It’s starting to sound like we’re in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. For those of you who forgot, the Spanish Civil War was the great prequel to World War II, in which the combatants were proxies...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Graham Platner on Friday submitted his paperwork to formally withdraw from Maine’s U.S. Senate race, officially ending an upstart yet troubled campaign whose dissolution threate...

Donald Trump has gone from red hats to red hate. With his popularity stuck below 40% in most polls, the president knows that if the fall elections become a referendum on his record, Republicans will l...

President Trump had two messages in his speech at Mount Rushmore on the eve of July 4. The first, expected, message was a traditional celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary. The second, less ex...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top two Republicans have spoken individually to Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, according to aides, as the former GOP leader remains in the hospital more than three weeks...

Win some bluestate and bluecity races, and the cocky new socialist Jacobins believe that they have either already taken over the Democratic Party or will soon absorb it. And in reaction to these new s...

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Michael Alfonso, the 26-year-old son-in-law of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, has an answer for people who say he doesn’t have the experience necessary to join Congress ...

Washington County Commissioners Nick Sherman and Electra Janis are among those named in the legal action. The controversy surrounding Al Buchtan’s residency and voter registration during this year’s R...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump mixed partisan politics with patriotic appeals on Saturday as he commemorated the 250th anniversary of American independence, a moment he declared “one of the ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) — The people who were about to become United States citizens sat in folding chairs on George Washington’s lawn at Mount Vernon on Saturday, 250 years after the Declaration of In...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned 11 people, including a former business partner of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and nine people identified by the White House as having ...

Donald Trump is fixated — even obsessed — with making it harder for Americans to vote in November’s elections. A president who accused his rivals of “CHEATING!” in a recent social media post is trying...

OUR NATION IS ABOUT TO CELEBRATE a major milestone this weekend when the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which put a stamp on our freedom from English rule. You ca...

To the Editor: As we approach July 4, 2026, Happy Anniversary to the United States of America. Two hundred and fifty years ago we declared independence from Great Britain and King George III. No longe...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Tuesday shows, locking in profits while his investors were socked wit...

With midterm elections just a few months away, a 36-hour period last week gave the political world a good picture of President Trump’s approach to campaigning for Republicans with the House and Senate...

To the Editor: I’ve been trying to keep up with all these new goings-on in the world. Now that we have this new system of government, we don’t need to decide right from wrong. We put the right to make...

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The tentative “memorandum of understanding” with Iran has caused glee on the Left and furor among many on the Right. The Left might welcome “peace,” but surely not as much as it enjoys infighting on t...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN local government and Immigration and Customs Enforcement has received renewed attention during the second Trump administration. Immigration enforcement has prompted protests, ...