINGTON — And now, less than six weeks from the election, what is the main event of the day? A fight between the GOP presidential nominee and a for...

WASHINGTON — Having quoted Freddie Blassie of professional wrestling fame in a recent column critiquing Donald Trump's debate performance, and having ...

WASHINGTON — Looking on the bright side, perhaps this election can teach conservatives to look on the dark side. They need a talent for pessimism, rec...

Round 1 goes to Hillary Clinton. Anyone who watched the debate Monday night clearly saw Donald Trump, who had maintained a relatively solid footing fo...

WASHINGTON — There is a story from the history of professional wrestling in which a manager named Freddie Blassie comes to the edge of the ring and, w...

WASHINGTON — My heart went out to Donald Trump Monday night when it appeared that he was under the weather. What could be worse than to be sick, sniff...

AURORA, Colo. — Here on the High Plains, where the deer and the antelope once played, Denver's suburbs roam toward the Rockies' front range and the na...

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — At the Islamic Center of Passaic County, which draws about 2,000 people each Friday for communal prayers, the talk is about how ...

WASHINGTON — Especially in an election year, federal employees make a tempting target. They are, in the popular imagining, entitled and entrenched, un...

WASHINGTON — It's here, at last. The showdown we've all been waiting for: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump. For what seems like years now, we've been ...

WASHINGTON — Of all the absurdities in Donald Trump's rapid political rise, none is more puzzling than his reputation for toughness in the war against...

The New York Post , a Rupert Murdoch tabloid publication that isn’t likely to win a Pulitzer Prize anytime soon, splashed a full page picture of a smi...

Guess what? A President Trump could adopt his new trade agenda without any authorization from Congress — and this could trigger a global trade war and...

It was in the middle of the Barry Bonds home run chase, and I was sitting with Vin Scully in the broadcast booth at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers were p...

WASHINGTON — As the first presidential debate approaches, fists clench, jaws tighten and invectives giggle in anticipation. Game on! To half the count...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Technology has put powerful computers in billions of pockets, but an invention much more mundane than the smartphone — the shipping...

Around the country, colleges have found a new excuse for shutting down free speech: safety. Just as “national security” has periodically served as a p...

Hillary Clinton has a mild case of pneumonia, and the Renegade Republicans, fueled by scandal-makers of the conservative media, think Clinton is a piñ...