Within minutes, or even seconds, buildings built as havens of peace and safety can fill with terror — and after, overflow with grief. Welcome to 21st century America — The Age of the Mass Shooter.
On savage battlefields far from home, Desmond Doss, Robert Patterson and Donald Ballard wove an uncommon thread.
New York Daily News
Sometimes you can see an outcome from a mile away, and it’s still a shock when it happens.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton returned to work last week, saying his staff “has redoubled our focus on countless issues facing the state.”
Fort Worth Star - Telegram
Former President Donald Trump’s Big Lie about a stolen 2020 presidential election has been thoroughly debunked, but it still inflicts damage in Texas.
Was Tuesday supposed to be a turning point for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, the moment when he emerged from behind former President Donald Trump to lead the Republican Party toward a triumphant return to the White House?
Barack Obama earned his place in Bartlett’s during the Obamacare debate with his famous fib, “If you like your doctor, you’ll be able to keep your doctor.” Now it turns out that Joe Biden uttered a similar whopper when he told an Iowa audience in 2019 that, under his health care agenda, “if …
Why the need to delay the trial for so long? That’s the obvious question after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ attorneys in the case against Disney sought a trial date more than two years from now. That’s a long time to wait to resolve this high-profile free speech dispute. It also happens to be after th…
President Joe Biden is already scheming to get around last week’s Supreme Court ruling that invalidated his effort to unilaterally make billions in student loan debt disappear. If Plan B involves more executive branch legerdemain not authorized by the Constitution — the details remain murky …
The “nation’s doctor” is on a campaign to combat what he calls an epidemic of loneliness and isolation taking its toll on roughly half the people in the United States. His call to action to “mend the social fabric of our nation” deserves broad support, from government, professionals and inst…
In addition to being the revolutionaries who demanded independence from Great Britain and the visionaries who drafted the Constitution, many of America’s Founding Fathers were journalists. Some owned and published newspapers, others wrote for them, but all understood the value of a free pres…
When a U.S. military member retires from service, he or she qualifies for retirement pay.
Rev. Pat Robertson was one of a kind, a towering figure in American life. His death on Thursday at age 93 will elicit an outpouring of remembrance that is likely to rival that of any world leader.
Tens of millions of people — from the Great Lakes to Long Island to as far south as the Chesapeake Bay — have been breathing unhealthy air from Canada’s wildfires. This week, New York became the most polluted major city in the world. Even as air quality improves in the coming days, the dange…
Offering creative and original solutions to closing one of the country’s biggest gaping wounds — its broken immigration system — has failed to gain traction in Congress for far too long, as both Republicans and Democrats who have attempted it can attest.
Hard as it is to believe, child labor is again on the rise in this country, as harsh and exploitative as ever.
NFL quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts have long been winners, but on Jan. 11, 2017, they both lost out.
NFL quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts have long been winners, but on Jan. 11, 2017, they both lost out.
Whether President Joe Biden’s misguided plan to forgive some $400 billion in federal student-loan debt goes forward will ultimately be up to the Supreme Court. For now, there’s more the federal government should be doing to rein in the costs of higher education — and thus reduce how much stu…
If the border always looked like it did when President Joe Biden visited, he wouldn’t have needed to make the trip.
A new year is a great time for a sobering reminder: Even as you read this, criminals are looking for ways to steal your money and your identity.