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WASHINGTON — The movie “The Imitation Game” has revived deserved interest in Alan Turing, the eccentric genius of Bletchley Park who helped create the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s decision to pursue new relations with Cuba was driven in part by a stinging realization: Longstanding U.S. ...

WASHINGTON — Has the monster of exploding health costs finally been slain? After five years of slow spending growth, it’s tempting to think so. This w...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Scott Pruitt enjoyed owning a AAA baseball team here, but he is having as much fun as Oklahoma’s attorney general, and one of the Obam...

WASHINGTON — After a grueling year that cost Democrats the Senate majority, the mood at the White House is remarkably chipper. The hyper-competitive p...

WASHINGTON — In the category of stunning, heartening, woefully underreported good news: In 2000, an estimated 9.9 million children around the world di...

SAN DIEGO — Sometimes you’ll have a disagreement with someone but you’re not that far apart. My argument with Dallas-based radio host Chris Salcedo, w...

In 2014, Pennsylvania selected a new governor, rejected an old governor, and voted decisively to be indecisive about which party should control state ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, the Republican Party’s point man on Cuba, seemed to be struggling to contain his fury as he responded to Pre...

WASHINGTON — The Battle of Palmito Ranch near Brownsville, Texas, on May 13, 1865, is called the last battle of the Civil War, but the Texas Division ...

WASHINGTON — First there’s the spark, then the conflagration, followed by the litigation and then, surely, the movie. Call it “Moonlight Fire,” and pr...

WASHINGTON — The just-ending 113th Congress was not, by most measures, productive. But its endgame was at least instructive. As a trillion-dollar omni...

WASHINGTON — Does Dick Cheney matter? Are the former vice president’s comments on the torture report worth dissecting? Some friends, as I mused the ot...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After drawing opposition from both ends of the political spectrum, the $1.1 trillion spending bill cleared for President Barack Obam...

SAN DIEGO — Alberto Gonzales is hounded by a single word. It starts with “t”. “I’m known as the architect of torture,” Gonzales told me by phone from ...

WASHINGTON — “The report is full of crap.” Thus spake Dick Cheney, on Fox News last week, when talking about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s repor...

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WASHINGTON — The so-called “Cromnibus” is an ugly piece of work. On balance, I’m glad — no, make that relieved — it passed. The Cromnibus is the giant...

WASHINGTON — By history’s frequently brutal dialectic, the good that we call progress often comes spasmodically, in lurches propelled by tragedies cau...

WASHINGTON — Releasing the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture wasn’t even close to a close call. It was a necessary, if infuriatingly b...