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WASHINGTON — "I don't want to leave my successor a dirty barn," John Boehner, the soon-to-depart Speaker of the House, told CBS News' John Dickerson. ...

WASHINGTON — The Navy's operations, on which the sun never sets, are the nation's nerve endings, connecting it with the turbulent world. Although the ...

WASHINGTON — The Republican Party's "Freedom Caucus," which has several less-charitable nicknames on Capitol Hill, is the dog that caught the car. Now...

WASHINGTON — Bill Gates is now focused on the eradication of malaria, and parasites everywhere have reason to fear. There are, he tells me, two possib...

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The multitudes of Chinese students attending American universities are approaching college as less of a life experience and more ...

It was a late afternoon years ago when my delivery of food to a Meals on Wheels recipient turned into an unusual request for help — and a memory that ...

WASHINGTON — No wonder John Boehner wept. The speaker of the House, the Catholic son of a tavern owner, had not only fulfilled the dream of having the...

WASHINGTON — "Oh, so you drank the Kool-Aid," my neighbor superciliously sneered from the stoop he occupies each afternoon to sip wine and critique pe...

WASHINGTON — America's loopy left is enamored of someone who becomes cranky about bobblehead figurines. Sober Democrats are queasy about nominating Hi...

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis did not come to Washington to side with one political party — and, predictably, there was something in what the pope had to ...

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis has delivered to Congress his State of the Soul address — historically sophisticated, gracefully appropriate, morally ambiti...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — When Jonathan Huynh heard the haunting story of two young Syrian boys and their mother fleeing their country and drowni...

Beneath a three-column headline in my local newspaper was a barely-edited press release. That’s not unusual. With the downsizing of newsrooms, there’s...

CAMERON, La. (AP) — Vacant slabs, weed-choked lots and solitary stairs to nowhere permeate this tiny town in southwest Louisiana. All that remains of ...

WASHINGTON — The 18-year-old U.S. Navy enlistee, thinking it sounded less boring than the dull training he was doing in 1944, volunteered for service ...

WASHINGTON — One part of me wants to bash Carly Fiorina for her persistent dishonesty. The other part wants to defend her against Donald Trump's persi...

WASHINGTON — In the spirit of charity prompted by Pope Francis' visit to the U.S., let's not call them bigots. Let's just call them the clueless, the ...

WASHINGTON — Sometimes what seems the least consequential detail tells the most about a person's character — or at least his or her intentions. Such w...

WASHINGTON — What is the proper response from a prospective president to the question: Is being a Muslim disqualifying for the presidency? Ben Carson ...

WASHINGTON — It was a coincidence, but a jarring one, that the second Republican presidential debate took place the day before Constitution Day. The G...