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WASHINGTON — About 2 million years ago, a genetic mutation resulted in the human species — social, restless, but consigned to the middle of the food c...

BEIJING (AP) — Under rotating ceiling fans in hot, crowded bars, an edgier form of entertainment is emerging in China that reflects greater cultural f...

Rick Santorum, who is back in the race to be the Republican nominee for president after finishing second to Mitt Romney in 2012, is a devout Catholic....

WASHINGTON — Video imagery doesn’t get much worse than a white police officer throwing an African-American girl in a bikini to the ground, kneeling on...

WASHINGTON — Before presidential politics — the game of getting to 270 electoral votes — completely eclipses governing, there is the urgent task of ge...

WASHINGTON — Warning to readers: Reports of Hillary Clinton’s supposed lurch to the left have been greatly exaggerated, and there’s more to come. Cert...

WASHINGTON — Rand Paul’s presidential campaign, by many recent accounts, is sputtering. The candidate, according to The Atlantic’s Molly Ball, is “fla...

WASHINGTON — Barring a terror strike or an Ebola outbreak to distract us, the 2016 presidential election seems headed for a gender identity showdown. ...

June, that most beautiful of months, is associated with some of life’s larger pleasures: the beginning of summer, annual vacations, school graduations...

WASHINGTON — Campaign finance “reformers” think America would be better governed if the government could thoroughly regulate campaign speech, which is...

WASHINGTON — “The Stress Cost of Children.” It’s all in the headline — or, in the case of academic papers, the title — and this one, released recently...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania state representatives found a tax issue they could agree on last week, voting unanimously against a Republican amendmen...

WASHINGTON — Here’s a case study in rapid radicalization. Just three years ago, the House voted overwhelmingly to extend the charter of the Export-Imp...

More than 150,000 Texans sent a petition to the White House, demanding the union allow Texas to secede. This was not 1861 when Texans wanted out of th...

NEW YORK (AP) — If you want an income, or you’re an employer looking for help, it may be time to scrap the idea of the traditional 9-to-5 arrangement....

KUAJOK, South Sudan — It is difficult to imagine a place more physically and psychologically removed from the world economy, from centers of global in...

KUAJOK, South Sudan — “I wish,” a South Sudanese female aid worker said to me, “they had waited five or 10 years before resuming the war.” This is wha...

WASHINGTON — Does any stricture of journalistic propriety or social etiquette require us to participate in Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ charade? Is it...

WASHINGTON (AP) — At 78, Bob Schieffer is entitled to reminisce about the “good old days” of reporting. He believes young people coming into the busin...

KUAJOK, South Sudan — “I wish,” a South Sudanese female aid worker said to me, “they had waited five or 10 years before resuming the war.” This is wha...