Here we go again. Socialism is making a comeback, according to friend and foe alike. A new NBC poll now suggests that a majority of registered voters don’t like capitalism. A Gallup poll in September ...

Thumbs down to avoidable errors. Election Day in Pennsylvania should follow a predictable format. Polls are set up, people show up, results are tallied. That happened Tuesday — but in two counties, it...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as ...

The county only included major-party voters in its pollbooks, forcing third-party and unaffiliated voters to use provisional ballots or return later. By CARTER WALKER Votebeat An error that affected t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection to the U.S. House, bringing to a close her storied career as not only the first woman in the speaker’s office but arguably the m...

The off-year elections this week mark the beginning of a ferocious 12-month battle for control of the House of Representatives, a battle that will have an indelible impact on President Trump’s final t...

He addressed current political issues and his actions on Jan. 6, 2021. Long before Mike Pence became one of the country’s most prominent evangelical Christians, he grew up Catholic and even served as ...

I’ve spent the last 10 days in London, a city I love. History, architecture, museums, tea, the accent — it is perfection. But the Mother Country is slightly retarded on the meaning of the rule of law....

SOMETIMES A DECISION IS AS EASY as a coin toss. The stakes are low. The outcome is variable. Heads, you win. Tails, you lose. No big deal either way. Others may seem easy up front, but a little diggin...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Republicans filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to block a new U.S. House map that California voters decisively approved at the ballot. Proposition 50, backed by Dem...

When George W. Bush ran for president in 2000, he faced a widespread public perception that he was callow and inexperienced, even though he was 54 years old and the governor of Texas. That’s not an un...

THE GENERAL ELECTION IS TODAY, and while it might not attract the widespread attention and participation of a presidential race, what happens on this Election Day holds the potential to most personall...

The left wing and media rage hysterically from one Trump psychodrama to the next, while President Donald Trump trolls both on social media. But all that is verbiage. What matters is the data and facts...

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is one of the most beautiful churches in the world. If you’re walking in old city Jerusalem at 4:00 in the morning, you are likely a Christian, Jew or Mus...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday. It was th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he “won’t be extorted” by Democrats to reopen the government, making clear that he has no plans to negotiate as the government shutdown will soon enter it...

Abraham Lincoln made the presidency a pulpit. Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt transformed the office into an engine of big government. John F. Kennedy made it a platform of inspiration. Presidents rou...

PENNSYLVANIA IS FEELING a pinch other states aren’t. Oh sure, everyone is embroiled in the now monthold federal government shutdown. As of Saturday, what started out bad, with federal employees either...

By OLIVIA DIAZ, MIKE CATALINI AND BILL BARROW Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is encouraging voters to elect Democratic governors in Virginia and New Jersey in races...

Julius Caesar still casts a long shadow. We have a 12-month calendar — and leap year — thanks to Julius. July is named after him (though the salad isn’t). The words czar and kaiser, now mostly out of ...