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WASHINGTON — The Republican Party, like Sisyphus, is again putting its shoulder to a boulder, hoping to make modest but significant changes in the Ele...

The national news media — and their sidekicks, the cackling pundits — had been asking the same questions the past six months. “Will he? Won’t he? Shou...

NEW YORK (AP) — While some of the predictions made in "Back to the Future Part II" eventually came true, like Skype and fingerprint scanners, one of t...

WASHINGTON — Having tested the thickness of the political ice, Paul Ryan seems convinced it will support the weight of a House speaker. Given the natu...

NEW YORK (AP) — It's crunch time for thousands of small business owners who must comply with requirements of the health care law for the first time. C...

WASHINGTON — A supremely important presidential issue is being generally neglected because Democrats have nothing interesting to say about it and Repu...

WASHINGTON — When Dale Russakoff began writing about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million gift to help fix the failing schools in Newark, N...

WASHINGTON — It might be time for Katie Couric to ask Jeb Bush what he reads. Not this column, obviously, where last May I sagely, if humbly, urged hi...

WASHINGTON — With the latest poll numbers tallied and political pundits having spoken, a consensus has emerged: Hillary Clinton won the first Democrat...

BEIRUT — The airport here is in territory controlled by Hezbollah. Driving across Beirut, you see affiliations declared by large posters hung on lampp...

WASHINGTON — You know something has changed in the state of gender and politics when the Democratic front-runner jokingly alludes to the, er, plumbing...

WASHINGTON — America is more distant from the 1933 beginning of the New Deal (82 years) than that beginning was from the 1865 end of the Civil War (68...

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world’s largest trade convention for publishers and vendors. This year, the six-day convention, which ends Sunday, brou...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A 5-year-old Syrian refugee explains the picture he has drawn: "This is a boy. This is a bed. This is a bomb. This is an apple." Won...

CHICAGO — A Midwestern humorist, Indiana's Kin Hubbard, said people often confuse bad management with destiny. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel knows better...

In 2011, one of the first things I did as a new U.S. senator was to crisscross the state and meet with county officials. I wanted to hear about the mo...

WASHINGTON — Barrels of ink and galaxies of pixels have been sacrificed to solving the mystery of the spectacular rise of Bernie Sanders and Donald Tr...

Homeless people in Bradford? No way! That was the newsroom's reaction to reports that the YWCA was going to open a homeless shelter for women and chil...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans face a fateful choice — and not just over who will be their speaker. It is a choice about whether they want to be a rea...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota student accused of sexual assault is suing the school that suspended him, a case that highlights the differenc...