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Four months after President Joe Biden nominated former California Labor Secretary Julie Su to serve as U.S. Labor Secretary, Su’s nomination remains s...

It’s been nearly three weeks since former President Donald Trump announced that he had been indicted in the classified documents investigation. On Jun...

On the one hand, events in Russia this past weekend were stunning — the leader of a mercenary group declaring against the country’s military leadershi...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Each Sunday, about 70 people — all first-and-second generation Chinese Americans — gather in a small Dallas-Fort Worth-area church...

During the failed August 1991 putsch in Russia, the good guys were reformers Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. The bad guys were an incompetent cla...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — When Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken went to Beijing last week to try to repair the frayed relationship between the United Sta...

Numbers help tell every story. For example, many studies have helped make the case that children who read during the summer months make greater academ...

First of all, apologies to all of you die-hard Fenians who are expecting this article to wax poetic about the green hills of Ireland or the nobility o...

It is hard to find any political observer who believes Chris Christie can topple Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, let alone former President Donald Trump, a...

The submersible Titan is now confirmed lost. There’s a tragic poetry to the debris of the vessel being found 1,700 feet from the bow of the Titanic, t...

In our competitive society, some consider it a badge of honor to get only four or five hours of sleep a night, or pull all-nighters in the service of ...

Barack Obama doesn’t want America validated, at least not by the wrong people. In taking a shot at Republicans Tim Scott and Nikki Haley, Obama told h...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For loyal service to Donald Trump both in the White House and since — as valet, Diet Coke gofer and occasional box mover — Walt Nau...

“[T]he American continents ... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers ... [W]e should consider...

Ronald Reagan famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” What an apt ...

There’s just something odd and a little disturbing about the legislative process in New York that’s led to the state Assembly returning to Albany this...

This Juneteenth was the 10th anniversary of the unveiling of Frederick Douglass’s bronze statue in the U.S. Capitol. As we reflect on his well-earned ...

James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, used to tell the story of a greeting-card company that decided to provide free Mother’s Day cards for pr...