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WASHINGTON — We’re going to have Donald Trump around for a while, which prompts the question: What is Trumpism? Or, to put it more tartly, is there a ...

This week is the 10th anniversary of the destruction of the southeastern gulf coast by Hurricane Katrina. More than 1,800 people died. There is no est...

CHICAGO (AP) — On an abandoned Chicago railway line cutting between the treetops, bike commuters zip by walkers and joggers, all traversing a ribbon o...

WASHINGTON — It has come to this: The GOP, formerly the party of Lincoln and ostensibly the party of liberty and limited government, is being defined ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The 2016 campaign for Pennsylvania attorney general is off to an uncertain start as candidates and prospective candidates line up wi...

WASHINGTON — Dear Secretary Clinton: Your email problem has mushroomed from a self-inflicted nuisance to a self-inflicted wound. The reason is simple:...

WASHINGTON — What is Donald Trump’s secret? He is a “joyful warrior” who understands the “entertainment value” of politics. He is “outrageous” and “sp...

NEW DELHI (AP) — For generations, the world’s cities have struggled to keep themselves safe. “Wall Street Explosion Kills 30; Injures 300,” The New Yo...

WASHINGTON — We could wearily shrug, say “Oh, well,” and economize waste and annoyance by just building the proposed $142 million Dwight D. Eisenhower...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Every evening, 14-year-old Kim Sung-jin orders fried chicken, delivery pizza or Chinese food to eat in a small room in his f...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s immigration proposal rests on three assumptions: that immigration hurts American workers; that illegal immigration, in par...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Looking out at bumper-to-bumper Monday morning traffic crawling along the Philippine capital’s main avenue, taxi driver Ran...

WASHINGTON — It is that sane and glorious time when the nation’s capital dispenses its human cargo to places of origin and locations of respite. “I do...

WASHINGTON — When the Clinton campaign stirs and moves, it is the sound of a thousand focus groups buzzing, a thousand memos fluttering, a thousand co...

WASHINGTON — You probably never knew of the federal funding of museums commemorating America's long-gone whaling industry. The funding existed for nea...

WASHINGTON — Carly Fiorina says some, well, interesting things while waiting to go on camera. In 2010, the then-GOP Senate nominee went all middle-sch...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s political support has virtually collapsed as she prepares to fight criminal charges th...

WASHINGTON — It is perhaps time to stop wondering what The Donald’s got that the others ain’t got. What he’s got is conservative America’s number, whi...

WASHINGTON — In recognition that Internet questionnaires get more eyeballs than earnest columns on energy policy, here is today’s quiz on obscure pres...

WASHINGTON -- In every town large enough to have two traffic lights there is a bar at the back of which sits the local Donald Trump, nursing his fifth...