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WASHINGTON — The headline — “Poll: Obama Worst President Since World War II” — was both provocative and misleading. The Quinnipiac survey did, indeed,...

Unless your life is centered upon an iPhone, an iPad, and an iEverything else, there is a possibility you may have actually bought a postage stamp, wr...

WASHINGTON — Justice is blind, and for about 10 minutes Wednesday she couldn’t hear or speak either. Ahmed Abu Khattala, alleged mastermind of the Ben...

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney said it, and on Monday the Supreme Court upheld it: Corporations are people, my friend. The 2012 Republican presidential nomi...

WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney said it, and on Monday the Supreme Court upheld it: Corporations are people, my friend. The 2012 Republican presidential nomi...

WASHINGTON — Even when Supreme Court decisions are unanimous, the justices can be fiercely divided about fundamental matters, as was demonstrated by t...

WASHINGTON — The summary moment of Barack Obama’s foreign policy came in August 2013 during a consequential stroll. Walking on the South Lawn of the W...

SAN DIEGO — We already knew the immigration issue was a tough one for Republicans. They have a hard time opposing legal status for the undocumented wi...

WASHINGTON — Dear Secretary Clinton, Please consider this in the nature of a friendly intervention. You have a money problem. It’s time to deal with i...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Call it “the big gimmick.” An approximately $29 billion state government operating budget under negotiation in the Legislature is li...

WASHINGTON — Amanda Blackhorse, a Navajo who successfully moved a federal agency to withdraw trademark protections from the Washington Redskins becaus...

WASHINGTON — Republicans, after years of squabbling with President Obama, have decided to resolve their differences with him according to a time-honor...

WASHIGNTON —When I worked as a Senate aide in the early 1990s, the state of New York was represented by two figures who could hardly have been more di...

WASHINGTON — Chris McDaniel, 41, the flawed paladin of the tea party persuasion who in Mississippi’s Republican Senate primary failed to wrest the nom...

WASHINGTON — “Raise your right hand,” Rep. Darrell Issa ordered IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on Monday night. Koskinen raised his right hand to the ...

WASHINGTON — Noted management expert and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was apparently called out of retirement — like the Ted Williams of evasive, un...

Pennsylvanians will experience increased rainfall and floods if data analysis by a Penn State meteorologist and long-term projections by a fisheries b...

“From the halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tripoli ... “ — The Marines’ Hymn WASHINGTON — Two hundred and nine years after Marines visited those sh...

SAN DIEGO — Americans are trying to get a handle on the border kids — and what President Obama has called an “urgent humanitarian situation” along the...

Fans of the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy are familiar with the term “code blue” — when doctors and nurses frantically scramble to resuscitate a patien...