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The Vatican this week released an eye-popping report documenting how Theodore McCarrick, the defrocked former cardinal archbishop of Washington, D.C.,...

Ronald Reagan said once, “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” Update that for modern times as...

Why limit yourself to the far-fetched when the utterly fantastical is an option? President Donald Trump’s challenges of the outcome of the presidentia...

Just three days after declaring that New York’s micro-cluster approach — which minimizes the economic pain of broader lockdowns by instead restricting...

Another week has passed since I broke my ankle by falling off a final step in my house during a second’s inattention. Since then, I’m learning all abo...

Ordinarily, it’s not possible for a party to win the presidency and have a bad election night, but the Democrats managed it. Pending the outcome of tw...

By mid-October 1968, I had arrived in Vietnam to begin my nearly 400-day odyssey. Basic training at Fort Dix, military police school in Georgia and th...

“We the People. …” That phrase has endured for 244 years as the pillar of the U.S. Constitution, which has stood as America’s triumphant experiment in...

By mid-October 1968, I had arrived in Vietnam to begin my nearly 400-day odyssey. Basic training at Fort Dix, military police school in Georgia and th...

WASHINGTON — Before election day turned into election week, Democrats hoped for a landslide — a blue wave that would not only make Joe Biden president...

After months of devastating polling data and the relentless media narrative that President Donald Trump was going to be consumed by a dumpster fire of...

For days, we, the American public, have focused intently on the outcome of our presidential race. But the biggest issue facing our nation, a coronavir...

ALBANY (AP) — Although no statewide offices were on the ballot in the general election, numerous candidates for legislative seats this year framed the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden’s bet on the 2020 race was a simple one: that a nation riven by deep partisanship was ready for a reset. He knew he wouldn...

As of Thursday afternoon, returns showed more than 72 million people voted for Joe Biden, breaking the record of more than 69 million, set by Barack O...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s fruitless calls Thursday morning to “Stop the count” underscored a major problem for the president: He needs som...

Donald Trump may wind up leaving the White House next January. But the 45th president and the political movement he launched are not going away politi...

WASHINGTON — Democrats went into Election Day hoping to reclaim the White House and majorities in both chambers of Congress in a victory that would de...