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A week before Christmas in 2018, both Democratic and Republican senators went down to the Senate floor to congratulate each other for backing a bipartisan piece of legislation that they knew President Donald Trump was going to sign.

"This bill, with strong bipartisan support, should pass this afternoon with strong bipartisan majorities," said...Read more

When Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) was in the midst of his record 25-plus hours of speaking on the Senate floor on April 1, he yielded to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, who wanted to ask him a couple of questions.

One was on the tariffs that President Donald Trump was set to announce the next day.

"And all of America is paying...Read more

When President George Washington was in his second term, there was nothing in the Constitution that prevented him from seeking a third.

But he did not.

In his Farewell Address in 1796, Washington explained why he was not seeking another term.

"The period for a new election of a Citizen, to Administer the Executive government of the United ...Read more

This January, when President Joe Biden was serving his last weeks in office and turning over the presidency to Donald Trump, the United States ran a $31.7 billion trade deficit with the People's Republic of China.

That was the largest trade deficit the United States ran that month with any nation -- and it continued a long-standing pattern.

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lives in one of San Francisco's poshest neighborhoods -- that nonetheless sits only about 2 miles from the Tenderloin, one of the most drug-infested corners of the city.

In 2019, when President Donald Trump was in his first term and Bill Barr was serving as attorney general, David Anderson, who was then the U...Read more

"This may be the most beautiful commute in the world."

My father sometimes said that back in the 1970s when we were driving from our home in San Rafael to my high school in San Francisco's Sunset District.

San Rafael was founded in 1817 when Spanish Franciscans established a mission there. St. Ignatius College Preparatory, my high school, ...Read more

After the United States declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776, this nation sent diplomats to France -- seeking an alliance with a country then led by King Louis XVI.

One of these diplomats was Benjamin Franklin.

In 1778, France signed a treaty of alliance with the United States and Franklin would later write a letter to ...Read more

The number of human beings living in freezers in the United States now outnumbers the population of Dallas, Texas.

"Estimates place the number of frozen embryos at greater than 1.5 million," reported the March 2022 edition of Fertility and Sterility, a journal published by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

According to the ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Belgium last week to participate in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group -- a gathering of officials from countries supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia. He delivered there a clear and rational explanation of the Trump administration's policy on this conflict.

"The bloodshed must stop," he said. "...Read more

On the day that President Donald Trump was inaugurated to his second term, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer did two remarkable things. He spoke in favor of a proposition Trump had made -- and voted for it.

It was the nomination of Sen. Marco Rubio to be secretary of state.

"Sen. Rubio is an example of a qualified nominee we think should ...Read more

The National Center for Education Statistics last week released the results for the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests taken last year by students in the fourth and eighth grades.

They showed that Catholic schools have continued their winning streak over public schools.

In reading, Catholic-school fourth graders earned an ...Read more

The day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated to his second term, Senate Democratic leaders went to the floor to attack a bill that congressional Republicans hoped they could send to Trump to sign into law.

It was the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

"Look, it is Donald Trump's first week as president, and Republicans are...Read more

When President Donald Trump gave his inaugural address in the U.S. Capitol on Monday, he included an explanation of his trade policy.

"I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and their families," he said.

How will he do this? By imposing tariffs on imports.

"Instead of taxing our citizens to ...Read more