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Election officials turned over at the highest rate in at least a quarter century during the last presidential election, according to new research from the Bipartisan Policy Center.

An analysis of shifts in election ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would ask Congress for billions in taxpayer dollars for his effort to clean up the District of Columbia and make it safer, arguing the capital city was a “hellhole” before he ...Read more

So much has happened in recent days, it’s easy to overlook how little has happened. To wit: Nothing material. Not when it comes to matters of war and peace in Ukraine, where Russian leader Vladimir Putin continues to ...Read more

Air travel is remarkably safe, based on several years of performance data. Yet near-misses, including the recent close call between a Delta airplane and an Aero Mexico regional jet in Mexico City, give people pause to ...Read more

Rodney King’s famous line “Can we all get along?” feels more relevant than ever today, underscoring our highly regrettable departure from civility toward a more belligerent and uneasy political reality.

But every ...Read more

Like most Americans, including White House reporters apparently, I've tuned out Donald Trump's incessant Big Lie that he won the 2020 presidential election — "by a lot." That means his nonsense about rigged voting and ...Read more

In simple terms, pediatricians save children, while Bobby Kennedy kills children. And so the dangerous quack Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now attacking the American Academy of Pediatrics, ...Read more

When companies started to push employees back to the office, many of us warned that mothers would be pushed out of the job market.

That prediction is becoming reality: The percentage of women in the workforce aged 25 to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As Gov. Gavin Newsom's push to redraw California's congressional maps plays out at the state Capitol and on the national stage, a quieter but no less bloody scramble is simultaneously underway.

Newsom's ...Read more

Some six months after the Trump administration announced its first tariffs on goods from China, Canada and Mexico, it’s starting to feel that policy may be starting to stabilize now that higher rates for most of the ...Read more

As any pooch owner knows, a dog will eat its own vomit.

Catholic theologians hundreds of years ago used this doggy behavior to illustrate how humans return to their sins time after time after time.

In America, ...Read more

The extraordinary pair of meetings in the past week -- the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday and Donald Trump's hosting of the leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Finland, as well as the ...Read more

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was named as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Calley Means, a former Republican lobbyist, expressed a common misconception: "The public health expert class has given us a public health ...Read more

President Donald Trump this week threw his full support behind a massive project to turn a sacred Apache site outside Phoenix into one of the world’s largest copper mines, meeting with mining executives at the White ...Read more

There was a time when same-sex couples walking in downtown Orlando, Delray Beach, Mount Dora or even Key West would be afraid to hold hands. There was a time when many members of the LGBTQ+ community were careful to evade ...Read more

Besides spurring nationwide protests over police brutality, the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis also prompted a larger reckoning that included universities and scientists who contended with the histories and ...Read more

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a longtime House Democrat and senior member of the Ways and Means Committee with a progressive track record, will no longer run for reelection to his current seat if Texas Republicans’ redrawn ...Read more

Donald Trump is not quite the patrolman in chief, but he did meet Thursday with personnel implementing his law enforcement crackdown inside Washington, D.C.

In his showman’s fashion, he had suggested earlier in the day ...Read more

A splintered U.S. Supreme Court let the Trump administration at least temporarily cut off millions of dollars in medical research grants that government officials say don’t align with the president’s policies.

The ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Think of the valuable lessons we learned as children.

Be kind. Think of others. Share your toys. Treat others as you want to be treated. Show hospitality to those who visit your home.

Perhaps we'...Read more