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SAN DIEGO — Mexico is suffering a national tragedy, the details of which make the Day of the Dead look like a walk in the park. And, for some Mexican ...

WASHINGTON — So it turns out there is an Obamacare death panel after all. It has nine members and it operates out of a marble building directly across...

WASHINGTON — When Abraham Lincoln first presented a version of the Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet, Secretary of State William Seward warned ...

WASHINGTON — The line between consensual sex and sexual assault is not always comfortably clear. Especially when alcohol is involved. Especially in th...

SAN DIEGO — Republicans are enjoying a well-deserved victory lap. But, when it comes to the touchy subjects of Hispanic outreach and immigration refor...

Veterans Day gives Americans everywhere the chance to celebrate the commitment, bravery and sacrifice of generations of United States servicemen and w...

WASHINGTON — Back in July, when President Obama was deciding whether to take executive action on immigration before the midterm elections, I got into ...

WASHINGTON — A week after the midterm elections, Republicans are still browsing through the jewelry store of their victories, admiring this bauble and...

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama is a gifted politician. But a president is judged by the gifts he leaves behind. Following his fourth national election as p...

Maintenance workers at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa., airport shot and killed a bear and her three cubs. The bears had crawled under a perimeter fenc...

The historic scope of Tom Corbett’s loss on Tuesday must be understood to place it in any meaningful perspective. In losing to Democrat Tom Wolf, he b...

WASHINGTON — “I hear you,” President Obama said to the voters who gave Democrats an electoral drubbing in Tuesday’s midterm elections. But their messa...

WASHINGTON — Unlike the dog that chased the car until, to its consternation, he caught it, Republicans know what do with what they have caught. Having...

WASHINGTON — Lena Dunham, creator of the sensational HBO series “Girls” — and now the object of overwrought child abuse accusations by boys on the rig...

WASHINGTON — A thought experiment in the election’s aftermath: What if, instead of focusing on making it harder for people to vote, we made voting man...

“There is always inequity in life. ... It’s very hard. ... to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.” — President John F. Kennedy SAN DIEGO — These...

WASHINGTON — “The Republican Party brand sucks,” Republican Rand Paul said in Detroit last week. This was candid, and correct: Though the GOP will mak...

How many gubernatorial elections will Pennsylvania hold this November? A trick question?Yes, sort of — but the question reveals an important and too l...

WASHINGTON — Thank you, Kaci Hickox. You did the world a service in traveling to Sierra Leone to care for Ebola patients. Then you did your country a ...

WASHINGTON — Mix a pitcher of martinis Tuesday evening to fortify yourself against the torrent of election returns painting a pointillist portrait of ...