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Donald Trump is on a roll. Based on the RealClearPolitics polling average, he currently has the support of 56% of likely voters in the Republican prim...

It’s funny how things work. I was in Michigan fishing along the Detroit River with a friend and a huge flotilla of other boats. The annual walleye sea...

Developers looking to build thousands of wind turbines off the Mid-Atlantic and New England coast are coming up against a force even more relentless t...

For Americans under 20, an epidemic much deadlier than Covid-19 has raged over the last three years. Deaths among those aged 1 to 19 surged 20% — driv...

Current and past cinematic pieces covering end of life issues, such as Plan 75, are making their way back into cultural and political conversations. R...

An ongoing crisis at the border, a health care system in shambles, and endless wars — Democrats and Republicans both struggle with finding solutions t...

When the COVID pandemic hit, doctors and mental health experts foresaw the cataclysmic problems the disease would cause — not just the deaths, but the...

When President Joe Biden announced last week that the United States would withdraw its last troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, he cast the decision ...

VERO BEACH, Fla. — The Dodgers are long gone, having abandoned their onetime spring-training home here a dozen years ago. The snowbirds are flocking n...

It’s plain that the federal gas tax is past its sell-by date. Originally introduced as a fair way for automobile drivers to pay for the upkeep of the ...

President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will begin removing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the month and complete the withdrawal by...

ALBANY (AP) — As of this writing, it wasn’t entirely clear why officers stopped Daunte Wright. Police say Wright, who was shot and killed Sunday when ...

Left-wingers have always had a knack for activism. In the 1960s and ‘70s, they flooded the streets, demanding civil rights and protesting the Vietnam ...

Having won the greatest landslide before or since (98.5% of the electoral votes, all but Vermont’s and Maine’s) and carried the biggest congressional ...

So are we having a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. or not? University of Minnesota’s Michael Osterholm has forecast a COVID “Category...

When I read about the senseless killing of Daunte Wright by a Minnesota police officer, I thought of my friends Isaac Cudjoe and Kevin Isabelle-Peete....

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has it right: The filibuster should not be eliminated. The Senate needs the filibuster as a tool to drive the t...

President Joe Biden has consistently stressed the need to address the racial inequity that plagues America. Nowhere is this inequity more pronounced t...