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President Donald Trump has been on quite the winning streak. That includes major wins in the liberal bastion of American academia. Not bad for a...
It's America's 249th birthday, and here's what I want for a gift: I want the people who live in the United States and hate it to leave. That sounds...
The Columbia Broadcasting System, known as CBS, has long been one of America's most admired media brands, from Edward R. Murrow's radio reports...
Fear of fireworks is one of the most common challenges faced by dog owners. Animals will often display visible signs of anxiety − like shaking,...
On July 2, a New York jury cleared Sean “Diddy” Combs of federal sex trafficking, convicting him only on two Mann Act counts for transporting...
Most Americans consider themselves patriotic, but fewer and fewer people agree on what that means. A recent national survey of 2,500 adults found...
Donald Trump and Elon Musk may have found their own personal "forever war," now that the world's most powerful man and the world's richest man have...
The Democratic Party is in the doldrums. For the past decade, it’s been so obsessed with trying to take down Donald Trump that it’s overlooked...
Electric air taxis are coming soon to a city near you, with companies promising quick and quiet travel. In April, Archer Aviation unveiled its...
A watery wilderness lies between Naples and Miami, a serene Florida landscape of ancient cypress trees, rare orchids and elusive species like the...
It’s not even the Fourth of July, and already I’ve had my fill of fireworks. My neighborhood began setting them off in late June, creating the...
This column discusses sex trafficking. If you or someone you know is in danger or in an unsafe situation, the National Human Trafficking Hotline...
Picture this: It's 2045 in America. Stock markets are setting record highs, the economy is adding jobs, workers' salaries are increasing and tax...
There is something particularly nauseating about a creeper who would set a brush fire then start shooting at the first responders who rush to the...
On Tuesday, July 1, the Senate passed its version of President Donald Trump’s ironically named One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The bill is anything but...
The images emerging from California – raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement spiraling into chaos, immigrant families fleeing their homes and...
The Senate is debating an extension of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and passage of additional policies such as no tax on tips and overtime and...
We’re more than a year out from midterm elections, and my home state’s legislative slate is already getting a shake-up. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North...
It happened so quick – the tractor’s hose snagged Nathan Brickl’s ankle and the next thing he knew it was yanking him down the bank. He slid 30...
A little over two years ago, in a fit of what I now see was post-retirement mania, I did something that had been kicking around my head for a while:...
In the United States, the words “climate change” are starting to lose their power. Not because the crisis isn’t real, it is, but because the...
It's been more than a week since the United States entered the conflict between Iran and Israel on June 21, dropping more than a dozen 30,000-pound...
What happens when a torta shop becomes ground zero for a political explosion? It costs them business. In a deeply divided America, where a post can...
As America enters the patriotism-heavy week of the Fourth of July with an unpopular president behaving in myriad un-American ways, it’s worth...
It seems you can't go anywhere the week of the Fourth of July without coming face-to-face with the Stars and Stripes. Independence Day always...
The war in Iran has been terrifying. It pushed the threat of nuclear weapons back to the forefront of global consciousness. And yet – somehow –...
I have a deeply held religious conviction that, by divine precept, lying, bullying and paying $130,000 in hush money to an adult film star are all...
Correction & clarification: This opinion column has updated poll percentages on trade. Anyone who saw Donald Trump rally his supporters for...
In one of my first published columns ever, I advocated for ranked choice voting, which was at the time a lesser-known alternative way to conduct...