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Greetings, Dear Reader, Here we are yet again, State of the Day, where I strip the euphemism and misdirection off that day’s ...

“I’ve just come from seeing a dead boy – and you killed him.” Those were the words of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin (1924-1987) from a long-ago television appearance. Years after, ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The first time a Pennsylvania consultant named Charles Sowell ...

President-elect Joe Biden's pick to be his ambassador to the United Nations in New York will have to tackle Washington's waning leadership at the world body in the face of a more assertive China, ...

Trump has long criticized Biden's use of the autopen. President Donald Trump is once again making decorative changes to the White House -- disparaging former President Joe Biden in the process. The ...

"He has to run because she can’t." We were instructed to parrot one line — "No one runs for president for four years." That was the strategy. Harris’s forthcoming book, according to recently released ...

WASHINGTON — Jill Biden’s ex-spokesman Monday revealed how “mean girls” ruled a White House “cult” that once shielded the former first lady and her husband — griping that the “Biden Bubble was full of ...

AMES — Chase Sowell never shared the field in games or practices with Jayden Higgins, but in the few glimpses he got to watch Higgins during his visits to Ames, Sowell learned plenty from his ...

President Donald Trump is using a new "Presidential Walk of Fame" in the White House to troll his predecessor. Trump has long questioned Biden's mental ability. He has suggested without evidence that ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris broke her silence on the chaos following former President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 race just three and a half months before Election Day. Harris ...

President Donald Trump’s “wall of fame” depicting all 46 people to serve as president along a walkway between the White House residence and the West Wing is complete — with one notable exception. The ...