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There is no evidence that Lin Wood and Sidney Powell are secretly working for the Democratic National Committee, but no one has definitively disproved...

In yet another expression of lame-duck pique, President Donald Trump has threatened to veto the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act over provision...

Scientists and researchers the world over have harnessed the energy of their minds and hearts to craft a weapon against the persistent and deadly COVI...

As the days count down to Jan. 20, President Donald Trump, who has rarely seen a norm he couldn’t break, may be tempted to break just one more — and p...

In April, facing a fiscal emergency, New York state imposed a state workforce hiring freeze designed to curb spending. The Division of the Budget rule...

President-elect Joe Biden named his national security team last week. Antony Blinken will be nominated for secretary of state; Jake Sullivan for natio...

One good news story from election 2020 that has gotten insufficient attention is the continued independence of America’s courts. Across the country, s...

Given the success of Operation Warp Speed in driving vaccine development, some commentators have called for Warp Speed equivalents for clean energy — ...

One of Joe Biden's first priorities as president will be to risk stoking a new migrant crisis. After much trial and error, President Donald Trump came...

We’ve never seen anything like it, have we — some state governments not just advising people on how to spend Thanksgiving with their families, but dic...

Sometimes it feels like democracy is just too dysfunctional. Voters are disengaged and uninformed. Congress is hyperpartisan — and so self-serving it ...

Where do you feel safe during a COVID-19 spike? In a dentist’s grip? A barber’s chair? On an airplane? In an airport? How about a restaurant? Does it ...

When President Donald Trump was running for reelection, he often struggled to describe a detailed agenda for his second term. But now that he’s lost, ...

If you were denied access to your house but could send someone in to retrieve things you needed, could you provide clear instructions on how to find t...

As the Trump administration rushes to finalize all sorts of policies and regulations that are bad for the environment, it got this one right. The U.S....

We live in a time of heedless iconoclasm, and so one of the country’s oldest traditions is under assault. Thanksgiving is increasingly portrayed as, a...

COLONIE (TNS) — On the eve of Election Day, Don Levy of the Siena College Research Institute told me it would be bad for pollsters if Donald Trump man...

The Trump campaign’s top lawyers — Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis — went into last weekend on the offensive. On Nov. 19, they held a news c...