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, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Louisiana on Saturday, giving President Donald Trump a win after he backed her to replace GOP Sen. Bill ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After democratic socialist Claire Valdez defeated an establishment- backed candidate in New York’s congressional primary last week, her elated supporters quickly turned their attenti...

Every time I get asked by a TV anchor what I think about the drama of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, my favorite “historical” headline from the Onion comes to mind: “World’s Largest Metaphor Hi...

MIAMI (AP) — The reach of the Supreme Court’s decision allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to end temporary legal protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants may extend to many other co...

“President Trump Lost This War” headlines a New York Times editorial. The New Yorker reports on “The Spectacular Failure and Ruinous Costs of the Iran War.” Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican, ...

By a number of conventional measures, the Republican Party should be headed for a huge loss in this November’s House midterm elections. But some experts think the results will be much closer than orig...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The complexities of the American story aren’t hard to miss. Just steps into the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the gavel used by Nancy Pelosi when she became the ...