To the Editor: I would like to say that I first came to the United States in 1937 and have all forms to prove it in case I ask something I shouldn’t and would end up in another country. I would simply...

LONDON (AP) — European countries are stuck between a rock and a hard place as a coalition of countries meets in Paris on Thursday to discuss security guarantees for a postwar Ukraine. The war is ragin...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. By JAIME L. KUCINSKAS Associate Professor of Sociology Hamilton College For many America...

THE BUDGET OF MOST AMERICANS is a delicate balancing act. You know what you have coming in and what should be going out. A decrease on one side or an increase on the other can throw it out of whack. T...

one of the When best writers on anti-white racism feels the need to write a column about a noble immigrant, we have to wonder if America’s ethno-masochism has gone too far. Has it been mandated by law...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California announced Wednesday that they created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putti...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are meeting in a special session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to bolster Republicans’ chances of ...

About 70% of the nation’s public school teachers belong to a union or employees’ association. The two largest teachers unions, the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of T...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Security, sovereignty, tariffs, trade, drugs and migration — all hot-button issues for the Trump administration and its neighbors in the Western Hemisphere — will top Secretary of S...

WHO SHOULD BE HELD LIABLE when a person’s biometric data — their facial features, voice or fingerprints — is misused? Illinois is home to some of the strongest consumer privacy regulations in the coun...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a nod to continuing collaboration, the mayor of Washington, D.C., issued an order Tuesday to continue the work of an emergency operations center the city set up in response to the...

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has started requiring parents looking to reunite with their children who crossed into the U.S. alone to show up for interviews where immig...

Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant — often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for t...

KIDS ARE BACK IN SCHOOL. Football is in full swing. Pumpkin spice lattes are heralding the start of fall. And once more, the rules about mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania are being juggled — tossed in t...

“Please pray for me. I need the prayers.” The conversation I had with Archbishop Bernard Hebda of the Twin Cities in early August at a conference in Washington, D.C., was brief. At the time, he had no...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first term, Donald Trump’s favorite president, other than himself, was Andrew Jackson, the hatchet-faced, self-made populist who relished turning Washington upside down. Now h...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China is rolling out the red carpet for more than two dozen world leaders at two major defense-related events this week. The guest lists, and some notable omissions, are a window...

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Even before America became a country, Americans already had a habit of freaking out about even minor violations of abstract principles. “In other countries, the people … judge of an ill principle in g...

To the Editor: Aww, it seems local MAGA members are upset that a late-night comedian made fun of their ‘daddy’ Trumpy Dumpy. TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) was so upset about being made fun of that ...