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WASHINGTON — The mischievous columnist in me wants to ask: Why is Hillary Clinton trying to lose jobs and lower wages? My more responsible columnist s...

WASHINGTON — In Africa, the average cost of an AK-47 is a little over $300. A single rhinoceros horn — reputed (falsely) in Asia to have cancer-healin...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Campaign ads in the multimillion-dollar race for three open seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court won’t get any more polite than t...

WASHINGTON — The worst job in the world, it turns out, isn't the U.S. presidency but speaker of the House of Representatives. "It's where you go to di...

DALLAS — If America's 58th presidential election validates Ted Cruz's audacious "base plus" strategy, he will have refuted assumptions about the impor...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP is a party in chaos, desperately in search of a leader. In the unruly U.S. House, Republicans enjoy a near-historic majority...

Shortly after the mass murders at Umpqua Community College near Roseburg, Ore., President Obama predicted the extreme right wing would crank out press...

WASHINGTON — Other than in its original application, most exercises in WWXD — "What would X do?" with X being, say, Lincoln, or Martin Luther King Jr....

WASHINGTON — "Look," wrote Lois Lerner, echoing Horace Greeley, "my view is that Lincoln was our worst president not our best. He should (have) let th...

OXFORD, Md. — Long before there was a "Black Lives Matter" movement, there was Ruth Starr Rose — an activist artist whose paintings nearly a century a...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As late-morning sun streams through narrow prison windows, convicted killer Scott Abram stands beside a fellow inmate, speaks qu...

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton is facing one of the most fateful decisions of the presidential primary season: what to say about the Trans-Pacific Partn...

WASHINGTON — Following the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College, a "smoldering" (as one commentator put it) President Obama gave a revealing spee...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Buried in the 1,915-page defense policy bill are significant changes that could affect more than 1 million members of the military a...

WASHINGTON — The lede to this column is a deep, guttural groan that originates in the throat and expands into the lungs before collapsing in the pit o...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The utter breakdown in state budget negotiations in Pennsylvania didn’t happen overnight, but was produced by diametrically opposed ...

BALTIMORE — Twinkling stars are pretty but, for astronomers, problematic. Twinkles are caused by the interference of Earth's atmosphere with light rad...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After seven years of the political drama known as "Obamacare," you might think voters would be tired of big ideas for revamping heal...

WASHINGTON — A confession: When the news of Thursday's mass shooting in Oregon broke, it did not occur to me to write about it. I was thinking about P...

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